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The Paradox Of Christian Anti-Semitism
Get PDFIt is possible to interpret such blatant anti-Semitic sentiment through the presence of later Christian edits of the original text and reimagining of the actual events. It is the New Testament’s ability to separate Jesus and his followers from their Jewish identity, while at the same time have the New Testament as a literal sequel to the Old Testament, that later allowed for anti-Semitic sentiment to permeate Christian scholarship. This paradox of an anti-Semitic theology being based on a foundation of Jewish Literature may therefore not be referred to as a process of reconciliation, but in fact wilful literary and historical ignorance on the part of itsparticipants. Investigation of the possible elements of anti-Semitism and passages within the New Testament ultimately only further the argument that the New Testament is a text that has been rewritten and interpreted to support various later Christian theologies
Material Implication and Indicative Conditionals
Get PDFIt has often been asked whether the truth-function known as material implication correctly accounts for conditionals in the indicative mood. After defining material implication and indicative conditionals (hereafter just “conditionals”), I will discuss why I believe the former does not always account for the latter. Defences for a material interpretation of conditionals by H. P. Grice and Frank Jackson will then be given.
A function is analogous to a machine which outputs something when something is input. The inputs and outputs of truth-functions are truth values: “true” or “false”. The symbol for material implication (‘⊃’) is thus formally defined: if the sentence before it (the antecedent) is true and the sentence after it (the consequent) is false, then the material implication is false; otherwise it is true. Conditionals are a complex sentence form; they are made up of sentences and can be either true or false (but not both). If A and B are any sentences, then “If A, then B” is the conditional form. The previous sentence is also a conditional (A and B can be complex sentences, like “The flag is raised and somebody is dead.”) As with material implication, A is the antecedent and B is the consequent.
Conditionals with synthetic antecedents and consequents will be considered, rather than conditionals with analytic antecedents or consequents. The subject in a synthetic sentence – like “the flag” in the sentence “The flag is raised” – does not somehow contain the predicate (here “is raised”). Contrast this with the analytic sentence “The white swan is white.” Since this cannot be false, we cannot speak of “If the white swan is white, then the white swan is white” having a false antecedent or consequent, which is crucial
The Interest Theory of Rights and Rights Attached to Roles
Get PDFIn this essay, I defend the interest theory of rights against the argument that because some agents hold rights grounded in a special role or office, rather than their own interests, the theory is false. I begin by explaining the interest theory and the argument from rights attached to roles against it. I then explore responses to this objection by Kramer and Raz, ultimately rejecting them and proposing a simpler solution of my own. My response stipulates that in cases where people seem to have rights grounded in a special role, it is actually the state or the society that holds those rights. Given that the interest theory can allow collective entities to have rights, this response manages to retain the full explanatory power of the original theory, without introducing additional theoretical conditions for agents holding rights. Based on this, I argue that the argument from rights attached to roles is not sufficient to refute the interest theory
Colour and the Critique of Advertising: Privilege (Peter Watkins, 1967) and Herostratus (Don Levy, 1967)
Get PDFSaint Andrew, Saint Giles, and Scotland today
Get PDFIn this St Andrew’s Day ‘State of the Nation’ Lecture, given in St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh in 2018, Alastair McIntosh draws insights from the lives and legends of two saints that helped forge Scotland\u27s idea of itself, and uses these as a way into a discussion of issues affecting 21st-century Scotland. This wide-ranging survey takes in issues including women\u27s rights, refugees, multiculturalism, climate change, poverty, violence, and land reform
"The History of Scottish Theology, Volume 1: Celtic Origins to Reformed Orthodoxy" edited by David Fergusson and Mark W. Elliott
No full textReview ofDavid Fergusson and Mark W. Elliott, eds., The History of Scottish Theology, Volume 1: Celtic Origins to Reformed Orthodoxy (Oxford: OUP, 2019), pp xii+389, ISBN 978-0198759331. £95.0