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Milton Did Not Justify the Ways of God Because Reason Was Not the Right Tool
In Paradise Lost, John Milton sets out to justify the ways of God to man, asking the Holy Spirit to guide him as a muse in this project. The twelve-book poem opens with activities of fallen angels, then moves into the first humans, and concludes with a foretelling of God’s plan for humanity. The justification… Read more
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Notes on “Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper by the President’s Council on Bioethics” Chapter 1
Full text available at https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/pcbe/reports/death/ The following are my notes. They will be posted as I complete each chapter’s notes. The first note from a new page has the page in parentheses at the end. Discussion welcome in the comments. Letter of Transmittal Ch 1: Introduction Read more
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WAPLT? Dejected, Forlorn, Melancholic: The DFM Spectrum
People on the DFM spectrum typically experience chronic feelings of sadness and depression that persist even when things are going well. According to the Darwinian evolutionary model, these individuals are oriented to the pain polarity and tend to behave in a passive, giving-up manner. As with the others, the spectrum has three levels, with varying… Read more
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WAPLT? Apathetic, Asocial, Schizoid: The AAS Spectrum
The relevance of variance in the capacity for pain and pleasure to personality includes several possibilities. The AAS spectrum is a classification that includes individuals with deficiencies in both pain and pleasure polarity objectives, meaning they lack the ability to experience events as painful or pleasurable. Two variants of the socially detached pattern are the… Read more
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WAPLT? Assertive, Denigrating, Sadistic: The ADS Spectrum
In contrast with the AAM spectrum, this variant of pleasure-pain reversal is paradoxical and discordant, as it views pain (such as stress, fear, and cruelty) as the preferred way of actively relating to others, rather than pleasure. The intrapsychically conflicted personality spectra include the RCC compulsive, DRN negativistic, ADS sadistic, and AAM masochistic personalities. These… Read more
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