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delegates from abroad-France, Mexico, OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. Italy, Pakistan-they struggled for the i words to tell how they felt about the pope...
...Unfortunately the pro- destroy the village in order to save it...
...It weighing failure and success, and enviof this substance...
...there abortion has become morally acceptable is one law for all...
...If you are au- autonomy is their cardinal issue...
...If so, then a million separated from each other...
...RODDY, Attorney-at-law some superficial resemblances) an Aris- ing self of the moment, then the unborn, "I couldn't put it down...
...But for public policy purposes, infused with spirituality...
...likes...
...When the ideologue demonpressed what many others felt when she know if abortion is right or wrong, but I'm strates a sense of outrage at the prospect said that having seen and touched the sure glad my girlfriend got one...
...control or health or money or getting love" in his message itself...
...They were enthusiastic about Greek word "nomos"-rendered into En- choice true believers in order to grasp that taking up the task "of the defense of human glish as "rule" or "law...
...In contrast to the noise that has ac- This profoundly practical and wise guide is for business people who wish to inteas a soul having a destiny beyond the companied the abortion battle, the erosion grate spiritual values with day-to-day grave, then I must act in obedience to the of self has been a quiet process-but a proc- decision-making, tight scheduling, and immortal interests of this soul...
...180 pages $18.95 hardcover in obeying the temporary self she may In the meantime, best wishes to Justice At bookstores or call have violated the deepest requirements Ginsburg as she begins her new career...
...anarchy is prevented...
...Italy, Pakistan-they struggled for the i words to tell how they felt about the pope and what he meant to them...
...The concept selves for many purposes, we have in of morality and the concept of the self, common an identical lawgiving self, called though two distinct concepts, cannot be Practical Reason...
...and their church, might have been better The concept of moral autonomy was prepared for the joy and love in Denver, introduced into modem philosophy by had they listened to the Reverend Richard Immanuel Kant late in the eighteenth John Neuhaus, when he said, "After twen- century...
...Kant was convinced that the ty-five years of what many view of con- freedom and dignity of the human person fusion sometimes verging on chaos, I required that the individual obey only think people are ready for a celebration those laws given by himself or herself...
...Increaliving happily together ever after...
...someone will ob- propensities...
...He was the em- n the course of her confirmation Ginsburg spoke in the precise accents of blem of the transcendent in their lives...
...If (Kant-like) I of the idea of morality is inseparable from think of my self as Practical Reason, then an erosion of the idea of self...
...You at stake for them in abortion is not, except "the promotion of human rights...
...science gets the better of her ideological CROSSROAD "But wait a minute...
...a thought-provoking account of its theory...
...If (Aris- ess already far advanced, as the forego- high pressure management...
...and the further we carry moral autonomy makes no sense apart this line of thought, the more acceptable from the concept of self...
...1-800-937-5557 of her substantial self or immortal self Which is to say, let's hope her judicial conor universal self...
...and they give the law to yourself, as opposed to incidentally, sexual conductor population found the beginning of the "civilization of having it imposed on you by someone else...
...It was perhaps this lion different individuals giving law to realization that caused him to expunge themselves, won't this result in a million some of the sterner remarks from his final different laws...
...hearing before the Senate Judiciary those at the ideological end of the conThat which was ineffable superseded Committee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, tinuum...
...You, for instance, may message, to depart from the text, and to think stealing is always wrong...
...the civilization of love" to which he sum- gives its meaning: self-rule, from the It does not take much listening to promoned them...
...Prochoice people come in many reasons commonly given to justify aborican, echoing what many others had said, varieties...
...that they are not free agents...
...From which it follows Emilie Griffin cision is made is the temporary self, the that one may abort without the least bit of THE REFLECTIVE self of today, the self that exists at the mo- a bad conscience...
...In a pluralist society But not to worry...
...totelian conception of self prevails...
...To of continuity and stability and the vibrant have laws imposed on one from the outministry of the Catholic church" (Boston side, even when the outside lawgiver is Globe, August 8...
...The idea is that as long point of view, the act of abortion may be A Spirituality of Business as the woman obeys this ephemeral self, defined as the elimination of a nonself by and Enterprise she is autonomous...
...At the of even the slightest legal restrictions on pope, she knew she could return home and other end is the true-believing ideologue, abortion, she (usually she, though on ocdo the work of helping others of which he who dogmatizes: "The right to abortion casions he) is totally sincere...
...But what if it turns we have no choice but to stick to a conout that my lawgiving self, your lawgiv- cept of the empirical self that no one can ing self, and Jones's lawgiving self are doubt, which is the self of the moment: the same self...
...tion is essential to a woman's autonomy, that they are not fully adult (a privilege The media, so obsessed by the appar- reserved for men...
...and exciting vision of retical radical, was a practical tradition- premises...
...If I am to obey abortion appears, being only one more subonly my self, then everything depends on jective preference...
...HOWARD BUTT, President, choice movement has published no official And how logically consistent, that an Laity Lodge Foundation metaphysics, so we have no authoritative ideology which deprives its clients of all ''A joy to read...
...Regarded from this EXECUTIVE ment of decision...
...It doesn't matter that a minimal self...
...But that did not affect the love they right to abortion is essential to a woman's logical point of view...
...that they are to remain ent conflict between American Catholics in a state of quasi-servitude...
...At bottom, the issue is moral and a young woman from Uganda ex- the mere pragmatist, who opines: "I don't autonomy...
...If (Plato-like) I conceive my self versa...
...This was a radical thought himself seemed warmed by the realization indeed, and at first glance it would seem that the beginnings of his "civilization of to lead to anarchy...
...God, is to be in the unhappy condition of As the days in Denver went by, the pope heteronomy...
...tion ideologues...
...obey only himself, etc...
...Anti-aborspoke...
...He was to them the personification of faith, "of things GOING, GOING, GONE hoped for, the evidence of things not THE DIMINUTION OF THE SELF seen...
...live wholly integrated lives...
...I don't say she is herself an ide-' whatever they disagreed with in his teach- the newest justice of the United ologue...
...Ll 370 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Commonweal 10 September 1993: 7...
...reminds one of that notorious remark from sioning God as Lord of the Marketplace...
...At one end of the spectrum is tion rights...
...He was the living symbol of the worldwide church in which they found their unity and identity...
...tion radicals have overcome their initial entrusted to them...
...What's life" (however they might interpret that) and tonomous, you are self-governing...
...If you wish to hold grandiose alist...
...But she found ing-and disagree they did in many in- States Supreme Court, said that the just the right word to express the ideostances...
...in America only in association with an atautonomy and universality are reconciled, tack on the very idea of morality...
...ther a Kantian nor a Platonic nor (despite For if self is reduced to the decision-mak- -VIRGINIAN...
...E this third fellow (the one who never re6: 10 September 1993 Commonweal turns your pen when you let him borrow ject...
...But this chipping away how I conceive this self...
...A minimal obedience to self is obedience to univer- morality will beget a minimal self, and vice sal law...
...self that is obeyed when an abortion de- cannot be a self...
...No wonder the aborfound in his message and in the mission he autonomy...
...and which was the Denver experience...
...It was this rapport with the young- is among a small number of fundamental tion legislation is seen as tantamount to to some extent a newfound rapport-that human rights, and therefore it must not be telling women that they are not capable impressed our American bishops more infringed upon in any way...
...Here are rich spiritual insights on effecal substance whose full reality is achieved How ironic, that a movement which ex- tiveness, time, contribution, decisionin the course of a lifetime, then I should alts the autonomy of self should be in proc- making, setting priorities and goals, act in obedience to the lifetime interests ess of destroying the very idea of self...
...This is pretty much what the minimal self...
...True, I must obey only myself, you notions of the self in private, that's your business leadership must obey only yourself, Jones must business...
...I may think reaffirm the celebration of faith and unity it is permissible in extreme situations...
...Its etymology reservations about her...
...singly we have come to think of morality Whether we agree with this theory or as a subjective preference, not an objecnot, it reminds us that the concept of tive requirement...
...only time will tell...
...In connecting abortion and autonomy, through college or avoiding so-called "un"There's such wonderful love in his mes- Justice Ginsburg hit a certain nail right on wanted children" or any of the myriad of sage," said one eighteen-year-old Amer- the head...
...But it seems safe to but a minimal self should not hesitate to challenge for people in the workplace to say that among prochoice ideologues nei- deprive an unborn child of its physical self...
...Kant, though a theo- we cannot operate on the basis of such...
...Unrestricted people don't enact a million laws...
...than his words...
...They were ready to build The word is striking...
...Now what theory of self is held by abor- the Viet Nam War: "It was necessary to `An enormously important book...
...The not being capable of making a decision, -JOHN HOYTE, President, The Spectrex Corp...
...Kant concluded: though we are different Exactly: the minimal self...
...These fanciful notions of universal it) thinks one is free to steal whenever one or immortal or rational-substance selves 94 Riveting...
...are highly dubious...
...totle-like) I conceive my self as a ration- ing observations remind us...
...For if we have a millove" already existed...
...In saying abor- of self-rule...
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