Volume 7, Issue 2, November 1997

Article Summary:


COSMIC RELIGION

The statesman and orator Edmund Burke said, "Man is constitutionally a religious animal." Note that word "constitutionally". Burke used language with precision.More . . .

SCIENCE AND MYTH

It is tragic to ignore the fact that our culture is still mythic to the core, in spite of our pride in reason. The teacher and writer, Professor Joseph Campbell points out that "it is not science that has diminished human beings or divorced us from divinity.More . . .

THERE IS NO RIGHT TO DIE

There are those who claim our laws on euthanasia are outdated and unjust. They would allow for mercy killing for extremme cases of dying. Their cry for "the right to die" in our laws is a dangerous point of view.More . . .

A MYTH

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms belonging to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
-Gilbert Ryle.More . . .

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