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Many of the most controversial moral decisions we face hinge upon competing descriptions of life, and never is this truer than at the beginning of life. James Mumford draws upon phenomenology (a branch of continental philosophy) to question the descriptive adequacy, the essential "purchase upon reality," of many of the approaches, attitudes and arguments which make up beginning of life ethics today. He argues that many of the most prevalent positions and practices in our late modern culture have simply failed to take into account the reality of human emergence, the particular way that new...

Many of the most controversial moral decisions we face hinge upon competing descriptions of life, and never is this truer than at the beginning of life. James Mumford draws upon phenomenology (a branch of continental philosophy) to question the descriptive adequacy, the essential "purchase upon reality," of many of the approaches, attitudes and arguments which make up beginning of life ethics today. He argues that many of the most prevalent positions and practices in our late modern culture have simply failed to take into account the reality of human emergence, the particular way that new...

How do we consider ethics in an era in which politics has become personal and polarized into the package deals offered by the Left and the Right?

This work has an addition by Father John Morris SJ on the Heroic Act of Charity. BESIDES many who erroneously think there is no such matter as a Purgatory, and, consequently, that it is a vain thing to pray for the dead, there be many who, either for want of sufficient instruction in that which they believe, or by inconsideration of what they believe, do pass over this important business of praying for the dead so coldly, as that they think they do enough to help their own, yea, Christ's own brother, if they do but say-" God rest his soul," which is a most unmerciful manner of proceeding. For...