On the first Thursday of every month, Auckland bloggers gather for the B3 (Bloggers Bar Bash). What: Auckland Bloggers Drinks When: Thursday 7 January from 6.30pm Where: Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland The B3, as it coined by regulars, is open to anyone who happens to be in Auckland. Past blogging celebrities [...]
Entries from December 31st, 2009
A Response to The Dunedin School’s “Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and Hidden Objectivist Assumptions”
December 29th, 2009 7 Comments
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A while ago I did a series of semi-popular posts on moral relativism beginning with Cultural Confusion and Ethical Relativism I. These posts grew out of a talk I gave in Tauranga in 2008. Later I presented essentially the same talk at Laidlaw College for Thinking Matters Auckland which was posted on You Tube and [...]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Deane Galbraith · Relativism · The Dunedin School
Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs – October 09
December 26th, 2009 21 Comments
The Top 10 New Zealand Christian Blogs for October 09 are as follows: [1.] MandM 14.5 (3 – 26) [2.] NZ Conservative 17 (5 – 29) [3.] MacDoctor Moments 17.5 (18 – 17) [4.] Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 19 (10 – 28) [5.] Say Hello to my Little Friend (Beretta Blog) 21.5 [...]
Merry Christmas: Mary’s Magnificat
December 25th, 2009 2 Comments
Given that it is Christmas day we thought we would post Mary’s Magnificat, Mary’s response to learning she would bear a child, Jesus. The passage is so called because in the Latin Bible in verse 47 of Luke 1 (Luke 1:46-55) it begins with the words magnificat animum mea dominum, which means, “My soul magnifies [...]
Tags: Christmas · Mary’s Magnificat
Does Abortion Benefit the Fetus? A Critique of Himma Part 2
December 24th, 2009 7 Comments
In my previous post, Does Abortion Benefit the Fetus? A Critique of Himma Part 1, I discussed Kenneth Einar Himma’s argument that even if a fetus is a human being, laws permitting feticide are compatible with the harm principle.I elaborated an important objection to Himma’s argument, an objection articulated by Mark Murphy, which appeals to [...]
Tags: Abortion · Augustine · David Boonin · Eschatology · Feticide · Infanticide · Kenneth Einar Himma · Lalia Williamson · Mark Murphy
Name Suppression and the Balancing of Rights and Freedoms
December 22nd, 2009 4 Comments
God, via the consent of the governed, gives authority to the state to administer justice against those who violate the rights and freedoms of others. Given this, it is important that the citizens can see that justice is being done. My fellow blogger WhaleOil’s very public battle with New Zealand’s name suppression laws and the [...]
Tags: Due Process · Name Suppression · Rights and Freedoms · Thomas J · Whale Oil
Philosophers’ Carnival XCXI
December 21st, 2009 9 Comments
Welcome to MandM, a New Zealand based philosophy of religion, ethics, theology, jurisprudence and social commentary blog, hosts of the XCXI edition of the Philosophers’ Carnival. We have a good selection of philosophy readings for your holiday perusal, so take a look around and enjoy.
Tags: Blog Carnival · Philosophers' Carnival
St Matthews in the City: Progressive Irrationality
December 19th, 2009 34 Comments
It was a typical chilly Dunedin morning. I was standing in line at the Otago University Post Shop, about to send an important document overseas, when the student in front of me, oblivious to his audience, announced to the girl beside him “I’ve got a doll of Jesus in my car, I have tied a [...]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Glyn Cardy · Joseph · Mary · St Matthews in the City · Theology
The Philosophers’ Carnival is Nearly Here – Submit your Entry Now
December 18th, 2009 2 Comments
Just a reminder that MandM are the hosts of last Philosophers’ Carnival of the decade (dramatic much?). It will be heading off back overseas after its visit to New Zealand make sure you are part of it – submit an entry by the 20th!
Tags: Philosophers' Carnival
Does Abortion Benefit the Fetus? A Critique of Himma Part 1
December 18th, 2009 7 Comments
This series was developed from the paper I gave to the Auckland STAANZ Conference: Eschatology and Pneumatology. In Is Abortion Liberal? I suggested that one cannot simultaneously affirm the harm principle, accept that a fetus is a human being, and support permissive abortion laws. If abortion is homicide then it harms a human being, and [...]
Tags: Abortion · Alan Donagan · Augustine · Eschatology · Feticide · Kenneth Einar Himma · Mark Murphy
