2008 Woodie Awards
Faith, not logic, creates beasts
Eric Giannini
Issue date: 4/24/07 Section: Opinion
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Besides regimenting religi-osity to the lay, Catholicism clings irrationally to the pseudo-economic theory of the common good that the matter has moved beyond rationality to the realm of faith-a realm in which dialogue and the engagement in the logic are prohibited.
The Church holds their epistemology to be Aristotelian, but is it? Aristotle claims that to know a thing is to know what causes the thing to be. Causality is explained as responsibility. Responsibility is that which brings a thing about.
What brings about capitalism?
Private property will always be expropriated out of the hands of the many into the hands of the few and it will be further expropriated out of the hands out of the few to the fewer. Expropriation will always lead to capitalism. Private property is responsible for capitalism.
The Church refuses to follow the syllogism from premises to conclusion. Pope Leo XIII articulates the Church's official stance to denounce Aristotelian epistemology and logic. "Socialists, therefore, by endeavoring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life."
Pope Leo, I know that it can get a little tough to breathe among all the ether of the Vatican, but breathlessness is no excuse for not doing one's homework. Read Karl Marx's Das Kapital!
The Church's stance is beyond rationality. The absence of logic in the Church's stance on private property is like the ever-present logic of capitalism but capitalism at least has the dignity to present the façade of a syllogistic advance through qualitatively different terms of a syllogism.
Karl Marx describes the façade in his book Das Kapital. "Capital comes out of circulation, enters into it again, preserves and multiples itself within circulation, emerges from it with an increased size and starts the same cycle again and again." The process regresses in finitum. Capital becomes more capital. The end of capital is itself capital, and capital is but a means to capital. The end is the means and the means is the end. There's no final cause. What is illogical is irrational. Is it manly to deprive man of rationality?
Instead of promoting rationality, Pope Leo's superficial endeavors actually promotes beasthood!
The Church holds their epistemology to be Aristotelian, but is it? Aristotle claims that to know a thing is to know what causes the thing to be. Causality is explained as responsibility. Responsibility is that which brings a thing about.
What brings about capitalism?
Private property will always be expropriated out of the hands of the many into the hands of the few and it will be further expropriated out of the hands out of the few to the fewer. Expropriation will always lead to capitalism. Private property is responsible for capitalism.
The Church refuses to follow the syllogism from premises to conclusion. Pope Leo XIII articulates the Church's official stance to denounce Aristotelian epistemology and logic. "Socialists, therefore, by endeavoring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life."
Pope Leo, I know that it can get a little tough to breathe among all the ether of the Vatican, but breathlessness is no excuse for not doing one's homework. Read Karl Marx's Das Kapital!
The Church's stance is beyond rationality. The absence of logic in the Church's stance on private property is like the ever-present logic of capitalism but capitalism at least has the dignity to present the façade of a syllogistic advance through qualitatively different terms of a syllogism.
Karl Marx describes the façade in his book Das Kapital. "Capital comes out of circulation, enters into it again, preserves and multiples itself within circulation, emerges from it with an increased size and starts the same cycle again and again." The process regresses in finitum. Capital becomes more capital. The end of capital is itself capital, and capital is but a means to capital. The end is the means and the means is the end. There's no final cause. What is illogical is irrational. Is it manly to deprive man of rationality?
Instead of promoting rationality, Pope Leo's superficial endeavors actually promotes beasthood!