Monday, February 03, 2014

The ethics of contraception

http://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/56/56-4/JETS_56-4_683-96_Hollinger.pdf

5 comments:

  1. Not impressed on numerous counts. But let's just look at this one-

    The very nature of sex is generative and even in infertility or old age is an act al-
    ways looking beyond the self and the couple to others.

    Have presented John Calvin, Matthew Henry, Paul and Westminster against that telos here- http://vanberean.blogspot.ca/2011/01/papal-condom-nation-pt-2.html

    Enjoy!

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    1. How is the sexual act of an elderly infertile couple always looking beyond the couple to others?

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    2. Likewise, what makes you think that an elderly couple has an obligation to look beyond each other when they have conjugal relations?

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  2. Indeed! That is one count of Hollinger's that I (and Calvin etc.) was refuting.

    And the telos that I was ultimately promoting in my article was a trinitarian telos. A recreational telos rather than a procreative telos.

    But that Hollinger link still has some good stuff in it. Thanks for that, Steve.

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  3. Watching that Bill Nye Debate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kgvhG3AkI

    Around 1:17:15 "The great chin stroker of science is 'why does anybody have sex'?
    Allegedly to have 'fewer procreative mutations than asexual production'. Now that's funny, Bill!

    What a different paradigm.

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