Comments on: Is consent the sole criterion of the good? http://www.virtue-quest.com/2010/02/is-consent-the-sole-criterion-of-the-good/ A practical approach to the classical virtues Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:16:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: love the girls http://www.virtue-quest.com/2010/02/is-consent-the-sole-criterion-of-the-good/comment-page-1/#comment-123 love the girls Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:22:46 +0000 http://www.virtue-quest.com/?p=459#comment-123 Now take the next step and start applying your understanding of the nature of man to other issues. Such as interrogation. We live in a milieu of individualism where we first look to the individual and thus to rights of individuals when we should be looking to the community, and man as naturally existing in that community. When I asked the question on Coalition for Clarity, about the nature of a soldier qua soldier, what is needed to be looked at is what does that nature entail when a soldier is captured? A paroled P.O.W. is not a soldier, but a P.O.W. is a soldier suffering a privation. How does that privation qua soldier play out? Thomas Fleming just wrote an article on marriage which might be analogously helpful :http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/index.php/2010/02/26/three-weddings-and-a-funeral/ Or take Zippy's arguments of voting being an individual act. We vote singularly, but voting is not an individual act, but a joint act among those who have the authority to form the government. Authority exists in the individual as potency, but existing in the community as actual. The soldier qua soldier only actually exists in community, and when that community is an unjust aggressor, what is possible to stop that aggression of the community. Now take the next step and start applying your understanding of the nature of man to other issues. Such as interrogation. We live in a milieu of individualism where we first look to the individual and thus to rights of individuals when we should be looking to the community, and man as naturally existing in that community.

When I asked the question on Coalition for Clarity, about the nature of a soldier qua soldier, what is needed to be looked at is what does that nature entail when a soldier is captured? A paroled P.O.W. is not a soldier, but a P.O.W. is a soldier suffering a privation. How does that privation qua soldier play out?

Thomas Fleming just wrote an article on marriage which might be analogously helpful :http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/index.php/2010/02/26/three-weddings-and-a-funeral/

Or take Zippy’s arguments of voting being an individual act. We vote singularly, but voting is not an individual act, but a joint act among those who have the authority to form the government. Authority exists in the individual as potency, but existing in the community as actual.

The soldier qua soldier only actually exists in community, and when that community is an unjust aggressor, what is possible to stop that aggression of the community.

]]> By: Amy http://www.virtue-quest.com/2010/02/is-consent-the-sole-criterion-of-the-good/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Amy Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:04:46 +0000 http://www.virtue-quest.com/?p=459#comment-115 "Informed consent" is somewhat of a joke. It's okay to invade my privacy (sell my name to others), strip away rights (I can't sue credit card companies), (and in this case) use the embryos of people desperate to have children because it was signed it away and they "know" about it. Bleck. “Informed consent” is somewhat of a joke. It’s okay to invade my privacy (sell my name to others), strip away rights (I can’t sue credit card companies), (and in this case) use the embryos of people desperate to have children because it was signed it away and they “know” about it. Bleck.

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