The Catholic Church, the American military, and homosexual reorientation therapy [0.03%]
美国军队、天主教会与同性恋“转变治疗”
David Lutz
David Lutz
Homosexual activist groups have targeted the Catholic Church and the American military as institutions especially in need of transformation. Associations of healthcare professionals are also under assault from homosexual activists. It is, n...
Are natural and unnatural appetites equally controllable? A response to Jensen's "Is continence enough?" [0.03%]
自制力足以禁欲否？——对詹森的回应
Janet E Smith
Janet E Smith
This response challenges Jensen's analysis in no substantial way. Rather, it explains more fully some of the moral character categories that Aristotle provides. It argues that Aristotle understood there to be two forms of continence: the co...
Is continence enough? [0.03%]
克制足够吗？
Steven Jensen
Steven Jensen
The ideal of virtue demands not only right choice and right behavior but also right desire in the emotions. Homosexual desire, then, even if it does not result in overt homosexual behavior, is contrary to virtue, and the completion of virtu...
Christopher Rosik
Christopher Rosik
Clark Carlton brings a much-needed theological sensitivity to the issues surrounding current debates about homosexuality and the ethics of sexual reorientation therapy. Yet, Carlton's portrayal seems to mischaracterize and unnecessarily dis...
Clark Carlton
Clark Carlton
This article evaluates the phenomenon of sexual reorientation therapy from the standpoint of Orthodox Christian theology. It is argued that homosexual desire is the product of the fall of mankind and cannot be considered "normal." At the sa...
Sexual modification therapies: ethical controversies, philosophical disputes, and theological reflections [0.03%]
性别修改疗法：伦理争议、哲学分歧与神学思考
A A Howsepian
A A Howsepian
Knowing, either by the light of natural reason or by the light of Christian revelation, that homosexuality is a disordered condition is not sufficient for its being ethically permissible to direct self-identified homosexual persons toward j...
Christopher Tollefsen
Christopher Tollefsen
I discuss three topics. First, there is a philosophical connecting thread between several recent trends in the abortion discussion, namely, the issue of our animal nature, and physical embodiment. The philosophical name given to the positio...
Moral knowledge: some reflections on moral controversies, incompatible moral epistemologies, and the culture wars [0.03%]
道德知识：一些关于道德争议、互斥的道德认识论以及文化战争的思考
H Tristram Engelhardt
H Tristram Engelhardt
An authentic Christian bioethical account of abortion must take into consideration the conflicting epistemologies that separate Christian moral theology from secular moral philosophy. Moral epistemologies directed to the issue of abortion t...
T D J Chappell
T D J Chappell
Developing a British perspective on the abortion debate, I take up some ideas from Patrick Lee's fine paper, and pursue, in particular, the idea of individual humans as goods in themselves. I argue that this notion helps us to avoid the fam...
Peter Kortiansky
Peter Kortiansky
Inspired by Patrick Lee's "A Christian Philosopher's View of Recent Directions in the Abortion Debate," this essay raises the question of how effective philosophical arguments can be in determining the moral status of legalized abortion. On...