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BenevolentM -> RE: What good is morality anyway? (3/31/2014 5:11:57 PM)
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Don't give up on Saint Augustine too quickly. He has much to say in just his opening paragraphs. It does seem clear from these opening paragraphs that there maybe foundation for the accusation that Catholics are cold. It is hard bread as Padre Pio put it.
The scientific principle known as Occam's razor has its origins in the Church.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham
William of Ockham (...; also Occam; c. 1287 – 1347) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey. He is considered to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century. He is commonly known for Occam's razor, the methodological principle that bears his name, and also produced significant works on logic, physics, and theology. In the Church of England, his day of commemoration is 10 April.
William of Ockham joined the Franciscan order at an early age. It is believed that he studied theology at the University of Oxford from 1309 to 1321, but while he completed all the requirements for a master's degree in theology (the 14th century equivalent of a doctorate) he was never made regent master. Because of this, he acquired the honorific title Venerabilis Inceptor, or "Venerable Beginner" (an inceptor was a student formally admitted to the ranks of teachers by the university authorities). He was also known as the Doctor Invincibilis or "Unconquerable Teacher."
His work in this period became the subject of controversy, and Ockham was summoned before the Papal court of Avignon in 1324 under charges of heresy. ...
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