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The Whatever School of Morality

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 14:55:11 +0000

One of the most fundamental and ancient moral precepts is Do Good and Avoid Evil. It was expressed (in different words) in the Hippocratic Oath between the fifth and third centuries before Christ. More than a millennium later, St. Thomas Aquinas and others considered it a key ethical precept, as have most philosophers since then. [...]

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The Root Cause of Our Division

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 16:52:42 +0000

There is a lot of talk these days about ending the division in the United States. People on both sides of the political aisle are leading the discussion, and educators and media people are joining in. Unfortunately, few of these people have any clue what the real cause of the division is. To Democrats: No, [...]

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Why Aren’t America’s Problems Being Solved?

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:21:39 +0000

The United States has had a border problem for decades and both political parties have blamed each other, promised to solve it if elected, failed to do anything about it when elected, and then blamed the other side for their failure. The same is true of problems with the health care system, the imbalance of [...]

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America’s Troubled Culture

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:48:30 +0000

American culture is infected with Relativism, the belief that everyone creates his or her own truth. In other words, that people don’t only have a right to their opinion—their opinions are necessarily right! At first thought, this notion seems eminently democratic and fair. It makes each individual the arbiter of fact and fiction, truth and [...]

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What Has Happened to America?

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:36:29 +0000

Many people are asking what has happened to our country. The question is occasioned both by the growing number of problems facing us—including terrorism, racial unrest, governmental profligacy, political intransigence, and educational decline—and by our diminishing ability to solve these problems. I believe the best answer to the question is, “Relativism happened.” That is, truth [...]

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