To me, this chapter of the Passion narrative, considering all the actors present, does indeed present a broad portrait of humanity: cruelty, vindictiveness, our capacity to suffer and to endure suffering, and our divine and human natures present together.
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Satanism and Perfectionism
Image by Paul Brennan from Pixabay This essay is also available as a podcast on anchor.fm and other platforms, and as a video on YouTube. In the last episode, I examined the moral philosophy of perfectionism as formulated by the philosopher Thomas Hurka. I recommend listening to that episode before this one, as this essay is a continuation…
Abdication of the Will
Matters of personal will, independence, and autonomy are central to Satanic thought. The central principle of Satanism is opposition, and, in my interpretation, opposition to hegemony, which often entails opposition to presumed authority.
Satan As a Moral Exemplar
What is the ethical standpoint of Satanism? Being that Satanism is generally less codified than other religions and exists in several different forms, there are many possibilities. My goal here is to explore a few of them and to arrive at a possible ethical framework that naturally follows from Satanism in general, as well as from my own particular satanic theory.
Satan in the Qur’an
My aspiration for religion is that it be a reflection both of who we are and of our highest aspirations for ourselves as humans, but in terms of morality, traditional religion seems to fail at this.
Iron Man and the Ethics of Weapons Technology
The following is an introduction to a project I’d like to attempt: an in-depth look at the philosophical implications of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, and in particular their villains.
Evil
My own initial position on morality is that there are no moral facts. Nothing is inherently good, and neither is good some objective thing, and the same applies to evil.