[Aquinasfan]

And here's a link to Michael Ruse's review

Yet after a lifetime of studying Americans -- I have gone to school with them, I have argued with them, I have had sex with them, and now I live with them -- I am still puzzled.

Purity of heart and wisdom go hand in hand. Wouldn't it be in the interest of someone who treats human beings as disposable objects of pleasure to support a philosophy that reduces human beings to mere physical processes?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Excellent reply.

[snarks_when_bored]

Your knowledge of Professor Ruse's attitudes (and those of his partners) derives from what source? Come on, Aquinasfan, such inapposite remarks don't buttress your case (whatever it might be).

[aNYCguy]

"The professor has had sex with multiple citizens; therefore his essays have no merit."

Is this really the "argument" you were attempting to make?

[b_sharp]

"Purity of heart and wisdom go hand in hand. Wouldn't it be in the interest of someone who treats human beings as disposable objects of pleasure to support a philosophy that reduces human beings to mere physical processes?"

This is simply an appeal to emotion. You have no idea how Ruse views those he's had relationships with do you? Or are you contending that anyone who has sex with more than one person necessarily treats others as disposable by definition?

BTW that little nugget of yours' Purity of heart and wisdom goes hand in hand' is a pretty wild assertion. Want to tell me what this 'purity of heart' means, and how wisdom is not possible without it?

[rootkidslim]

I stopped counting when I was in my mid-thirties, but by then there were over a hundred women with whom I had sex. I'm no Wilt Chamberlain, but I'm sure it's over three hundred now. Does that make me a bad person, or bring doubt on my reason? I wouldn't have missed any one of them, no regrets, no apologies to you or anyone else! They are all wonderful memories.

[sauron]

Purity of heart and wisdom go hand in hand. Wouldn't it be in the interest of someone who treats human beings as disposable objects of pleasure to support a philosophy that reduces human beings to mere physical processes?

Such wonderfully composed clarity of thought.

[muir_redwoods]

"Yet after a lifetime of studying Americans -- I have gone to school with them, I have argued with them, I have had sex with them, and now I live with them -- I am still puzzled.

Purity of heart and wisdom go hand in hand. Wouldn't it be in the interest of someone who treats human beings as disposable objects of pleasure to support a philosophy that reduces human beings to mere physical processes?"

Aren't you making an assumption? How do you know anything about Michael Ruse's assertion or the nature of his relationship.