tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post3427869102306990945..comments2023-09-11T08:30:08.843-07:00Comments on Life Training Institute Blog: Advanced Pro-Life Apologetics Course--Watch for Free! [Scott]SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01905606527143286458noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-67534729191487815112013-01-28T23:41:29.290-08:002013-01-28T23:41:29.290-08:00Sweet! I can't wait to take this all in. Thank...Sweet! I can't wait to take this all in. Thanks for posting and sharing!Katherinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-41021408113821938412012-12-18T13:05:59.194-08:002012-12-18T13:05:59.194-08:00Minor point of correction. You write this in the ...Minor point of correction. You write this in the notes (page 23):<br /><br /><i>To make sure the point is not lost, Beckwith provides a final example. Suppose one of these indoctrinated slaves is pregnant. Because you agree with Boonin that having desires grounds a right to life, you hire a physician to alter the brain development of the slave’s fetus so that it never develops organized cortical activity and thus never desires life or freedom.</i><br /><br />If I understand right, Beckwith's version of the indoctrinated slave problem is that the fetus is altered in such a way that it actually does eventually attain organized cortical activity, but is rendered incapable of desiring the right to life. In his critique of Boonin, he writes the following:<br /><br /><i>Imagine that you own one of these indoctrinated slaves and she is pregnant with a fetus that has not reached the point of organized cortical brain activity. Because you have become convinced that Boonin’s view of desires is correct, and thus you are starting to have doubts about the morality of indoctrinating people with already organized cortical brain activity to become slaves, you hire a scientist who is able to alter the fetus’s brain development in such a way that its organized cortical brain activity prevents the fetus from ever having desires for liberty or a right to life. That is, the organized cortical brain activity arises in this being in such a way that its basic capacities to desire liberty and a right to life, that it pos- sessed from the moment it came into being, can never come to maturity.</i><br /><br />(see http://www.uffl.org/vol16/beckwith06.pdf)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-5448756149978088262012-12-18T08:33:46.649-08:002012-12-18T08:33:46.649-08:00Here's the correct link to my article, "D...Here's the correct link to my article, "Dignity Never Been Photographed." The link in the post is no longer functional.<br /><br />https://bearspace.baylor.edu/Francis_Beckwith/www/Sites/EM2.pdfFrancis Beckwithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03765632359220115150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-25854128919690498642012-12-18T04:48:05.802-08:002012-12-18T04:48:05.802-08:00I took this class at Biola and it was absolutely s...I took this class at Biola and it was absolutely spectacular! I would highly encourage you to watch the classes. pgardellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17906682730043234994noreply@blogger.com