Fernando Play Venue : Theater at Catholic High School or University. Curtain opens. NARRATOR addresses theater audience. NARRATOR: Understand we have students from Social Studies and Religion classes in the audience today. NARRATOR: Good. Then I shall begin with a question? In the reconquest of Spain. Can you name the person or persons who drove the Moors out of Spain. AUDIENCE: Chorus - Ferdinand & Isabella, 1492. Any more questions. (Laughter) NARRATOR: True. , but only one Kingdom--Granada. Who drove the Moors out of the vast majority of Spain 200 years before Ferdinand & Isabella? Who recaptured almost all of Spain and several major cities including the 2 most important supposedly unconquerable Moorish strongholds Cordoba and Seville? If you don't know, that's OK. Very few students or even teachers do. His name was Fernado, a youth of 18 years of age. He would be kno...
The philosophical debate ties together John Rist’s cultural critique, the historical roots of human rights, Duns Scotus's theology, and Edith Stein’s phenomenology.The Core Thesis: In Confusion in the West, John Rist argues that modern Western thought went astray by divorcing objective morality from divine commands, leading to a flawed reliance on "subjective rights" (rights possessed by individuals rather than duties owed to God).The Scotist Shift: Rist traces the confusion back to the Middle Ages. He examines how Franciscan theologian John Duns Scotus shifted focus from God’s nature/goodness to God’s absolute, unbridled will. This voluntarist turn paved the way for modern subjective rights, where human will takes precedence over universal objective order.
The philosophical debate ties together John Rist’s cultural critique, the historical roots of human rights, Duns Scotus's theology, and Edith Stein’s phenomenology . [ 1 , 2 ] The Core Thesis: In Confusion in the West , John Rist argues that modern Western thought went astray by divorcing objective morality from divine commands, leading to a flawed reliance on "subjective rights" (rights possessed by individuals rather than duties owed to God). The Scotist Shift: Rist traces the confusion back to the Middle Ages. He examines how Franciscan theologian John Duns Scotus shifted focus from God’s nature/goodness to God’s absolute, unbridled will . This voluntarist turn paved the way for modern subjective rights, where human will takes precedence over universal objective order.