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Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

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The Importance of Truth in Speech

I think one thing that the encyclical is very good at showing is how various concepts are that modern culture tends to separate are really inseparable. Truth and goodness is one kind of primary example of that. Other examples would be good and right. You often have in modern moral theories division between the good and the right. Another example would be freedom in nature, which he goes into. There are lots of these examples where modern cultureModern philosophy and even modern moral theology even Catholic moral theologians tend to separate certain reality or certain concepts that are directed to realities That's not something that our contemporary culture actually helps to get in any way whatsoever but probably the opposite. I completely accept that that's

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