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Ideas for 'works', 'Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect' and 'On Liberty'

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29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

7216	The ethics of the Gospel has been supplemented by barbarous Old Testament values [Mill]
	Full Idea: To extract from the Gospel a body of ethical doctrine, has never been possible withouth eking it out from the Old Testament, that is, from a system elaborate indeed, but in many respects barbarous, and intended only for a barbarous people.
	From: John Stuart Mill (On Liberty [1857], Ch.2)
	A reaction: 'Barbarous' has a quaint Victorian ring to it, but his point is that the surviving teachings of Jesus are very thin and generalised. Christians would do better to expand their implications, than to borrow from the Old Testament.

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

16713	Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian]
	Full Idea: Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics.
	From: Tertullian (works [c.200]), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 20.2