CHIRICO, Peter, Infallibility : The Crossroads of Doctrine

Contraception and the Infallibility of the Ordinary Magisterium

I A WORK published in 1963, one of the present authors and another collaborator considered the question whether the received Catholic teaching on contraception had been proposed infallibly. In summing up theological opinion to 1962, they said the teaching that contraception is intrinsically and gravely immoral is "at least definable doctrine." In using this expression, they did not intend to cr...

The metaphysical art of Giorgio de Chirico. Migraine or epilepsy?

It has been suggested that the great Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), who developed the unique style of 'metaphysical art', suffered from migraine and used some of his morbid manifestations as a source of inspiration for his paintings. Yet, whereas many of the symptoms that de Chirico described are rare in migraine, they are frequently encountered in patients with temporal lobe e...

Infallibility in Bentham’s Political and Legal Thought

The Doctrine of Signatures.

‘The Doctrine of Signatures’ started with the idea that God has marked everything he created with a sign (signature). The sign showed the purpose for the creation of the item. The ‘Doctrine of Signatures’ was promulgated by the writings of Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), a shoemaker in Görlitz, Germany, who had a profound mystical vision in which he saw a relationship between God and man that caused h...

On the "infallibility" of psychopathology and its implications for action.

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org On the “Infallibility” of Psychopathology and Its Implications for Action Initial enthusiasm about discoveries in our field has evolved into questions about the meaning and future of current scientific approaches. The first set of questions has to do with the validity of information derived from biological and psychosocial sciences in understanding psychopatholog...