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Personally wondering if the Vatican ever translated to modern psychology or brain physiology speak their religious and philosophical wisdom. Their deductions may be more useful to more people if translated.


They just can't be. Concepts like the soul, the inherent dignity of man, and the orientation of humanity toward a single Good are incomprehensible in the framework of modern psychology or physiology. They are ruled out or at least set aside by the presuppositions used to simplify the world for scientific analysis. And these concepts do a lot of work in the note.


Most (orthodox) theologians actually preach that modern psychology, or "neuroscience", is fundamentally incorrect, so any translation effort would be ultimately unfruitful




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