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Article: Calvin and Hobbes and John Paul: the morality debate. (comic strip characters; Pope John Paul II)
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- February 1, 1994
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Many people find philosophy boring and theology frightening. They would rather read the comics. And so would I: I can't imagine starting a day without studying "Calvin and Hobbes." But whether we notice it or not, that comic strip is often about the fundamental moral issue of our times. Here is a little boy (implausibly given the name of a stem Protestant theologian) asserting that what he wants--fame, luxury, diversion, staying out of school, hitting Susie with a snowball--is all that should matter. I am the center of the universe, he says; values are what I say they are.
And then there is the tiger (paradoxically given the name of an English philosopher who pretty ...