Kazantzakis` Making of God: A Study in Literature and Philosophy
... is working through him, and struggling to be freed through him as a vehicle. He has found an efficient way to affirm both that he is god and that he is not god; that he is immensely powerful and yet painfully finite; that he is torn by struggle and yet is a privileged node of unity in which converge ...
... is working through him, and struggling to be freed through him as a vehicle. He has found an efficient way to affirm both that he is god and that he is not god; that he is immensely powerful and yet painfully finite; that he is torn by struggle and yet is a privileged node of unity in which converge ...
Glossary - Oxford University Press
... of cause connects with other important notions, such as responsibility. We blame people for the harm they cause, not for things that just happened when they were in the vicinity. We assume that there is a cause when things go wrong—when airliners crash, or the climate changes, or the electricity goe ...
... of cause connects with other important notions, such as responsibility. We blame people for the harm they cause, not for things that just happened when they were in the vicinity. We assume that there is a cause when things go wrong—when airliners crash, or the climate changes, or the electricity goe ...
The Philosophy of Don Hasdai Crescas: Chapter II Meyer Waxman
... THEexistence of God is proved by Crescas in a very simple manner. he proof runs in the following way : Whether there is a finite or an infinite number of effects, or whether an infinite series of causes is given, but as long as the series is infinite and all things are caused, we do not find in natu ...
... THEexistence of God is proved by Crescas in a very simple manner. he proof runs in the following way : Whether there is a finite or an infinite number of effects, or whether an infinite series of causes is given, but as long as the series is infinite and all things are caused, we do not find in natu ...
War and/as Play - Inter
... calls the ‘stepping out of common reality into a higher order’. This characteristic of play is what makes it essential for our individual, as well as, group development. It is through play that a child develops his or her ability to identify, distinguish, and symbolize – all of them essential featur ...
... calls the ‘stepping out of common reality into a higher order’. This characteristic of play is what makes it essential for our individual, as well as, group development. It is through play that a child develops his or her ability to identify, distinguish, and symbolize – all of them essential featur ...
A Philosophical Background for Masonic Symbolism
... own understanding of the Craft’s symbolism and his own Masonic philosophy. Such a personal interpretation seems to me to be appropriate, desirable, and even necessary, if one is to receive the greatest benefit from membership in the Order. It also seems to me that an understanding of the underlying ...
... own understanding of the Craft’s symbolism and his own Masonic philosophy. Such a personal interpretation seems to me to be appropriate, desirable, and even necessary, if one is to receive the greatest benefit from membership in the Order. It also seems to me that an understanding of the underlying ...
The Ontological Argument. Anselm vs. Descartes
... they employ, their cultural context, and the aim pursued by their arguments place them within different epochs, different lines of thought, at times even partially contradictory ones (given the complexity and ambivalence of Descartes’ attitude towards the scholasticism of his times). Whereas the sch ...
... they employ, their cultural context, and the aim pursued by their arguments place them within different epochs, different lines of thought, at times even partially contradictory ones (given the complexity and ambivalence of Descartes’ attitude towards the scholasticism of his times). Whereas the sch ...
Morality and the Distinctness of Human Action
... De Waal seems to accept the idea that it is rational to pursue your own best interests, but wants to reject the associated view that morality is unnatural, and therefore he tends to favor an emotion-based or sentimentalist theory of morality. There are a number of problems with Veneer Theory. In the ...
... De Waal seems to accept the idea that it is rational to pursue your own best interests, but wants to reject the associated view that morality is unnatural, and therefore he tends to favor an emotion-based or sentimentalist theory of morality. There are a number of problems with Veneer Theory. In the ...
Fundamentalism versus Irony
... of the truly free, to respond to the transcendent Other. If we find ...
... of the truly free, to respond to the transcendent Other. If we find ...
Essay 98
... surrounded by injustice and inequalities one is not being realistic for talking about harmony. Similarly, there are people who desperately try to reach the state of being the “absurd” human and those face a harsher existential crisis than others do, which is one of the reasons why they commit suicid ...
... surrounded by injustice and inequalities one is not being realistic for talking about harmony. Similarly, there are people who desperately try to reach the state of being the “absurd” human and those face a harsher existential crisis than others do, which is one of the reasons why they commit suicid ...
Essay 98 II) The Unbearable Heaviness of Being „The only question
... meaninglessness of human lives. Zhuangzi considered oppositions like cold and heat essential for harmony, however there should be an opposite of harmony for it to exist. Disregarding that opposition and claiming that “there is no need to disrupt our harmony” is a contradiction in the argument itself ...
... meaninglessness of human lives. Zhuangzi considered oppositions like cold and heat essential for harmony, however there should be an opposite of harmony for it to exist. Disregarding that opposition and claiming that “there is no need to disrupt our harmony” is a contradiction in the argument itself ...
Word
... practical reason, but still there is an issue about moral motivation: Why I should subject myself to the C.I. when I would at times rather act straightway to satisfy my desires? There is an apparent circle: In the ‘order of efficient causes’ we suppose our actions (and even decisions) to be determin ...
... practical reason, but still there is an issue about moral motivation: Why I should subject myself to the C.I. when I would at times rather act straightway to satisfy my desires? There is an apparent circle: In the ‘order of efficient causes’ we suppose our actions (and even decisions) to be determin ...
The Rationalist - Cengage Learning
... Reconstructing the World Once Descartes is assured of the his own existence and that of God’s, everything else falls into place. The world is roughly as he perceives it, since God cannot be an evil genius and be the infinitely perfect being Descartes has in mind. Also, the mind and the body are two ...
... Reconstructing the World Once Descartes is assured of the his own existence and that of God’s, everything else falls into place. The world is roughly as he perceives it, since God cannot be an evil genius and be the infinitely perfect being Descartes has in mind. Also, the mind and the body are two ...
in defense of non-natural, non-theistic moral realism
... (ethical) truths. My response is to reject Wainwright’s principle. Wainwright supports the principle by offering examples of non-trivial necessary truths that, intuitively, seem to require explanations. But this only shows that some such truths require explanations, not that all do. Are there exampl ...
... (ethical) truths. My response is to reject Wainwright’s principle. Wainwright supports the principle by offering examples of non-trivial necessary truths that, intuitively, seem to require explanations. But this only shows that some such truths require explanations, not that all do. Are there exampl ...
Polkinghorne and Cartwright on Pluralism and Metaphysics
... Both Polkinghorne and Cartwright share the view that the kind of systems which instantiate natural laws are highly atypical, and do not represent the bulk of natural phenomena. Cartwright has developed an extended argument about the scenarios in which laws of nature are instantiated, calling those ...
... Both Polkinghorne and Cartwright share the view that the kind of systems which instantiate natural laws are highly atypical, and do not represent the bulk of natural phenomena. Cartwright has developed an extended argument about the scenarios in which laws of nature are instantiated, calling those ...
First Name Surname Nationality Key Theories Key
... Attempted to reconcile ancient stoicism with Christianity in light of the religious wars caused after the Reformation of the Protestant church. Took a sceptical stance on strongly held public beliefs in favour of individualism. Politician and champion of the new scientific methods of empirical obser ...
... Attempted to reconcile ancient stoicism with Christianity in light of the religious wars caused after the Reformation of the Protestant church. Took a sceptical stance on strongly held public beliefs in favour of individualism. Politician and champion of the new scientific methods of empirical obser ...
12 Purva Mimamsa and Vedanta
... We cannot attribute any quality to them, because qualities are born of the mind. That which is quality-less must be one; x is without qualities, it only takes qualities of the mind; so does y; therefore these x and y are one.”127 When we try to decipher what we mean when we say ‘we know’ we see that ...
... We cannot attribute any quality to them, because qualities are born of the mind. That which is quality-less must be one; x is without qualities, it only takes qualities of the mind; so does y; therefore these x and y are one.”127 When we try to decipher what we mean when we say ‘we know’ we see that ...
Ethics in Medieval Western Philosophy
... Augustine also devoted two treatises to the topic of lying. In the first of these, De mendacio (On Lying), he first suggests that a person S lies in saying p if, and only if (1) p is false, (2) S believes that p is false and (3) S says p with the intention of deceiving someone. He then considers thr ...
... Augustine also devoted two treatises to the topic of lying. In the first of these, De mendacio (On Lying), he first suggests that a person S lies in saying p if, and only if (1) p is false, (2) S believes that p is false and (3) S says p with the intention of deceiving someone. He then considers thr ...
Religion-Jaina philosophy
... protection against the cold of winter or the heat of summer. Gosala argued that all beings, all created things, attain perfection in the course of time. There was nothing that could be done to hasten this process spread over the span of countless rebirths. The split between the two hermits was cause ...
... protection against the cold of winter or the heat of summer. Gosala argued that all beings, all created things, attain perfection in the course of time. There was nothing that could be done to hasten this process spread over the span of countless rebirths. The split between the two hermits was cause ...
glossary of philosophical terms
... three distinctions are often confused with one another. But they are not the same. The last one has to do with knowledge, the middle one with possibility, and the first one with meaning. Although some philosophers think that the three distinctions amount to the same thing, others do not. Kant mainta ...
... three distinctions are often confused with one another. But they are not the same. The last one has to do with knowledge, the middle one with possibility, and the first one with meaning. Although some philosophers think that the three distinctions amount to the same thing, others do not. Kant mainta ...
Cosmological Argument
... The Third Way exploits the fact that most of the things we know have a contingent existence. Do you understand what that means? Can you think of anything that is not contingent? What is something if it is not contingent? Aquinas wants to prove God by demonstrating that we must assume a necessary Bei ...
... The Third Way exploits the fact that most of the things we know have a contingent existence. Do you understand what that means? Can you think of anything that is not contingent? What is something if it is not contingent? Aquinas wants to prove God by demonstrating that we must assume a necessary Bei ...
SAHODARAN AYYAPPAN AND RATIONALISM
... Kant. In metaphysics we deal with the supersensible entities like God, immortal self, the cosmos etc. None of these objects can be experienced. So the a priori principles are not applicable to them. Therefore, according to Kant, metaphysics as a science is not possible”.10 ...
... Kant. In metaphysics we deal with the supersensible entities like God, immortal self, the cosmos etc. None of these objects can be experienced. So the a priori principles are not applicable to them. Therefore, according to Kant, metaphysics as a science is not possible”.10 ...
Common Sense Philosophy and American Political Theology
... community alike--seemed to verify those principles. Locke's right to self-preservation was selfevident because the Anglo-American experience of resistance to governmental and ecclesiastical tyranny confirmed the rightness of it, made the soundness of the principle stand out sharply. It is worth rec ...
... community alike--seemed to verify those principles. Locke's right to self-preservation was selfevident because the Anglo-American experience of resistance to governmental and ecclesiastical tyranny confirmed the rightness of it, made the soundness of the principle stand out sharply. It is worth rec ...
Hinduism
... ephemeral … Wealth, fame, & power do not survive bodily death. “You can’t take it with you.” (but, don’t Hollywood types seek fame just for its eternality? “Fame! I’m gonna live for ever! I’m gonna learn how to fly! La la la” ???) ...
... ephemeral … Wealth, fame, & power do not survive bodily death. “You can’t take it with you.” (but, don’t Hollywood types seek fame just for its eternality? “Fame! I’m gonna live for ever! I’m gonna learn how to fly! La la la” ???) ...
Hinduism
... ephemeral … Wealth, fame, & power do not survive bodily death. “You can’t take it with you.” (but, don’t Hollywood types seek fame just for its eternality? “Fame! I’m gonna live for ever! I’m gonna learn how to fly! La la la” ???) ...
... ephemeral … Wealth, fame, & power do not survive bodily death. “You can’t take it with you.” (but, don’t Hollywood types seek fame just for its eternality? “Fame! I’m gonna live for ever! I’m gonna learn how to fly! La la la” ???) ...
Aristotle on What It Means To Be Happy
... this can be demonstrated by ‘the roads to Rome fallacy’: Every road leads to some town Therefore, there is a particular town to which all roads lead. As you can see the second premise does not logically follow from the first and neither does it do so with Aristotle’s version: Everything has an aim T ...
... this can be demonstrated by ‘the roads to Rome fallacy’: Every road leads to some town Therefore, there is a particular town to which all roads lead. As you can see the second premise does not logically follow from the first and neither does it do so with Aristotle’s version: Everything has an aim T ...
Meaning of life
The meaning of life, or the answer to the question ""What is the meaning of life?"", is a philosophical and spiritual conception of the significance of living or existence in general. The question seeking the meaning of life can also be expressed in different forms, such as ""What should I do?"", ""Why are we here?"", ""What is life all about?"", and ""What is the purpose of existence?"" or even ""Does life exist at all?"" There have been a large number of proposed answers to these questions from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. The search for life's meaning has produced much philosophical, scientific, and theological speculation throughout history.The meaning of life as we perceive it is derived from our philosophical and religious contemplation of, and scientific inquiries about existence, social ties, consciousness, and happiness. Many other issues are also involved, such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, the existence of one or multiple gods, conceptions of God, the soul, and the afterlife. Scientific contributions focus primarily on describing related empirical facts about the universe, exploring the context and parameters concerning the 'how' of life. Science also studies and can provide recommendations for the pursuit of well-being and a related conception of morality. An alternative, humanistic approach poses the question ""What is the meaning of my life?""