Cosmic Humanism
... ethical absolute. When people become autonomous, their values become internal. Man must not acknowledge outside boundaries, for such limitations on mans natural passions and “energy” will cause him to become distorted. The rejection of authority and boundaries results in boundless ethical relativism ...
... ethical absolute. When people become autonomous, their values become internal. Man must not acknowledge outside boundaries, for such limitations on mans natural passions and “energy” will cause him to become distorted. The rejection of authority and boundaries results in boundless ethical relativism ...
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13
... opens his magnum opus, Being and Time, with a citation from Plato’s Sophist [6] indicating that Western philosophy has neglected “being” because it was considered obvious, rather than as worthy of question. Heidegger’s intuition about the question of being is thus a historical argument, which in hi ...
... opens his magnum opus, Being and Time, with a citation from Plato’s Sophist [6] indicating that Western philosophy has neglected “being” because it was considered obvious, rather than as worthy of question. Heidegger’s intuition about the question of being is thus a historical argument, which in hi ...
YESHIVAT HAR ETZION
... opinion about previously existent crude material coupled with the opinion that our world was preceded by many other worlds, it would not taint his belief that our world came into being only a certain period of time ago, and that its first human inhabitants were Adam and Noah." The Torah accepts the ...
... opinion about previously existent crude material coupled with the opinion that our world was preceded by many other worlds, it would not taint his belief that our world came into being only a certain period of time ago, and that its first human inhabitants were Adam and Noah." The Torah accepts the ...
Is There a God?
... as the culmination to which the long ages of nebula and slime were a prelude. I think the theologians must have been fortunate in their human contacts. They do not seem to me to have given due weight to Hitler or the Beast of Belsen. If Omnipotence, with all time at its disposal, thought it worth wh ...
... as the culmination to which the long ages of nebula and slime were a prelude. I think the theologians must have been fortunate in their human contacts. They do not seem to me to have given due weight to Hitler or the Beast of Belsen. If Omnipotence, with all time at its disposal, thought it worth wh ...
16. Plato: Moral Theory
... nor memory nor knowledge had any share, “would be, not human life, but that of an oyster.” b. On the other hand, a life of “unmixed mind” which was destitute of pleasure, could not be the sole good of man; even if intellect is the highest part of man since man is not pure intellect. c. Thus the good ...
... nor memory nor knowledge had any share, “would be, not human life, but that of an oyster.” b. On the other hand, a life of “unmixed mind” which was destitute of pleasure, could not be the sole good of man; even if intellect is the highest part of man since man is not pure intellect. c. Thus the good ...
Metaphysics
... Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Allegory Form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often p ...
... Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Allegory Form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often p ...
A Summary Of The Meditations - The Richmond Philosophy Pages
... cannot yet tell whether this is a real or merely conceptual distinction. By bringing a piece of wax near a fire, Descartes argues that bodies are not perceived by the senses but by the intellect. The wax loses all the sensible properties it had and gains new ones. If it were nothing more than the su ...
... cannot yet tell whether this is a real or merely conceptual distinction. By bringing a piece of wax near a fire, Descartes argues that bodies are not perceived by the senses but by the intellect. The wax loses all the sensible properties it had and gains new ones. If it were nothing more than the su ...
Kabrina Beaudette - M. Sauvé English
... long day and that we are stuck in traffic, but if we think about other people and that maybe they’ve had as bad a day as we have (if not worse) then we are more sympathetic and hopefully this will lead us to having a happier life. This movie represents philosophy in different ways. The meaning of li ...
... long day and that we are stuck in traffic, but if we think about other people and that maybe they’ve had as bad a day as we have (if not worse) then we are more sympathetic and hopefully this will lead us to having a happier life. This movie represents philosophy in different ways. The meaning of li ...
if - Mike Fuller
... if God exists only in the mind and is only a possible being, then if he existed in reality he would have been greater if so, God is a being than which a greater can be thought … which is impossible! Just Looking … ...
... if God exists only in the mind and is only a possible being, then if he existed in reality he would have been greater if so, God is a being than which a greater can be thought … which is impossible! Just Looking … ...
VKS Synoptic Prese
... The argument for an uncaused cause. • This follows a similar pattern. • Nothing is an efficient cause of itself. • Efficient causes follow in order: so a first cause causes a second which causes a third and so on. • It is not possible for a chain of efficient causes to be infinite as if there is no ...
... The argument for an uncaused cause. • This follows a similar pattern. • Nothing is an efficient cause of itself. • Efficient causes follow in order: so a first cause causes a second which causes a third and so on. • It is not possible for a chain of efficient causes to be infinite as if there is no ...
The Journey PPT Notes
... • Are Mind and Spirit limited to ‘grey matter’, i.e. the brain? • How persuasive is Kreeft’s analogy of a materialist philosophy as leaves on a tree, where neither are right or wrong, true or false, each simply is? • Can a material ‘Self’ be morally responsible? If so, does it refute materialism, si ...
... • Are Mind and Spirit limited to ‘grey matter’, i.e. the brain? • How persuasive is Kreeft’s analogy of a materialist philosophy as leaves on a tree, where neither are right or wrong, true or false, each simply is? • Can a material ‘Self’ be morally responsible? If so, does it refute materialism, si ...
Thomas Aquinas - WordPress.com
... • In Aquinas’ time, there were conflicting claims about what constituted “standards of evidence” for evaluating matters of theology, church authority, and religious faith. – One view held that all truth claims must be tested against revealed truths • Revelation was the chief and only reliable source ...
... • In Aquinas’ time, there were conflicting claims about what constituted “standards of evidence” for evaluating matters of theology, church authority, and religious faith. – One view held that all truth claims must be tested against revealed truths • Revelation was the chief and only reliable source ...
René Descartes - cloudfront.net
... • He is also credited as the father of analytical geometry. • In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul, a volume on the early modern version of what are now commonly called emotions, Descartes refers to the topic "as if no one had written on these matters before". Many elements of his phil ...
... • He is also credited as the father of analytical geometry. • In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul, a volume on the early modern version of what are now commonly called emotions, Descartes refers to the topic "as if no one had written on these matters before". Many elements of his phil ...
Phil 2301 Intro to Philosophy
... 2. Arguments are logically invalid: they all beg the question. 3. Arguments are epistemologically defective: the mind and our knowledge construct reality (phenomena), but do not correspond to ultimate reality or things in themselves (noumena). 4. Arguments are ontologically inadequate: what is ratio ...
... 2. Arguments are logically invalid: they all beg the question. 3. Arguments are epistemologically defective: the mind and our knowledge construct reality (phenomena), but do not correspond to ultimate reality or things in themselves (noumena). 4. Arguments are ontologically inadequate: what is ratio ...
Three Ethical Schools
... principles, reasons for these, useable ways to apply these principles and inner consistency. John Dancy, “An ethic of prima facie duties,” A Companion to Ethics, Peter Singer, ed., ISBN: 0631187855, p. 219 – Christian ethics has all these elements. Principles derive from a good, loving, all-knowing ...
... principles, reasons for these, useable ways to apply these principles and inner consistency. John Dancy, “An ethic of prima facie duties,” A Companion to Ethics, Peter Singer, ed., ISBN: 0631187855, p. 219 – Christian ethics has all these elements. Principles derive from a good, loving, all-knowing ...
“Are There Some Human Beings Who Are Not Persons? A... Medical Ethics” Discussion Offered by John Kavanaugh S.J.,...
... will, is a personal kind of being. Thus, God, angels, or other extra-terrestrials would be non-human persons. (Think: if you have to have a brain to be a person, where does that leave God?) What’s special about human persons is that we are animal-persons, embodied persons. Part of the reality of be ...
... will, is a personal kind of being. Thus, God, angels, or other extra-terrestrials would be non-human persons. (Think: if you have to have a brain to be a person, where does that leave God?) What’s special about human persons is that we are animal-persons, embodied persons. Part of the reality of be ...
19.27 – The Height of Scholastic Philosophy
... devotional significance, which extablishes the perfect reality and freedom of the divine. Still, Scotus granted that from a common-sense, rational standpoint the more empirical Aristotelean arguments used by Aquinas have the virtue of greater clarity and certainty. Scotus earned a reputation for gre ...
... devotional significance, which extablishes the perfect reality and freedom of the divine. Still, Scotus granted that from a common-sense, rational standpoint the more empirical Aristotelean arguments used by Aquinas have the virtue of greater clarity and certainty. Scotus earned a reputation for gre ...
philosophy_assignment_chap_19_1
... then it is right and vice versa. Another theory is the Ethical Relativism, which speculates that it is the individual, culture, or epoch that determines or justifies the rightness or wrongness of an action.From this perspective one is expected to seek the justification for moral codes by evaluating ...
... then it is right and vice versa. Another theory is the Ethical Relativism, which speculates that it is the individual, culture, or epoch that determines or justifies the rightness or wrongness of an action.From this perspective one is expected to seek the justification for moral codes by evaluating ...
Class #8
... For many others, the Darwinian theory of evolution was taken as a “threat” to the Argument From Design which seemed to be the last bastion of a ultimate support for the existence of God. Thus many theists to this day resist the Darwinian view which meanwhile has become the dominant scientific theory ...
... For many others, the Darwinian theory of evolution was taken as a “threat” to the Argument From Design which seemed to be the last bastion of a ultimate support for the existence of God. Thus many theists to this day resist the Darwinian view which meanwhile has become the dominant scientific theory ...
The Moral Argument. Hick points to two forms of Moral Argument
... or that the sense of moral responsibility and guilt implies the existence of God? This is the first from of moral argument identified by Hick If this is proposed we must first know if there is a moral law from which to argue a Divine lawgiver. Two responses to this: ...
... or that the sense of moral responsibility and guilt implies the existence of God? This is the first from of moral argument identified by Hick If this is proposed we must first know if there is a moral law from which to argue a Divine lawgiver. Two responses to this: ...
Traditional Western View
... material soul or self in agreeing with all these assumptions. • Plato contends that since reason often conflicts with our desires (or appetites) and that either of these can conflict with our aggression, each of these comprise one of the three main elements of our soul (self). • For Plato, man can c ...
... material soul or self in agreeing with all these assumptions. • Plato contends that since reason often conflicts with our desires (or appetites) and that either of these can conflict with our aggression, each of these comprise one of the three main elements of our soul (self). • For Plato, man can c ...
Natural law
... • Eternal law: both moral and physical principles governing all of God’s creation • Natural law: the part of eternal law that applies to humans, knowable through reason • Human (positive) law: humans trying to make practical laws based on natural law • Divine law: God’s law knowable through the ...
... • Eternal law: both moral and physical principles governing all of God’s creation • Natural law: the part of eternal law that applies to humans, knowable through reason • Human (positive) law: humans trying to make practical laws based on natural law • Divine law: God’s law knowable through the ...
1 Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality Philosophy
... (8) Over time, this will cause the character of species to change. (9) Given enough time, descendants from an original ancestor species will differ enough that they can be considered different species. Moreover, there are forces at work that would eliminate intermediate varieties. Note: there is not ...
... (8) Over time, this will cause the character of species to change. (9) Given enough time, descendants from an original ancestor species will differ enough that they can be considered different species. Moreover, there are forces at work that would eliminate intermediate varieties. Note: there is not ...
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... one alive today has seen God - setting aside for the moment those who think they are God - it is necessary to indirectly determine His existence. A few of the best known arguments for God’s existence are the teleological argument, the cosmological argument, and the moral argument. One lesser known, ...
... one alive today has seen God - setting aside for the moment those who think they are God - it is necessary to indirectly determine His existence. A few of the best known arguments for God’s existence are the teleological argument, the cosmological argument, and the moral argument. One lesser known, ...
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?""