Death On The Grand Scale
... work. In the Phenomenology of Spirit, the famous pages on "Self-consciousness" had argued that mutual recognition would never have arisen if there had not been, at a more primordial stage of history, and at a more primordial level of spiritual self-consciousness, a battle to the death betweeen two s ...
... work. In the Phenomenology of Spirit, the famous pages on "Self-consciousness" had argued that mutual recognition would never have arisen if there had not been, at a more primordial stage of history, and at a more primordial level of spiritual self-consciousness, a battle to the death betweeen two s ...
the auto-deconstructive image: of vestigial places
... and imaginary belief? Is this not rather our retrospective illusion, we who always want to have a past that has been surpassed, or perhaps lost…? (Jean-Luc Nancy, Visitation, p. 123) ...
... and imaginary belief? Is this not rather our retrospective illusion, we who always want to have a past that has been surpassed, or perhaps lost…? (Jean-Luc Nancy, Visitation, p. 123) ...
Chapter 3: Youth Ministry and the Impact of Christian
... number of years. Then, over time, several factors combined to precipitate a crisis in his life, especially in his faith, such that he got to the point where he was sick of being a pastor, and he even contemplated giving up the faith. What had brought on this crisis? One factor was an expectation tha ...
... number of years. Then, over time, several factors combined to precipitate a crisis in his life, especially in his faith, such that he got to the point where he was sick of being a pastor, and he even contemplated giving up the faith. What had brought on this crisis? One factor was an expectation tha ...
Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma) - Hindu Temple of Greater Cincinnati
... Dharma) is the only religion which has been so misinterpreted and mis-read by historians and others. Just because someone found a coin in the desert of Arabia, it was decided once and for all that ‘Aryans were invaders who came into India’. Fortunately, such theories of ‘Divide and Rule’rs have fall ...
... Dharma) is the only religion which has been so misinterpreted and mis-read by historians and others. Just because someone found a coin in the desert of Arabia, it was decided once and for all that ‘Aryans were invaders who came into India’. Fortunately, such theories of ‘Divide and Rule’rs have fall ...
OBJECTIONS TO REALISM Introduction: There are a bewildering
... can be trivially "Yes." If we form thoughts today that we didn't have yesterday, the world will be different just in so far as today it contains thoughts that didn't exist yesterday. I Even though I’m a realist about truth, I have no qualms about admitting even that there is a sense in which the wor ...
... can be trivially "Yes." If we form thoughts today that we didn't have yesterday, the world will be different just in so far as today it contains thoughts that didn't exist yesterday. I Even though I’m a realist about truth, I have no qualms about admitting even that there is a sense in which the wor ...
Motivation from a Christian Perspective
... consumer motivates her/him toward the goal of satisfying that need; when this need is satisfied, a higher need emerges until the lower level need is perceived again. Maslow’s ideas are typically discussed in terms of consumer and employee motivation perspectives. In terms of consumer motivation, Ma ...
... consumer motivates her/him toward the goal of satisfying that need; when this need is satisfied, a higher need emerges until the lower level need is perceived again. Maslow’s ideas are typically discussed in terms of consumer and employee motivation perspectives. In terms of consumer motivation, Ma ...
A Philosophy of Human Science for Christian Psychology
... analysis in the description of reality. Living during the time that Aristotle’s works were being reintroduced to the West, Aquinas recognized the value of this massive infusion of knowledge composed by a non-Christian, but he sought to translate the truth in that literature into genuinely Christian ...
... analysis in the description of reality. Living during the time that Aristotle’s works were being reintroduced to the West, Aquinas recognized the value of this massive infusion of knowledge composed by a non-Christian, but he sought to translate the truth in that literature into genuinely Christian ...
Spiritual madness and its many definitions
... while living a life of utter simplicity and moral elevation in God. Although this is not the path that Hafiz took in his own life, the image of the wandering dervish helps to illustrate the rind’s position within the spectrum of the relationship between the Shariah (Islamic law) and the Tariqah (eso ...
... while living a life of utter simplicity and moral elevation in God. Although this is not the path that Hafiz took in his own life, the image of the wandering dervish helps to illustrate the rind’s position within the spectrum of the relationship between the Shariah (Islamic law) and the Tariqah (eso ...
Absolute Truth - Tom Parnelle.Com
... relativist has a problem with a statement of absolute morality, the relativist should take the issue up with himself. Absolute Truth - The Conclusion We all know there is absolute truth. It seems the more we argue against it, the more we prove its existence. Reality is absolute whether you feel like ...
... relativist has a problem with a statement of absolute morality, the relativist should take the issue up with himself. Absolute Truth - The Conclusion We all know there is absolute truth. It seems the more we argue against it, the more we prove its existence. Reality is absolute whether you feel like ...
Can Michael Martin Be a Moral Realist?: Sic et Non by Paul Copan
... as being good is one thing, but how we know the good is another. Atheists may be aware of the content of morality, but this does not furnish them with the basis for explaining how it is that there are moral truths and that we are able to know them. Let me reiterate. Martin’s working assumption seems ...
... as being good is one thing, but how we know the good is another. Atheists may be aware of the content of morality, but this does not furnish them with the basis for explaining how it is that there are moral truths and that we are able to know them. Let me reiterate. Martin’s working assumption seems ...
Gresham Lectures 2016-17 Divinity Lecture 1 Does science rob
... proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.” ...
... proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.” ...
Rabbit, Run and Paul Ricoeur`s Interpretation of Atheism
... tunity to be informed by our religious confessions. O f course we can no longer believe the religious confessions first hand because they are cast in the form of myth. Criticism has debunked the logic or scientific value of myth forever. But criticism has not , Ricoeur argues, discred ited the symb ...
... tunity to be informed by our religious confessions. O f course we can no longer believe the religious confessions first hand because they are cast in the form of myth. Criticism has debunked the logic or scientific value of myth forever. But criticism has not , Ricoeur argues, discred ited the symb ...
Descartes` Epistemology
... soul, or an understanding, or a reason . . . . I am . . . a real thing and really exist; but what thing? I have answered: A thing which thinks” Meditations on First Philosophy ...
... soul, or an understanding, or a reason . . . . I am . . . a real thing and really exist; but what thing? I have answered: A thing which thinks” Meditations on First Philosophy ...
Stanisław Judycki
... hand Descartes based his reasoning on simple and convincing premises, but on the other he proceeded as though he did not notice that he so quickly and easily resolved such an important and complicated problem as the problem of existence of God. The impression of mystery increases when we turn our at ...
... hand Descartes based his reasoning on simple and convincing premises, but on the other he proceeded as though he did not notice that he so quickly and easily resolved such an important and complicated problem as the problem of existence of God. The impression of mystery increases when we turn our at ...
Bernard J. Bamberger. Fallen Angels
... understand the idea of fallen angels. On the one end, Bamberger places Manichaeism and Gnosticism with its extreme form of dualism culminating to the point of polytheism (86, 204, 218, 238-239, 245-246). On the other end, Bamberger places the Talmud and the Midrash with its unwavering monotheism, wh ...
... understand the idea of fallen angels. On the one end, Bamberger places Manichaeism and Gnosticism with its extreme form of dualism culminating to the point of polytheism (86, 204, 218, 238-239, 245-246). On the other end, Bamberger places the Talmud and the Midrash with its unwavering monotheism, wh ...
24.251 Lecture 2: Meaning and reference
... person exists? No, for then it would be false, and it is not false either. It presupposes there is such a person (p. 224). A sentence’s presuppositions are the conditions that it has to meet to get a truth value at all.) What account can now be given of negative existentials? ‘Odysseus doesn’t exis ...
... person exists? No, for then it would be false, and it is not false either. It presupposes there is such a person (p. 224). A sentence’s presuppositions are the conditions that it has to meet to get a truth value at all.) What account can now be given of negative existentials? ‘Odysseus doesn’t exis ...
Rene Descartes Handout #1 Historical
... Greek skeptics (e.g., Sextus Empiricus). One of the Descartes' contemporaries, Montaigne, was an important defender of skeptical arguments. One of Montaigne's central claims was that all we could "know" are appearances, not the real nature of things. ...
... Greek skeptics (e.g., Sextus Empiricus). One of the Descartes' contemporaries, Montaigne, was an important defender of skeptical arguments. One of Montaigne's central claims was that all we could "know" are appearances, not the real nature of things. ...
The Roots of Spinoza`s Metaphysics and
... Underpinning would be evaluated by most intellectuals living over 300 years after Spinoza’s death as quite sensible and worthy. Also, when these seemingly sensible PUs are taken in the aggregate, I would contend, they lead to a philosophy that, if not identical to Spinoza’s, is at least consistent w ...
... Underpinning would be evaluated by most intellectuals living over 300 years after Spinoza’s death as quite sensible and worthy. Also, when these seemingly sensible PUs are taken in the aggregate, I would contend, they lead to a philosophy that, if not identical to Spinoza’s, is at least consistent w ...
1 THE PROBLEM OF STABILITY in Huxley`s BRAVE NEW WORLD
... organize society. The rest is imaginary, inconsequential. There is no “spirit” that continues after the body is gone. Mond argues, like Cardinal Newman, that “independence” is an unnatural state, that people need to belong to something greater than themselves. Religion, the idea of God, fulfills tha ...
... organize society. The rest is imaginary, inconsequential. There is no “spirit” that continues after the body is gone. Mond argues, like Cardinal Newman, that “independence” is an unnatural state, that people need to belong to something greater than themselves. Religion, the idea of God, fulfills tha ...
Ghasem Kakaie IBN `ARABI`S GOD, ECKHART`S GOD: GOD OF
... It is difficult to provide such a definition of God in which all various views are included and all schools agree upon. The dominant view is that Religion’s God is the Origin of the universe and enjoys some kind of transcendence and sacredness. In philosophy, however, there are various images for Go ...
... It is difficult to provide such a definition of God in which all various views are included and all schools agree upon. The dominant view is that Religion’s God is the Origin of the universe and enjoys some kind of transcendence and sacredness. In philosophy, however, there are various images for Go ...
A third Testament by Malcolm Muggeridge
... light of humans knowing too much and considering themselves to be gods. When God called his name, Pascal wrote a magnificent apologia for the Christian faith and other works to counteract the falsehoods of the age. Dostoyevsky was a confirmed anti-Marxist in a time when it was dangerous to be agains ...
... light of humans knowing too much and considering themselves to be gods. When God called his name, Pascal wrote a magnificent apologia for the Christian faith and other works to counteract the falsehoods of the age. Dostoyevsky was a confirmed anti-Marxist in a time when it was dangerous to be agains ...
Evil for freedom`s sake? David Lewis
... much had been at stake. Outside the playpen as he actually was, Stalin's freedom gained its significance from two factors taken together. One was the good or evil intrinsic character of the actions he was left free to perform or refrain from. The other factor was the extent to which good and bad out ...
... much had been at stake. Outside the playpen as he actually was, Stalin's freedom gained its significance from two factors taken together. One was the good or evil intrinsic character of the actions he was left free to perform or refrain from. The other factor was the extent to which good and bad out ...
Atheism and Analogy: Aquinas Against the Atheists Dan Linford
... If atheism is true then 'God' is an empty name. Although 'God' would pose problems similar to those already posed by other empty names, it would be highly surprising if 'God' lacked meaning altogether. After all, if we were to discover that 'Zeus' and 'Poseidon' were meaningless we would be rightfu ...
... If atheism is true then 'God' is an empty name. Although 'God' would pose problems similar to those already posed by other empty names, it would be highly surprising if 'God' lacked meaning altogether. After all, if we were to discover that 'Zeus' and 'Poseidon' were meaningless we would be rightfu ...
1 - Utrecht University Repository
... it is linked with evidentialism. Put more straightforwardly, James regards the evidentialist to be an intellectualist. According to James, when the evidentialist insists on the provision of evidence, he has only intellectual evidence in mind. For the evidentialist, there is no such thing as non-inte ...
... it is linked with evidentialism. Put more straightforwardly, James regards the evidentialist to be an intellectualist. According to James, when the evidentialist insists on the provision of evidence, he has only intellectual evidence in mind. For the evidentialist, there is no such thing as non-inte ...
Unavoidable Today? Is Protagoras' Moral Relativism
... journey of reflection on human finitude which is eminently fallible and subject to all sorts of eontingencies. The terrifying quality of this journey is reflected by allusions to darkness, madness, dread if awakening from a self deeeptive dream world, the fear of having "all of a sudden fallen into ...
... journey of reflection on human finitude which is eminently fallible and subject to all sorts of eontingencies. The terrifying quality of this journey is reflected by allusions to darkness, madness, dread if awakening from a self deeeptive dream world, the fear of having "all of a sudden fallen into ...