Tag: philosophy
member name: Michael A.
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February 28, 2007 12:48 PM EST --
Proposition: "Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses) is man's only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide . . .
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March 03, 2009 09:35 PM EST --
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In reading older texts embedded in a time-linear development of a particular tradition, it is widely (and rather uncritically) accepted that the meaning of the text is wholly dependent on the . . .
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March 14, 2009 04:10 PM EDT --
Lets start with our own experience of consciousness. We begin by looking at the simple idea of being aware of something. But this being aware begins in us as a lacuna . . .
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March 04, 2009 11:34 AM EST --
Dennis Turner, introducing Terry Eagleton, in his 2008 lecture Faith and Reason-- He summarizes previous Eagleton lectures in response to the "Ditchkins" critique of Christianity and religion . . .
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April 06, 2007 01:40 PM EDT --
Faith is an internal desire motivating a person to accept certain propositions independent of the evidence supporting or denying the same. As a “basis or motive for action, decision, or conviction,” . . .
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May 08, 2009 12:20 PM EDT --
We may all know this famous quote (meme)--popularized by Carl Sagan--better than we know our own language and logic. It is in fact an erroneous claim at best--meaningless at worst. It is a . . .
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March 04, 2009 03:32 PM EST --
Most of the translations of the Emerald Tablet contain two essential keys of interpretation for the tablet. These two statements occur at the first and last lines
Verum, sine Mendacio, certum . . .
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November 04, 2007 10:17 PM EST --
Disclaimer: I lost a bet...hence this article.
“ I will always praise my maker
I will always return to my taker
I will never be a faker
I will never be a forsaker. . .” . . .
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October 03, 2007 11:21 PM EDT --
In past discussions in here at gather.com and elsewhere, I have cited examples of human conduct in times of peace and war. The ongoing debate almost always gravitates to the topic of human ethics, . . .
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June 02, 2008 11:49 PM EDT --
Investigation often requires extremely honest and sincere questions. Sometimes (I quickly admit guilt on this one) I begin with harsh declaratives, generalizations (as in my last diary) and . . .
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November 16, 2006 01:02 PM EST --
We inquire as to the ontological grounds for asserting God as an entity within time and space. If we are to do this, we may—or may not—have sufficient reason to have God as an irreducible substance . . .
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June 13, 2008 10:10 PM EDT --
"When the Tao is lost, there is goodness.
When goodness is lost, there is morality.
When morality is lost, there is ritual.
Ritual is the husk of true faith,
the beginning of chaos." . . .
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November 13, 2006 03:25 AM EST --
"HUMAN action is purposeful behavior. Or we may say: Action is will
put into operation and transformed into an agency, is aiming at ends
and goals, is the ego's meaningful response to stimuli . . .
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