Tag: Religion
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Through a Glass Darkly
On the face of it absolutism in its rawest form doesn’t make any sense. But absolutism-lite does. The two are different and the latter is not relativism.
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Adding the ‘th’ to ought
As usual God came up a lot. I guess that’s omnipotence in action. But as an atheist/agnostic, I put that aside, rejecting the very idea of a supernatural moral authority as a premise worthy of pursuit. There was, however, an interesting segment on whether one could logically arise ‘ought’ out of an ‘is’. For example:…
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The Ontological nature of Time – or Time the sham
…time is merely a tool we have created to comprehend space.
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Virtue & faith & nature
There is an argument that faith teaches us to be virtuous. But this presupposes that faith is the only means capable of us acquiring virtue.
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Somebody’s going to pay…
This tells us a lot about the mindset of President Bush. Rather than a defensive position, his first thoughts are offensive, and thus we can see how we quickly arrive at a war bloody wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Monkey morality
One of the challenges to a moral existence – that is, to live ethically, truthfully and contentedly – is to civilise the natural brute that lies within us all.
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Utopian Dreams
It is easy to regard as cheats authors who justify their observations and arguments by serially quoting those of other great thinkers in their work.
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Faith for the Innocent
Every now and again you see them. Smartly turned out, splitting off into three or four groups of two. At least one of them carries an expensive-looking brief-case. With a friendly smile they arrive at your door. Perhaps annually, perhaps twice a year – I’ve not monitored their regularity. Yet. The Jehovah’s Witnesses are one…