The moral argument for God Philosopher Philip Hallie who has seen the suffering may argue in the existence of the God‚ because some suffering is even hard to listen. We can see many suffering in today’s world which may cause us to doubt for the existence of God. Atheist challenge God’s existence and states that the morality we pose is irrelevant to the existence of God. Gottlob Frege said “the “evening star” and “morning star” appear at different times of the day and so have different senses”
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escape religious persecution. They found solace in America and created a civilization where everyone is equal. By uniting together‚ the Puritans found they could form a society that would thrive in the worst of situations. As Leland Ryken states‚ in Worldly Saints: some of the ethics that the Puritans used and lived by are
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Savitri- Book One: Canto Two –The Issue. Prof.S.Jayaraman. Sri Aurobindo‚ the great saint –poet and philosopher began writing ‘Savitri’ in the closing years of the 19th century and concluded it about the mid-point of the 20th century. It is a great epic comprising 3 parts‚ 12 books‚ 49 cantos and 24‚000 lines. The conquest over Death is the thematic principle of Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Savitri’. The original story appears in the epic Mahabharata as well as in the Puranas. In short‚ it tells the story
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and the future. Happiness is parallel to contentment based on dictionary. Man has never been content all his life. His success for having attained a particular end always paves way to the urge to meet a higher end. Epicurus‚ an Athenian philosopher‚ suggested that in order for man to achieve happiness‚ he
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ISSN : 2348 - 9715 ISSUE : 1‚ May 2014 International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Mysticism in Rabindranath Tagore’s GITANJALI Mr. Rohit Bagthariya P.S.Hirpara Mahila College- Jetpur E-mail: rohit.bagthariya@gmail.com Abstract The best minds of India have always held mysticism to be the source and ultimate proof of the teaching of philosophy and of religion. The father of Hindu religion‚ the Vedic seers were mystics who embodied in inspired words what they saw in mystic vision. Tagore
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diminishes the religious context‚ instead associating virtù with the physical and mental capacity to create new circumstances. By applying this skill with the knowledge of history‚ the New Prince can read into the future‚ thereby blazing their path to worldly glory. In the Prince‚ Machiavelli focuses on developing virtù as an adaptive skill stating‚ that a prudent man should “imitate those who have been most excellent” so that he may come close to their greatness. (Mach 92) Machiavelli defines the relationship
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The Uncanny Power of the Metaphysical Conceit . / / ABSTRACT The conceit originally means a concept or an image. It is in general a figure of speech that presents striking parallel between two different things or situations. The history of English poetry witnessed the adaptation of two types of conceit: the petrarchan conceit and the metaphysical conceit. This paper sheds lights on the second type of conceit which was mainly employed by John Donne (1572-1631) and the other metaphysical
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offers a concept of the worldly "calling‚" and gives worldly activity a religious character. While important‚ this alone cannot explain the need to pursue profit. One branch of Protestantism‚ Calvinism‚ does provide this explanation. Calvinists believe in predestination--that God has already determined who is saved and damned. As Calvinism developed‚ a deep psychological need for clues about whether one was actually saved arose‚ and Calvinists looked to their success in worldly activity for those clues
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condition. Weber believes that the modern spirit of capitalism profit is virtuous. He wants to understand the source of this spirit‚ for this he looks at Protestantism for a potential explanation. Protestantism gives us the concept of the worldly "calling‚" and gives worldly activity a religious character. This is important‚ however Weber says that it does not give us the explanation we are searching for. For this explanation we turn to a branch of Protestantism called Calvinism. Calvinists believe in predestination--that
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The Origins of Guilt In both Nietzsche’s book The Genealogy of Morals and Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents‚ both authors address the origins of guilt and the effects it has on society. While they both address these origins‚ the two philosophers differ in their beliefs. Nietzsche deduces that guilt is a result of a man turning inward. Freud on the other hand relates guilt to the subconscious struggle between the ego and the superego. To understand Nietzsche’s version of the origin of guilt
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