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- Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:01 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Truth: Science versus Religion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 988
Re: Truth: Science versus Religion
Phil8659 prove that religion and science?
- Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:35 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Why did God make an exception?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1105
Re: Why did God make an exception?
Focusing, on the tree of knowledge of good and evil, symbolizing wisdom ( The Bible , The New Oxford Annotated Bible Fourth Edition New Revised Standard Version With Apocrypha, 2010 CE, 2 Sam 14.17, Kings 3.9.) “Know that the welfare of everything…Consists in the mixture of good and evil…If evil wer...
- Tue Jul 12, 2022 8:32 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: problems and questions...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 695
Re: problems and questions...
A human being seventeenth century CE was capable of making a choices, yes analytically, "One who solves problems." According, to Immanuel Kant existence was not a predicate. Tolerances were tactic, and to be proved, however your use of the term, you choose your opinions. Metaethical, for m...
- Tue Jul 12, 2022 7:27 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Question for those Claiming to have studied Philosophy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1048
Re: Question for those Claiming to have studied Philosophy
Well, you keep proving what type of person you are Phil8659. When one argues with an idiot, then there are two. As Ann Robinson said, "You are the weakest link. Goodbye!"
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 9:17 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Question for those Claiming to have studied Philosophy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1048
Re: Question for those Claiming to have studied Philosophy
The notes say that defining mathematical terms. Robert Nozick Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Nozick, 151.) Enumerating numbers and making them sufficient but also necessary integers-base, inductive, and external cause. Thanks, as I had forgotten this because it was not important. Going, over my notes, ...
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 9:03 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Question for those Claiming to have studied Philosophy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1048
Re: Question for those Claiming to have studied Philosophy
Okay, connotative cluses as constituents. a denotative definition. Lol, took me a while but a dug into my notes, lol.
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 8:48 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The problem of evil
- Replies: 183
- Views: 13279
Re: The problem of evil
Astro Cat, fallacies of relevance had turned this into an ad hominem claim rather than the argument itself. Tu quoque (I steal from by boss because he has underpaid me for years) argument. Justifying bad behavior and wrong actions were argued. The whole things was appeal to authority when you knew n...
- Sun Jun 26, 2022 2:03 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Causality and Determinism
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1331
Re: Causality and Determinism
Having, taken a physics class, kudos for the accomplishment. Democritus and Leucippus, both circa 5 BCE. Necessity has a reason that was according to the Greek atomists. The Stoics, also believed, that every event had a cause, but had to be rational. Newton was a genius of physics and proposals. Qua...
- Sat Jun 04, 2022 9:50 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The problem of evil
- Replies: 183
- Views: 13279
Re: The problem of evil
The problem of evil argument had turned into one big fallacy and that mainly being a ad nauseam using the straw man. I am now just writing and not defining my terms. As you should know the terms, being able to use them in a sentence and not making them a pooh-pooh argument. Soren Kierkegaard used th...
- Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:20 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The problem of evil
- Replies: 183
- Views: 13279
Re: The problem of evil
The argument has just become too semantic. "It is not God I do not accept," Dostoevsky grumbled, "But the world he has created." According, to Saint Augustine of Hippo and Philosopher Herbert Mc Cabe held wickedness was a bad that amounted to a lack of some kind. The evil argumen...
- Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:30 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The Evolution of Religion.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1140
Re: The Evolution of Religion.
Plato followed a duality of body and soul (Harris, 24.) A Hellenistic writer rejected the traditional biblical concept of Sheol (Harris, 226.) Plato influenced Western religion about the immorality of the soul rewards and punishments (Harris, 276.) The philosopher would seek eternal truth (Harris, 2...
- Mon May 30, 2022 10:31 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The problem of evil
- Replies: 183
- Views: 13279
Re: The problem of evil
Having, completed a Power Point Presentation of the Problem of Evil. Do you understand evil? What it is and is not? I can explain it to a two year old, so that means I understand it, but too explain it to a person who already has assumptions of it, then I cannot.
- Mon May 30, 2022 10:09 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The problem of evil
- Replies: 183
- Views: 13279
Re: The problem of evil
wrote bahman. Not really knowing how to answer prohibited used in the subjunctive mood, of the word defined. "You should stop," dĕsinis. A more verbal meaning of the verb cease, would be the infinitive, it completes the meaning of the verb.Whatever God prohibits,
- Sun May 29, 2022 2:53 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The problem of evil
- Replies: 183
- Views: 13279
Re: The problem of evil
You have to define Evil and the Moral Order.
- Fri Apr 15, 2022 9:46 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: "Being" as Unconditional
- Replies: 55
- Views: 5227
Re: "Being" as Unconditional
Bishop George Berkeley, circa 1685-1753 CE, The Basic Argument: (1) Matter was only known to us by its sensible qualities. (2) It was impossible to describe, or even imagine matter without these qualities. (3) Absence of sensible qualities, matter, by definition, loses its essential qualities . Work...