How To Be An Agnostic
Socrates or Buddha? themselves and each other. It’s a worldview that is humanistic and tragic. The fi rst of the Buddha’s noble ...
How To Be An Agnostic suffering from them. Claims for its benefi ts are backed up by a growing body of evidence derived from sci ...
Socrates or Buddha? crisis of selfhood by undermining people’s sense of their indi- viduality. Buddhism could address this – int ...
How To Be An Agnostic It’s a pattern that is found in the Christian tradition. Take Augustine, and his diagnosis that the human ...
Socrates or Buddha? more, in a refi nement of love’s energy. It was a developed sense that what lies beyond us powers our humani ...
How To Be An Agnostic It’s at this point that Plato’s philosophical way of life comes close to the spiritual impulse that lies b ...
Bad Faith: Religion as Certainty Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!’ George Meredi ...
How To Be An Agnostic and sweated, in those who have lost hope, in those who are struggling to make good.’ That Sunday, I refl e ...
Bad Faith for the institution. And it was also, in part, the apparent triumph of the rational over the theological. However, at ...
How To Be An Agnostic However, Baggini is striking because he admits uncertainty. Many atheists who put their thoughts on paper ...
Bad Faith many religious people, many atheists want certainty in a sphere of existence in which certainty is not to be found. Th ...
How To Be An Agnostic absolute principle that would underwrite human beliefs, guar- antee meaning in life, and determine what ev ...
Bad Faith is is static. If he says that, whatever God may be, he could not suffer together with (sympathise with) his creatures, ...
How To Be An Agnostic into two groups: the fi rst four are called cosmological; the fi fth is teleological. The cosmological way ...
Bad Faith which plants and animals can come to look designed, but are not, since the ‘design’ is actually adaptive. By extension ...
How To Be An Agnostic negates the gods’ role in morality – which would seem to be a major blow. What is routinely missed is Socr ...
Bad Faith The problem for the medieval ‘proofs’ of God is that, in the present day, it is easy to lose sight of the religious mi ...
Illus. 5.1: St Dominic, depicted by Fra Angelico, from the period in which the practice of prayer and the exercise of reason wer ...
Bad Faith I really wanted to or, in truth, felt. This question kept occurring to me: like the atheist who refuses to see Anselm’ ...
How To Be An Agnostic the sense that, when you know a piece really well, you don’t play it, so much as it plays you. I suppose p ...
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