...s slender size. In view of this influence alone it may be affirmed that 1 and Thou will rank &8 one of the epoch-making books 9f our generation. . I... ... been eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology. 1 and TIum' is to be understood in the context of Buber's '... ...nomenon among hls works, but represents the culmination of the intensely religious ~terest that characteriseS them alL It is, indeed, philosophical... ...not with contempt v for the means of human expression but with finished and delicate power. For this reason, though we might call I and Thou a " ... ...d work. It has a direct appeal to all those who are interested in living religious experience rather than in theological debates and the rise and f... ...ut also ~ectly addresses us. Buber's time ll. "filled time", his moment a religious moment, and his thought is rooted in the concrete situation of r... ...ea of which has been traced, through m~ny variations, ip. the fOIm of the beliefs or 19 in the knowledge (both being still one) of many nature pe... ...each, have worked t.ogether to establish a more tenacious and oppressive belief in fate than has ever before existed. The might of l«urma or of the... ...a: in both salvation was repre­ sented. But the composite god tolerates no belief in 56 release. It is considered folly to imagine any freedom; th...

...o, exercised. on the Continent an influence, quite out of proportion to its slender size. In view of this influence alone it may be affirmed that 1 and Thou will rank &8 one of the epoch-making books 9f our generation. It has hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology....

...The primal natm:e of the effort to establish relation is already to be seen in the earliest and most confined stage. Before anything isolated can be perceived, timid glances mOve out into indistinct space, towards something indefinite; and in times when there seems to be no desire for nourishment, hands sketch deli...

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...R ALEXANDRA STREET PREFACE The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the... ...losophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of i... ...oncise presentation of Pyrrhonism in relation to its historical development and the Scepticism of the Academy, with critical references to the Frenc... ...hole lacked the essential element of all philosophical progress, which is a belief in the possibility of finding and establishing the truth in the su... ...customs of Libya, showing a minute knowledge in regard to the political and religious customs of this land that he displays in regard to no other cou... ... in the East, and references to Sextus are found there in philosophical and religious dogmatic writings. The Emperor Julian makes use of the works o... ... Tropes were original with Aenesidemus, but because a definite statement of belief is always a far more powerful influence than principles which are... ...om an entirely different sphere of thought, and deals with metaphysical and religious contradictions in opinion, and with the question of good and ev... ...or rarity of occurences. (x) Based upon systems, customs and laws, mythical beliefs, and dogmatic opinions. [1] Hyp. I. 36—38. Although Sextus is ...

...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English...

... much in the writings of Sextus that finds a parallel in the methods of modern philosophy. There is a common starting-point in the study of the power and limitations of human thought. There is a common desire to investigate the phenomena of sense-perception, and the genetic relations of man to the lower animals, and a common interest in the theory of human knowledge. Whil...

...ce of his birth.—The seat of the Sceptical School while Sextus was at its head.—The character of the writings of Sextus Empiricus.. 1 -- The Position And Aim Of Pyrrhonic Scepticism-The subject-matter of the Hypotyposes.—The origin of Pyrrhonism.—The nomenclature of Pyrrhonism.—Its criterion.—Its aim.—?p??? and ?ta?a??a.—The standpoint of Pyrrhonism.. 23 -- The Sceptical T...

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ... one possesses a certain right - prescribes to others certain obligatory behaviours and proscribes certain acts or omissions. This Janus-like nature... ...tion of the seed" and such a serious offence that it is punishable by the strongest religious penalty: eternal ex- communication ("Karet"). If abort... ...m Godwin and, later, Pierre Joseph Proudhon), radical individualism (Max Stirner), religious anarchism (Leo Tolstoy), anarcho- communism (Kropotkin)... ...el Guerin). The narrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communities can survive and thrive through vol... ...rokers, lawyers, bankers, insurers, and so on - self- regulation was premised on the belief in long-term self- preservation. Rational economic players... ...cation - were transferred wholesale to the hands of profit maximizers. The implicit belief was that the price mechanism will provide the missing pl... ...ed manner: Argument number one - Being Jewish is a racial distinction - not only a religious one If race is defined in terms of genetic purity, the...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

... in sets: 112 4. Neutrosophic Probability - a generalization of classical and imprecise probabilities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 116 5. Addenda... ...: Definitions derived from Neutrosophics: 120 2 Preface to Neutrosophy and Neutrosophic Logic by Charles T. Le 1 Introduction. It was a surpris... ... 1995 I received a manuscript from the mathematician, experimental writer and innovative painter Florentin Smarandache, especially because the treat... ...ral ones as well. 7. Fallibilism attributes uncertainty to every class of beliefs or propositions, while neutrosophy accepts 100% true assertions, a... ...e). d) Law of Inverse Effect: When trying to convert someone to an idea, belief, or faith by boring repetitions or by force, he ends up to hating i... ...o it. Thomas Kuhn's paradigm is based on scientific and metaphysical beliefs as well. Schopenhauer was radically pessimistic, what about a... ... but what about the 'first' fact or event? Who did cause it? If you are religious, you may answer: God. Then, who caused God? 38 Is the Supreme... ...e a philosopher in order to become a philosopher. Manichaean dualist religious doctrine of eternal fight between good and bad (or light and obs... ...e Deum laudatum! Wouldn't it be possible to set up in the calendar a religious holiday for atheists? We should realize that sometimes the b...

...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an inspired connecti...

...dy, as it was antiently compos’d, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most prof- itable of all other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle ... ...ll other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, t... ...terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr’d up by rea... ...le, 115 Let us not break in upon him; O change beyond report, thought, or belief! See how he lies at random, carelessly diffus’d, With languis... ...e who think not God at all, 295 If any be, they walk obscure; For of such Doctrine never was there School, But the heart of the Fool, And no ma... ...u knowst I am an Ebrew, therefore tell them, 1320 Our Law forbids at thir Religious Rites My presence; for that cause I cannot come. Off. ... ...but doubt to think he will; 1535 Yet Hope would fain subscribe, and tempts Belief. A little stay will bring some notice hither. Chor. Of good...

...Excerpt: Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call?d Tragedy; Tragedy, as it was antiently compos?d, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is to temper and reduce them to just measure with...

... THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRA... ...NG, A.M. Volume II PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY AND SON FLEET STREET, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHE... ... PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY. PART II. (CONTINUED) PHENOMENON VI. THE CHRISTIA... ...ht to be Coming of Messiah Vol. 2 Part II regarded as a brief, sincere, and religious confession of our faith. Secondly, the notion o r idea, eq... ...ho are found at present in extreme misery, doth not appear a work proper to the religious Abraham. —This Abraham did not. § 4. With the distinctio... ...hich might easily pass into presumption; and that you may give way to a holy and religious fear. Know, brethren, that the present blindness of the Je... ...hat it may come. That alone which hath come, is the knowledge, the account, the belief, the invitation, the gospel of the kingdom, with the conditio... ... kingdom of Israel. Nothing of all this did the Lord, but left them in the same belief in which they were concerning the kingdom of Israel, and conte... ...im, and trusted to him, and conformed their works to their faith, which is true belief, and without which there cannot be salvation. But when he sha...

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... She gave to light a babe all babes excelling, A schemer subtle beyond all belief; A shepherd of thin dreams, a cow-stealing, A night-watching, and do... ... _440 A manifest and most apparent thief, A scandalmonger beyond all belief. 57. 57. 57. 57. 57. ‘I never saw his like either in Heaven Or upon ... ...ried works, _85 Had life and place in the corrupt belief Of thy blind heart: yet still thy youthful hands Were pure of human ... ...mystery and grandeur is in no danger of se- duction from the falsehoods of religious systems, or of deify- ing the principle of the universe. It is im... ...speculation, as well as in the subtler discriminations of metaphysical and religious doctrine, it is still more crude and immature. I am a devoted ene... ...ous doctrine, it is still more crude and immature. I am a devoted enemy to religious, political, and domestic oppression; and I regret this publicatio...

............................................................................................................................... 7 HOMER?S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX .................................................................................................. 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE MOON ..........................................................................................

...nsyl vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania ... ...Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover design: Jim M... ...e or rare.” She then resum’d: “Thou certainly wilt see In falsehood thy belief o’erwhelm’d, if well Thou listen to the arguments, which I Shall b... ...he sons have for the sire’s transgression wail’d; Nor let him trust the fond belief, that heav’n Will truck its armour for his lilied shield. “Th... ... By the which thou didst on the billows walk. If he in love, in hope, and in belief, Be steadfast, is not hid from thee: for thou Hast there thy ken, ... ...known by the appellation he derived from Marseilles, and at last resumed the religious habit. One of his verses is cited by Dante, De Vulg. Eloq. 1. ... ...the monastery of Bec, in Normandy, where he afterwards devoted himself to a religious life, in his twenty seventh year. In three years he was made p... ...f the truth.] Son di lor vero ombriferi prefazii . So Mr. Coleridge, in his Religious Musings, v. 406. Life is a vision shadowy of truth. v. 88. —the...

...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...tion project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Ma... ...points. We are accustomed since the growth of the historical method to the belief that states are “not made but grow,” and are apt to be impatient wit... ... that states are “not made but grow,” and are apt to be impatient with the belief which Aristotle and Plato show in the powers of the lawgiver. But ho... ...r is that in which there is least waste of political ability. Further, the belief that the constitution of a state is only the outward expression of t... ...ing quits the territories of the state he is their general in war; and all religious affairs are entrusted to him: indeed the kingly power with them i... ...eople appointed officers for life, who came to be at the head of civil and religious affairs, and these chose one out of their body in whom the suprem... ...uffer- ing anything illegal while they suppose that he who governs them is religious and reverences the gods; and they will be less inclined to raise ...

...nsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...ny charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania S... ...lication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim ... ...man; a scheme 4 Euthydemus of categories is found in the Philebus; the true doctrine of contradiction is taught, and the fallacy of arguing in a circ... ... is indicated in the genealogical trees of the Sophist and Statesman; a true doctrine of predication and an analy- sis of the sentence are given in th... ...s, or was known, or could be spoken. Let us imagine disputes carried on with religious earnestness and more than scholastic subtlety, in which the cat... ... limitation or relative nature of all phenomena. Plato is aware that his own doctrine of ideas, as well as the Eleatic Being and Not-being, alike admi... ...: T ake courage, Cleinias, and answer like a man whichever you think; for my belief is that you will derive the greatest benefit from their questions....

...sarily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies which are satirized in it reappear in the Sophistici Elenchi of Aristotle and are retained at the end of our manuals of logic....

...bande Eik noor te sab jag upjeya kaun bhale ko mande. (1349) (From the One and the same Light, the entire universe came into existence. How can there... ...igions, but I do not find elsewhere the same power of appeal to the heart and mind as I find in these volumes (of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ).” - Pearl ... ...f Sri Guru Granth Sahib ).” - Pearl S. Buck, Noble Laureate “In the coming religious debate, the Sikh religion and its scripture, Guru Granth, will h... ...S. Buck, Noble Laureate “In the coming religious debate, the Sikh religion and its scripture, Guru Granth, will have something special of value to sa... ...e Immaculate Lord pervading everywhere.) This was the time when caste and religious inequalities were barbaric and humiliation of the downtrodden th... ...ll. He is monistic in character, though pluralistic in content. Gurbani's belief is that God exists not merely as an idea or concept but as a real b... ...s moral and social system. The founder of Christianity did not reduce his doctrines to writings and for them we are obliged to trust to the Gospels ...

...From the One and the same Light, the entire universe came into existence. How can there be good or bad among them? Sri Guru Granth Sahib is a unique religious and philosophical treatise. It contains divinely revealed Word and is written ...

...GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3 + sup(T)+sup(I)... ... 2 GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS ... ... 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb ... ...ited States of America 4 Dedication to a nation with so much religious consistency as could be comprised in an endless column, with so ... ...menon which in the sense of the MESER concept is called revelation. This belief comes from the fact that some speculations expressed in this paper ... ...nderstand). To this effect, the diversity of the viable philosophical and religious conceptions turns out not to be divergent, suggesting that all m... ...cism as a method oriented towards the release from the prevailingness of religiousness and towards the opening to the assertion of the human autonom... ...cies, etc. Within the same treatise on the soul, Aristotle expresses his belief that:< The soul is not self-moving, it cannot set the body into mot... ... more than anything to the concept of angel* and not accidentally, common belief sees the angles as children, that is, rational entities with an yet...

...t should be mentioned that Descartes – the founder of modern rationalism – issued the thesis of ?the right of rationality to re-examine all knowledge and to accept as truth only what appears as obvious in itself, through the angle of reason?. The Cartesian thesis has a testimonial deed in the Socratic assertion on ?the identity between the moral and the rational?....

...ations and Physics 1 st E DI T I O N Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...n from: Lidija Rangelovska write to: palma@unet.com.mk Philosophical essays and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/culture.html ... ...s and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/culture.html World in Conflict and T ransition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Creat... ...e this. Why is Mathematics so Successful? In earlier epochs, people used myths and religious narratives to encode all knowledge, even of a scientif... ...mental, in the mind) and because it is aesthetic (like the mind of the Creator, the religious would add). 7. Finally, mathematics is useful: it wor... ... homogeneity, isotropy, symmetry became enshrined as the cornerstones of an almost religious outlook ("God does not play dice"). These were assumed... ... of an anti religious movement: man becoming self-sufficient and reason supplanting belief. Our generation and the two that preceded it have heard ... ...tega y Gasset said (in an unrelated exchange) that all ideas stem from pre-rational beliefs. William James concurred by saying that accepting a trut... ...cts and into the realm of feelings. Maybe so, but there is little doubt today that beliefs are somehow involved in the formation of many scientific...

Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

...ABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY OF THE CHURCH 1520 Translated by A. T. W. Steinhäuser and revised by Frederick C. Ahrens and Abdel Ross Wentz INTRODUCTION Th... ...ual- temporal power. Now in The Babylonian Captivity of the Church he enters and takes her central stronghold and sanctuary—the sacramental system by... ...al stronghold and sanctuary—the sacramental system by which she accompanied and controlled her members from the cradle to the grave. Only then could... ...e stands at the top, but it also presents with clarity and warmth the simple religious interest of the Christian soul. It is sharp in its attitude to... ...h is the people of God. But now I ask, where is the necessity, where is the religious duty, where is the practical use of denying both kinds, that i... ...eatise by Stephen of Autun (d. 1139). The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (12 volumes) [hereinafter cited as Schaff-Herzog], X... ...er him faithful in his promises [Heb. 10:23], and patiently persist in this belief, and thus worship him with faith, hope, and love. It is in this w... ...d, and this is much greater and the most dangerous of all. It is the common belief that the mass is a sacrifice, which is offered to God. Even the w... ...t certainty of the gospel, and by relying on it, you may well disregard the belief and opinions of men. But if you disregard me and insist upon offer...

...ieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set in an "angry tone" as this was the first time he accused the pope of being the Antichrist. Luther's book was further published in German by his opponent Franci...

...“Rise up then, you popish flatterers, one and all! Get busy and defend yourselves against the charges of impiety, tyranny, and lèse-majesté against the gospel, and of the crime of slandering your brethren. You decry as heretics those who refuse to contravene such pla...

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...Contents CANTO I. Proem.?Invocation.?Beatrice and Dante ascend to the Sphere of Fire.?Beatrice explains the cause of their ascent.................................................................................................................................................

... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a ... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... .............................................................. 46 FASHIONS OF BELIEF ....................................................................... .......................................................................... 86 BELIEF IN PERSONAL IMMORTALITY NO CRITERION .................................. ...to time and space (that is, to the Syrian life of his period) involved his belief in many things, true and false, that in no way distinguish him from ... ...t common mistake to get rid of is that mankind consists of a great mass of religious people and a few eccentric atheists. It consists of a huge mass o... ...- tion, and one Tom Paine, with his smaller congregation. The passionately religious are a people apart; and if they were not hopelessly outnumbered b... ...onal acquaintances a single atheist or a single Plymouth Brother. Unless a religious turn in ourselves has led us to seek the little Societies to whic...

Preface: Androcles and the Lion. On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw.

...INORITY. SALVATIONISM ........................................................................................... 15 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ATONEMENT AND PUNISHMENT ............................................................. 16 SALVATION AT FIRST A CLASS PRIVILEGE; AND THE REMEDY ............................................................. 17 RETROSPECTIVE ATONEMENT, AN...

...L Reprinted from FRASER’S MAGAZINE Seventh Edition London Longmans, Green, and Co. 1879 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Uti... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...wever, be easy to show that whatever steadiness or consistency these moral beliefs have attained, has been mainly due to the tacit influ ence of a st... ...t idea we have formed of the moral character of the Deity. If it be a true belief that God desires, above all things, the happi ness of his creatures... ... creation, utility is not only not a godless doctrine, but more profoundly religious than any other. If it be meant that utili tarianism does not rec... ...hypothesis short of that, mankind must by this time have acquired positive beliefs as to the effects of 26 Utilitarianism some actions on their happi... ...Mill by which they think their happiness is promoted. With re gard to the religious motive, if men believe, as most profess to do, in the goodness of... ...from sympathy , from love, and still more from fear; from all the forms of religious feeling; from the recollections of childhood and of all our past ...

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania St... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...h is the na ture of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything by outward force. Confiscation of estate, imprisonment, ... ... so profess and practise. But penalties are no way capable to produce such belief. It is only light and evi dence that can work a change in men’s opi... ...uld it not be as free for him to go out as it was to enter? No member of a religious society can be tied with any other bonds but what proceed from th... ...ld never yet find in any of the books of the New Testament. The end of a religious society (as has already been said) is the public worship of God a... ... then presently peace and charity are to be laid aside. Otherwise they are religiously to be observed. Where they have not the power to carry on perse... ...by excluding them out of her communion because they will not profess their belief of certain opin ions which are not the express words of the Scriptu...