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The Metaphysical Dilema

• June 22, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in General Philosophies, Quotes
Tags: a priori, common sense, descartes, destiny, dilema, empiricism, fate, freedom, hume, immanuel kant, immortality, jouissance, Kant, knowledge, laws, limitations, logical positivism, metaphysics, Philosophy, practicality, problems, rationality, thought, truth, world

Necessary and Contingent Truths

• June 13, 2009 • 3 Comments

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Tags: analysis, body, constant, contingent, division, eternal, existential, final, force, geometry, God, harmony, infinity, isolation, Leibniz, math, matter, metaphysics, motions, Music, necessary, orchestra, Philosophy, transition, truth

Beyond Theism/Atheism

• May 13, 2009 • 1 Comment

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Tags: agnosticism, atheism, belief, brand, catholicism, Christianity, discipline, division, faith, freedom, Gandhi, gentiles, gnostic, God, Gospel of Thomas, heaven, Hegel, history, judaism, knowledge, Leibniz, love, morality, Nietzshe, ownership, Pascal, raft, religion, Spinoza, spiritual, theism, tolerance, truth, unity, William Blake, wisdom, Wittgenstein

Mahatma Gandhi on God, Truth, and Religion

• May 12, 2009 • 1 Comment

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Tags: reality, truth, Active Philosophy, bible, universe, existence, religion, Christianity, violence, morality, Gandhi, individuals, peace, love, atheism, Maker, Sanskrit, Hinduism, sports, roads, Koran, Vedas, Zend Avesta, names, leisure, zest, expedition, nonviolence, ahimsa, superiority, humility

Atheism, Cont.

• May 11, 2009 • 1 Comment

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Tags: obama, Zen, D.T. Suzuki, truth, self, Active Philosophy, faith, religion, Christianity, Fromm, destiny, Buddha, Gandhi, Buddhism, experience, enlightenment, postmodernism, division, atheism, lotus, trancendentalists, satori, David Harvey, Frederic Jameson, compromise, Gospel of Thomas, study, rhetoric, essay, thinkers, positive, spritual

Convention

• April 29, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Quick Ideas
Tags: 1984, attitude, capitalism, censorship, choice, climate change, convention, decision, doublespeak, earth, fate, George Orwell, global warming, green, justice, logic, media, new, norms, orthodoxy, possibility, poverty, prejudice, progress, propoganda, psychology, record heat, research, slogan, temperature, thought, truth, Wittgenstein, work

Reincarnation And Life After Death

• April 6, 2009 • 6 Comments

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Tags: afterlife, awakening, awareness, Buddha, candle, death, difference, dying, empathy, enlightenment, essence, existence, flames, identity, immortality, kutadanta, lamp, life, living, mankind, oil, power, presence, rebirth, reincarnation, sameness, spirit, spirituality, truth, universe, wisdom

The Hsi-Westbrook Theory of Wrongness (Proposed)

• March 24, 2009 • 1 Comment

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Tags: absolute, acceptance, Active Philosophy, belief, correct, essentials, ethics, foundation, God, morals, Philosophy, satan, theory, truth, wrongness

On Fear of One Another II

• March 20, 2009 • 7 Comments

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Tags: active, america, capitalism, choice, church, contradiction, crisis, ethics, existence, faith, freedom, God, hope, humanity, Ideas, knowledge, life, meaning, motivation, perception, Philosophy, politics, questions, reality, religion, revolution, school, science, society, Spinoza, truth, vs., Wittgenstein, work, Zen

Correlation – First Truths

• March 16, 2009 • 4 Comments

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Tags: Aristotle, atom, body, conception, contingent, contradiction, creation, criticism, essentialism, God, independant, infinity, Leibniz, morality, necessary, negation, Philosophy, scholarship, soul, space, Spinoza, substance, time, truth, vacuum