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Fichte – Free Will, Action & Consciousness
I have been reading Fichte’s The Vocation of Man, and have come away impressed, especially by Book III – Faith. Fichte is known for promoting a so-called philosophy of solipsism, penned in an an impenetrable style, but I found neither to be valid. On … Continue reading
Posted in General Philosophies
Tagged action, active, Active Philosophy, active thinking, consciousness, ego, engine, faith, fichte, free will, individual, johann fichte, johann gottlieb fichte, motor, Philosophy, pineal gland, solipsism, thought, vocation, will, world
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Beyond Theism/Atheism
Puff Daddy: “Let’s change the world, BIG.” Notorious BIG: “Can’t change the world unless we change ourselves.” Beyond Atheism/Theism “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s; I will not reason and compare; my business is to … Continue reading
Posted in Active Philosophy
Tagged 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
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Atheism – A Defense part 1
This post in a follow up/response to recent post by my co-blogger on Atheism (See Atheism and Atheism Cont.). I changed a lot in this post when I proofed it. It’s kinda late… I’ll read it once now and then … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged agnostics, atheism, certainty, definitions, doubt, faith, future, God, history, religious, semantics, understanding
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Atheism, Cont.
In a recent post I decried Atheism, or the way that some approach it, for being absolute. However, as Cheryl reminded me, atheism or no faith does no necessarily equate to anything absolute, but rather the opposite. My scattered thoughts emerged … Continue reading
Posted in Active Philosophy
Tagged Active Philosophy, atheism, Buddha, Buddhism, Christianity, compromise, D.T. Suzuki, David Harvey, destiny, division, enlightenment, essay, experience, faith, Frederic Jameson, Fromm, Gandhi, Gospel of Thomas, lotus, obama, positive, postmodernism, religion, rhetoric, satori, self, spritual, study, thinkers, trancendentalists, truth, Zen
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Fragments from Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value
“Are all men great? No. – Well then, how can you have any hope of being a great man! Why should something be bestowed on you that’s not bestowed on your neighbor? To what purpose? If it isn’t your wish … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged belief, certainty, change, christ, cold, conviction, creation, culture, death, determination, direction, doctrine, faith, forces, God, hell, Holy Ghost, judgement, knowledge, life, logic, love, nature, new way of thinking, Philosophy, power, prices, redemption, religion, resurrection, rights, roots, Self-improvement, talent, thinking, thought, thoughts, trees, value, vanity, will, wisdom, Wittgenstein
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On Fear of One Another II
This blog is in response to Fear of One Another Which is a follow up to the debate started in the posts On Science, Religion, and Nationalism On Science, Religion, and Nationalism II I will also admit that I was … Continue reading
Posted in General Philosophies
Tagged 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
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On Science, Religion, and Nationalism
This post is in response to Three Ideas in Development, specifically the third idea. As for the third…I love your last paragraph…and have a lot to say about this. I know that you are of course not advocating the side … Continue reading
Posted in General Philosophies
Tagged america, cap, capitalism, christian, chruch, culture, education, faith, God, gods, heathen, imperial, inferior, justification, knowledge, muslim, nationalism, nations, organized, Osama Bin Laden, poor, rational, religion, rich, school, science, secular, society, superior, supernatural, superstitions, technology, third world, trust, war, western
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