The epistemological irony of postcolonialism: A perspective from Paul’s flesh-Spirit dichotomy
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 Among other things, postcolonialism claims to react against western epistemology. Although postcolonial approaches react to the traditional tendency in colonialism to silence the Other by political, social and economic structures and ideologies, non ...
Philip La. G. Du Toit
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Adler and the Debate on Revelation in Golden Age Denmark
Filozofia, 2023 In 1843, Adolph Peter Adler, a pastor of the Danish Church, claimed that he had received a supernatural revelation in which Christ spoke to him. The event triggered a religious controversy.
Nassim Bravo
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The Genesis of a Philosophical Poem: Sri Aurobindo, World Literature and the Writing of Savitri
Aisthesis, 2020 Philosophical poetry has had a long and distinguished history in different cultural traditions. These traditions have always interacted to some extent, but today the barriers between them have largely broken down. Savitri, an epic in English by the early
Richard Hartz
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THE CONCEPT "SINN DES LEBENS" IN PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2020 Purpose. The paper considered the explication of the concept of "Sinn des Lebens" within the framework of Western philosophy and psychology of the ХІХ-ХХІ centuries.
V. Y. Popov, Е. V. Popova
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Yoruba-Irish Literature: Intersection in the Language of Supernatural in Yeats and Soyinka
Crossroads, 2018 The present paper aims at showing the intersection that Irish and Nigerian (especially the Yoruba) literatures share, particularly in the construction of the idea of supernaturalism, which is clearly exemplified in two of their most important works.
Mayowa Akinlotan
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The Common-Core/Diversity Dilemma: Revisions of Humean thought, New Empirical Research, and the Limits of Rational Religious Belief [PDF]
, 2015 This paper is the product of an interdisciplinary, interreligious dialogue aiming to outline some of the possibilities and rational limits of supernatural religious belief, in the light of a critique of David Hume’s familiar sceptical arguments ...
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Schleiermacher and Otto on religion : a reappraisal [PDF]
, 2008 An interpretation of the work of Schleiermacher and Otto recently offered by Andrew Dole, according to which these two thinkers differed over the extent to which religion can be explained naturalistically, and over the sense in which the supernatural can
Smith, A. D. (Arthur David)
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The No Self View and the Meaning of Life [PDF]
, 2018 Several philosophers, both in Buddhist and Western philosophy, claim that the self does not exist. The no-self view may, at first glance, appear to be a reason to believe that life is meaningless.
Le Bihan, Baptiste
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Between Naturalism and Theism: Johnston and Putnam on the Reality of God [PDF]
, 2014 The essay compares mark Johnston’s and Hilary Putnam’s approaches to the philosophy of religion in the framework of Charles Taylor’s claim that in modernity ”intermediate positions’ between theism and naturalism become increasingly attractive for a ...
Schlette, Magnus
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African Metaphysics and Religious Ethics [PDF]
, 2018 Scholars of African moral thought reject the possibility of an African religious ethics by invoking at least three major reasons. The first objection to ‘ethical supernaturalism’ argues that it is part of those aspects of African ...
Molefe, Motsamai
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