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Religious Spirituality and the Meaning of Life: the Problem of Absurdity [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022 Religious spirituality faces various challenges in the new world. One of these challenges is the question of meaningfulness or emptiness of life. While in the traditional world, few thinkers see life as empty and absurd, today there are many such views ...
Vahid Sohrabifar, Abolghasem Fanaei
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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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Il contributo di Frege all’attuale dibattito sul naturalismo
Rivista di Estetica, 2010 In this paper I shall address two main questions, namely: (1) Is Frege’s criticism against psychologism still relevant to the present debate on naturalism vs. anti-naturalism? And (2) Does Frege’s suggested alternative to reductive naturalism amount to a
Elisabetta Sacchi
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Post-Supernatural Cultures: There and Back Again
Secularism and Nonreligion, 2020 The abandonment of supernatural religious beliefs and rituals seems to occur quite easily in some contexts, but post-supernaturalist cultures require a specific set of conditions that are difficult to produce and sustain on a large scale and thus are ...
Wesley J. Wildman +4 more
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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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SUPERNATURAL A-TERM INFLATION [PDF]
Modern Physics Letters A, 2010 Following Ref. 10, we explore the parameter space of the case when the supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking scale is lower, for example, in gauge mediated SUSY breaking model. During inflation, the form of the potential is V0 plus MSSM (or A-term ) inflation. We show that the model works for a wide range of the potential V0 with the soft SUSY breaking mass m
Lin, Chia-Min, Cheung, Kingman
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Measuring Qatari Women’s Progress Through Reactions to Online Behavior
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2017 The close kinship structure of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries of Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) means that appeasing one’s family often supersedes personal aspirations. The family occupies a central
Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Rumsha Shahzad
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Do Radical Theologians Pray?: A Spirituality of the Event
Religions, 2021 Radical theology is not only an academic inquiry but also a radical spirituality. This point is confirmed in the phenomenology of radical prayer found in Derrida’s “Circumfession”. Derrida’s prayer takes place in a theopoetic space opened by a theopoetic
John D. Caputo
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HENRY NELSON WIEMAN ON RELIGION AND REINHOLD NIEBUHR
Zygon, 2017 Henry Nelson Wieman and Reinhold Niebuhr were theologically poles apart—Wieman a “new naturalist” and Niebuhr a “new super naturalist”—according to Wieman's nomenclature. Wieman devoted more time and attention to Niebuhr than Niebuhr did to him.
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