Teaching Democracy by Teaching Supernaturalism
Religions, 2019 This paper analyzes critiques of the supernatural by John Dewey, a celebrated American philosopher. Dewey rejected the supernatural on scientific and cosmological grounds, but his most significant critique was made on political grounds. In A Common Faith
Aaron J. Ghiloni
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Totem and animism beliefs in athletes: scale development and examination of psychometric properties [PDF]
BMC Sports Science, Medicine and RehabilitationBackground Competitive sport is characterized by uncertainty and performance pressure, which may prompt athletes to engage in belief-related behaviors such as rituals, symbolic object use, and superstitious practices.
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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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Ethnobotany of religious and supernatural beliefs of the Mising tribes of Assam with special reference to the 'Dobur Uie' [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2011 Assam is very rich in plant biodiversity as well as in ethnic diversity and has a great traditional knowledge base in plant resources. It is inhabited by the largest number of tribes and they lead an intricate life totally dependent on forest plants. The
Pegu Shyamanta, Sharma Uma Kanta
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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 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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Non-supernaturalism: Linguistic Convention, Metaphysical Claim, or Empirical Matter of Fact? [PDF]
, 2020 This paper examines our pre-theoretic conception of non-supernaturalism; the thesis that all that exists is natural. It is argued that we intuitively take this thesis to be a substantive, non-dogmatic, empirically justified, not merely contingent truth ...
Jaksland, Rasmus
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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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Humanistic supernaturalism: what shape else humanism could take [PDF]
, 2019 Many Western humanistic philosophers regard the concepts of humanism and supernaturalism as oppositional, and that nothing supernatural can be humanistic. The supernatural is made to fall outside the range of options that could foster realistic, reliable,
Majeed, H.M.
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