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why people idolize [closed]
Why people like to idolize something. What is the actual instinct in man that makes him greedy to worship something as if it is a holy and top priority. For example, people used to idolize temples. ...
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Moral Arguments for Deity? Russell's refutation
Reading Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian I stumbled upon a passage (The Moral Arguments for Deity) I don't seem to understand.
Kant, as I say, invented a new moral argument for the existence of ...
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Question on Thomas Hobbes De Ciev, Of Liberty
This mans will to hurt ariseth from Vain glory, and the false esteeme he hath of his owne strength; the other's, from the necessity of defending himselfe, his liberty, and his goods against this ...
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Where does 'continental' philosophy fit in the subcategories of modern philosophy?
If one considers a abstract systematization of what constitutes modern philosophy, it is very natural to come up with something like wikipedia's outline: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic, ...
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Does humanism's rejection of God necesitate relativism?
I had the following discussion on Programmers.SE:
@Peter Turner, Which is a good example of how religion warps morality, leading people to imagine their concerns are moral when they are profoundly ...
