Questions tagged [faith]
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I'm a new polytheist. What does it mean for me to believe in a god?
Please pardon me about that I'm concealing my religious background to prevent a flame-war.
Though I've never lost my faith, the faith has been changing for recent times. For now, I seem to be ...
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How do philosophers support their faith in other minds? [duplicate]
How do you support your belief that other people have minds like yours?
Do you use any arguments to explain the reasons for your belief?
I believe that other people have minds and mental states like ...
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The Scientific Method(s), Skepticism and Faith: What other methods have been proposed as a means by which to arrive at truth?
The contemporary Youtube universe (according to the algorithm directing my stream) seems to separate our search for truth (and/or the attempt to avoid falsity) into the contrasting 'methods'/means of ...
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How could one distinguish crankery from serious work?
Suppose I read a work, and I don't understand it or see its meaning, then it could be that either the information itself is inconsistent/non-sensical or I don't understand it personally. How do I know ...
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Is there a biological description of "chakras" or is the concept of "chakras" mere pseudoscience?
It is widely claimed that we have many chakras(7 major chakras) situated at different locations along the spinal cord. Each of the chakras is said to be associated with certain energy channels, the ...
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Is faith just a consolation for the common folk?
In reading Dostoevsky, I stumbled upon the perplexing question of faith being a mere consolation. And in spite of considering myself a believer, I still agree to this statement to a certain extent. ...
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Are all beliefs ultimately rooted in faith?
For the purpose of this question let 'belief' mean anything a person accepts to be true for whatever reason - in particular if someone 'knows' something they also 'believe' in it.
I read this old ...
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What is "natural"?
The term "natural" is often used by people who have faith in "natural" things, by marketers promoting a product, etc.
However, what is the definition of "natural"? ...
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Could a new method of understanding the universe be created? [closed]
Throughout history, we have used many methods of understanding the universe. Religion, Philosophy and Science (I know that the lines between these three are blurred but are significant enough to ...
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Does anyone know this parable? King & peasant, possibly from Kierkegaard
I remember fragments of a parable—I think the point is that it's supposed to be an image of faith—and I think it's from Kierkegaard, though I have no idea if that's true, or where in Kierkegaard it ...
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Is the concept of 'evidence' inherently subjective, and how does that impact the definition of 'faith'?
Claiming that something is 'evidence' of something else requires a mind observing, interpreting and coming to that conclusion. Isn't this a subjective process? If so, does this mean that the concept ...
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Is faith required to believe any axiomatic assumption the scientific method is built upon?
It's my understanding that the scientific method builds upon certain axiomatic assumptions, such as uniformitarianism and the principle of induction. Is faith required to believe these axiomatic ...
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Can we say that "I Think Therefore I Am" was never about "I", or thinking, or "I" doing the thinking?
Strictly speaking, "Cogito ergo sum" simply means:
"The existence of your own mind can never be in doubt."
Item 1) also describes our true knowledge in its entirety.
Or we can ...
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What is the difference between faith and belief in philosophy?
Is there any difference between faith and belief philosophically speaking?
I am trying to think of these two concepts as separate, but I am unable to unlink them.
Is there any answer or any texts ...
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Does the demand for evidence run contrary to faith?
As the title suggests, and in accordance with a recent theme here on philosophy stack exchange, I'm wondering if the demand for evidence runs contrary to faith. My intuitive notion of faith is that it ...
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Is theism necessarily 'faith-based'?
Reading this question recently posted, an assertion was made that theism and atheism are both "faith-based" positions.
Ignoring the argument regarding atheism, I feel the initial premise deserves a ...
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Who is Kierkegaard's knight of faith?
I have hardship to understand who the knight of faith is after reading an exerpt from Fear and Trembling:
"The tragic hero assures himself that the ethical obligation is totally present in him by ...
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What is the minimum statement of faith?
Taking 'faith' to mean: an effective trust or acceptance of the veracity of certain statements of fact, or the truth of existential claims. I.e. the kind of faith/beliefs that are cardinal to the ...
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Can anybody list all the religion? Or the most commonly known. Also, what to they practice or follow? [closed]
I want to expend my knowledge toward understanding who I am as a human- being and what I belief in. Sometime I don't fully know where I stand and one way to start that is by simply narrowing down what ...
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Is faith necessary for optimism?
I’ve been pondering this awhile now. I think possibly the most important thing to me is intellectual honesty when it comes to things - tending to be a realist; anticipating what is most likely going ...
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What does it mean that a belief is scientifically compatible?
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Does culture bias weaken the argument that modern science and a religious world view are compatible?
... the questioner presents the following discussion between an atheist ...
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Why is faith seen as a sign of weakness, instead of an unexplored land/opportunity?
Hope this is the right place to put this question!
I am a person of faith (more specific, a Christian) and most of the time people consider me somehow inferior for my belief. I am not antisocial, not ...
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Is wisdom always appropriate? [closed]
I have a 990 KB text file I wrote of wisdom I learned from God. No one asks me to hear what God teaches me, but I share anyway because it will do good for them. Is this OK? Does wisdom always need to ...
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Faith versus Reason
I am looking for books on the discussion of terms and concepts like reason, faith, instinct, evidence, confidence, justification, etc. But especially reason versus faith. I not looking for science ...
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Is faith an epistemology?
Is faith an epistemology? Is faith a way people come to know things? I was thinking about religion and god and also the book written by a modern philosopher Peter Bogohsian (a manual for creating ...
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How to Respond to this Argument about Faith?
I've seen the following situation come up several times, and wanted to know what a common response was.
Suppose Fred and George are arguing about a proposition X. Fred takes a faith based position on ...
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How would a Knight of Faith respond to a disproof of God?
In Kierkegaard's work the concept of "Faith" appears to be what we might describe as a belief somehow "beyond", or more fundamental than, evidence-based belief.
In the case that belief in God (...
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Why does Kierkegaard's pseudonym Johannes De Silentio believe Abraham exemplifies faith?
From Fear and Trembling:
All that time [Abraham] believed--he believed that God would not require
Isaac of him, whereas he was willing nevertheless to sacrifice him if
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Faith in science [duplicate]
Is faith in science comparable to religious faith? Scientists aren't dogmatic in the sense that they review their theories whenever they are contradicted by new experiments, but still, they have faith ...
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On Atheists who are sympathetic to religion?
Most Atheists I have encountered fall into 2 categories:
New Atheists: People who don't believe in God and see religion as an evil to be eradicated given the harm it has caused humanity (i.e. ...
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Can belief in science be considered a form of theism?
Based on the problem of induction, nobody can assert with absolute certainty that the laws of science (i.e. physics, chemistry, etc,...) will hold all the time, in every part of the universe. ...
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Why are we not just a computer program? [closed]
The problem of how the Universe came about is probably too hard. So let us consider the following instead. Over years from now some huge collection of code run on a powerful computer achieves what can ...
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Science and personal beliefs [duplicate]
Talking with a friend of mine about the existence if God, I argued that science is the better way to believe in something, instead of believing in something using personal belief or faith; for example ...
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What's the difference between superstition and religion? [closed]
Both are based on what people say and believe to, so is it a matter of faith?
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Were we born to believe? [closed]
This is a controversial question and not one that necessarily implies a Super Natural intervention, but I am curious about your opinion.
Many of you I would hope is aware of the fact that living our ...
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Is Theological Agnosticism a defensible position?
Given that there is a substantive body of debate between atheism and religion, how can the proposition that the existence of God(s) is unknowable really be defended?
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In what sense is atheism scientific?
I have been reading a bit of Dawkins and the like and they all seem to hold a very strong viewpoint on atheism and its associated ideology. I have not found a direct citation for this but he ...
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