It is sometimes frustrating that there are so few descriptions and clarifications in the Gospel that could help recreate the historical setting of Christ’s time with people on earth. The idle reader wanted all the acts mentioned in Scripture to exactly coincide with chronological documentation and archaeological finds. But the Bible remains a completely “closed” …
Who does not dream of family happiness, of a perfect marriage, concluded, as they say, in heaven. And especially the approval of the higher realms is sought by believers who hope that the help of the mountain forces will protect their family boat from the storms of the earth, full of the temptations of life. …
Angela Bolte is Assistant Dean in Lloyd International Honors College at UNC Greensboro. She earned her PhD in Philosophy and Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from Washington University in Saint Louis.
If you live in an urban environment, or work in an indoor setting, chances are you may be experiencing symptoms of ‘nature deficit disorder. Nature deficit disorder can come in many forms, from a sense of disconnection, depression, stress, ADD, high blood pressure, just to name few.
Throughout time, human beings have communed with nature and seen it as a magical source of spirituality.
Based on our third-wave framing of predictive processing, we argued in our previous post (4) that generative models cannot be unplugged from the world, given that action couples the agent to the environment.
In ‘Experimental ordinary language philosophy: a cross-linguistic investigation of default inferences’,(Synthese, 2019) Eugen Fischer, Paul Engelhard, Joachim Horvath and Hiroshi Ohtani seek to take experimental philosophy beyond the study of intuitions and highlight links to one of its historical precursors.
Here we have to look at a broader literature and make some inferences, but a pattern does seem to emerge. First, agnostics and atheists tend to score higher than believers on tests of intellectual ability such as standard IQ tests. Religious skeptics score more highly than believers on both the verbal and the quantitative sections …
There are many ways to classify the myriad systems of belief about the nature of the world and humanity’s relationship to it, but for present purposes a very simple distinction between two broad categories will do. In the accompanying table, I include a third category for the sake of completeness. I will return to it …
Many people introduced to Stoicism by twenty-first-century popularizers are surprised by the religious nature of the philosophy. The deafening silence on this topic leaves most people unaware of the deep religious piety of the Stoics.