Religion as a concept has generated some nuances that retain the sense of religiosity or spirituality while negating the idea of a personal anthropomorphic deity. One should therefore be clear as to the usage of this concept in a given context. While religion, ethics, and the meaning of life ...
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosopicus in the perspective of logic philosophy, philosophy of language, and theory of knowledge, Wittgenstein himself said in a letters to Ludwig von Ficker that the key to understanding the Tractatus is to grasp that the overall "sense of the book is an ...
“Cinq à sept originally referred to a time for a tryst, and consequently is a metonym for a visit to one’s mistress, an extramarital affair, and the mistress involved. It derived from the time of day French people would make such a visit. It is still commonly considered as the time ...
This isn’t so much about baseball ethics as values, and how our sports “heroes” corrupt ours. I suppose I am obligated to confess that I detest Manny Machado. I haven’t watched him much since he moved to San Diego, but when he was with the Baltimore Orioles, he was one of the...
“He who has a good nature will have the reward of those who observe fasting in days and keep awake praying at nights.” “You cannot treat people by means of your wealth; hence, you should treat them by means of your moral conduct.” ...
Without the royal self-pride, he revitalizes all the relationships and makes him return to a perfect family, which is joined together and stands with him, instead of remaining against him as they did already. This movie teaches about the moral values of life i.e. unity, love, and harmony...
The ethics value defied here is competence, and what we are seeing is the classic sunk costs fallacy in its classic form. The Vietnam War was the most painful example of this breach of life competence and common sense, which holds that devoting a lot of time and/or resources to a failed...
In his book The Ethics of Affect: Lines and Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood, Patrick W. Galbraith uses the incident as one of many examples of tensions over the establishment of “safe spaces” in public and private life: safe not only for passing nuns, schoolteachers, your mum and your ...
Education and Religion God Philosophy ...more Walker Percy’s 1981 NY Times Op-Ed on Abortion July 7, 2024 ByFrancis J. Beckwith 0 Comments While working on the revised edition of my 2007 book, Defending Life, I came across a June 8, 1981 New York Times opinion piece written by the ...
the Ukrainian border; this was not merely a high-stakes game of brinkmanship, but rather a prelude to a large-scale war of aggression. In the context of (not-unreasonable) fears of triggering nuclear escalation, a good deal of the response by NATO and allied countries relied on flexing ...