Morality is not your opinion, belief, manners, culture, or upbringing. It is much more important than that. True or false? Answer true or false: A counterexample is a description of a particular case that is me
Bro. Besant goes on to state, unmistakably, that a single morality is not for everyone. That is, each of us has our own morality: “…morality is not as simple as one would think, one and the same for all; because it varies with the Dharma of the individual.”~ Bro. Annie Besant ...
The first three chapters get us clear about what basic certainty and what morality is. In these next two chapters I go on to develop a key distinction (put forth by Daniele Moyal-Sharrock) between different kinds of basic certainty, the local and the uni
Cosmic Consciousness is not a new phrase, and it does not pertain to any one pre-existing philosophy or religion. Humanity has been undergoing the process described in the concept of cosmic consciousness for long time - setting aside the ways of the human animal, rising through the common inte...
I am clear about the deep strategic need for things like cooperation, love, responsibility and morality; but my understanding comes from a deep exploration of the strategic systems that make complex life possible across sets of contexts and vast arcs of time. So I am much more like Jordan Pet...
From this perspective, one may argue that Hegel’s lord/bondsman dialectic is not only the rising bourgeois philosophy’s response to Spinoza’s noted observation; it is its generalization within the incipient bourgeois economic structure which already regards itself as universal. Under the disguise ...
Chinese philosophy strongly suggests universal truths and morality. Woo (1980) pointed out that the Western idea of human rights has never been widely accepted in China because it is rooted in metaphysical concepts that had been foreign to traditional Chinese culture. On contrary to Woo's view, ...
1.(Philosophy) the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation 2.(Philosophy) the Kantian principle that if a course of action cannot be universally adopted it must be morally impermissible ...
since there are three distinguished humanics: one based on science, another on philosophy and the third one on theology; and each of them is separate from others.2Back to the classical Greek philosophy, we can easily detect Socrates’ definition: human is an existence that has reasonable respon...
What is a particular in philosophy? A particular is a specific instance or entity that can be individually identified within a broader category. 13 Can something be both particular and universal? In most contexts, an entity or concept is classified as either particular or universal, but the inte...