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Songs of a Semi-Free Man: Why Be Good?
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Did Man Invent God? Wednesday, July 31, 2013. In my last blog, I talked about drivers who ignore the one-way sign posted at the end of the street on which I live. A frequent tactic of those who live on the street to discourage this flouting of the rules is to shout “WRONG WAY”, at cars failing to adhere to these rules. I suppose this will alert someone who was not aware they were driving in the wrong direction to their misdeed, but mostly it will make them aware that people are watching. If no one sees t...
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Songs of a Semi-Free Man: A Mind Divided Against Itself – Cartesian Soul Theory and Brain Splitting?
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Did Man Invent God? Tuesday, June 3, 2014. A Mind Divided Against Itself – Cartesian Soul Theory and Brain Splitting? Jeff McMahan in his book The Ethics of Killing. 8211; Problems at the Margins of Life. Examines several accounts of personal identity – what we really are. Among those examined is the theory that we are souls. McMahan finds several problems with soul theory, both hylomorphic soul theory and Cartesian soul theory. Click on this link. To read the full a paper. Songs of a Semi-Free Man.
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Songs of a Semi-Free Man: Finale?
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Did Man Invent God? Saturday, July 9, 2011. 8220;Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.” (1). We have an inbuilt desire to do things that matter. But what if everything we build and love and fight for is gone someday? Without a trace. As if it never was. Would it matter that we existed for an instant in the face of an eternity without us? The inescapable answer is that it would not. The problem is that we know, with the rarity of absolute certainty, that we will die. Is it some kind of cosmic joke?
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Songs of a Semi-Free Man: Kant's First Antinomy - Can We Know If the Universe is Finite or Infinite?
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Did Man Invent God? Thursday, June 25, 2015. Kant's First Antinomy - Can We Know If the Universe is Finite or Infinite? Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Is a towering and original work in the philosophical cannon. Kant’s transcendental idealism is designed to remove skeptical doubts about empirical science that Hume had raised by asserting that space and time are conditions of experiences that are internal to each of us. Kant wants to use the antinomies to motivate us to accept transcendental ide...
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Songs of a Semi-Free Man: Religion and Violence
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Did Man Invent God? Thursday, April 11, 2013. 8220;Religion poisons everything. As well as a menace to civilization, it has become a threat to human survival.” – Christopher Hitchens (1). Instead, let’s do a thought experiment. What if you had a magic ray gun that could remove someone’s religious beliefs instantly? Imagine further that you had a way to spread the effects of this ray gun over the entire earth, so that every person on the planet was struck, and no longer had any religious belief. It is to ...
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Songs of a Semi-Free Man: Did Man Invent God?
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Did Man Invent God? Did Man Invent God? The idea of the divine or God is, if you think clearly about it, a very strange concept. To many contemporary scientifically minded people it is childish and even laughable to believe in God. They contend that the physical material world is all there is. So why invent ghost stories? But does this explanation make sense when we look at it more closely? Two assumptions underlie the theory that man invented God. First, some human or humans were born into a world w...
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Songs of a Semi-Free Man: Book
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Did Man Invent God? ORDER NOW FROM AMAZON. NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE. In today’s post-modern society, many claim that truth—and in particular moral truth—is relative and not absolute. At the same time, most people believe in universal human rights. However, if truth is not absolute, how can there be universal human rights? Why It Doesn't Matter What You Believe If it Isn't True challenges those who embrace the “human rights urge” to honestly look at the contradiction between relative truth and ...For now w...
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Songs of a Semi-Free Man: Songs in the Key of Joy
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Did Man Invent God? Wednesday, December 22, 2010. Songs in the Key of Joy. 8220; Song shows us a world that is worthy of our yearning, it shows us our selves as they might be, if we were worthy of the world. 8221; – Salman Rushdie. How to fill in these gaps without some belief in the transcendent? If these artistic revelations are to have any meaning there must be more to life than random chance, otherwise they are just talking rubbish. Writes the following to describe his fellow atheists:. We are not im...
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Songs of a Semi-Free Man: A Standard Of Measure
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Did Man Invent God? Thursday, January 12, 2012. A Standard Of Measure. There is one thing of which one can say neither that it is one metre long, nor that it is not one metre long, and that is the standard metre in Paris. - Ludwig Wittgenstein. The metre stick in Paris, therefore, holds a special place in the measurement system. It is the standard by which all other metres are put against to see if they measure up. Ludwig Wittgenstein, the celebrated twentieth century Austrian philosopher, wrote ...The c...
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Songs of a Semi-Free Man: July 2015
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Did Man Invent God? Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Mackie’s Argument From Queerness – A Double-Edged Sword. What are objective moral values? If moral values are objective there should be some way that we can come to agreement on what kinds of things that they are. . Are they sui generis. Non-natural properties with which we can somehow get into contact? If so, do such things exist? The peculiar qualities of objective moral values present a strange problem. . So my conclusion will be that the argument from qu...