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Tim Limkeman

Heraclitus and the Birth of the Logos - Modern Stoicism - 1 views

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Philosophy Theology Heraclitus Logos

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  • It is our nature to separate things into parts, to make distinctions, but if there were a Supreme Being, is this the way it would see the universe?
  • No, says Heraclitus: “Listening not to me but to the Logos, it is wise to acknowledge that all things are one.”
  • Heraclitus seems to contradict himself on whether there is a God. The Logos is not God as such, and in some statements he sees the universe as a kind of self-perpetuating mechanism that “has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be – an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.”
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  • he clearly says that there is a divine mind with an intelligent purpose, in contrast to the blindness of man: “Man is not rational; only what encompasses him is intelligent.”
  • Our minds are so fixed on the material that we take this relative level of reality to be everything, yet there is an absolute reality that awaits our appreciation.
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Heraclitus | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 1 views

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Logos Johannine Literature Heraclitus

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  • Thus the world is not to be identified with any particular substance, but rather with an ongoing process governed by a law of change.
  • Heraclitus is the first Western philosopher to go beyond physical theory in search of metaphysical foundations and moral applications.
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THE CHRISTIAN-BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY - 0 views

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Philosophy Worldviews

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  • science exceeded its limits, and claims were made for it which pushed it beyond its realm of competence
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TROJAN HORSES ENTER OUR TRANSCENDENTLESS CULTURE - 0 views

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Philosophy Strauss Worldviews

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  • ignostics.”  They simply do not know what we are talking about!
  • Our problem in reaching the lost West is compounded by the fact that the West has been effectively “inoculated” from being able to hear the real thing.  Most in the West have been exposed to a diluted and/or distorted version of Christianity.
  • Hunter defines secularization as “the withdrawal of whole areas of life, thought, and activity from the control or influence of the Church” (pp. 25-26). 
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  • Renaissance
  • It created the cultural soil out of which humanism would emerge as a vital competitor for Christian truth claims and ethics.
  • Reformation – Christendom continued to fragment with the advent of the Protestant Reformation
  • the “Church’s pathological pattern of responses to these events—responses that undermined the Church’s credibility and distanced the people from her witness. . . The Church’s behavior (i.e. in relationship to Science mentioned above? Made it appear to be the enemy of thought, rationality, and truth” (p. 29). 
  • This killed Christendom as a political unity.  War led ultimately to disillusionment with the Church’s God. 
  • Science challenged Christendom’s prescientific assumptions about the universe and human life.  The Church’s pigheaded refusal to acknowledge the legitimate truth claims of science (such as the position of the earth in the universe system) caused the Church to lose credibility with the thinking world.
  • Enlightenment escalated the secularization process.  It is such a big part of secularization that many writers treat it like the only cause.  The Enlightenment mood taught that people were intrinsically good and reasonable, but environment makes them less good and reasonable.  Is this the breeding ground for the current tidal wave of “victim mentality?”
  • Urbanization is the migration of people from the rural, farming community to the mass of people joined in the “secular city.”
  • Rise of Nationalism
  • Church’s failure to respond properly to those events. 
  • Martin Marty suggests that secularity as “the schism between the Church and western culture has taken at least three different forms.”
  • Controlled Secularity – This form is characteristically found in the United States where Christianity has been distorted into a folk religion which typically deifies traditional American values.  
  • Kierkegaard, who said, “When everybody is a Christian, nobody is a Christian.”  (p. 33)  
  • Christian movement’s first three centuries, four objectives had to be achieved in order for Christianity to be communicated:  (1)  People needed to be informed and educated as to the Church’s truth claims;  (2)  In the midst of a hostile populace, people had to be influenced;  (3)  In the midst of a diverse religious atmosphere, people had to be convinced that at the last Christianity was plausible and at the best true; (4)  Since people have to willingly choose to enter the Kingdom, people had to be invited to adopt the Christian faith as their own (p. 35).
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Philosophy Worldviews

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  • an attempt to explain the radical transformations in science
  • Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  • Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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  • I. Bernard Cohen’s book, Revolution in Science, section IV, pages 197-269
  • it is an attempt to analyze parallel movements that lead to the radical shift in the way men understand the universe and a radical shift in the scientific enterprise.
  • Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions .
  • gives a thorough examination of the development of the term from its ambiguous beginnings, until it come to mean, in this writer’s words, a radical discontinuity and change . 
  • Revolution in Science, section IV, pages 197-269 . 
  • a radical discontinuity and change
  • an understanding of Kuhn’s use of “revolution” must be understood before one can comprehend Kuhn’s thesis
  • revolution” as a principle of radical discontinuity of one science for change into another understanding of science lies at the foundation of Kuhn’s book .
  • revolution” as a principle of radical discontinuity of one science for change into another understanding of science lies at the foundation of Kuhn’s book
  • Kuhn seeks to defend his position that science changes in a revolutionary fashion rather than in an evolutionary fashion
  • Alexandre Koyre’s work, The Astronomical Revolution,
  • Cohen’s analysis
  • gives the reader criteria for judging historical events which have been considered revolutionary in the history of science.  The accumulation of anomalies forces the “normal science” (to use Kuhn’s words) into a crisis, for this crisis resolution is only found in a revolution, a paradigm shift, to a new model of understanding and doing science.
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