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Truth (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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  • Jordyn Shell on 17 May 12
     
    This site is credible because it is from a credible and very highly-distinguished university (Stanford University) and it was found using www.sweetsearch.com which is told to be very credible by Mrs. Bambic.
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The Value of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell on Audio Download - Free Audio - 0 views

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    For the debate in pft
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An Introduction to the Orthodox Christian Understanding of Free Will - 0 views

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  • Some have said that man is a machine, who must follow the laws ofhis nature; therefore, he is  neither free to choose between good and evil (whatever they are) nor even between things. Even if he could overcome the laws of nature, he would, as some ancient Greeks said, be subject to "fate" (moira, eir mene) whose decisions must be fulfilled. Thus, choice is a delusion.
  • "predestination," that is, before the creation of the world, God decided who would live with Him forever, and those who would dwell in penal fire for eternity
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 10 May 12
       
      Predestination= fate, destiny When they say God decided who would live, they mean go to heaven, and those who would dwell in penal Fire are the ones who go to hell
  • predestination
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  • Materialists have postulated that man is a soulless machine and subject to the laws of nature.  Freedom is an illusion. We eat what we eat, think what we think, live as we live, according to the iron laws of the universe.
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 10 May 12
       
      By laws of nature they mean: not choosing between good and evil
  • The 18th century philosopher, Immanuel Kant, said that not only must we believe that man is free, but also he has an immortal soul, and that God exists. The idea of freedom cannot exist without the idea of God and immortality. Without such beliefs, the happy life and civilization are impossible.
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 10 May 12
       
      This is the opposite side of the materialist's one.
  • In the words of Nicholas Berdayaev, "Man is an enigmatic  being because he is not the product of natural processes, but is the child of freedom which  springs from the abyss of non-being. "
  • Man possesses a divine element within him and, therefore, he is free, with the power to create beauty, to do good, to love justice. Certainly, man's body is controlled by the strictures of time and space, but his spirit is free to transcend all the laws of his finite nature. His spirit takes him where his body cannot go.
  • What does the Orthodox Church teach about free will? None of the above. She has never been concerned about the so-called discoveries of human reason. Rather she trusts the sacred Scriptures and her holy Fathers.
  • We are limited -- - not  paralyzed --- by our nature, the force of circumstance, the laws of Nature.
  • free will does not mean the ability to do whatever we want.
  • we are restricted by the passions. The passions limit the scope of our choices.
  • Freedom involves deliberation. Ignorance is an excuse only for them who have no ability or opportunity to learn
  • Augustine of Hippo taught that
  • there are matters entirely beyond our control, such as those things which God has  reserved for Himself only God has autarkeia or is self-sufficient, absolutely independent; only God is autexousios or complete "self-authority", "self-power", without any authority over Him.
  • How does the Church define "free will"?
  • two meanings
  • It is the  ability to choose between good and evil and between one thing and another. In every choice  there is the risk of sin, unless we call upon the Grace of God to aid« us.
  • our choices always involve  the power to choose between good and evil.
  • our liberty is restricted by ignorance.
  • impossible for us to choose between good and evil and, therefore, to take any part in our salvation
  • "original sin"
  • The liberty of Christians differs from the liberty of the unbeliever, he who is outside the influence of God's saving Grace.
  • choice depends upon knowledge; and upon the knowledge of God's Revelation, which presents the greatest number of choices.
  • with the knowledge of God comes the knowledge of the good and, by implication, the knowledge of evil; and, consequently, the possibility to choose between them. Without that knowledge and the choices that result from them, we are left with no explanation for human existence except fate or predestination, some unknown destiny. Understanding  ourselves this way, is to deprive human choice and action of all meaning Worse, if there were a  God, we would need to blame him for all evil. Not even the devil, if one existed! , could be held  responsible for his conduct.
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 10 May 12
       
      FINAL conclusion
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    An Introduction to the Orthodox Christian understanding of free will
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Dictionary : FATE - Catholic Culture - 0 views

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  • it is the belief that events constitute a chain of causes and effects with absolute determinism
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fate - 0 views

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  • for its meaning as the prime cause of events is better expressed by the term Divine Providence
  • If anyone calls the influence or the power of God by the name of Fate, let him keep his opinion, but mend his speech."
  • Fate, in its popular meaning, is something opposed to chance, in so far as the latter term implies a cause acting according to no fixed laws.
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  • rules the destinies
  • find a cause for events which appeared to follow no definite law and to be the result of mere chance
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The ideas of Karma and Fate. A "free will inviolability" as a fundamental law of Creation - 0 views

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  • mistakes a man has committed in his life may allegedly throw him back, and he may reincarnate as an animal.
    • Matthew Schaffer
      Matthew Schaffer on 09 May 12
       
      Believing that if we do bad things in our life may make us re-birth as an animal is very interesting? I don't see here why to them being an animal is so bad. What does the animal symbolize to them?
  • If something is going on in this world, it means that some system stands necessarily behind this,
    • Matthew Schaffer
      Matthew Schaffer on 09 May 12
       
      Here they are saying, in simpler terms, that everything has a force. Everything that happens in the world is made by some "system" which is behind it. So, this is saying that things can and will happen no matter what, confirming their belief in fate. 
  • a man has to know his mistakes for himself
    • Matthew Schaffer
      Matthew Schaffer on 09 May 12
       
      It begins to talk about Karma here, however this was not the assignment it is still interesting. What they say about Karma is that man needs to be aware of the mistakes that they have made and try to fix it, and then move on. 
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  • The fate is a possibility to choose freely your own Past and your own Future.
    • Matthew Schaffer
      Matthew Schaffer on 09 May 12
       
      The Easterners definition of Fate is the possibility to choose your own past, and your own future. This meaning that in a way, man can choose and create their own fate. I agree with this, because after what they said about Karma, it is clear to me that they believe that everything is because of man. 
  • a possibility of this free choice of his own fate is not always available because of karma of all the civilization.
    • Matthew Schaffer
      Matthew Schaffer on 09 May 12
       
      Here they say that Fate may not always be possible. I think because someone may want a certain fate, but because of their strong belief in Karma, Karma will get in the way of their Fate
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Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Problem - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • Rachel Weinstein calls it her Rosa Parks moment
  • an ultra-Orthodox passenger directed her to the back of the bus where, she noticed, the women were sitting separately
    • Jordyn Shell
      Jordyn Shell on 09 May 12
       
      The 'norm' for the Orthodox Jews, women sit separately from men
  • “He was actually addressing my husband, who boarded with me,”
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  • “He wouldn’t even talk to me.”
  • the most theologically rigid of Judaism’s denominations
    • Jordyn Shell
      Jordyn Shell on 09 May 12
       
      Definition of who are the 'Orthodox Jews'....
  • Instead of complying, Weinstein took a seat several rows behind the driver and held her ground, channeling the spirit of that American civil-rights icon from more than a half century ago
    • Jordyn Shell
      Jordyn Shell on 09 May 12
       
      Comparing the situation to Rosa Parks' situation
  • some ultra-Orthodox Jews have tried to impose a kind of communal piety—a strict code of behavior that includes gender segregation on buses, with men in the front and women in the back
    • Jordyn Shell
      Jordyn Shell on 09 May 12
       
      What would we call this? A kind of 'segregation' maybe?
  • Once a tiny minority, ultra-Orthodox Jews—also known as Haredim—now make up more than 10 percent of Israel’s population and 21 percent of all primary-school students. With the community’s fertility rate hovering at more than three times that of other Israeli Jews, demographers project that by 2034, about one in five Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox
    • Jordyn Shell
      Jordyn Shell on 09 May 12
       
      Who are the 'Haredim'?
  • another Haredi preoccupation that has stirred tensions across Israel
  • lack the skills to work in a modern economy, having studied little or no math and science beyond primary school
    • Jordyn Shell
      Jordyn Shell on 09 May 12
       
      Issue with the Orthodox Jews come from the 'education' aspect of society
  • The country’s political landscape will also shift
  • Haredim are consistently hawkish on the question of territorial compromise with the Palestinians, citing God’s covenant with Abraham granting Jews the land of Israel.
  • So how did the Haredim become Israel’s latest demographic worry?
  • Among other things, he agreed to Army exemptions for 18-year-old Haredim who wished to continue studying at religious seminaries instead of being called to serve.
  • Jordyn Shell on 09 May 12
     
    Orthodox Jews

The Meal - 0 views

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The Republic, by Plato - 0 views

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  • He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato
  • The principles of definition, the law of contradiction, the fallacy of arguing in a circle, the distinction between the essence and accidents of a thing or notion, between means and ends, between causes and conditions; also the division of the mind into the rational, concupiscent, and irascible elements, or of pleasures and desires into necessary and unnecessary—these and other great forms of thought are all of them to be found in the Republic, and were probably first invented by Plato.
  • The argument of the Republic is the search after Justice
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  • The first care of the rulers is to be education
  • conception of a higher State, in which 'no man calls anything his own
  • 'marrying nor giving in marriage,
  • 'kings are philosophers' and 'philosophers are kings;
  • Daryl Bambic on 06 Feb 12
     
    The e-version of Plato's Republic. 
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Ion, by Plato - 0 views

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  • In the course of conversation the admission is elicited from Ion that his skill is restricted to Homer, and that he knows nothing of inferior poets, such as Hesiod and Archilochus;—he brightens up and is wide awake when Homer is being recited, but is apt to go to sleep at the recitations of any other poet.
  • he who knows the superior ought to know the inferior also;—he who can judge of the good speaker is able to judge of the bad.
  • and he who judges of poetry by rules of art ought to be able to judge of all poetry.'
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  • The rhapsode is not guided by rules of art,
  • s inspired by the God
  • The poet is the inspired interpreter of the God
  • some poets, like Homer, are restricted to a single theme
  • Tynnichus, are famous for a single poem;
  • rhapsode is the inspired interpreter of the poet, and for a similar reason some rhapsodes, like Ion, are the interpreters of single poets.
  • Socrates asks whether he can speak well about everything in Homer
  • 'What about things of which he has no knowledge?
  • n answers that he can interpret anything in Homer.
  • Socrates
  • omer speaks of the arts, as for example, of chariot-driving
  • will he, or will the charioteer or physician or prophet or pilot be the better judge?
  • on is compelled to admit that every man will judge of his own particular art better than the rhapsode
  • , who has no suspicion of the irony of Socrates,
  • jest and earnest,
  • elements of a true theory of poetry are contained in the notion that the poet is inspired
  • Genius i
  • unconscious, or spontaneous, or a gift of nature:
  • They are sacred persons, 'winged and holy things' who have a touch of madness in their composition (Phaedr.),
  • reated with every sort of respect
  • The rhapsode belongs to the realm of imitation and of opinion: he professes to have all knowledge, which is derived by him from Homer, just as the sophist professes to have all wisdom, which is contained in his art of rhetoric.
  • he cannot explain the nature of his own art; his great memory contrasts with his inability to follow the steps of the argument
  • old quarrel between philosophy and poetry
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Robert Fisher Teaching Thinking homepage - 0 views

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  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the whole world. Albert Einstein
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The Inner Landscape of Beauty with John O'Donohue [On Being] - 0 views

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  • Daryl Bambic on 27 Jan 12
     
    Beauty as a human calling: The Inner Landscape of Beauty with John O'Donohue [On Being] http://t.co/35L8HAbj via @Beingtweets
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Conversation: Nicholas Carr's 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains' ... - 0 views

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    Use this video interview to ask the questions and uncover assumptions about intelligence.
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A History of God | Watch Free Documentary Online - 0 views

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  • Daryl Bambic on 21 Jan 12
     
    Based on Karen Armstrong's book: she examines the evolution and history of the idea of God.
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Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    The connection between compassion, beauty and morality
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Edge : Conversations on the edge of human knowledge - 0 views

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    explanations are beautiful, elegant and true
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