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 bssp rated 20 months ago -
The analytic/synthetic distinction
Some statements we judge to be true or false in relation to facts in the world, for example that you are now in reading this book. That you are reading this book is called by philosophers a synthetic truth.
Other statements we judge to be tr...
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- markfaber rated 15 months ago
- Søren Kierkegaard led a brilliant but turbulent life. His intellectual precocity was recognised by his father who educated him before he moved on to the University of Copenhagen where he studied for 10 years.
As a young man, Kierkegaard began to feel that he would always be an 'outsider'. In 1837 he fell in love with the 14 year old Regine Olson to whom he became engaged. However after much inner turmoil he broke of the engagement, convinced that his fate was to be the 'exception', the lonely wanderer.
Kierkegaard thought that philosophers who claimed that philosophy could show us the ultimate nature of spirit were deluded. Hegel claimed to have overcome paradox, but Kierkegaard was not convinced. Existence, for Kierkegaard, was paradoxical. The individual must find his/her spiritual path, not through the comfortable dogmatic rituals of the established church or the pseudo-clarity of Hegelian dialectics, but through action, action that is conscious of religious conviction.
Kierkegaard held that religious faith was central to an authentic existence. His Christian existentialism has continued to be influential. Theologians have had to face the horrific absurdities of the 20th century and religious (or theistic) existentialism shows how the individual can, with faith be authentic in an uncertain world.
- Elka8 rated 15 months ago
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Existence Precedes Essence
To act authentically we must take responsibility for our future. We cannot choose what gender, class, or country we were born into, but we can choose what we make of them. We are free to create our own interpretation of ourselves in relation to the world, to create a project of possibilities, of authentic actions as the expression of freedom.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~
(Existenialist Philosopher)
 Morosoph rated 15 months ago- Quick reference to philosophical concepts. Not really precise enough; can be misleading.
Wikipedia is probably a better first stop.
- DonikaMiller rated 15 months ago
- Nice cheat sheet.
- furinkin rated 15 months ago
- Some of the greatest thoughts ever
- Voni895 rated 15 months ago
- Philosophy and the proof of God's existence
There are many traditional "proofs" for the existence of God, and we will look at three of them: The argument from design, the ontological argument and the cosmological argument.
- youracme rated 16 months ago
- I'm a man without a face. Don't be fooled. I find this page refreshing and most like a fixer upper...I'm inclined to give it a chance. Nothing in this world should be so absolute...that being said; coming from a Realist.
- pansapiens rated 16 months ago
- great summary of a few major philosophical movements in the last couple hundred years.
- jade504 rated 16 months ago
- Great site with basic summations of different philosophies. Not the prettiest site on the internet, but full of categorized information and factoids.
- jediliska rated 16 months ago
- My head is about to explode with joy and the one major question... "WHERE DO I BEGIN?!" Yay!
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