epub, pdf |eng | | Author:D. Jason Slone [Slone, D. Jason]

Representing the Buddha At the heart of the question about why Buddhists are “religious” if the Buddha taught nontheism is a more fundamental question about the nature of the Buddha. ...

epub | | 2010-05-18 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

The First Step – Introduction In 1892, Tolstoy wrote The First Step as a preface to the Russian publication of The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams; a book which ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-25 | Author:Stephen Suleyman Schwartz & Hussein Rashid & Massimo Pigliucci & John Teehan & Ozgur Koca & Michael Shermer & Lawrence Krauss & Varadaraja V. Raman & Frank Griffel & Ali Sina [Schwartz, Stephen Suleyman]

These ingrained problems, in some cases, instill a profound sense of pessimism and discontent in that a meaningful solution does not exist within the boundaries of the dominant global political ...

epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-05-20 | Author:Michael Rota [Rota, Michael]

Love as the Key to Life If someone wanted to know what you believe in, what you value, how you think human beings should act and what you think is ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-06 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

86 Ever since Original Sin, we are basically all alike in our ability to know Good and Evil; even so, this is where we seek a particular advantage. Actually, it’s ...

mobi |eng | 2013-11-27 | Author:Poplin, Mary [Poplin, Mary]

Summary Pantheists have varying commitments to the world as real or illusory. The Dalai Lama has a firm commitment to the real world and to science. He says, My confidence ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-09-19 | Author:Charles Taylor

2 Perhaps I can give a better idea of what this reading involves by offering an outrageously simplified potted history of the last two-and-some centuries, the move from an age ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dietrich von & Hildebrand Hildebrand & Dietrich von & Hildebrand Hildebrand & Dietrich von & Hildebrand Hildebrand [Hildebrand, Dietrich von & Hildebrand, Alice von & Barron, Robert]

O God from God, and light from light, Who are Thyself the day. Our chants shall break the clouds of night, Be with us while we pray. . . . ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-26 | Author:Peter Adamson [Adamson, Peter]

37 Neither the Time Nor the Place Ḥasdai Crescas In the construction business, they’ll often dynamite an old building to make room for a new one, and something similar has ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Voltaire; Fletcher, John; Cronk, Nicholas

ON EZEKIEL (D’ÉZÉCHIEL) On some singular passages in this prophet, and on some ancient customs IT’S generally agreed today that ancient customs must not be judged in the light of ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-06 | Author:Thomas Aquinas [Aquinas, Thomas]

QUESTION 38 [On Contention] One should next consider contention. About this, two queries are raised. (1) Whether contention is a mortal sin. (2) Whether it is the daughter of vainglory. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-05 | Author:Douglas Groothuis [Groothuis, Douglas]

Descartes needed to exorcize the skeptical demon that has haunted the history of philosophy. As far back as we can go, philosophers have wondered not just what can be known ...

epub |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:Eagleton, Terry;

Chapter 3 The eclipse of meaning Consider this brief exchange in Anton Chekhov’s play Three Sisters: MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning? TOOZENBACH: Meaning? … Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s ...

epub |eng | 1995-05-01 | Author:Barbara Miller [Miller, Barbara Stoler]

THE MORAL PRINCIPLES When one perseveres in nonviolence, hostility vanishes in its presence. (35) When one abides in truthfulness, activity and its fruition are grounded in the truth. (36) When ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Julia Kristeva

“WRITE THIS FICTION SO PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND” Shall I close with a few aspects of her visions and her writing? The only girl in a family of seven boys (until ...