Religious Philosophies - Science topic

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This is also a fundamental concept in ancient Chinese philosophy. In Chinese medicien, the physician employs this concept to make medical treatment and examinaiton.

The existence of God is a typical problem in philosophy, some of the most ancient greek philosophers basically studied the nature of God and the possibility to interact with him/them (Parmenides, Epicurus, Plato, Aristoteles, etc.). Surely, looking at an academic point of view, modern philosophers talk about God using philosophical instruments (i. e. logic), and not a tradition or a revelation as a base for their thinking.

Dear Avijit Chowdhury, hope these papers will help you:

It has been claimed that the main concern of the Kyoto School is not religion or comparative studies per se, but the search for truth, which however often draws upon insights from religion. Perhaps that's not much of a distinction. But it seems to me at least some writings by members of the Kyoto School don't have anything to do with religion.

"Judaism" does not maintain one single view on Song of Songs. The book invites allegorical interpretation, and many different readings have been proposed. In my paper, "Saving the Soul by Knowing the Soul" (which should be posted here on RG) I discuss one avenue taken by medieval Yemenite scholars.

I hope this book will help you: http://repositorio.ucp.pt/handle/10400.14/16493

Hi Bradley. Thanks for this question. Hope it raises some good discussion.

This is really an empirical question, answers to which you would have to go to religious adherents. It does, however, raise philosophical questions of the relationship between faith and reason. I have a paper on this, 'Faith and Reason in a Post secular age'. It is on my home page if you would like to take a look. I would welcome any views you have on it.

It may be argued that religious people can believe anything that they like including contradictory positions, as long as this does not cause harm to others. They may simply accept them as part of the mystery and the challenge to their rational understanding. If they are concerned to justify their beliefs to those outside the faith then they have to find some common ground on which to reconcile those contradictions. I am not sure what you mean by 'smooth out' contradictions. You might mean try to obscure them or make them seem less important than they are. From a logical point of view you cannot sensibly hold two contradictory view - this would be to contravene the law of excluded middle, so when two propositions contradict one another then they cannot both be true.

Mike.

I too admit that God is without body,gender and matter,when we think of Him at metaphysical level.In Hindu scripture,ardhnarishwar( God is half woman and half man)picture is projected about Him.Yet,my humble submission stands if God is projected with masculinity because He was talked about by the male first?And gender bias persisted since then in defining through masculine words?

The schizoid constellation comprises a number of typical symptoms, present in greater or lesser amounts, further mitigated through numerous indiosyncratic aspects of each case, the time of onset, the number of years, and of course the individual triggers. The easiest way to answer that question - employing Occams razor for the least-words-being-the-best - would go to the essense of the communication with God business. Think of what would happen igf the pipeline from experience to memory suddenly developed leaks - the continuity of your memory of the world around you and you as a part of it would become dislodged, and you would move forward but more and more influenced by inner, rather than outer, stimuli. The broad highway of your world would narrow, and your own thoughts would be magnified in relation to others. The schizoid personality can't do situational ethics .. they have complex rule structures they can get very OCD about and depending on the severity, become paranoid, thinking themselves to be more important as against their surroundings. This cany allowing them to contextualize the feeling by associating their inner "certainty" with messages fro God or, in extreme circumstances, actually being God. That having been said, three major world religions, Judaism, Christianty, and Islam have the origins in a Moses, a leader who spoke to a burning bush, Paul, who fell off his donkey transfixed by a vision under the burning sun, and a Mohammad, a seeker dealing with sensory deprivation in a cave where he talks to an angel. Who's to say - how about the insomniac dyslexic metaphysician up all night pondering the existence of "Dog" "

As a matter of fact, I have nothing to offer in this regard but to say that I have been educated by the responses from colleagues.

Thanks to all.