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The mystery of human compassion
I was just reading this article and thought about the mystery of human compassion. As the author puts it: “We have children because love overflows”. There is an objective impossibility to disclose that mystery by means of a conventional scientific … Continue reading
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The problem of Buddhism is the West
The problem of Buddhism is the West.
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Neurobiology epiphenomenalism and religion
Religion cannot be reduced to “behavior towards supernatural agents”, which are “personalities whose existence is believed but cannot be proven scientifically”, i.e., personalities whose existence cannot be proven empirically. The worship of the sun in ancient cultures does not fit … Continue reading
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The urgent need of rationality instead of rationalism
From Illuminism we have inherited an abusive rationalism that assumes that it can explain everything and imagines that alterity could always be reduced to a same predefined condition and without any residual differences. The “great reason” of Lights should know … Continue reading
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Every human being has a religiosity independently of structured religions
« Voegelin then concludes his argument with a mischievous sleight of hand, when he further attributes to this range of individuals the beliefs of just one, Comte, presumably on the basis that it is easier to fit Comte’s positivist views … Continue reading
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