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Back by Popular Demand: It’s Hegel!
Back by Popular Demand: It’s Hegel! Hegel is one of the philosophers from whom I’ve learned a lot. Though he was born and died in nineteenth-century Germany, he’s still timely. In the Anglo-American sphere, the question I get is, “What’s … Continue reading →
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“Theism, Philosophy and Me”
“Theism, Philosophy and Me” All weekend, recovering from a cold and feeling more dead than alive, I’ve been giving myself a crash course in philosophical theism. Theism is the belief in a personal God, who cares about you and me, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ambassador Morganthau's Story by Henry Morganthau, analytic philosophers, Anglo-American Philosophy, argument, Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian, Armenian massacres, Atheism, causal chain, Christian theism, Continental philosophy, detective stories, dialogue, Epistemology, existence of God, experience of the Divine, falsifiable, genocide, human evil, naturalism, Perceiving God by William P. Alston, personal God, personal narrative, Phenomenology, Phenomenology of religious experience, physicalism, politics of ideas, prayer, proof, sceptics, scientific theories, sense data, sense perception, sincerity and authenticity, The Epistemology of Religious Experience by Keith E. Yandell, theism, theists v atheists, tough-minded philosophers, Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga, World War I
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