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Increasingly Secular World and Beliefs

these religious belief systems is very purposeful. Freud demonstrates this in his definition of the German term Weltanschauung, w...

Overview of the Catholic Belief System

time of the Reformation, which dictates that the Bible alone offers teachings that are valid (Madrid, 2005). Catholics reject this...

Belief in God and Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

when he has found what he sought, he wanders before every mans door with his song and with his oration, that all may admire the he...

Religious Beliefs of the 1st Century

and free them from years of persecution (Jesus Institute, 2005). Since Jesus came in peace, many did not accept Him as the true Me...

The Ethics of Belief by W.K. Clifford

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

Beliefs in Confucianism

to think about it, ritual, or the act of performing ritual cannot be faked or deceptive. For example, one may be throwing a birt...

Belief and Knowledge According to Plato

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

Contrasting and Comparing Church, Synagogue and Mosque in Terms of Practices and Beliefs

to the very essence of church worship, bringing forth "the power to speak to our heart" (Holladay, 2004). Sitting at pews and sur...

Machiavelli's Beliefs Regarding Fear and Love

seems to possess a great deal of truth. According to Machiavelli, the conventional wisdom is that a prince "should try not to ins...

Religious Beliefs of Indigenous Africans

having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...

Justified True Belief as Knowledge A Philosophical Inquiry

develops his inquiry into the contention to see if it holds up to scrutiny: SOCRATES: And when a jury is rightly convinced of fact...

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritan Beliefs

a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...

Belief Formation and Induction

may base a belief. Those who most support induction as the framework for forming beliefs think of it as a logical process that inv...

Reason and Religious Belief An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Michael L. Peterson

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

Revolutionary Beliefs of Albert Einstein

moon. This was possible because, Einstein theorized, that the same laws that govern the physics of nature must be true of things...

Machiavelli's Beliefs on Truth as a Princely Duty

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

Beliefs of the East

In seven pages the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian concepts of 'nothingness' are examined in terms of how these ideas represent a ...

Belief and Disbelief in an 'Accidental Century'

and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...

Religious Beliefs and the Theories of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx

study the primitive, not because there was any one point in time at which religion could have been said to have begun, but because...

Images, Ideas, and Belief According to Rene Descartes

his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...

Religious Beliefs in Issues of Child Development

and the pursing of a relationship with Christ, it is also beneficial to integrate interviews with children at varied stages in dev...

Southern Baptist Convention's Belief Systems

Convention (SBC) has grown to 15.8 million members who worship in more than 40,000 churches in the United States. Southern Baptist...

Modern Mind and Concepts of Doubt and Belief

human environment" (Freud NA). This would indicate that Freud felt that in a secular world, it may well be the case that mankind i...

Asians and Beliefs on Health

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive and Puritan Beliefs

similar theme: Though hast cast off and put us to shame...and has scattered us among the heathen."2 In this simple illustration ...

Corinthian Church and Paul's Beliefs

Paul wrote several letters to the Corinthians, addressing his concerns (Pauls First Letter to the Corinthians, 2003). First, he...

Morals, Beliefs, and Ethics

Ethics is concerned with how a moral person should behave, whereas values are the inner judgments that determine how a person actu...

Sunnis, Shiites and Differences in Their Religious Beliefs

the Muslims(Guillaume, 1955). The Shiites seem to have begun as a family feud of sorts. When the prophet Mohammad (PBUH) died, th...

Examining Rituals and Beliefs of Islam

provides a non-ethnocentric view of Islam. A number of Western writers, however, have attempted to approach Islam in an honest an...

Life After Death in Hindu and Christian Beliefs

we think of as ourselves continue to exist in the soul body. Death is a most natural experience, not to be feared. It is a quick t...