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Topic: Why do we seek moral absolutes? |
coberst
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Forum: Death and Dying Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:36 am Subject: Why do we seek moral absolutes? |
Why do we seek moral absolutes?
Let’s consider the moral argument that is often rendered to justify making abortion illegal.
The argument goes something like this: murder (killing an innocent ... |
Topic: We Fear the full Intensity of Life |
coberst
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Views: 847
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Forum: Death and Dying Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:21 am Subject: We Fear the full Intensity of Life |
Humans seek to be more than animals. We seek to be gods or at least propagate that level above animal and below God.
That which promotes life is good that which promotes death is evil. “Evil lies ... |
Topic: Death With Dignity |
coberst
Replies: 3
Views: 3898
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Forum: Death and Dying Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:06 am Subject: Death With Dignity |
I suspect that this issue of old age and dying will slowly force itself into the consciousness of our (USA) nation because it will become an economic problem of great force.
I suspect that religio ... |
Topic: Christianity has failed to… |
coberst
Replies: 1
Views: 2983
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Forum: Death and Dying Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:29 pm Subject: Christianity has failed to… |
Christianity has failed to…
[b]I claim that the Christian religion has failed to teach empathy; one of the most important moral concepts we have.[/b]
There are various definitions of empathy g ... |
Topic: Categories Are Meaningful: Pro-Choice and Pro-Life on Person |
coberst
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Views: 9805
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Forum: Death and Dying Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:04 am Subject: Categories Are Meaningful: Pro-Choice and Pro-Life on Person |
Categories Are Meaningful: Pro-Choice and Pro-Life on Personhood
Common sense or, as cognitive science labels it, folk theory informs us that “all things are a kind of thing”. All things have in c ... |
Topic: Moral Imagination: Keystone of Morality |
coberst
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Forum: Death and Dying Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:14 am Subject: Moral Imagination: Keystone of Morality |
Moral Imagination: Keystone of Morality
Empathy—the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it. I can be empathetic with my neighb ... |
Topic: Critical Self-Consciousness |
coberst
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Views: 4157
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Forum: Death and Dying Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:38 am Subject: Critical Self-Consciousness |
Critical Self-Consciousness
I once asked a professor of philosophy what is philosophy about, she said “philosophy is about radically critical self-consciousness”. I have decided that CT (Critical ... |
Topic: Our success is killing us |
coberst
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Views: 3465
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Forum: Death and Dying Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:00 am Subject: Our success is killing us |
Our success is killing us
[b]The aims of technology are achieved and our chances for survival are fatally diminished.[/b] The fault is not in our technology but in us. The fault lies within human ... |
Topic: Creating purpose and intensity in life |
coberst
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Views: 4773
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Forum: Death and Dying Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:21 am Subject: Creating purpose and intensity in life |
Creating purpose and intensity in life
I visited a cemetery once and remember this sentiment “She Lived Life with Intensity” engraved on a head stone. It has an appeal to most citizens but I suspe ... |
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