Category: Philosophy
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Aren’t Atheists Just Agnostic?
Billions of people throughout the world believe in something outside of space and time. What I mean by this is that the belief in a God/gods of some sort is fairly consistent among human beings. Whether it is a single, all-supreme God like Yahweh or Allah, which is called monotheism, or perhaps it’s polytheistic like…
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The Greater Good
The circumstances to whether one should be tortured or not for the sake of the greater good is something that could weigh heavily on anyone’s mind. Under the utilitarian view, the best decision would be to torture the terrorist. This is justifiable under this view because torturing the terrorist would inevitably yield crucial information benefiting…
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The Virtuous Life
Virtuous behavior is intrinsic to what is morally good, and in antiquity, the dichotomy between the virtuous life for Christian and stoic cultures differ fundamentally. For stoicism, virtuous behavior provided an existential reward through the lens of oneself or others. Christianity contributed to pragmatic piety and veneration of One true God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,…
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The Measure of a Man
Jean-Luc Picard’s consistent defense of Data’s “humanity” is centered around a materialist perspective, claiming that the mind and body are wholly incorporative within the person. ¹ Because Picard holds that “the human brain is a self-operating computer,”² Data’s brain logically fits this philosophical paradigm. He is thus regarded as an autonomous person, regardless of his…
Ken G. Palmer 