scholarly journals An ethics-based ‘identity-proof’ of god’s existence. An ontology for philotherapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-438
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Fatic
Keyword(s):  
Moral Values ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Analytic Proof ◽  
The Past ◽  
Degree Of Certainty ◽  
Nikolai Lossky

A resurgence of scholarly work on proof of God?s existence is noticeable over the past decade, with considerable emphasis on attempts to provide ?analytic proof? based on the meanings and logic of various identity statements which constitute premises of the syllogisms of the ?proof?. Most recently perhaps, Emmanuel Rutten?s ?modal-epistemic proof? has drawn serious academic attention. Like other ?analytic? and strictly logical proofs of God?s existence, Rutten?s proof has been found flawed. In this paper I discuss the possibility of an ?ethics-based? identity proof of God?s existence. Such a proof, the first version of which, I believe, has been offered, indirectly, by Nikolai Lossky, utilizes the form and structure of the analytic proof, but fundamentally rests on the perception of moral values we associate with God and Godliness. The nature of the proof shifts the focus of the very attempt to ?prove? God?s existence from what I believe is an unreasonable standard, unattainable even in ?proving? the existence of the more mundane world, towards a more functional, practical and attainable standard. The proof proposed initially by Lossky, and in a more systematic form here, I believe, shows the indubitable existence of God in the sense of his moral presence in the lives of the faithful, at least with the same degree of certainty as the presence or ?existence? of anything else that can be epistemically proven in principle.

Macedonia Faculties’ Students - “Chrisi Avgi” (Right Party) Followers’ Critique on the Greek Educational Policy

2014 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalerante Evagelia
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
History Books

AbstractThe present paper is involved with the Pedagogical faculties’ students’ critique on the current educational system as it has been altered after 1981. The research was carried out utilizing both quantitative and qualitative tools. Students-voters participated in the interviews whereas active voters were difficult to be located to meet the research requirements. The dynamics of the specific political party is based on a popular profile in terms of standpoints related to economic, social and political issues. The research findings depict the students’ strong wish for a change of the curricula and a turn towards History and Religion as well as an elevation of the Greek historic events, as the History books that have been written and taught at schools over the past years contributed to the downgrading of the Greek national and cultural identity. There is also a students’ strong belief that globalization and the immigrants’ presence in Greece have functioned in a negative way against the Greek ideal. Therefore, an overall change of the educational content could open the path towards the reconstruction of the moral values and the Greek national identity.

The Argument from Simplicity and (M) The Argument from Induction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley Monton
Keyword(s):  
Existence Of God ◽  
The Past ◽  
Failure Of Induction

This chapter presents a new thermodynamic argument for the existence of God. Naturalistic physics provides evidence for the failure of induction, because it provides evidence that the past is not at all what you think it is, and your existence is just a momentary fluctuation. The fact that you are not a momentary fluctuation thus provides evidence for the existence of God—God would ensure that the past is roughly what we think it is, and you have been in existence for roughly the amount of time you think you have. There is no definitive way for the atheist to refute this argument, but one suggestion is given that relies on physics-based simplicity considerations. The chapter closes with an epistemological discussion of self-undermining arguments.

The Testimony for Marcion's Gospel in NA28: Revisiting the Apparatus to Luke in the Light of Recent Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Dieter T. Roth
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Textual History ◽  
History Of

AbstractScholarly work on Luke has often noted the significance of Marcion's Gospel for understanding the textual history of the third canonical Gospel. It is not surprising, therefore, that in the past new insights into Marcion's Gospel have led to revisions in the apparatus of the highly influential Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, now in its 28th edition. In view of the precedent for continually updating the Nestle-Aland text and apparatus, this article revisits the apparatus to Luke in the light of recent research on Marcion's Gospel in order to highlight problematic references that should be changed or removed in the apparatus of future Nestle-Aland editions.

Intersectionality and its discontents: Intersectionality as traveling theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Salem
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Precise Definition ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
The Past ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Traveling Theory ◽  
And Gender ◽  
New Phase

‘Intersectionality’ has now become a major feature of feminist scholarly work, despite continued debates surrounding its precise definition. Since the term was coined and the field established in the late 1980s, countless articles, volumes and conferences have grown out of it, heralding a new phase in feminist and gender studies. Over the past few years, however, the growing number of critiques leveled against intersectionality warrants us as feminists to pause and reflect on the trajectory the concept has taken and on the ways in which it has traveled through time and space. Conceptualizing intersectionality as a traveling theory allows for these multiple critiques to be contextualized and addressed. It is argued that the context of the neoliberal academy plays a major role in the ways in which intersectionality has lost much of its critical potential in some of its usages today. It is further suggested that Marxist feminism(s) offers an important means of grounding intersectionality critically and expanding intersectionality’s ability to engage with feminism transnationally.

scholarly journals Special issue on cognitive approaches to the history of English: introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER BERGS ◽  
THOMAS HOFFMANN
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Degree Of Certainty ◽  
Third Person ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
High Degree

What do we know about the past? For at least some languages, we have textual (or archaeological) evidence from various periods – beyond that, there is only reconstruction. But even when we have some textual evidence, what does it tell us? The answer to this question crucially depends on the way we approach the question: we can treat texts as decontextualized, linguistic evidence, as Neogrammarian or Structuralist studies have done (see McMahon 1994: 17–32). Such an approach already allows us to discover important generalizations about the linguistic state of affairs of a particular language or historical period. Using decontextualized historical evidence, for example, we can already ascertain with a high degree of certainty that in Old English voiced and voiceless fricatives were allophones, rather than phonemes, that there was nodo-periphrasis in Middle English, and that in Early Modern English there was some variability between third-person singular present tense {-s} and {-th} – just as we know that present-day Japanese and Korean use postpositions, rather than prepositions.

scholarly journals NILAI MORAL DALAM LAGU ANAK TEMPO DULU

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-870
Author(s):  
Suprihatien Suprihatien ◽  
Rini Damayanti
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Past ◽  
Children's Songs ◽  
Moral Ethics ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Children’s songs used to be able to instill moral values, character, and knowledge. Through songs children learn various things. The purpose of this study is to describe the moral values contained in old children’s song lyrics. This research uses descriptive qualitative type. The object of research aspects of moral education. This aspect was analysed from the text of children’s songs the past. Children’s songs used to have good moral values. The moral values are morality of God, moral of philosophical ideology, moral of moral ethics, and moral of discipline.

scholarly journals Moral Value and Character Building Education in Folklore from Central Java “Timun Mas”

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Dilla Dwi Nanda ◽  
Betty Simbolon ◽  
Friska Afriana Damanik ◽  
Yenita Br Sembiring
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Character Building

Folklore is a story that originated in society and developed in society in the past which played an important role in the development of children's character learning in the form of moral values. The purpose of this study was to explain the moral values contained in folklore to improve character education. This study used a qualitative descriptive research design. Where all the data collected is based on books and other supporting document data. From the discussion of the Timun Mas folklore, there are eight prominent moral values, namely religious values, independent values, curiosity values, hard work values, responsibility values, honesty values, creativity, the value of the spirit of hard work. And from the research results, it can be concluded that the folklore of Timun Mas has many moral values that can be applied in the world of Education to shape character.

scholarly journals HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE PEOPLES OF TURKESTAN IN THE PAGES OF THE TURKESTAN COLLECTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Zhunusbaev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Single Copy ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Tien Shan ◽  
National Character ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Family And Household ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

In this article, the author, using widely the materials of the multivolume essay "Turkestan Collection" stored in a single copy in the city of Tashkent, could in a detailed plan provide a real historical picture of the past, activities, household, culture and life, family and household characteristics, national character , morals and spiritual and moral values, and ideals of nomadic Kazakhs. The works of N.M. Przhevalsky, I.V. Mushketov, travel notes by P.P. Semenov and N.A. Severtsov – researchers of the Tien Shan, the works of N.A. Maev on the Turkestan Territory, and others were published. At the same time in periodicals many articles have appeared, often for the first time touching upon and covering political and economic issues, history, ethnography and culture of Central Asia

scholarly journals Working with Shame and Trauma

2021 ◽  
pp. 209-232
Author(s):  
Gail Theisen-Womersley
Keyword(s):  
Forced Migration ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Displaced Populations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Posttraumatic Symptomatology

AbstractNot only does the literature attest to the high levels of trauma among displaced populations, research in the past decade has increasingly revealed the hidden yet pervasive role that shame may play in posttraumatic symptomatology. As defined by Wilson and colleagues, “in the posttraumatic self, shame develops from traumatic experiences that render the victim fearful, powerless, helpless, and unable to act congruently with moral values” (Wilson et al., 2006, p. 127). In the context of forced migration in particular, both trauma and shame are ubiquitous, pervasive, and contagious.

scholarly journals KAJIAN HERMENEUTIK PADA “KUMPULAN LEGENDA DAERAH DI PROVINSI LAMPUNG” KARYA ACHMAD. D

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-164
Author(s):  
Andi Widiono
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Responsible Leadership ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Hermeneutic Science ◽  
Building Elements

Abstrak: Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui makna yang terkandung dalam buku Kumpulan Legenda Daerah di Provinsi Lampung karya Achmad. D. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif, yaitu legenda yang dijadikan sebagai objek penelitian dianalisis dan diinterprestasikan. Langkah awal yang penulis lakukan adalah menganalisis unsur intrinsik legenda meliputi tema, penokohan, dan latar, selanjutnya menganalisis kajian hermeneutik yang difokuskan pada pemahaman teks dan simbol. kajian hermeneutik yang dapat direlevansikan yaitu dari pemahaman teks seperti nama Lampung. Hal ini dapat mengetahui asal usul daerah Lampung dan seluk beluknya. Menurut kajian hermeneutik, yang dapat direlevansikan yaitu dari simbolnya adalah Raja. Simbol raja mempunyai makna pemimpin pada sebuah daerah pada zaman lampau yang didapat dari garis keturunan. Dalam hal ini, dapat diterapkan jiwa kepemimpinan yang baik, bijkasana, adil, pandai, dan tanggung jawab melalui simbol raja dalam legenda yang dikaji dengan ilmu hermeneutik. Kajian hermeneutik melalui karya sastra jenis legenda merupakan langkah awal untuk melakukan pendidikan tentang tata cara penganalisisan suatu karya sastra yang baik dan bermutu. Dalam hal melakukan pembelajaran sastra, dituntut untuk melakukan kegiatan-kegiatan menggali unsur-unsur pembangun karya sastra tersebut baik yang bersifat intrinsik maupun ekstrinsik. Serta dapat diarahkan cara mengkaji sebuah legenda dengan pendekatan hermeneutik melalui pemahaman teks dan simbol. Dari hasil kajian hermeneutik tersebut yang meliputi pemahaman teks dan simbol terdapat nilai-nilai moral, pandangan hidup, agama, dan kebudayaan.Kata Kunci: legenda, hermeneutik, pemahaman teks dan symbol Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine the meaning contained in the book Collection of Local Legends in Lampung Province by Achmad. D. The method used is descriptive method, which is a legend that is used as an object of research analyzed and interpreted. The first step that the authors do is analyze the intrinsic elements of the legend including themes, characterizations, and settings, then analyze the hermeneutic study which is focused on understanding texts and symbols. hermeneutic studies that can be relevant are from understanding texts such as the name Lampung. It can find out the origin of the Lampung region and its ins and outs. According to a hermeneutic study, one that can be evaluated is that of the symbol is the King. The symbol of the king has the meaning of a leader in an area of the past that is obtained from the lineage. In this case, a good, wise, fair, clever, and responsible leadership spirit can be applied through the symbol of the king in legends which are studied with hermeneutic science. Hermeneutic study through literary works of legend is the first sitep to conduct education about the procedures for analyzing a good and quality literary work. In terms of learning literature, it is demanded to carry out activities to explore the building elements of the literary work both intrinsic and extrinsic. And can be directed how to study a legend with a hermeneutic approach through understanding texts and symbols. From the results of the hermeneutic study which includes understanding texts and symbols, there are moral values, outlook on life, religion, and culture.Keywords: legend, hermeneutics, understanding of texts and symbols

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