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The Tathagata both exists and does not exist after death. The Tathagata neither exists nor does not exist after death. In the Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta , [ 6 ] "Discourse to Vatsagotra on the [Simile of] Fire," Majjhima Nikaya 72, [ web 3 ] the Buddha is questioned by Vatsagotra on the "ten indeterminate question:" [ 5 ] avyākrta [ 4 ]
Noneism, in this context, holds that some things do not exist or have no being. [5] There are a few controversial entities in philosophy that, according to noneism philosophy, do not exist: past and future entities, which entails any entity that no longer exists or will exist in the future; people or living things that are deceased; unactualized possibila, which are objects that have the ...
The universe does exist at time t at which there is no earlier time where the universe existed. Therefore, the universe has a cause. Philosopher Ben Waters has also argued that the Kalam cosmological argument does not require a commitment to the A-theory.
Moral nihilism (also called ethical nihilism) is the meta-ethical view that nothing is morally right or morally wrong and that morality does not exist. [1] [2] Moral nihilism is distinct from moral relativism, which allows for actions to be wrong relative to a particular culture or individual.
No morality without God: If all morality is a matter of God's will, then if God does not exist, there is no morality. This is the thought captured in the slogan (often attributed to Dostoevsky) "If God does not exist, everything is permitted." Divine command theorists disagree over whether this is a problem for their view or a virtue of their view.
The answer is that St. Thomas recognised instantly, what so many modern sceptics have begun to suspect rather laboriously; that a man must either answer that question in the affirmative, or else never answer any question, never ask any question, never even exist intellectually, to answer or to ask.
Greenlanders not keen on sale. An opinion poll indicated that 85% of Greenlanders do not wish their Arctic island - a semi-autonomous Danish territory - to become a part of the U.S., with nearly ...
Presentism is a view about temporal ontology, i.e., a view about what exists in time, that contrasts with eternalism—the view that past, present and future entities exist (that is, the ontological thesis of the 'block universe')—and with no-futurism—the view that only past and present entities exist (that is, the ontological thesis of the ...