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The wise decision is to wager that God exists, since "If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing", meaning one can gain eternal life if God exists, but if not, one will be no worse off in death than if one had not believed. On the other hand, if you bet against God, win or lose, you either gain nothing or lose everything.
If things go wrong, the aesthete simply blames existence, rather than one's self, assuming some unavoidable tragic consequence of human existence and thus claims life is meaningless. [12] Kierkegaard spoke of immediacy this way in his sequel to Either/Or, Stages on Life's Way. Commitment is an important characteristic of the ethicist.
1. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” 2. “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” 3. “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it ...
Therefore, God either did not create these organisms or is not omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent. It is sometimes used as a reductio ad absurdum of the well-known argument from design, which runs as follows: Living things are too well-designed to have originated by chance. Therefore, life must have been created by an intelligent creator.
First of all, be alone; then you will indeed learn the proper worship of God, to think highly of God and lowly of yourself-not more lowly than your neighbor, as if you were the distinguished one- (but remember that you are before God)-not more lowly than your enemy, as if you were the better one (for remember that you are before God); but lowly ...
The "one simple thought" that runs all through Faust is expressed "in the last grand verse", where is revealed "that which enters into every faith, which underlies the beautiful in art, the ideal in philosophy, the essence of morality, the meaning of life. It is the sense of the relation of the individual to the universal.
In this form, Tutu's use of Ubuntu is an "I am because we are" concept that encourages the person to the responsibilities of communal good and makes one find one's good only in the communal good. [6] The theology of Ubuntu is deeply embedded in African spirituality – a spirituality that is central to life and transforms all human relations.
The argument from beauty (also the aesthetic argument) is an argument for the existence of a realm of immaterial ideas or, most commonly, for the existence of God, that roughly states that the evident beauty in nature, art and music and even in more abstract areas like the elegance of the laws of physics or the elegant laws of mathematics is evidence of a creator deity who has arranged these ...