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Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Bantam Book: 2006 (ISBN 0-618-68000-4) (although not identified explicitly, the argument from religious experience is dismissed). Joseph Hinman, The Trace of God: A Rational Warrant for Belief (ISBN 978-0-9824087-3-5). William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, OUP: 2012 [1902] (ISBN 978-0199691647).
The argument from desire is an argument for the existence of the immortality of the soul. [1] The best-known defender of the argument is the Christian writer C. S. Lewis. Briefly and roughly, the argument states that humans' natural desire for eternal happiness must be capable of satisfaction, because all natural desires are capable of ...
It is found in some modern Bible translations such as the New Living Translation, which renders the last part of the verse as "And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you." Daymon Johnson considers Foh as one of four "Reformed neo-traditionalist" women (along with Edith Schaeffer , Elisabeth Elliot , and Mary Pride ...
Jewish philosophy stresses that free will is a product of the intrinsic human soul, using the word neshama (from the Hebrew root n.sh.m. or .נ.ש.מ meaning "breath"), but the ability to make a free choice is through Yechida (from Hebrew word "yachid", יחיד, singular), the part of the soul that is united with God, [citation needed] the only being that is not hindered by or dependent on ...
Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
For the individual, the result is a life more caught up in pursuing mimicked desires than in fulfilling desires which are more intrinsic. Mimetic desire therefore causes social disharmony and conflict, Burgis says. He ties mimetic desire into "scapegoating", arguing that scapegoating is a byproduct of conflict spawned by mimicking. [3] [4] [5]
Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs was written in 2004 by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs and first published by Integrity Publishers, Nashville, TN. [1] The book was a national bestseller. [2] [3] In his book, Eggerichs argues that men value respect more highly than love. [4]
But even if the world were governed by such laws, one could be free in the sense that higher-order volitions determined the primacy of first-order desires. This view is called compatibilism. An example for a failure to follow higher-order volitions is the drug addict who takes drugs even though they would like to quit taking drugs.