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• Religion vs Philosophy

  This post is all about religion. I have been struggling in Christianity as of late. I think it is my philosophy course that is causing this huge crack in my faith right now. Perhaps as well as the many worldly characteristics of being in college. Wants and desires are easy to fulfill and religion is [...]

  Posted on Mar 06.10 to Christianity, Personal, Philosophy, Religion   

• Another skeptical fantasy – Philosophy Prompt

  I am going to have fun with this. Anyone else want to take a crack at it? Feel free to share. The twentieth-century English philosopher Bertrand Russell constructed a new evil demon skeptical fantasy. Unlike in Descartes’s skeptical fantasy, in Russell’s skeptical fantasy, the outside world is in fact real (not a dream) — the [...]

  Posted on Mar 03.10 to College, Philosophy   

• Actualizing Desire: Philosophy and Religion

  Reading The Will to Believe by William James today, I came across this passage. How many women’s hearts are vanquished by the mere sanguine insistence of some man that they must love him! He will not consent to the hypothesis that they cannot. The desire for a certain kind of truth here brings about that [...]

  Posted on Feb 23.10 to Christianity, Philosophy, Religion