To me, a religion is a set of beliefs strong enough to affect the way people behave. If a belief is both popular and productive, it can spread from one person to another, and eventually unify many people under a common doctrine. Once in practice, a religion can unify, divide, or form new factions to do the same. It can promote, condemn, or change the rules in order to do so. Religion can be whatever people want it to be, and therefore be used to represent what people want it to represent. In this
continues on in the “perpetual” afterlife, is a question fiercely contested by many opposing viewpoints. Through analysis it is clear that all hold some merit, each emphasizing one side while glossing over another. In the end however, the afterlife cannot be scientifically proven and therefore the created sense of an afterlife is most commonly used as a crutch, a tool to make the present more bearable and less bleak. One common argument for there being an afterlife is that the soul does not contain
1. What is your religion and how do you view religion? My religion is Roman Catholic. For me, religion is an institution in human society that guides people with their belief and faith in God and living a life in the likes of Jesus. It is a guide which teaches not only about faith and about moral and spiritual development but traditions and culture as well. For me, there is no religion that can save people from sin. Having strong commitment with your Church or religion is different from having
Following Edmund Gettier's paper “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” epistemologists were left with critical questions about the adequacy of justified true belief as the definition of knowledge. Gettier illustrated scenarios where it seemed counterintuitive to say a person had knowledge, yet the person seemed to have a justified true belief. To move past the “Gettier Problem,” it appears that some additional criterion to justified true belief must be posited which avoids running into such troubling
Death and the Afterlife Is death the end or just the beginning? To Ancient Near Eastern cultures, the answer was not clear. In fact, the view of numerous cultures differed from others. Some cultures did not believe in a glorious afterlife. On the other hand, a few cultures shared the idea of having a positive and joyful life after death. These differing ideas often stemmed from the conditions each culture was presented with. Within the Ancient Near East, the Mesopotamians and Hebrews had a pessimistic
eventually, Plato welcomed the end. It seemed unreasonable for philosophers to fear death because dying meant that they would ultimately reach their goal of infinite knowledge and their soul would not die with their body. Many people have a variety of beliefs concerning the soul and the body. Does the soul die when the body does or does it reach Eudaimonia? I will argue that reincarnation is real and that the soul moves on when the flesh dies becoming greater than what it was limited to on earth, the psyche
Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Hindu had a similar understanding about death, but they differed in small things. Death is a part of life. Death is the part of life that everyone fears of when their day shall come. Everyone has a belief of what the afterlife will bring, and how the burial will be done. Death is something most many do not like because of what it brings. The tombs, mummies, and so on today lead us to understand what these three believed what death actually was to each single one of them
dddddd? If every person will die eventually, then why does it matter how, where, and when one dies? What is the difference between dying in a car crash instantly at a young age, getting cancer and passing away after many surgeries and treatments, or simply living a healthy life until time runs out? Most people have these thoughts at one time or another, and very few ever find out the answers they seek before dying. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the protagonist, the Prince of Denmark, is a character
true, and believed. As this essay will explore, Edmund L. Gettier attempted to dismantle this theory of knowledge by arguing that it is possible to have a justified true belief without having knowledge. Following an evaluation of this, the integrity of Gettier’s assumption made in his argument will be explored, concerning his belief as to what the word justified means in this context. Furthermore, Gettier’s assumption can then be challenged by an alternate premise regarding knowledge that includes
society, due to how society believes that an honorable woman stays at home. Beginning with the word “Started”, the singer used this word to demonstrate how from the moment she started wearing less clothing she started to go out more, emphasizing his belief of how before she started to act like this she wouldn't go out due to her being pure and not impure. The singer is indeed slut shaming the woman by using this word since he is emphasizing how before she wouldn't go out due to her class and modesty