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Post by Eugene 2.0 on May 15, 2021 19:22:53 GMT
Some people, like Kantians, claim that following moral prescriptions is enough to be religious person. So, all what religion is about is just morality or some moral prescriptions.
Quite similar views were shared by Nietzsche and the followers of his views. Although they would agree with Kant, they would also add that that moral was a tricky religious invention, and the religious moral was the worse one.
Anyway, both of such views (maybe there are many others, I don't really into this) can be explained rationally and argumentative. The views above didn't take into account that a person's morality was fluent and changeable.
Ok, so the Kantian one doesn't consider that a person can develop or master it's own morality by making it more and more clearer, more straight, more rigorous, and so on. Being moral doesn't imply - there's no more higher or more better morality (behaviour).
The next view is mostly about the ugliness or the weakness of such moral as a Christian one. But those "viewers" had to understand that such a critique must imply a requirement of the criterion, and no Nietzsche's followers couldn't present any such provable criteria. Obviously, the religious view has one - to believe in God.
In conclusion, a person can grow spiritually and morally by living his life more and more religious. And his path is difficult and hard. And his inner faith and outer deeds help him to master his own religious life.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on May 16, 2021 17:08:49 GMT
Who is your favourite philosopher? (Or philosophers?) Sun Tzu? haha, I don't know. Kant I consider now the a great philosopher, but I have no such preferences. Philo of Alexandria is a great reading. The alegoric method I believe, the alegory itself, is the seed of literary work. I like a lot Christian Wolff but have so little acess to his work. Hume, also, like a lot the "system" of passions he mades on a certain work that now I forgot. Berkeley helps me a lot. Wolff, Hume!.. Impressive! To see Wolff was really unexpected. I've heard recently that his philosophy becomes to new "breathe" or smth. A Russian great chemist and physicist M. Lomonosov studied different sciences by Wolff.
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Post by joustos on May 16, 2021 17:38:05 GMT
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Post by Triangle on May 16, 2021 18:09:34 GMT
I have for a while tryied to figure out what Aristotle says about virtue. But with no success. Saint Thomas Aquinas have a strong conclusion in that particular topic, and have some valuable books about this specifical theme.
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