The fact that mountaineers choose suffering means that they (at least) see some virtue in overcoming it. Besides,, without suffering, courage would be...
Minimizing suffering does not necessarily maximize well-being. Without suffering (or potential suffering) there could be no adventure, no courage, no ...
Although Kings often battled with the Church, Christianity offered philosophical support for Monarchy. After all, God rules in heaven. I'm reading "Pa...
"Lust" can refer (metaphorically) to a spiritual desire as well as a physical one. I don't know what people "believe" -- and neither do you. I'd guess...
The world was changing. Judaism was a tribal religion -- but the Roman Empire had made tribalism obsolete (or if not obsolete, at least dated). The "t...
Another point, apropos of what some other posters have stated: Christianity combined Greek philosophy with Jewish law and order. The God of the Old Te...
The story resonates, especially at Christmas. God so loved the world..... Claude Levi-Strauss claimed that myth is about overcoming contradictions and...
In An Anthropoogist on Mars Sacks has a chapter about blind people who recover their vision. They can suddenly see, but cannot interpret what they see...
The notion that science is the only path to knowledge is, of course, silly. HIstory (including case histories) is never repeatable. Even scientific ex...
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