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By: On Faith… « Episyllogism – Bob Lane

On Faith… « Episyllogism – Bob Lane — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:43:07 +0000

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By: Disambiguating Faith: Implicit Faith – Camels With Hammers

Disambiguating Faith: Implicit Faith – Camels With Hammers — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:00:29 +0000

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By: Disambiguating Faith: How A Lack Of Belief In God May Differ From Various Kinds Of Beliefs That Gods Do Not Exist – Camels With Hammers

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:37:25 +0000

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By: Maximal Self-Realization In Self-Obliteration: The Existential Paradox of Heroic Self-Sacrifice « Camels With Hammers

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:43:18 +0000

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By: Camels With Hammers Philosophy « Camels With Hammers

Camels With Hammers Philosophy « Camels With Hammers — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:58:33 +0000

[...] I adamantly reject Kierkegaard’s notion that “truth is subjectivity” and that the most important matters require passionate leaps of faith and rather argue that, quite to the contrary, the most important matters require just the opposite—the most scrupulous rigor in proportioning our beliefs to evidence and the severest critical reexamination of what we passionately want to be true. Against religious appeals to heart-based reasoning in matters where reasoning proves inconclusive, I argue that while often our hearts give us data which is important for the intellect to make its judgments, ultimately a belief is either intellectually justified or it is not and it is rationally impermissible to treat our hearts as a “special way of knowing” that can outweigh all undesirable evidence. Religious faith is a unique form of rationalization, distinct from merely paradigm-dependent forms o…. [...]

By: Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Admirable Infinite Commitment For Finite Reasons « Camels With Hammers

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:12:11 +0000

[...] people on authority when they have inadequately demonstrable qualifications as authorities. It is intellectually dishonest and unethical to commit yourself to a course of deliberate rationaliz… to make yourself believe what you want to believe in order to preserve your way of life or [...]