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7 hours ago · A similar relaxation of intrinsic properties of raw phenomena can be seen in literature. The great realistic literature of the nineteenth–early twentieth centuries, represented by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), and Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), rested on the assumptions of the existence of absolute truth and ...
7 hours ago · Accounts of revelation and contemporary views of these are based on beliefs and historical citations. These accounts shall not be limited to the understanding and interpreting of historical and other events within writings but must present the possibility of an objective analysis of the nature of revelation as a phenomenon, an object of our sensory and mental conscious experiences. This paper ...
7 hours ago · Mysticism involves an explanatory context, which provides meaning for mystical and visionary experiences, and related experiences like trances. According to Dan Merkur, mysticism may relate to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness, and the ideas and explanations related to them. [web 1] [note 6] Parsons stresses the importance ...
1 day ago · Heraclitus ( / ˌhɛrəˈklaɪtəs /; Greek: Ἡράκλειτος Herákleitos; fl. c. 500 BC) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on ancient and modern Western philosophy, including through the works of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger.
A Metaphysical Soul Imagine a scenario where a brain is completely destroyed and then reconstructed, atom by atom, neutron by neutron, proton by proton. This reconstruction results in an identical physical brain, with the same memories, thought processes, and perceived identity as the original.
1 day ago · Philosophy Main article: Demarcation problem Karl Popper stated it is insufficient to distinguish science from pseudoscience, or from metaphysics (such as the philosophical question of what existence means), by the criterion of rigorous adherence to the empirical method , which is essentially inductive, based on observation or experimentation. [46]
1 day ago · The metaphor of a golden age began to be applied in 19th-century literature about Islamic history, in the context of the western aesthetic fashion known as Orientalism. The author of a Handbook for Travelers in Syria and Palestine in 1868 observed that the most beautiful mosques of Damascus were "like Mohammedanism itself, now rapidly decaying ...
