- Rationalism versus Empircism 8(10) PL101
https://youtu.be/sWmkJTuKZOk - Rationalism and Empiricism continued 9(10) PL101
https://youtu.be/ruw7LZ6QCQk - David Hume's Philosophy 10(10) PL101
https://youtu.be/DEneSexydIs
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Why Philosophy - The Incompleteness of Science. 7(10) PL101
Friday, February 23, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Massimo Pigliucci: Death and Stoicism
How the Stoic embrace of death can help us get a grip on life
Founded in Athens during the 3rd century BC, Stoicism flourished for some 500 years throughout Greece and the Rome. Preceded and inspired by the Cynics, the Stoics valued reason, virtue and an acceptance of circumstance. In this Aeon Video original interview, the City College of New York professor of philosophy – and practising Stoic – Massimo Pigliucci discusses how the Stoical view of death still carries meaning in a modern context, from questions of suicide to how to appreciate the good things in life.
Producer: Kellen Quinn
Interviewer: Nigel Warburton
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
The Power Of The Cross - Billy Graham ●
Billy Graham, the charismatic North
Carolina pastor who took his evangelizing crusades around the country and the
globe, died on Wednesday, according to officials of his organization.
He was 99 years old.
Graham was the first evangelist of note to speak behind the Iron Curtain,
and during the Apartheid era he refused to visit South Africa until the
government allowed integrated seating at his events. He published dozens of
best-selling books, including Angels: God’s Secret
Agents and The Jesus Generation, and wrote a weekly column
that was syndicated in hundreds of newspapers.
Graham received numerous honors, including the Horatio Alger Award, the George Washington Honor Medal, the
Ronald Reagan Freedom Award and the Congressional Gold Medal. A highway in
Charlotte bears his name, as does part of Interstate 240 near his home in
Asheville, North Carolina. In 1989, he became the first clergyman to be granted
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work as a
minister.
Graham also had a major effect on the civil rights movement of the 1950s
and ‘60s. His early
crusades were segregated, but once the U.S. Supreme Court issued
its landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954, which found public
school segregation unconstitutional, Graham integrated the seatings at his
revival meetings.
Graham befriended
the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as well, and
together they preached to more than 2 million people in New York City. When
questioned about his views on faith and race, Graham argued there was no
scriptural basis for segregation.
As his message spread, Graham was granted personal audiences with royalty,
dignitaries and many sitting presidents, from Harry S. Truman to Barack
Obama. Three
presidents were even on hand in 2007 for the dedication
of the Billy
Graham Library in Charlotte. Despite being a
registered Democrat, Graham opposed the candidacy of John F. Kennedy, and actively
encouraged other religious leaders to speak out about the dangers of having a Roman Catholic in the White House.
Though beloved by millions, Graham was not
without his detractors. Some fundamentalist Christians took
issue with his ecumenical approach to evangelism, and after his 1957 crusade in
New York, opponents of Graham’s more liberal theology began calling him “the
Antichrist.” According to the biography Billy: A Personal Look at Bill
Graham, the World’s Best-Loved Evangelist by Sherwood Eliot Wirt, one
Christian educator even said that Graham was “the worst thing to happen to the
Christian church in two thousand years.” More recently,
detractors blasted Graham’s
continued belief that homosexual behavior was a “sinister form of perversion,” and his intolerance against the very presence of gay and lesbian
couples within Christianity.
As his health began to fail, Graham decided to announce his retirement in
2005. His final sermon, “The Cross — Billy
Graham’s Message To America,” called for a
national spiritual awakening.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Feminine Beauty: A social construct?
Simone de Beauvoir on why women must reject the ‘feminine’ to become free and equal
Who’s to say what makes a woman ‘womanly’? In her book The Second Sex (1949), the French existentialist writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir argued that femininity isn’t innate, but instead foisted upon females from birth. According to de Beauvoir, by pressuring women to conform to male stereotypes of beauty, patriarchal societies have subjugated women, robbing them of their autonomy and objectifying them in ways that belittle their abilities and their intellect. De Beauvoir’s existentialism, however, offered a way out: women are free, she wrote, to reject male views on how they should look and behave, and doing so allows them to become more equal.Sunday, February 18, 2018
God or no God - Conclusion 4/4 (PL101)
- The Uses of Philosophy - The Incompleteness of Science. 7(10) PL101
https://youtu.be/NqaiNUdJgMo - Rationalism versus Empircism 8(10) PL101
https://youtu.be/sWmkJTuKZOk - Rationalism and Empiricism continued 9(10) PL101
https://youtu.be/ruw7LZ6QCQk - David Hume's Philosophy 10(10) PL101
https://youtu.be/DEneSexydIs
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