day event or trend? I am trying to write a paper on the above and find myself all over the place. I am somewhat confused. I was perhaps trying to relate it to gun control or the welfare drug testing controversies. Any other ideas or thoughts ?
I am trying to write a paper on the above and find myself all over the place. I am somewhat confused. I was perhaps trying to relate it to gun control or the welfare drug testing controversies. Any other ideas or thoughts ?
Euthyphro
1. What is at issue in the distinction between (a) something being pious BECAUSE IT PLEASES THE GODS and (b) something pleasing the gods BECAUSE IT IS PIOUS?
2. Are the religious (pious) practices of prayer and sacrifice (offerings to God or gods) to be understood as a kind of skill...
its relationship to the people? How did the Greek philosophers, starting with Socrates, discuss the state and its relationship to the people? What were their concerns? Did their theories change after the Peloponnesian Wars and after the conquests of Alexander The Great?
Greek philosopher did? There were eight people who wrote about Jesus, four of them, The Gospels, are biographies; four others wrote of His teachings from personal experience. (James, Paul, Peter and Jude.) Socrates wrote nothing, in fact, he was against writing; the only record we have of...
Tom i, All I am saying is that if we believe in a God then why not praise Him together as one?
socrates, I know religion has been used to mislead the believers that those who make up the lies may have power over the rest. But if we were to join forces that small group would not have such...