Philosophy and Theology
Introduction to the philosophy of law argument and concept that law is a religion in present post-modern Technological Society. This conclusion is a final comment on the previous multiple-part contemplation asking whether law has become a religion in Technological Society?
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This podcast argues for nihilism as a morality for the working class. This episode specifically deals with the effect upon such nihilism of the working class relationship to feminism and of any sympathy for the female sex/gender often present in the working class.
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This episode responses to criticism of this podcast’s arguments for nihilism as a morality in which the criticism is based on 20th Century violence.
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Contemplates Nietzschean philosophy, its view on nihilism, from the perspective of Nietzsche’s hated “herd”: the working class.
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Contemplates Nietzschean philosophy, in particular its meta-ethics, from the perspective of Nietzsche’s hated “herd”: the working class.
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Contemplates Nietzschean philosophy from the perspective of Nietzsche’s hated “herd”: the working class.
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Basics of how the wordgame of data science may affect normative wordgames of ethics and morality. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective.
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Basics of how the wordgame of data science may affect normative wordgames of ethics and morality. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective.
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What is free will? Is it real or simply a useful fiction for justifying the execution and punishment inflicted by the ethics and law of the powers-that-be? Basics of the metaphysics and ontology branch of philosophy. Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Ontology is the study of being. This episode contemplates the metaphysical and ontological question of what is free will within the context of philosophy of language.
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Why does God hate the poor? Does it matter what the answer is? Must existentialism deny nihilism? Given humanity’s and each individual human’s universal need for power, what difference does it make that only some succeed in achieving power as an end in itself? Is rejecting God the closest one can be to becoming a god? Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology. Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in theology from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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Why does God hate the poor? Who are the poor? Why does Christian theology state that the poor will always be among us? Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology. Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in theology from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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Why does God hate the poor? This episode provides an answer to the previous contemplation on this question. Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology. Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in theology from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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What is the meaning and nature of the questions of whether God is just or fair and of the nature of good and evil and its presence in the world in relation to the nature of God? This episode contemplates whether God is fair. Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology. Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in theology from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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Christian and Buddhist rebuttal on truth, illusion, and ethics.
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Philosophical rebuttal on David Hume, induction/deduction distinction, morality, and ethics in opposition to existentialism and pragmatics as being the last hope of ethics and morality.
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Philosophical rebuttal on Friederich Nietzsche, Christianity, Jesus Christ, ethics, Plato, and morality in opposition to existentialist and pragmatic views.
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Philosophical rebuttal and discussion of John Rawls and Christian Ethics and morality in opposition to existentialist and pragmatic views that they also are simply ruling class ideology.
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Discusses the arbitrary nature of ethics and morality and their insurmountable is/ought and open question dilemmas. Discusses David Hume’s and modern philosophy’s analyses of ethics and compares it to the history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions from John Rawls to Marxism. It concludes with modern ethics being simply practical enforcement of ruling class ideology that is distinct from morality and existentialist and religious morality. Discusses 20th Century ethics and morality from the perspective of existentialism as the last hope for defining morality.
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A history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions in John Rawls to Marxism. Discusses the arbitrary nature of ethics and morality and their insurmountable is/ought and open question dilemmas with a history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions from John Rawls to Marxism. It concludes with modern ethics being simply practical enforcement of ruling class ideology that is distinct from morality and existentialist and religious morality. Discusses 20th Century ethics and morality from the perspective of existentialism as the last hope for defining morality.
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Ethics as ruling class ideology that is distinct from morality and existentialist and religious morality. A history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions in John Rawls to Marxism. Discusses the arbitrary nature of ethics and morality and their insurmountable is/ought and open question dilemmas.
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Ethics as ruling class ideology that is distinct from morality and existentialist and religious morality. Discusses 20th Century ethics and morality.
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