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| hedonism | in moral philosophy, the doctrine that 'good' is that which contributes to pleasure or diminishes pain |
| nature being | GNOSTICIANS Members of an esoteric knowledge order, founded in Alexandria in 300 BC and later extended throughout the whole eastern Mediterranean area |
| chesterton.org ...determinism | Description: Scientific Determinism One of the defining marks of the 20th century has been the triumph, especially in the social sciences, of the theory of determinism |
| ego | SELF OR SELF-REALIZATION, LAW OF "The law of self says that every monad must itself acquire all the qualities and abilities requisite for omniscience and omnipotence, from the human kingdom and onwards: understanding of law and the responsibility following upon this." K 1.41.11 |
| animism | the belief that objects are inhabited by spirits, and that natural events or processes are caused by spirits. |
| determinism | Description: Determinism is the theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes that preclude free will and the possibility that humans could have acted otherwise |
| determinism | Description: over 400 skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal, supernatural and pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to the best skeptical literature |
| coherence theory of truth | the theory that a statement is true if and only if it coheres with a given system of statements or beliefs. |
| epicureanism | school of Greek philosophy (Epicurus: 341-270 B.C.) based on the belief that there are no divine laws and that wisdom consists in the pursuit of rational pleasures; the forerunner of modern utilitarian moral philosophy. |
| yahoo! groups: determinism | Description: Worldwide, cultural institutions increasingly fail to meet the special demands of modern times |
| determinism | Description: Determinism is the idea that the world operates through a strict series of cause-and-effect chains |
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| entelechy | the inner nature of something which is responsible for its ultimate development and fulfillment |
| catholicism | the religion of Western Christianity up to the Reformation; the religion also of the Church of Rome. |
| determinism from foldoc | Description: determinism Related entries include: cause; compatibilism; free will; scientific law; sufficient reason; teleology |
| philosophy lecture | Description: Do you think that people have any choice in matters like how they see the world, what kind of personality they develop, what kind of person they become, what kinds of behaviors they engage in, what kinds of behaviors they enjoy? Are heroes born or made... |
| materialism | the doctrine that matter is the only, or primary, reality, as opposed to idealism, which contends that ideas and thoughts of things are the only reality. |
| civil disobedience | A doctrine of social activism which requires disobedience to unjust laws |
| tech notes | Description: Chandler writes that technological determinism seeks to explain social and historical phenomena in terms of one main or determining factor |
| freedom | The state or condition wherein individuals may make choices within limits designed to safeguard the well-being of all members of society, its benefits depending upon whether or not it is exercised with love |
| positivism | a philosophical view which recognizes only those things that can be empirically verified, or known directly by observation. |
| three aspects of existence | TYPE ACTIVITY "The solar systemic and planetary energies are always type energies, and the effects they have on the different types in the different kinds of matter and consciousness differ accordingly |
| pantheism | the doctrine that God is inherent in all things, that every particular thing in the universe is a manifestation of God's essence |
| atman | in Hindu religion, the individual soul, in contrast to Brahman. |
| primary matter | ROUND (T.B.) The passage of the processes of evolution and involution round the seven globes of our seven-globe |
| politically correct | A term to describe the self-righteous attitude of Reformed Abortionites who believe they are morally superior due to the strength of their commitment to oppose the more generally discredited Abortionite criteria for exclusion |
| agnosticism | the belief that one cannot know whether God exists or does not exist |
| naturalism | the doctrine that reality is governed by certain laws, including those of cause and effect. |
| axiom | a statement that is true by definition or so obviously true that it needn't be proved |
| free will and determinism | Description: Do we have free will or are our actions predetermined? This question is central to ethics |
| races | BUDDHA (Skt, "the awakened one") Title of a 42-self, initiate of the 8th degree |
| evolutionary psychology--genetic determinism | Description: Genetic Determinism The first variety of genetic determinism is the rather unsophisticated doctrine of genetic fixity, which holds that the genes of parents inevitably determine the characteristics of their children. |
| skeptic's dictionary: determinism | Description: over 325 skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal,supernatural and pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to the best skeptical literature |
| concepts of determinism | Description: In order to circumvent the platitudes of nature versus nurture, I needed a concept that would not only encompass both, but also transcend both |
| first cause | the beginning of an elaborate series of causes, often identified with God. |
| dependence | A cherished criterion for the existence of life among the bio-ignorant who steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the reality of commensalism, symbiosis and parasitism as biological relationships in which unique organisms depend upon organisms of other species |
| zen | a system of Buddhist meditation intended to transcend the normal categories and strictures of human rationality, whose ultimate goal is the achievement of satori, or deep revelation and insight. |
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| pragmatism | the notion that truth is the practical application of an idea; a theory which emphasizes the instrumental nature of the intellect and which sees the consummation of truth in direct, successful action |
| determinism | the theory that all events (including mental ones) are caused, so that whatever happens cannot happen otherwise |
| calvinism | a religious offshoot of Protestantism known for its doctrine of predestination (the idea that every individual is predestined to either damnation or salvation). |
| holtz.org ... | Description: Incompatibilism, the view that free will and determinism are incompatible, subsists on two widely accepted, but deeply confused, theses concerning possibility and causation: (1) in a deterministic universe, one can never truthfully utter the sentence "I... |
| arianism | a heretical doctrine associated with the teachings of Arius, an Alexandrian priest of the fourth century who taught that God created from nothing (ex nihilo) and begot a Son before He created all other things |
| 620pixeltable | Description: This sums up a lot of T.H.'s past words elsewhere -- in A Theory of Determinism: The Mind, Neuroscience and Life-Hopes and also the first edition of How Free Are You? It is against the idea that determinism is logically... |
| the determinism controversy | Description: But we can see that the notion of 'higher-order volition' is not really the fundamental notion for these purposes, by raising the question: Can't one be a wanton, so to speak, with respect to one's second-order desires and volitions |
| determinism in modeling | Description: This page is the general description of the course and suggested expectations for both the student and the expectations of the teacher |
| dialectical materialism | in Hegelian and Marxist theory, the view that the world is a material process undergoing stages of unending change. |
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| dogmatism | a theory or belief system unsusceptible to critical questioning and doubt; a dogmatist is one who holds unflinchingly to an idea in the belief that such an idea is infallible. |
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| animalist | An individual who believes that many if not all animal species have an equal claim to the recognition and protection of human society |
| races | SUFFERING "Life is joy, happiness, bliss in the mental and all higher worlds." K 1.41.18 "Suffering exists only in the three lower molecular kinds of the physical and emotional worlds (48:5-7; 49:5-7), and then only as bad reaping after bad sowing." K 1.35.20 |
| yang | in Chinese philosophy, a universal principle which manifests itself as a male force, as spirit and heaven. |
| involvation | EXPANSION is the continuation of evolution in superhuman kingdoms |
| determinism | Description: The theory that all human action is caused entirely by preceding events, and not by the exercise of the will |
| categorical imperative | in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), a moral law or command not dependent on any conditions; a rule enjoining us to act so that we could will our act as a universal maxim. |
| religious right | A derogatory label applied by abortionmongers, Birthist Abortionites, necrochoicers and the like to their pro-life opponents to depict them as out of touch, extreme, fanatical, authoritarian and dangerous to personal liberties. |
| determinism | Description: In contradistinction to the false doctrine of free will, Scripture teaches subservience to the sovereign free will of God as the mark of a true Christian |
| eternity and determinism | Description: God forgives, I like "crackpot science" and "crackpot philosophy." A reader survey a while ago in In-Genius approved the genre so I take the liberty of proposing my own brand |
| sixth natural kingdom | FIRST HUMAN TYPE "is distinguished by a strong so-called will which makes the individual suitable as a leader, a real one and one recognized as such by all." K 2.7.9 |
| determinism and moral responsibility | Description: The conflict between determinism and free will is an age old and fascinating one, particularly because it pits two very strong intuitions against each other with no apparent possibility of recourse |
| scholasticism | a philosophical movement of medieval times characterized chiefly by speculative thought, the merging of theological conceptions with metaphysical ones (as, say, in the work of Aquinas). |
| reciprocal determinism | Description: The Social Cognitive Theory explains behavior in terms of a triadic, dynamic and reciprocal interaction of the environment, personal factors, and behavior |
| commensalism | A biological relationship in which one organism (animal or plant) lives with, on or in another without injury to either |
| determinism | Description: A system or process for which the future can, at least in theory, be predicted with precision |
| fatalism | the doctrine that each person's destiny lies beyond any individual effort to change it. |
| nature being | UNITY, CONSCIOUSNESS OF See ESSENTIAL CONSCIOUSNESS |
| nirvana | in Buddhist religion, a state of mystical wisdom achieved after all fleshy desires have been surmounted |
| big lie | A technique for making lies become truth in the public mind by having the lies constantly repeated, preferably from a multiplicity of sources, giving an overwhelming impression of their truthfulness |
| collective unconscious | in Jungian psychology (Carl Jung, 1875-1961), the part of the unconscious that contains symbolic representations, or archetypes, of ancient ways of thought inherited from humanity's past experience. |
| physical determinism | Description: What I call physical determinism the belief that all human actions and thought are pre-determinable because they are caused by the state of the neurons in the brain, which act in a determinable pattern |
| determinism | Description: UPDATE: I no longer consider determinism to be equivalent to mechanism |
| voluntarism | the doctrine that the will is the supreme force or factor in human conduct and in the universe; this perspective received its most influential articulation in Schopenhauer's philsophy. |
| free thinker | An individual unencumbered by the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of the ages who persists in formulating moral philosophies in the blissful vacuum of ignorance, all the while believing this practice to be the epitome of sophistication and rationality. |
| attribute | in Spinozistic philosophy (Benedict Spinoza, 1632-1677), one of the infinite aspects of Reality, such as matter or thought. |
| elements | basic components or constituents of things; Aristotle recognized four: fire, water, earth, air. |
| agathism | the doctrine that all things tend towards ultimate good, as distinguished from optimism, which holds that all things are now for the best |
| atheism | the belief that God does not exist. |
| understanding | CONCENTRATION See ACTIVATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS, SYSTEMATIC |
| ecumenism | a movement providing worldwide unity among religions through cooperative understanding |
| mindtrap.virtualave.net determinism | Description: I don't find it so hard to imagine how people might not have free will |
| logic | the study of proper reasoning, of valid and invalid arguments, of fallacies and syllogisms |
| idealism | in metaphysics, the view that ideas or thoughts are the chief, organizing reality, as against the views of materialism, which holds that matter is the primary reality of the universe |
| flipspeak | The use of terminology in such a way that words mean the opposite of their literal or traditional meaning |
| determinism | Description: Fermigas Home Page My Poetry Copyright FermiGas 1998 Can You Feel Determinism? Oh, shadow, shadow how've you bent Happiness into irrelevant? How can you walk from your development? Are we only meant to be Cogs in a teleology? Small threads in a web... |
| determinism | Description: Most people believe that within a day, they make a multitude of choices |
| buddhism | a religion of various sects (e.g., Zen, Mahayana) founded sometime in the 6th century B.C |
| ontology | the study of being, of the ultimate nature of things. |
| lecture notes | Description: Human history seems to exemplify a cyclical pattern: after prosperous times, chaotic times ensues; and vice versa |
| pluralism | the doctrine that the world is composed of many things, the source of contrary processes |
| determinism | Description: Search for Determinism Erratic signals abound in nature |
| monad | PRIMORDIAL MATTER "Primordial matter is matter proper |
| reformed abortionism | A branch of Abortionism which emphatically rejects certain Abortionite criteria such as race and sex which have been generally rejected by society at large |
| atomism | the theory, as set forth by philosophers such as Democritus, that physical objects consist of minute, indivisible particles moving in a void. |
| determinism | Description: Determinism is the theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by |
| empiricism | the epistemological view that all knowledge is grounded in experience and direct observation, and not what's in our mind a priori |
| world-teacher | BODY Older term of body |
| oppspeak | The use of words in a context wherein they mean the opposite or something other than their original and commonly understood meanings |