Belief

although no written work will ever have the capacity to remove it entirely. It has been shown that despite the immensely different beliefs that are held by the Buddhist and Catholic traditions, there is a surprisingly large amount of common ground in the realm of practice. While Catholics believe in a supremely good, powerful, and knowledgeable God, Buddhists have varying beliefs about divinity. While Buddhists firmly assert that there is no real, inner “self” within each individual, Catholics believe in

At the start of the course my understanding of faith was that it was a synonym for belief. While that is not completely incorrect, I now understand that it is so much more than that. Over break I started reading What Happened by Hillary Clinton, and while I don’t particularly agree with many of her beliefs she provides perhaps the best definition of faith that I have ever encountered. Clinton writes, “That’s why faith – the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things unseen – requires

Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky”, is the opposition of Romeo’s beliefs in life, and how he often blindly, and too quickly, makes decisions in his life without rational thinking. In a simple translation, the quote ignites the idea that we have more control over our lives than what we've actually come to believe, using fate, religion, and environment as self-justification for poorly made choices. Romeo’s unrelenting belief that his fate is already written ultimately leads to his death. Given

discussed pertaining to the political action of voting. Throughout this chapter Brennan explores the ideologies of rational ignorance and rational irrationality about politics, as well as the psychological benefits of holding firm to an irrational belief, and the cognitive biases or errors displayed in society. Brennan’s views create controversy and often times don’t seem to directly favor one another. Although I admired the viewpoints Brennan gave, I had a difficult time buying into the philosophical

today many of the disagreements still remain in our societies and has given rise to many campaigns like Anti-Vaccinations. The articles given were also in response to similar kinds of campaigns/beliefs. In the articles there are many views regarding how the people and government should consider these beliefs and what are its effects on the younger generation. One of the author Sharon Slaton Howell says in her article “I feel strongly that Christian Scientists who are committed to following in Christ

knowledge of a specific fact or event. One set of conditions for knowledge, known as justified true belief, states that a person knows something if that thing is true, if they believe it, and if they are justified in believing it (Gettier 345). This theory, however, was shown to be problematic by the philosopher Edmund Gettier. By proposing two examples, Gettier showed that the conditions of justified true belief are not sufficient to establish knowledge (345-346). Although Gettier found this flaw, he did

interpretation and meaning to our life. We don't choose our ethnicity, our background, or our family’s traditions & beliefs, they are assigned to us at birth, but decisions are up to us as we develop individually. Soon after comprehending and accepting our assigned traits, it’s up to us to either assume our traits or change them. When we are born, our family introduces us to a belief system whether it is religion, moral, or a set of principles/ rules, and eventually it becomes an assign trait, but

others to recount their understandings (page 232). On the other hand, belief as defined by Plato relates to our opinion and what we sense our reality to be. He illustrates this concept in the Allegory of the Cave with the scene of the men only being able to see the objects on the wall. For this is all they know and is it not reasonable for them to feel comfort in it despite there being an upper world? He reasons that it is their belief that makes them stays so closely to wanting to stay in the cave rather

dictionary belief can be defined as “an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof”. Beliefs are the best factor that influence in the decision making process. In other words, the beliefs students hold have a great effect on the perceptions and the judgments they make about the world. In education and especially in social sciences beliefs are studied through epistemology. Epistemology is the philosophy of knowledge and how it is acquired(Bryman, 2016). Beliefs are mostly

Does Clifford offer a convincing view of religious faith? In his article “The Ethics of Belief (Clifford, 1877) W.K. Clifford sought to argue that “it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence” (as cited on p190). The aim of this essay is to establish whether indeed this view offered by Clifford, when considering religious faith, is convincing. In order to do this I will consider the arguments that Clifford put forward, including that which to