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Original Sin

December 28, 2018 by Peter Holding

The Genesis story and the Augustinian interpretation of original sin Original sin holds that everyone is born sinful. We all have a built-in urge to do bad things and disobey God. According to the teaching, original sin is the normal spiritual and psychological condition of human beings.  Even a newborn baby, who hasn’t done anything at […]

Filed Under: philosophy, religion Tagged With: environment, Freud, Genesis, original sin, socialism and original sin, St Augustine, the fall, Utopia

The Leap of Faith- Reza Aslan on ‘God’

February 23, 2018 by Peter Holding

Summary:  There is either a God who cares about us, or an animating spirit that does not care, or creation is an accident. But the difference between an animating spirit that does not care about us and the accident theory seems negligible. Believing in a “God” that might just as easily be described as “nature’ […]

Filed Under: philosophy, religion Tagged With: Aslan, Atheism, God, Religion

Random thoughts on the passing of a small animal

November 26, 2016 by Peter Holding

Lucy, our cat, was a weakling. She was the runt of her Devon Rex litter and Devons are on the runty side to begin with.  Plus she had suffered an allergic reaction to a vaccine as a kitten. This left her with a chronic nasal condition. She was a snuffller. When we bought her sister Evie, the breeder asked us to take Lucy as […]

Filed Under: family, philosophy, religion

Our success as a species? How can we judge?

June 1, 2016 by Peter Holding

Introduction Philosophers have considered the nature of existence (metaphysics), whether god exists (religious philosophy), how we can know things (epistemology), how we can lead a good, just or happy life (moral philosophy or ethics) and how societies can best be organised (political philosophy). Scientists, biologists in particular, have considered how species, including our own, are […]

Filed Under: environment, history, philosophy

Harari- History and Happiness

April 28, 2015 by Peter Holding

Happiness in the study of  History In chapter 19 of his book, ‘Sapiens’, Harari examines happiness. He asks whether the transformation of human society by the industrial and scientific revolutions over the last 500 years, and the commensurate increases in wealth, have increased human happiness. He says that historians have researched the history of politics, society, […]

Filed Under: history, philosophy Tagged With: Daniel Kahneman, ethics, Happiness, Harari, surveys on happiness, wealth and happiness

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