Extract 8: The Buddhist meaning of happiness
The Buddhist idea of happiness is radically different from western views, which tend to equate happiness with development of self or…
Read MoreExtract 6: CD Broad
CD Broad In the known relevant normal and abnormal facts there is nothing to suggest, and much to counter-suggest, the possibility…
Read MoreExtract 5: Near Death Experiences
Contemporary Near-Death Studies Price has given us a coherent and meaningful conceptual framework for after-death experiences. In contrast to other scenarios,…
Read MoreExtract 4: HH Price Dreamstate
H. H. Price’s View of the Afterlife From N. F. Gier “Humanistic Self-Judgment and After-Death Experiences” in Geddes MacGregor, ed., Immortality…
Read MoreCHRISTMAS WITHOUT GOD
Christmas without God Recent census figures show the numbers identifying themselves with Christianity are falling fast in the UK (irrespective of…
Read MoreAS Past Questions: Ethics 2
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Read MoreWhy utilitarian ethics doesn’t really work
The Problem with Utilitarianism In the tragedy of Jacintha Saldanha we find a living example of why utilitarian ethics can never…
Read MoreArticle 5: Possibility of resurrection Peter van Inwagen
The Possibility of Resurrection (1978) Peter van Inwagen For the complete article, click here. In an attempt to disprove the Aristotelian…
Read MoreExtract 3: Dawkins, memes, God, faith and altruism
From The Selfish Gene chapter 5 Memes The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for…
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