The question, then, is not whether religion is fading, but instead
where ultimate questions of life's significance, and of one's moral responsibility, are being asked.
Lesson 6: Children should learn about the concept of service, to assess the ways in which religious beliefs affect people's actions and to
raise ultimate questions leading from their study.
Whitehead assumed that the commitment to rationality at this secondary level was such that the breakdown of the program would lead to a deeper rationality, that is, to raising again more
ultimate questions about the reality that could no longer be pictured as a machine.
At a 1981 Concern for Dying conference, Margaret Battin, who has written texts on ethical issues in suicide, envisioned a time in the distant future when Christians would come to treat suicide as a kind of sacrament involving a serious grappling
with ultimate questions.
In the Aranyakas to a still greater degree it goes forward, but in the Upanishads it comes to flower.27 Here the chief concern is to
ask ultimate questions concerning man, and his world, and his final destiny.
Many moderns sympathize with Aristotle at this point and refuse to accept the more
ultimate question as an appropriate topic for inquiry.
Still, he says that he doesn't want to be part of a party (i.e., the Republican party) that upholds what he describes as unreason, but he also doesn't claim that such alleged scientific truth
regarding ultimate questions of human destiny provides answers for public policy.
I see no need whatever to say that the philosophers can speak of
ultimate questions only in mythological terms, however hypothetical their speculations must inevitably be.
Sanguine modernists could accept this dismissal of
ultimate questions because their faith in the evolutionary process was such that they need have no fear of its implications.
Recognizing the inadequacy of the church's traditional emphasis on simplistic comfort, we are troubled not only by the
same ultimate questions and existential anxieties which plagued previous generations.
As Robert George (also then a member of the President's Council on Bioethics) has often pointed out, no beliefs about «ensoulment,» no religious beliefs, and no «metaphysics» about
ultimate questions need be invoked to come to the conclusion that the earliest embryo is one of us.
Even though there has been surrender on all secular problems, there still remain the so -
called ultimate questions — death, guilt — on which only «God» can furnish an answer, and which are the reason why God and the Church and the pastor are needed.
For example, Richard Feynman (who received his PhD in 1942) used the art of numerology to come up with some
convincing ultimate questions: «The ratio of the gravitational attraction to the electrical repulsion is given by a number with 42 digits tailing off.
Deciphering whether he's «The One» or just the one for right now can be tough, but there's a few things to consider that might make answering that
ultimate question easier: Read More
It would also be a scheme suitable for KS2, I found taught this for three years now and find students really love
discussing ultimate questions - particularly if there is evidence for the afterlife.
The classical view (both Protestant and Catholic) held that theology was «the queen of the sciences,» that all knowledge was directed toward knowing God Theology dealt
with ultimate questions and all of life.
«I would say no,» he told a journalist at the National Catholic Reporter, adding, however, that «science is incapable of supplying answers to
ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.»
Modernity in the seventeenth century had turned attention
from ultimate questions to penultimate ones, believing that at that level an adequate, intellectually satisfying account of nature could be found.
In this talk, «the online humorist offers a list of simple — and often brutally honest — questions that will help you answer
the ultimate question, «Am I human?»»
It also helped me answer
the ultimate question: How much does our idea scale?
Be your most vulnerable self as you answer
the ultimate question of «why.»
The ultimate question, of course, is whether it's worth it.
The ultimate question is one of economic dependence.
The ultimate question is, does a change in expectations demand a change in your overall portfolio?
The ultimate question then is what kept central bank interest rates so low?
With all JOBS Act regulations now in effect,
the ultimate question is whether we're on track to realize the hopes and dreams of real estate crowdfunding, and what the future holds.
Here Cash asks
the ultimate question: Why is one person given so many blessings while others are seemingly left in the cold?
But each side claims equally to know the answer to
that ultimate question.
but you must stop and think
the ultimate question... why are we here?
Could aliens be humanoid is
the ultimate question?
Pastors, ministers and missionaries offer valuable, concrete answers to life's
ultimate questions.
Thus,
the ultimate question is whether Oregon's reasons for prohibiting the peyote ritual are compelling, and, if the.
But Scripture can also be studied and analyzed, in an attempt to answer some of
the ultimate questions.
This story explores the implicit biases impacting American society, and asks
the ultimate question: What does it mean to be human?
Rather because it excludes faith it also excludes philosophical reason, thereby deciding
all ultimate questions in advance on the basis of a liberal philosophy of nature and reason so ubiquitous as to be invisible.
The ultimate question is whether the church can really be Christian if it does not clearly demonstrate its preference for poor, humble and oppressed peoples.
Yet Sir Karl Popper, a great philosopher of science, once commented that «science doesn't make assertions about
ultimate questions - about the riddles of existence».
What this meant was that, as long as the sciences or any related form of inquiry attended to the immediacies of nature or experience,
no ultimate question need intrude or be considered.
The ultimate question is then clear: Where is the «ample» evidence for those other distinctively Protestant layers in the eclectic mixture of Christian sentiments and beliefs?
We can neither dose out all sense data (as Descartes wanted to do) nor bracket
all ultimate questions (as Husserl sought to do).