<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>zerodeviation.net &#187; Philosophy</title> <atom:link href="http://blog.zerodeviation.net/category/philosophy/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://blog.zerodeviation.net</link> <description>musings of an engineer, developer, and picky theologian</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:08:19 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0</generator> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>Can we know Truth?</title><link>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/can-we-know-truth/</link> <comments>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/can-we-know-truth/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:00:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christoph</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[roundtable]]></category> <category><![CDATA[truth]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.zerodeviation.net/?p=165</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yes, we can. For more info, here&#8217;s the paper entitled &#8220;Can we know Truth?&#8221; that I presented at the Roundtable of Ideology this year. Its intended audience is Christians, so I presuppose a certain degree of agreement with some of the points I make. Keep that in mind if you&#8217;re not a Christian and would [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/can-we-know-truth/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The pitfalls of absolutes</title><link>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/philosophy/the-pitfalls-of-absolutes/</link> <comments>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/philosophy/the-pitfalls-of-absolutes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:58:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christoph</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[absolutes]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.zerodeviation.net/2008/08/the-pitfalls-of-absolutes/</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nothing is true&#8221; &#8211; This is actually part of the tagline of the video game Assassin&#8217;s Creed and made me laugh when I saw it for the first time and heard so many fans repeat it like it&#8217;s the greatest thing; it sure sounds deep. Too bad it&#8217;s self-defeating. If nothing is true, the statement [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/philosophy/the-pitfalls-of-absolutes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Is Jesus the Messiah?</title><link>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/is-jesus-the-messiah/</link> <comments>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/is-jesus-the-messiah/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:35:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christoph</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.zerodeviation.net/?p=131</guid> <description><![CDATA[I recently talked with a Jewish acquaintance about Jesus being the Messiah. He gave me a list of reasons why Jews don&#8217;t believe that and asked me to answer them. I usually think pasting links with objections to Christianity are cheap, after all I may just link back to CARM.org and start a link pasting [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/is-jesus-the-messiah/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The logical conclusion of atheistic morality</title><link>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/culture/the-logical-conclusion-of-atheistic-morality/</link> <comments>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/culture/the-logical-conclusion-of-atheistic-morality/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:28:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christoph</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.zerodeviation.net/?p=122</guid> <description><![CDATA[This comes courtesy of Paul Manata @ Triablogue. Sound familiar? This is the very thing we see today, the logical conclusion of relativism and ultimately evolution. Then I learned that all moral judgments are &#8216;value judgments,&#8217; that all value judgments are subjective, and that none can be proved to be either &#8216;right&#8217; or &#8216;wrong.&#8217; I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/culture/the-logical-conclusion-of-atheistic-morality/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ethics without Religion</title><link>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/ethics-without-religion/</link> <comments>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/ethics-without-religion/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christoph</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[atheist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[god]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religion]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.zerodeviation.net/?p=99</guid> <description><![CDATA[For some odd reason I was thinking back to my high school days. As a student at a Catholic private school (which sounds far worse than it was), we had to take Religion class until grade 13. At some point I remember talking about several ethical issues and our objection to teaching Religion -and naming [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/ethics-without-religion/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Agnosticism is self-defeating, too</title><link>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/agnosticism-is-self-defeating-too/</link> <comments>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/agnosticism-is-self-defeating-too/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:59:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christoph</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.zerodeviation.net/2007/12/04/agnosticism-is-self-defeating-too/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Agnosticism, from the greek negative &#8220;a&#8221; and &#8220;gnosis&#8221; &#8211; knowledge, means without knowledge or no knowledge and deals not so much with the existence of God, but more his attributes and character, or lack of &#8220;knowability&#8221; of them. It asserts that we cannot know about God because the concept of God is simply too much [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/agnosticism-is-self-defeating-too/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Atheism is self-defeating</title><link>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/philosophy/atheism-is-self-defeating/</link> <comments>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/philosophy/atheism-is-self-defeating/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:51:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christoph</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.zerodeviation.net/2007/11/20/atheism-is-self-defeating/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Several months ago I read about atheism being self-defeating, but I forgot exactly how the argument went. I finally heard it again the other day so I thought I&#8217;d share. Atheism comes from the Greek &#8220;a&#8221; &#8211; the negative, and &#8220;theos&#8221; &#8211; god. It not only means not believing in a God, it affirms the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/philosophy/atheism-is-self-defeating/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>D&#8217;Souza v Hitchens</title><link>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/dsouza-v-hitchens/</link> <comments>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/dsouza-v-hitchens/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:21:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christoph</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[D'Souza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[debate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hitchens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[logic]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.zerodeviation.net/2007/11/13/dsouza-v-hitchens/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Just watched the debate (direct link) from a couple of months ago. This is the first I have heard from both D&#8217;Souza and Hitchens and I am pretty impressed with the former; he&#8217;s a pretty sharp guy. I will let them speak for themselves, but being in the Roundtable I noticed a few things: Maybe [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/dsouza-v-hitchens/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Logic is on God&#8217;s side</title><link>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/logic-is-on-gods-side/</link> <comments>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/logic-is-on-gods-side/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:33:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christoph</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.zerodeviation.net/2007/11/10/logic-is-on-gods-side/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Today I heard, again, that there is religion and there is logic, one or the other, mutually exclusive. But that&#8217;s not the case. Quite the opposite, without God we wouldn&#8217;t have logic or any foundation or absolute standard for anything. One logical argument I have never seen refuted is the cosmological argument for God. Everything [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.zerodeviation.net/theology/logic-is-on-gods-side/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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