VOLTAIRE’S PHILOSOPHY: HUMAN NATURE AND INTERPRETATION OF RELIGION

Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion

Like most of the great early modern philosophers, George Berkeley was not a university professor. He pursued, instead, a career in the clergy of the Anglican Church of Ireland. Berkeley was ordained in 1710, the same year he published his Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge (Berman 1994, 17). His first clerical post was as chaplain to Lord Peterborough from 1713-1714 (80). From here, ...

Kant’s Philosophy of Religion and the Challenges of Moral Commitment

Kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate God and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. But since Kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. This article tries to argue against this apparent incon...

Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy and Religion

the philosophy of biology:a view to the human nature

the writer renders two views of the human charater from biological perspective. 1.that man is devoid of character. 1.1.the concept of man is discussed under broader notion of ©species¨.unlike philosophers, biologistes study all living things, they do not restrict themselves to man and the living things genetically related to him .also,they are concerned with real types. 1.2.upon the question th...