The conflicts between science and morals which still continue to arise despite the apparent hegemony of atheistic scientism over traditional Judeo-Christianity in the twentieth century reflect a basic contradiction in the metaphysical foundation of Western lives. As was set forth by Machiavelli, the contradiction inherent in Western ethics is that it is based on the simultaneous belief in both ...

This article explores an indigenous Hawaiian perspective on health that accords nature the status of healing agent. It reemerged in the Native Hawaiian decolonization struggle of the 1990s where it provided an explicit critique of Western sociocultural and political–economic forces, particularly of the effects these had on the bodies and souls of the colonized and neocolonized Hawaiians. This u...

The best world that an omnipotent God could create is the best of all logically possible worlds. Accordingly, it has been supposed that if the actual world was created by an omnipotent, perfectly good God, it must be the best of all logically possible worlds. In this paper I shall argue that ethical views typical of the Judeo-Christian religious tradition do not require the JudeoChristian theis...


 The interpretation of time has been a challenge to philosophers, writers, and common people alike since the dawn mankind, more precisely, appearance ancient, natural religions. This paper, after giving an overview various responses in history philosophy concept Augustine Averroës, analyses circular notion expounded Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel, Wanting Seed. Linear time, roots which are ...

<p>This study attempts at undertaking a comprehensive of personal names among Ghanaian Hausa. It particularly looks the socio-pragmatic usage Hausa names. This paper argues that give to their children by considering social, cultural, and religious philosophy speech community. The behind these naming practices goes long way help in peculiar identity This, very large extent, hints there is ...

In the mid-eleventh century, Sicilian authorities levied »Sicilian tithe«, a customs duty hitting foreign merchants. The imposition of this tax put in motion long chain events that would be lost to us were it not for exceptional evidence Cairo Geniza. This article focuses on handful Geniza commercial letters and legal queries Judeo-Arabic chronicle unfolding tithe business, from initial attem...

This article challenges the empirical usefulness of historical and anthropological approaches (Walter Burkert, René Girard, et al.) when considering sacrifice as a socially acceptable projection aggression inherent in all human beings. Ideas formulated by Burkert Girard were later criticised number anthropologists students religion. At same time, however, ethnographic data sometimes reveal part...