The Real You: Alan Watts
The late Alan Watts on personal identity and understanding our place in the Universe:
The late Alan Watts on personal identity and understanding our place in the Universe:
Introduction This paper does not deal with the epistemological theory of reductionism itself. Rather, it asks for the ethical consequences and implications of reductionisms in current bioethical debates. The paper acts from the assumption that the concept of personhood acquired in most of nowadays bioethical discussions in Western discourses1 (1) represents an illegitimate ethical reductionism…
The creation of God is a unitary act, here is the reason for which the expression “created the Heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1) does not reflect a dual reality, or, in other words, something undefined by unity. But this unitary reality has lost its primary meaning because of man’s intemperate character and behavior. That…
In the new millennium scientific discoveries and their applications in technology will occur at a rate unprecedented in human history, and their influence will be global. What contribution could the religious traditions of the world make to the future of technology and globalization? My examples come mainly from Christianity, but I will note some…
Why should Big Pharma invest in Big History? My answer is in the form of a warning label I imagined attached to all pharmaceutical products.
I’d like to begin this column with a quote from the June 9, 2004 report in the European Policy Center in Brussels. In such a report Dr. Jocelyne Cesari, a senior research fellow at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) in both Paris and Harvard University has this intriguing quote: “Europe is the only…
This TEDx talk by Michael Dowd reconciles science and religion. “Reality is my God and evidence is my scripture. Big History is my creation story and ecology is my theology. Integrity is my salvation and right relationship to reality is my mission…” Author admin