Aaron Beck met the Dalai Lama in June 2005 in Gˆteborg Convention Centre in Sweden for a dialogue on Buddhism and Cognitive Therapy. In preparation for this meeting, Beck had read some of the writings on Buddhism by Matthieu Ricards, a French Tibetan monk.†† Beck found a great deal of similarity with Cognitive Therapy. Beck…
In 1902, William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience wrote, “[t]he unreasoned and immediate assurance is the deep thing in us; the reasoned argument is but a surface exhibition”. Over a century later, scientific researchers are still extensively investigating the innate nature of spirituality, its interactions with environment-and perhaps even-its genetic origin. The discipline…
What does it mean to be human? What is the purpose of human life on earth? From whence does life come? How are we to treat other humans? Other life forms? These are questions that sages and thought systems animated by questioners in various contexts perpetually address.This paper examines a traditional thought system generally silenced…
Introduction For more than thirty-eight years, I have taught Reformational Philosophy at Dutch state universities. Every two years, I dealt with the topic of Ethics of Technology. As a thinker about the relation between Christian faith and technology, I have always been much interested in this subject. How must we think ethically about, for example,…
1. Introduction The concept of evolution is crucial in Teilhard’s conception of the world; it is the most central concept in his “Weltbild”. Considering the importance of this concept, a look at the secondary literature surprises: There are many books and articles on Teilhard’s spirituality, on his concept of love, on his relationship to women…
The soul absent from philosophy Not many people would disagree with the remark that the term ‘soul’ is not often used in philosophical circles or heard in philosophical discussions nowadays. Its use is also quite limited in psychology, which, despite the etymology of its name has now little to do with an anatomy of the…
Writing in The Journal of Politics last year, Jon R. Bond reaffirmed the long-standing hope of many political scientists that someone in their discipline would come along “to do for political science what Newton did for physics.”1Political science “is truly a ‘hard’ science,” according to Bond, though that is “not the only way to study…
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Introduction Confronted by the various advances in science and technology in the 21st century which shed new insights into the genetics, physiology, psychology and behaviour of man, one cannot but reflect on our understanding of the nature of human experience in light of these new breakthroughs. Tracing the journey of the quest of the understanding…
1. Introduction. Antonio Rosmini is one of the greatest Italian philosophers and theologians who lived in the nineteenth century (Rovereto 1797 – Stresa 1855). The integral concept of being and man reveals the continuity of the Rosminian philosophical system which is highly influenced by the Church Fathers especially St. Augustine and of the Scholastic Theologian,…