Ethical Description of God in Avicenna`s Philosophy

The God of Religion and the God of Philosophy

PHILOSOPHY Ever since the time of Pascal men have feared that the 'God' worshipped by believers and the 'God' contemplated by philosophers were somehow different. The former was personal, historically active, slow to anger and plentiful in mercy: the latter was dubiously able to be described in personal terms at all, and infinite in such a way as to baffle the imagination. The 'God' of the form...

Philosophy and Ethical Consumption

Introduction This chapter introduces some basic philosophical approaches that are useful in understanding and evaluating ethical consumption issues and ethical consumer behaviour. The chapter is divided into three sections. The first section introduces the two main approaches to ethics in moral philosophy, ‘consequentialism’ and ‘deontology’, and considers how appropriate they are when applied ...

Pascal’s Wager about God [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

Critics in turn have raised a number of now-classic challenges. According to intellectualism, deliberately choosing which beliefs to hold is practically impossible; according to the many-gods objection, Pascal’s wager begs the question and hence is irrational; according to evidentialism, Pascalian reasoning is epistemically irresponsible and hence immoral; and according to various paradoxes, re...

god and dilema of philosophy of critiquing

in his critique of purge reason, kant insists that the human understanding is only able to know phenomena. however, in critique of practical reason, he proves the objective reality of god, freedom and immortality of soul. at first, the result of the two critiques seems to be at odds with each other, with kant himself calling the problem, the dilemma of philosophy of critiquing. by putting forwa...

The image of God: an ethical foundation for medicine.

Ethical dilemmas: should scientists, god or lawyers decide?

new. Most famously perhaps, it was Galileo’s scientific challenge to ecclesiastical doctrine that threatened to undermine the power of the church. A similar struggle is developing in our society today, except that this time the tables appear to have been turned: the power of science has grown so greatly that we are now able to play God ourselves. Indeed, the questions that are now being asked a...