Few of the earliest Christians were highly educated people. In 1 Corinthians, Paul wrote: “Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose […]
Read More Christianity Becomes Philosophical: The ApologistsDaniel traces the basics of the ontological argument
Read More Intro to: The Ontological ArgumentBy Sam Whitman McGrath (University of Chicago) Abstract | In this paper I develop the strong parallels between Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Zen Buddhism, as exemplified by Loori’s Riding the Ox Home: Stages on the Path to Enlightenment. By developing a comparison in terms of shared method and shared purpose, I employ Zen as a tool to […]
Read More The Zen of Wittgenstein: An Elucidation of the Elusive “Ethical Point” of the Tractatus by Means of Zen Buddhism
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