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Mar 04, 2016Open Access
A discussion on how artificial machines with natural intelligence would
be safe or not is made based on scientific, philosophical and theological
arguments. The finite or infinite nature of the universe is discussed and the
implications analyzed. The concepts of destiny and free will are considered,
with implications on what it would mean to create an artificial consciousness
and how it would be possible to give it or deny it its free will. Computer experiments
are carried out based on cellular ...
Feb 04, 2016Open Access
We evaluate utilitarian judgments under the dual-system approach of the
mind. In the study, participants respond to a cognitive reflection test and
five (sacrificial and greater good) dilemmas that pit utilitarian and
non-utilitarian options against each other. There is judgment reversal across
the dilemmas, a result that casts doubt in considering utilitarianism as a
stable, ethical standard to evaluate the quality of moral judgments. In all the
dilemmas, participants find the utilitarian judgm...
Feb 02, 2016Open Access
The Arab-Islamic culture is certainty-oriented, such that most Arabs and
Muslims consider their beliefs to be certainties. This enabled the
traditionalist philosophical school of knowledge to be dominant in the Arab-Islamic
world. Both Muslim philosophers Al-Ghazali and Ibn Taymiyyah articulated the
dominant philosophical theory of knowledge. While Al-Ghazali claimed that God
creates knowledge in us, Ibn Taymiyyah held that knowledge is justified true
belief or a set of beliefs presented by an i...
Jan 12, 2016Open Access
There has been quite a bit of literature on heaven of late. In this paper
I state some claims that theistic philosophers and theologians have made about
heaven, and make the concept of heaven incoherent. I maintain that it is
possible for a rational individual to prefer not to go to heaven. Finally, I
argue that it may be preferable for a person of moral integrity to decide that they
want to go to hell given the immoral nature of many passages in the Bible.
Dec 01, 2015Open Access
The journey of teaching and learning is continuous and lifelong. It is
not only limited to what we learn in classroom settings but it is beyond that
level. In this educational journey, teacher possesses a major role in building
student’s personality. By knowing that each learner has different strengths
with different learning needs, it is the responsibility of a teacher to
facilitate student in gaining knowledge, skills, and critical thinking by
implementing various innovative strategies. Moreov...
Aug 06, 2015Open Access
This essay considers “the other” in Section
2— Levinas with Confucius and Section 3— The Other, to conclude with a wrap-up.
Section 2 is Confucius critically dialoguing with Levinas. Section 3 develops
“the other.” The wrap-up stresses how important such intercultural dialogue is.
Section 2 has five themes: “face” as the other; “ethics” as human cosmology;
the “other” as respect-dialogues; reasoning as logic-playing; and failure as
success persistent. Section 3 has five more t...
Jun 30, 2015Open Access
This paper explores the Matthean version of
the Triumphant Entry from a Nigerian postcolonial perspective. The methodology used is the exegesis of the passage using a
Reader Response criticism to understand the contextual and typological
contemporary meanings of the passage. The result showed that the colonial harbinger of the gospel message introduced a
colonized gospel that robbed the people of the liberation they ought to
experience through the gospel.
Jun 19, 2015Open Access
Three themes are in this essay, “on”, “argument at play”, and “alive”, developed
reversely. Alive playing with argument, and “on” as story-thinking can round them
up. Section one says we alive cannot think of alive, though crucial. Section two tells of playing with argument that shows “alive”. Section three tells of how story-thinking shows argument
at play, to show “alive”. Section four harvests further in interculture.
Conclusion tells of joy alive as invincible as imperative. Ap...
Mar 19, 2015Open Access
Chang Chien (1853-1926) was a native of Nant’ung, Kiangsu. In spite of the
various works on Chang Chien, which testify to the significance of his role in modern
China, Chang Chien’s thought on education is still not well-researched. The purposes
of this paper are firstly, to analyze Chang Chien’s thought on education systematically
and clearly in the hope that it may become a useful reference for researchers on
modern China, and secondly, to stimulate scholars for further research. This paper
de...
Jan 21, 2015Open Access
The philosophy of binary plurality of the World with its branching evolution and converging devolution is the most general concept of Universe, doctrine about life. It is knowledge of binary plurality of subjects and of phenomena joining in different parities dual multitude of opposite qualities existing with branching and convergences World. The philosophy of binary plurality of the World with its branching evolution and with converging devolution may promote explanation of an opportunity of mo...
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