Belief in God is rational. Everything has a cause. So unless there is a first cause, then you would have an infinite regress. And then nothing could exist. Therefore there must be a first cause. Therefore God, the first cause, exists. QED.
29.12.22
28.12.22
There is a great lesson to learn from Henry II. He did not repent because of religious leanings. Rather he realized that things were going terribly wrong in his life. Everything. [His kingdom was being invaded by the king of Scotland. His own family was offering England to the king of France.] At some point it occurred to him that the cause was not this rational explanation or the other. It was just one thing--the murder of Thomas Becket. And so he made his way barefoot and blooded to the cathedral and the grave of Becket, and had the monks beat the living daylights out of him. Five lashes given by each of the hundred monks.
The very next day word came to him that the king of Scotland had been captured.
In the Gemara Yeruhalmi in the first chapter of Gitin [on the mishna that if a kuti is one of the witnesses on the divorce doc. it is okay] is brought the reason why the Kutim [Samarians]were not Jewish--because they intermarried with the priests of the high places--[even though those priests themselves were born Jewish.
This comes from the law that any object that is brought as a gift to an idol, can not be nullified.
Today that religious leaders are themselves worshiped a objects of adoration and praise, thus the people serving and worshiping them lose their soul.
27.12.22
26.12.22
Friesian school of Leonard Nelson - the best route to take for modern philosophy
The New Friesian school of Leonard Nelson [https://www.friesian.com] needs some clarity in the writings of the frieian.com of Kelley Ross. One major point of clarity that Dr. Ross brings to the subject is that non intuitive immediate knowledge is not infallible. [It can need modification in view of new evidence. --evidence that has stronger prima facia likelihood].
This clarity would have avoided the seeming problem of Special Relativity. [And that is what caused the defection from the group of nelson to the Berlin group of Reichenbach.]
[Another important aspect of Kelley Ross is that he joins Fries with Schopenhauer.]]
You might think that this ought to be obvious but even in Germany where there is renewed interest in Kant, they go off on a tangent with Hermann Cohen and the neo-Kantian which is another dead end.