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04 Oct 09

The Case for God: What Religion Means, by Karen Armstrong

6th-century Babylonian Talmud instructed the Jews how to regard their sacred books: “What is Torah? It is the interpretation of Torah.” The fixing of texts first came about with the advent of printing, which elevated what was on the page above the spoken,

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24 Apr 09

Rawls at the Crossroads | The American Conservative

A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith by John Rawls

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18 Apr 09

Terry Eagleton: Metaphysics in a Time of Terrorism

God is ritually invoked on American political platforms, but it would not do to raise him in a committee meeting of the World Bank. In the United States, ideologues of the religious Right, aware of the market’s tendency to oust metaphysics, sought to put

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The Invisible Hand of God | The Big Money

One recent study compares countries where a single religion has a lock on the market—like France or Italy—with more pluralistic societies like the United States.

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23 Dec 08

Where is the love? — Crooked Timber

saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rain forest from destruction

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14 Dec 08

When Jesus met Buddha - The Boston Globe

In 782, the Indian Buddhist missionary Prajna arrived in Chang'an, bearing rich treasures of sutras and other scriptures. Unfortunately, these were written in Indian languages. He consulted the local Nestorian bishop, Adam, who had already translated part

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28 Nov 08

Simon Blackburn on Heidegger: ‘Among contemporaries the most exciting thinker, masterful, compelling, mysterious – but then leaving you empty handed’

“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.” The real point of the writing is different. It becomes apparent when we notice the constant repetitions: “How can distress be effected as distress?” “Enownment always means enowning as en-ownment.” “

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