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"Religion is that which is of ultimate concern" |
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Primitive cultures; anima |
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"The gods of primitive people are based on dreams of the dead" |
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Herbert Spencer (animism) |
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Mana = powers of the unseen spirits |
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Worship nature because it is POWERFUL |
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Max Mueller (nature worship) |
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"Religion is a projection of human wishes and needs" |
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Feuerbach (projection of human needs) |
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Religion is the "sigh of the oppressed" |
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Karl Marx (projection of human needs) |
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Freud (projection of human needs) |
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Magic religion, and science |
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Frazer (theory of human experience) |
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Primitive cultures all believed in single, distant, high God; knew Him via many small gods |
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Wilhelm Schmidt (original monotheism) |
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A worldview is "a set of presuppositions which we hold about the basic makeup of the world" |
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"insufficient evidence for belief in the existence of the supernatural" |
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Humanist Manifesto #2 (1973) (naturalism) |
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"no credible evidence that life survives the body" |
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Humanist Manifesto #2 (1973) (naturalism) |
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"Cosmos is all there is, was, and ever will be" |
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"Human life is an episode between two oblivions" |
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Bertrand Russell (naturalism) |
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"God is the projection of human potentiality" |
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"God is dead! Oh I wish I wish I wish He weren't" |
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"You are guilty of guilt" |
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Ingmar Bergman film (nihilism) |
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Person doesn't act on the world; world acts on them |
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Western culture is moving toward a catastrophe (a good thing) |
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Friedrich Nietzsche (nihilism) |
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Everything deserves to perish, and we should help destroy it |
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Friedrich Nietzsche (nihilism) |
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"Life is a tale told by an idiot...signifying nothing" |
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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Nothing in the world can prove the existence of God |
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Soren Kierkegaard (existentialism) |
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brought humanism to his existentialism |
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Albert Camus (existentialism) |
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"You can't make moral judgments on me; I CHOSE" |
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Martin Heidegger (existentialism) |
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We must live in the face of this ultimate absurdity (death), in the tension between love of life and the certainty of death |
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Albert Camus (existentialism) |
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"First of all man exists, and afterward defines himself" |
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Jean-Paul Sartre (existentialism) |
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"To choose is the ultimate act of existence; thus, choosing is itself existence" |
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Jean-Paul Sartre (existentialism) |
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