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Important Figures & Their "Quotes"
Important Figures & Their "Quotes"
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Religious Studies
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02/13/2012

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"Religion is that which is of ultimate concern"
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Paul Tillich
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Primitive cultures; anima
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Edward Tyler (animism)
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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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Codrington (animism)
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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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Oedipus syndrome
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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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Sire
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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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Carl Sagan (naturalism)
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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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Marxism
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"God is dead! Oh I wish I wish I wish He weren't"
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Franz Kafka (nihilism)
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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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B.F. Skinner (nihilism)
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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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Shakespeare (nihilism)
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Play: "Breath"
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Beckett (nihilism)
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Douglas Adams (nihilism)
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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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