Philosophy, Ethics, Religion, and Theology
- “IN THE DEPTHS of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” Albert Camus. From “Return to Tipasa” 1968
- “Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum. [I doubt, therefore I think, I think therefore I am]” Rene Descartes (1596-1650) French Philosopher.
- “As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea’s foot and marveling at a midge’s humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.” Desiderius Erasmus (circa. 1466–1536) Dutch. Praise of Folly 1509.
- “What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary.” Hillel (30 B.C. – 10 A.D.) From Talmud. Shabbath.
- “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank (1929-1945) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl March 7, 1944.
- “So they went on until, when they met a boy, he slew him. (Musa) said: Have you slain an innocent person otherwise than for manslaughter? Certainly you have done an evil thing.” The Quran. The Cave [18.74]. (Musa is also known as Moses.)
- “My father was a deeply, unabashedly religious man, but he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians, wearing his religious faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.” Ronald P. Reagan June 11, 2004. Remembrance spoken at the internment ceremony for his father Ronald W. Reagan (1911-2004). U.S. President (1981-1989)
- “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” Blaise Pascal. (1623-1662). Lettres Provinciales [1656-1657], no. 894.
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A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson, 1971
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American Philosophical Practitioners Association
“Americans and Their Myths” – Jean-Paul Sartre, October 1947
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
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B’Hai Faith – Bahai Faith
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Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
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Book of Kells – Trinity College Dublin
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Carl Gustav Jung, Quantum Physics and the Spiritual Mind: A Mystical Vision of the Twenty-First Century
Catholic Bible from the American USCCB
Catholic World Report
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Chomsky, Noam – philosopher and professor
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Continuum Encylopedia of Symbols, The
Coptic Orthodox Church
Cosmology – Tufts University Institute of Cosmology
Cosmology – Lawrence Berkley Lab
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Daily Nous – NEWS FOR & ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHY PROFESSION
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Institute of Art and Ideas
Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Introduction to Cosmology – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought
Journal of Philosophy, The
Kierkegaard, Søren – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy at U. of Tennessee Martin
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Linguistics at MIT
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Malcolm Gladwell
Maltz Museum
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Martin Luther
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National Library of Israel
New England Peace Pagoda – Buddhist Temple in Leverett, Mass.
Nietzsche: A Selected Annotated Bibliography from the NYC Public Library
Nietzsche, Friedrich bibliography from PhilPapers
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Noûs – premier philosophy journal
On Being Project, The
ON THE MORAL AND LEGAL STATUS OF ABORTION by Mary Ann Warren, 1973
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Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
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Philosophy Now – a magazine of ideas
Perseus Project – Digital Library of the Ancient World
Pluralism Project at Harvard – religious diversity and interfaith relations
Problems of Philosophy – MIT free, open introductory course
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Reason and Meaning – website by Prof. John Messerly
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Sartrean Studies Group – Jean Paul Sartre
Science and Religion: Reasons to Believe
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Sefaria library of 3,000 years of Jewish texts
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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West, Cornell, “Brother West” – philosopher, professor, author
Why abortion is immoral. Don Marquis, Journal of Philosophy. 1989
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