Ultimate

standard requirements for free will: alternate possibilities and ultimate responsibility. Alternate possibilities mean that the metaphorical path before any agent must be one with forking paths. In terms of alternate possibilities, free will requires the ability to do otherwise. In other words, open futures are necessary for free will to exist. This leads to the second condition for free will: ultimate responsibility. The basis of ultimate responsibility is that in order for an agent to be…

are both texts that revolve around the same supreme eternal being, God. These text’s also have ultimate reality’s. However, the ultimate reality’s in each text are completely different. The Koran views ultimate reality as an achievable afterlife while City of God views it as an unobtainable experience that has already been tainted by the transgressions of Adam and Eve. These differences in these ultimate reality’s affect the relationship between men and women. In the Koran, the importance of a…

Faith?: An Analysis of Tillich's Ultimate Concern" (Smith, 2003). Every man and woman is concerned about something, for a living being to be concerned about something means to condition their very existence in life in general. The concept of concerning oneself with the very concerns among every man and woman leaves questions to answer. These questions can vary and one thing is certain, the same concept is relevant. Tillich gives an interpretation of an ultimate concern, the essence of…

about human beings and the cosmos. As a result, this causes Kane to address the conflict between free will and its compatibility with modern scientific views. Kane asks the two following questions. First, can a libertarian view of free will requiring ultimate responsibility be made intelligible without appealing to obscure or mysterious forms of agency or causation? Second, can such a free will be reconciled with what we know about human beings in the modern physical, biological, and human…

life’s obstacles. Of the philosophers studied this semester, I closely identify with Paul Tillich. Ultimate concern should be the Lord, for which a person puts love and soul into this belief and abstain from material, success and social or economic power. As a college student, I find it difficult devoting my time to my God when there are text books to be read and assignments to be completed. My ultimate concern needs to be my…

defined as, “belief that is not based on proof.” Ironically, the dictionary is troubled to define one word without the other. However, upon further investigation, faith and belief contrast in distinct ways. Faith is your whole person and infinite ultimate concern that is improvable while belief is a finite idea that can and should be able to be backed by evidence. The understanding of these terms is essential to the way we approach our life, religion and purpose in this world. Faith is larger,…

and society being divided so much today, considering all viewpoints that are had, as well as, acknowledging and working against your own personal biases is the most important part to get to the ultimate truth about a disputed question. The number one thing that one has to do to be able to discover this ultimate truth is to listen to the other ideas that are presented to them. Not only listening, but also breaking apart and analyzing what this idea is. While many people will listen to other…

shut off due to lack of payment. Man, however, also has spiritual concerns. According to Tillich, “faith is the state of being ultimately concerned” (Smith, 2003). The Ultimate Concern is that which demands the complete surrender of the person who faithfully accepts the Ultimate. Additionally, faith in and surrender to the Ultimate promises total completion regardless of what must be sacrificed in the name of faith. Tillich argues that faith is a task for the believer’s complete being. for…

Fig. 5 shows the monotonic and cyclic stress-strain responses of selected specimens having all influential parameters considered in this study, such as the volumetric ratio of transverse steel reinforcement, number of CFRP layers, and aspect ratio. In this figure, the axial stress was calculated by dividing the axial load to the column cross-sectional area, and the corresponding axial strain was derived from the average readings of the four LVDTs divided by the central gauge length of each…

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ULTIMATE REALITIES PROPOSED BY SANKARA AND RAMANUJA 1. Introduction: The two important systems of thought in Indian Philosophy are that of Sankara and Ramanuja. Sankara who proposed a monistic philosophy claimed that the one and only ultimate reality is the “Brahman”. Ramanuja too proposed a monistic philosophy and claimed that the highest reality is “Ishwara”. We find a definite critique given on the philosophy of Sankara by Ramanuja, which shows that he was very well…