PHI 101 Lecture 7: PHI 101 Lecture 7
8 Mar 2017
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Religion and philosophy: organized institutions with temples and rituals, doctrines, dogmas, authoritative teachings, often provide rational arguments for these teachings, philosophies can be very different, st. thomas aquinas and kierkegaard: two different christian. Main theme, leitmotiv, of upanishads: our unhappiness is based on a failure to recognize that, ordinary experience does not give true reality, there is a deep connection, even an identity, between ourselves ( atman ) and the. Cosmos ( brahman : our deeper self is in touch with a deeper nature in reality, deeper self: atman, deeper reality: brahman. More specific doctrines: tone, general theme: loss of innocence, and how are we going to get back to that, specific doctrines, samsara, karma, dharma, moksha, avidya, duhka. Three questions: what evidence for this cycle, not generally because we remember past lives, though buddha was said on the night of his enlightenment to have remembered.
