PHI 4700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Philosophy, Neurosis, Gautama Buddha
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In contrast to both, confucians and theravada buddhists, make few assertions about the nature of divine, focusing on the path to liberation from the suffering of this earthly life. Different ends and beginnings: different religions have different means of ends and beginnings: ends range from eternal bodily life in christian theology to eternal separation from bodily life in buddhist thought. The problem of religious truth: many points of doctrine in any one religion clash with those of other religious traditions, yet all of them claim to be espousing truth about the divine and the ultimate nature of reality. In contradictoriness: one claim must be true, but both cannot be. In contrariety: both claims cannot be true, and neither need be. In noncom-possibility: each claim prescribes a course of action, and it is impossible for one person to do both. In truth claims this occurs most apparently at the level of a very specific claim.
