PSYCH 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Golden Rule, Golden Calf, Gautama Buddha
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Ligare : connect meaningful traditions that attempt to answer basic questions of personal existence. Two-thirds of people are connected to one of the 10,000 world religions. A major source of human conflict resulting from differences. Theology: study of a personal spiritual power: no way of determining correct religions, however, most deal with the same ideas at advanced levels (hinduism, judaism, The golden rule: represents one of humanity"s highest virtues and is found in its basic form in all of the great religions of the world (wording is different but meaning is identical) Ineffable: impossible to describe experience that has deep meaning: can only communicate by shallow descriptions, few people have these claimed spiritual revelation experiences (consider the origins of most major religions: buddhism, judaism, christianity, islam) Each person walks by faith in their cultural traditions: most act as if it is the only way to act, often based only on self-justifying opinion, often belief that their beliefs are the best.
