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• Skepticism
  ...d continual testing, (c) the arbitrariness, relativity, or subjectivity of moral values, (d) the limitations of knowledge, (e) a method of intellectual caut ...tulation of final truths. Turned on itself, skepticism would question that skepticism is a valid perspective at all.
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• 121:4 Gentile Philosophy
  ...] of [[Christianity]] to sprout and bring forth an abundant [[harvest]] of moral [[character]] and [[spiritual]] [[achievement]]. The [https://en.wikipedia. *4. 121:4.5 ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skepticism The Skeptic]''. Skepticism asserted that [[knowledge]] was fallacious, and that [[conviction]] and [[a
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• 2002-09-20-Be At Peace With Your Humanity
  First of all I wish to point out the obvious, that [[skepticism]] is a [[virtue]], that the mind who is [[disciplined]] in the [[understand ...and to test the validity of other people's and culture's conclusions. So, skepticism as a [[technique]] of truth [[discernment]] is essential to any higher func
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• Cynical
  ...rm]] of jaded [[negativity]], and other times realistic [[criticism]] or [[skepticism]]. The term originally derives from an ancient Greece philosophers group ca ...i/Ancient_Philosophy ancient philosophy], which emphasized "[[virtue]] and moral [[freedom]] in [[liberation]] from [[desire]]."
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• Infallible
  :4. This person is [[Freedom|free]] from flaws or defects, especially of a [[moral]] nature ...now anything with [[certainty]]. For details, see [[existentialism]] and [[skepticism]].
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• 102:6 The Certainty of Religious Faith
  ...g [[God]] of [[certainty]] in the [[personal]] religious [[experience]]. [[Skepticism]] may [[challenge]] the [[theories]] of [[theology]], but [[confidence]] in ...n]] creates the [[probability]] which [[faith]] can [[transform]] into a [[moral]] [[certainty]], even a [[spiritual]] [[experience]]. [[God]] is the first
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• 196:0 The Faith of Jesus
  ...f seasoned [[experience]]. [[Personal]] [[faith]], spiritual [[hope]], and moral [[devotion]] were always correlated in a matchless [[religious]] [[unity]] ...tion of intellection, an ennoblement of [[desire]], a [[vindication]] of [[moral]] [[decision]], an enrichment of [[thought]], an [[invigoration]] of higher
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• Contemporary Philosophy
  ...man [[rationality]] and created ever sharper demands on [[moral philosophy|moral]], [[political philosophy]], and [[philosophy of religion]]. While some critics claim that postmodern skepticism appears similar to [[relativism]] or even [[nihilism]], defenders of post-m
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• Philip Krapf
  Krapf, hitherto a self-described [[skepticism|skeptic]], says he accommodated himself to the shock and came to learn thro ...[human]] [[race]] was effectively assessed as borderline in its collective moral development, would be contained if it were to attempt to seriously explore
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• Pantheistic
  ...reality. [[Nature]] is often indifferent to human [[desires]] and deaf to moral urgencies. Pantheists say this is indicative of the remorselessness of [[th ...ge]] that [[the sciences]] pose to [[traditional]] [[religion]] is their [[skepticism]] about the existence of "another world" not of [[human]] making or open to
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• Western Philosophy
  ...r wrong, and of how theories of [[right action]] can be applied to special moral problems. Subdisciplines include [[meta-ethics]], [[value (ethics)|value t *[[Epistemology]]: the study of [[knowledge]] and its nature, [[skepticism|possibility]], and [[epistemic justification|justification]].
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• Morality
  ...osition known as [[moral skepticism]], in which the existence of objective moral "truths" is rejected. [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definiti ...' is synonymous with [[ethics]], the systematic philosophical study of the moral domain. [https://www.philosophyblog.com.au/ethics-vs-morality-the-distincti
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• 2003-08-19-Personal Teacher Night
  ...on]] to a new level which, I will remind you, brought about considerable [[skepticism]] among some of you as to its appropriateness. But now that you have mellow ...is essential to develop in order for you to remain [[satisfied]] with your moral and spiritual [[status]].
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• Paper 196 - The Faith of Jesus
  ...f seasoned [[experience]]. [[Personal]] [[faith]], spiritual [[hope]], and moral [[devotion]] were always correlated in a matchless [[religious]] [[unity]] ...tion of intellection, an ennoblement of [[desire]], a [[vindication]] of [[moral]] [[decision]], an enrichment of [[thought]], an [[invigoration]] of higher
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• 2016-07-12-New Era Conversations 73
  *Skepticism ...e not come into balance, when the truth of a situation is not known. True skepticism is a valuable trait, though when it is perennial, persistent and tenacious,
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• Philosophy
  ...at his philosophy and sophistry were undermining the youth, [[piety]], and moral fiber of the city. He was offered a chance to flee from his fate but chose ...ruth; that true knowledge leads to true virtue; that art is subordinate to moral purpose; and that the society of the [[city-state]] should be governed by a
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• Atheism
  ...lict with established religion. With the spread of freethought, scientific skepticism, and criticism of [[religion]], the term began to gather a more specific [[ * Absence of religious motivation—belief in gods does not motivate moral action, religious action, or any other form of action;
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• 2004-11-28-More On Second Revelatory Commission
  ...nty years ago? It is because you are supported in consciousness—spiritual, moral, ethical consciousness, for right and for light in your life and everyone e ...people who are of light, who move towards the light—right living, ethical, moral, constructive living—are supported by the energy around them so they succ
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• Metaphysics of Creativity: Nature, Art, and Freedom In German Philosophy After Kant
  ...ty and freedom or the supersensible only knowable to us indirectly through moral action. Kant however must address the paradox which here emerges and permea ...r the object judged falls or fails to fall under a particular cognitive or moral concept. An objects possession of empirical properties can never entail tha
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• Paper 102 - The Foundations of Religious Faith
  ...s saving [[faith]] has its [[birth]] in the [[human]] [[heart]] when the [[moral]] [[consciousness]] of man [[realizes]] that [[human]] [[values]] may be [[ ...living [[God]]. Whatever more [[God]] may be than a high and [[perfect]] [[moral]] [[personality]], he cannot, in our [[hungry]] and [[finite]] [[concept]],
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