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| "Religion is that which is of ultimate concern" |
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| Primitive cultures; anima |
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| "The gods of primitive people are based on dreams of the dead" |
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| Herbert Spencer (animism) |
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| Mana = powers of the unseen spirits |
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| Worship nature because it is POWERFUL |
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| Max Mueller (nature worship) |
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| "Religion is a projection of human wishes and needs" |
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| Feuerbach (projection of human needs) |
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| Religion is the "sigh of the oppressed" |
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| Karl Marx (projection of human needs) |
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| Freud (projection of human needs) |
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| Magic religion, and science |
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| Frazer (theory of human experience) |
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| Primitive cultures all believed in single, distant, high God; knew Him via many small gods |
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| Wilhelm Schmidt (original monotheism) |
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| A worldview is "a set of presuppositions which we hold about the basic makeup of the world" |
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| "insufficient evidence for belief in the existence of the supernatural" |
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| Humanist Manifesto #2 (1973) (naturalism) |
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| "no credible evidence that life survives the body" |
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| Humanist Manifesto #2 (1973) (naturalism) |
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| "Cosmos is all there is, was, and ever will be" |
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| "Human life is an episode between two oblivions" |
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| Bertrand Russell (naturalism) |
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| "God is the projection of human potentiality" |
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| "God is dead! Oh I wish I wish I wish He weren't" |
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| "You are guilty of guilt" |
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| Ingmar Bergman film (nihilism) |
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| Person doesn't act on the world; world acts on them |
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| Western culture is moving toward a catastrophe (a good thing) |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche (nihilism) |
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| Everything deserves to perish, and we should help destroy it |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche (nihilism) |
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| "Life is a tale told by an idiot...signifying nothing" |
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| Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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| Nothing in the world can prove the existence of God |
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| Soren Kierkegaard (existentialism) |
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| brought humanism to his existentialism |
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| Albert Camus (existentialism) |
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| "You can't make moral judgments on me; I CHOSE" |
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| Martin Heidegger (existentialism) |
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| We must live in the face of this ultimate absurdity (death), in the tension between love of life and the certainty of death |
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| Albert Camus (existentialism) |
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| "First of all man exists, and afterward defines himself" |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre (existentialism) |
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| "To choose is the ultimate act of existence; thus, choosing is itself existence" |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre (existentialism) |
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