Pub Date : 2022-05-23DOI: 10.26520/ijtps.2022.6.10.38-43
Gheorghe F. Anghelescu
The aim of our examination into this topic is twofold: 1) to examine the approaches of the theme of creation in the Christian apologetic writings of the second century; 2) to analyze their philosophical support, the concepts substantiating the expression of this theory on the origin of the universe. In methodological terms, we would like to focus on the cosmological ideas of four patristic personalities: Justin the Martyr, Athenagoras of Athens, Tatian the Syrian, and Theophilus of Antioch. An attentive examination highlights a progress in the Christian thinking regarding the origin of the world, which occured during a relatively brief periodl of time. We can notice, during a first stage, a cohabitation of the apologists with the Greek philosophical tradition, and, afterward, a gradual, yet decisive, breakup with the Hellenic vision regarding the way of understanding the relation between God and creation.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-23DOI: 10.26520/ijtps.2022.6.10.5-14
R. A. Astore
After repeatedly reading Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, what stills stands out most to this present essayist is Descartes’s notion of God’s perfection and how the perfection of the Divine includes the existence of the Almighty. Similarly, if we look to Spinoza’s Ethics Book I and the beginnings of Book II, we find comparable claims; namely, that the Almighty’s essence necessarily involves existence, and that this is a perfection of God alone. First, this article will detail how Descartes establishes God’s existence via the argument from perfection, and how this perfection of God reinforces the existence of such a supreme entity. Next, this piece will treat Spinoza’s understanding of God as that which must exist, and how this mandatory existence is solely of the perfection of God. Lastly, this paper will show that although Spinoza’s understanding of God’s perfection in his Ethics Book I and II may appear akin to Descartes, it would be incorrect to fully understand either philosopher’s views on God’s perfection as being entirely the same.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-07DOI: 10.26520/ijtps.201.5.9.5-18
Tianxi Zhang
Papers I through III has fully and self-consistently addressed the first three days of Genesis according to the author’s well-developed black hole universe model. In the first day, God created space and time, matter and motion, charge and fundamental forces, and energy and light for the infinite entire universe. Then, in the second day he hierarchically structured the entire universe by separating the matter and space with infinite layers bounded by event horizons and further formed our finite black hole universe. In the third day, God constructed the interiors of our black hole universe with planets, stars, galaxies, and clusters, etc. In this sequence of study as Paper-IV, we describe how God created our earth and solar system and generated lights including the Sun, the moon, and stars to give light to our universe and earth. The efforts of this systematic study on God’s creative work during the first four days bridged the gap between Genesis and observations of the universe and brought us a scientific understanding of the Genesis. This innovative interpretation of Genesis also strongly supports the black hole universe model to be capable of revealing the mysteries of the universe.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-07DOI: 10.26520/ijtps.201.5.9.70-77
C. C. R. Ramos
Globalization is viewed in this work as a critical concept by which we understand the transition of human society into the post-pandemic era. In this vein, this paper attempts to look into the process of globalization and its central feature, technology. Technology has become a global force that affects political, social, ethical, and environmental. The ancient Greeks, such as Plato and Aristotle, who lived in aristocratic societies, rejected discourse on technology as unworthy. Social, political, and theoretical activities, rather than technical, were deemed as the highest forms. Plato, for instance, alluded to the artisans merely as the cheapest form of metal compared to gold associated with the philosopher-rulers, while silver is equivalent to the warrior class. Technological change, defined as "progress," is seen as an inevitable process in modern history. This paper explored issues of globalization and the implications of technology, employing crucial viewpoints of Martin Heidegger, acknowledged as one of the powerful and influential philosophers of the 20th century. Specifically, this paper explored “machination (Machenschaft)” and Heidegger’s Technik (Technology) or Gestell (Enframing). Machination is not just human conduct but the act of manipulation. It is a revelation of beings as a whole as exploitable and manipulable objects. The world seems to be a collection of present-at-hand thing with no intrinsic meaning or purpose, a cold place where we cannot put down any roots. All we can do is calculate and control. We observe and measure everything. We make things go faster and faster. Thus, there is a need to discuss and recognize issues related to technology. Heidegger's thoughts offer analytic tools that contribute to a critical understanding of the multidimensional effects, risks, and possibilities brought about by modernity and its globalization..
全球化在这本书中被视为一个关键概念，我们通过它来理解人类社会向大流行后时代的过渡。在这一脉络下，本文试图探讨全球化的进程及其核心特征——技术。技术已经成为影响政治、社会、伦理和环境的全球性力量。古希腊人，如柏拉图和亚里士多德，生活在贵族社会，拒绝谈论技术，认为这是不值得的。社会、政治和理论活动，而不是技术活动，被视为最高形式。例如，柏拉图暗示工匠仅仅是最便宜的金属形式，而黄金则与哲学家统治者联系在一起，而白银则相当于战士阶级。技术变革被定义为“进步”，被视为现代历史上不可避免的过程。本文探讨了全球化的问题和技术的影响，采用马丁·海德格尔的关键观点，公认为20世纪的强大和有影响力的哲学家之一。具体来说，本文探讨了“machination (Machenschaft)”和海德格尔的“Technik (Technology) or Gestell (Enframing)”。阴谋不仅是人类的行为，也是操纵的行为。它揭示了人类作为一个整体是可利用和可操纵的对象。世界似乎是一堆没有内在意义和目的的现在时事物的集合，是一个我们无法扎根的冰冷之地。我们所能做的就是计算和控制。我们观察和测量一切。我们让事情变得越来越快。因此，有必要讨论和认识到与技术有关的问题。海德格尔的思想提供了分析工具，有助于批判性地理解现代性及其全球化带来的多维效应、风险和可能性。
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Pub Date : 2021-11-07DOI: 10.26520/ijtps.201.5.9.53-58
G. Fazio
In this article, we ask ourselves if it is possible that Corona Discharge or Vacuum UV radiation may have been the tools to produce the Shroud body image. We are convinced that both are not appropriate mechanisms. In fact, the start of these processes is based on inconsistent hypotheses for the natural sciences, although all that follows is rational, reasonable and acceptable. However, the big initial mole remains. The complexity of this situation is such that it seems to be in a world in part Transcendent and in part Immanent. Therefore, independently from the possible results that in a next future could be obtained, due to identified photochemical processes, the Scientific Method cannot accept both the hypotheses and, consequently, the experiments. The same is also for the Theological approach which discards both proposals
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Pub Date : 2021-11-07DOI: 10.26520/ijtps.201.5.9.59-69
Sorin Cristian Nucă
The spiritual training of the exceptional beacon of the Cappadocian Fathers, Saint Basil the Great, influenced the subsequent ecclesial life, but especially the monastic one, by the divinely inspired rules, which became essential for all the subsequent monastic settlements, the fruits of the monastic spirituality according to his teaching being substantiated in the principles governing the life of the monastic community by love, obedience, teaching, knowledge, asceticism, without despising the hermitic (skete) life, trying to combine the most useful principles of both of these forms of monastic asceticism.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-25DOI: 10.26520/ijtps.2020.4.6.43-53
Roberto Parra Dorantes
In this paper I shall defend a moderate version of original meaning originalism in constitutional interpretation. First, I will explain some relevant distinctions and qualifications related to originalism and to the specific version of the theory of constitutional interpretation which I will present here. Next, I will briefly compare this version of originalism with the view traditionally regarded as originalism’s natural opponent, the doctrine of the living Constitution, and I will argue that these two views are in fact compatible with each other once certain reasonable qualifications have been made to both of them. I shall then offer arguments in favor of the version of originalism presented here, which mainly have to do with the relation between a democratic system under a written constitution and the concepts of the rule of law and human rights. Finally, I will defend this version of originalism against views that hold that, in certain constitutional cases, once the original meaning of the Constitution, so to speak, “runs out”, non-originalist methods should be employed to reach a legal solution.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-25DOI: 10.26520/ijtps.2020.4.6.54-67
Tianxi Zhang
The ancient biblical or Hebrew's cosmology, conventionally developed from the book of Genesis, apparently and severely contradicts with observations of the universe. The book of Genesis about the creation of the universe could not be fully addressed, described, and understood by any universe model developed so far. Recently, the author developed a new cosmological model called black hole universe, which can explain all known observations of the universe and overcome all existing cosmic problems without any hypothetical entities. This study attempts to make an innovative interpretation of Genesis according to the black hole universe model. We aim to examine the origin and development of the universe scientifically, philosophically, and theologically for the truth, beauty, and love of the universe. This paper as Paper-I focuses on the first day from the beginning of creation, Enduing words like Earth, Water, Night, and Day in the book of Genesis with physical implications and meanings, we eliminate all discrepancies between Genesis and observations. The black hole universe model makes Genesis to be understandable, consistent with observations, and support of the model to thoroughly reveal mysteries of the universe. The second through fourth days will be addressed in next papers.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-25DOI: 10.26520/ijtps.2020.4.6.5-19
Spiros Makris
This article scrutinizes in-depth the theological dimension in Hannah Arendt’s political and ethical thought. In addition to the influences she received at a young age from the Catholic theologian Romano Guardini, Hannah Arendt was influenced, through her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Karl Jaspers, by the philosophical, ontological and theological thought of St. Augustine. Both the fundamental Arendtian concepts of natality and amor mundi, as well as her phenomenological perception of time (i.e. past, present and future) have been influenced, to a great extent (naturally with Martin Heidegger’s influences), by the Augustinian thought. Hannah Arendt, as happens in Marx in his reading of Hegel, namely reverses the Augustinian notion of love, formulating a worldly field of love, full of Socratic and Aristotelian references. Actually, St. Augustine’s political ontotheology is transformed into a republican phenomenology where the critical stake of the earthly polis is not exhausted in amor Dei but is defined as a worldly freedom or, in other words, the pursue of public happiness in-the-world of the public sphere.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-20DOI: 10.26520/ijtps.2019.3.5.69-78
F. Piontek
Time is the penultimate problem in philosophy. The meaning of Time that can be given by current Astrophysics is superficial at best. After Gödel, it can be argued that any science based on the sensorium has profound metaphysical issues. Since Mathematics must be employed in present cosmogony, the longstanding issues surrounding what mathematical truths and numbers are, and where they exist, does little to deliver meaning to Time. In Philosophy, many have elaborated their philosophy of Time and some have addressed the significant impact of the future in those discussions. The problem of evil, or theodicy, is thought to be the most difficult problem in philosophy. This essay proposes to coalesce the problems of Time and Theodicy. The predominate linear view of time obfuscates our understanding of time as well as the implications of the problems of evil. The Platonic concept of anamnesis as the primacy of Time is adapted here. We are already complete but we unfurl in Time because we have forgotten how we created ourselves. Time is the record of our moments, our deeds; what we have volitionally done. Omniscience knows this; we forgot and now live that forgetfulness. A Book of Life is written, we cannot recall our page number.
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