Category: ECERP2017
Fostering Moral Competence with KMDD (Konstanz Method of Dilemma-Discussion)
Well designed ethics classes can enchance moral competence development which plays an important role in a general personality and identity …
Living the Rhetoric of Dialogue: An Ecumenical Challenge
“Dialogue is a manner of acting, an attitude; a spirit which guides one’s conduct. It implies concern, respect, and hospitality …
Porphyry, An Anti-Christian Plotinian Platonist
Porphyry, the Phoenician polymath, having studied with Plotinus when he was thirty years old, was a well-known Hellenic philosopher, an …
Arguing About Religious Identity and the No True Scotsman Fallacy
Anthony Flew critiqued a particular argumentative manoeuvre he dubbed, ‘The No True Scotsman Move’, where a speaker redefines an original …
Numbers, Geometry, and Mathematical Axioms: The Problem of Metaphysics in the Critique of Pure Reason
We have shown that 1) “the representation I think” – the transcendental unity of self-consciousness – is homogeneous with “pure …
Personal Identity and Wholeness: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Reflection on Mission
The aim of this essay is to argue the way the fundamental aspects of von Balthasar’s distinctive theological aesthetic and …
The Evolving Narrative of Indian Mythology and Classical Arts
Abstract philosophy is best explained through effective metaphors. Ancient Indian mythology and classical dance are reflective of this; having been …
On Eric Voegelin’s (1901–1985) Totalitarianism and Gnosticism: Gnosticism As the Nature of Modernity
This paper is part of the a master’s thesis in progress. The chosen theme arises from the need to understand …
The Complaint of Rumi’s Reed: It’s Significance as the Identity of Man in the Concept of Existence
The Quran opens with “In the Name of God the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate”. Muslims read this verse in …