All Roads Lead to Jerusalem

Truth, belief, intentionality, eudaimonia, ought

By hipkapi September 28, 2022 action, Balagangadhara, belief, intentionality, normative, published, transcript, translation, truth

I want to respond to three of your points Claus. First you are not talking only about the Greeks and the Romans because all the problems arising with respect to…

Belief vs Faith

By hipkapi March 24, 2014 atheism, Balagangadhara, belief, Christianity, faith, God, Satan(Devil), tolerance

(a) It appears to me that in these discussions, a very vital issue (if we want to talk about Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and their ‘problems’ with ‘Hinduism’, etc) is…

Real vs. Existence

By hipkapi April 1, 2012 Balagangadhara, belief, enlightenment, real, sat(asat)

[For the latest on real vs existence, why such distinction needs to be made, check this paper, What do Indians need: a history or the past ] With some justifiable distortion,…

Is ‘sat’ ‘being’? S.N.Balagangadhara

By hipkapi March 5, 2011 Balagangadhara, belief, sat(asat), translation

[For extended discussion on sat, truth, etc, check this paper.] To take German language, let us look at how Heidegger talks about ‘being’: there is the ‘big Being’ (‘Sein’) and…

On Rajiv’s history-centrism—S.N.Balagangadhara

By hipkapi March 3, 2011 Balagangadhara, belief

Can history-centrism cause some religion or the other to be belief-based? The notion of “history-centrism” is too vague to allow a serious answer. In so far as this refers to…

Is Rain dance superstitious?—Willem Derde

By hipkapi March 1, 2011 belief, knowledge, practice, stories, Willem

Some consider it to be a “superstitious practice”, the implication being that it is irrational to believe that dancing causes the rain to fall: no reasonable people on earth can…