Harmonia Philosophica

Category: Agnosticism

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    Against agnosticism II: Why "I do not know" is never the answer...

    In today's world, many people like to play the agnosticism card. When in face of touch questions, they answer "I do not know" and explain that they do not have enough data to have a definite answer on the question. That - at first sight - seems like a perfectly legit (if not the MOST…

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    Agnosticism, as a cloak to Dogmatism

    Many people, when asked if they believe in God, answer "I am an agnosticist". Agnosticism seems the best place for "free thinkers" and is promoted as the safest harbour to protect from dogmatism. Well, I have some objections to that. I will show here that agnosticism as a philosophical idea is something like a cloak…

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    Dawkins, Playboy and how YOU can be "NOT you"...

    In a recent interview in Playboy (see here), Dawkins claims: PLAYBOY: Are you concerned that your opponents might fake a deathbed conversion, as creationists have tried to do with Darwin? DAWKINS: What’s slightly more worrying is the Antony Flew effect. Flew was an atheistic British philosopher who had an old-age conversion. It seems he went…

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    Knowing that you do not Know...

    How do you know you "are" ? How can you know others "are" ? What makes you think you are in a position to judge what "is" ? How arrogant can you be you human? How godly must you really are, to know you do not know?

  • Why you can't be an agnostic

    This article deals with the issue of agnosticism and tries to show why agnosticism should be a philosophy that one follows on every aspect of his life, or does not follow it at all. I will demonstrate that believing in science but applying agnosticism when it comes to the big metaphysical questions of human existence…

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