Charity & Climate Change
Confucius
God I
God II
The Buddha
100
If I need $30,000 in order to sustain myself and my family, and yet I make $40,000, how much should I give away to charity according to the Singer Solution?
What is $10,000?
100
According to Confucius, if we were to use one word to guide us through life, it would be reciprocity, as it grabs a hold of this now famous principle that we find in nearly every religious tradition and many philosophical traditions.
What is the golden rule?
100
This argument tends to claim that a creation took place to jump-start the universe.
What is the cosmological argument?
100
This person does not commit to believing or not believing in the existence of God.
What is an agnostic?
100
For Buddhism, this is the transcendence or cleansing of suffering due to craving or selfish desire.
Who is nirvana?
200
This is the increase in degrees Celsius that has been the rule of thumb for us to avoid surpassing, even though it now appears that we will reach it before mid-century.
What is two degrees celsius?
200
Human-heartedness, benevolence, humanity, love for mankind, and many other words and phrases try to wrap around this central Confucian virtue.
What is Ren?
200
This argument claims that when you compare a life without God to a life lived according to God's dictates, it's clear that the latter is the most desirable option (especially due to heaven being preferable to hell).
What is Pascal's Wager?
200
This word in the Design Argument is most criticized by critics--especially those who criticize it for question-begging or circular logic.
What is 'design'?
200
In purposely attending to experience in a fully detached (and yet present) way, what are we cultivating?
What is right mindfulness? (I'll take right concentration, although right concentration goes deeper by having NO distractions and no noticing other thoughts, and fully focusing on one object alone. Mindfulness allows us to be aware of our ego's manifestations, giving us wisdom when properly used, while this wisdom and training is cultivating an ego-less concentration.)
300
This is essentially Rand's take on poverty and charity.
What is that it is not an important focus for ethics, that altruistic charity and generosity are evil, that we ought to consider the cause of poverty, never give the unearned, etc...?
300
Although this virtue seems a little less important due to its emphasis on merely practicing ritual for ritual sake, it is essential to also see this virtue as a necessary means toward cultivation of other virtues, including the most fundamental virtue (ren), and as a means of both effectiveness in social circumstances and even transformation.
What is li?
300
This is the problem of evil.
What is God is perfect and yet evil exists in the world that God created (or something along those lines)?
300
In arguing against free will theodicies, some thinkers have referred to this type of evil, as it causes great harm to people but cannot be tied to man's free will.
What is natural 'evil'?
300
For Buddhism, the ultimate cause of suffering is this.
What is selfish craving? (Envy, hatred, and anger are another cause also referred to as other major "poisons", and so is ignorance about the nature of reality)
400
These are some indications that man-made global climate change is taking place.
What is the overwhelming majority of relevant scientists have come to this conclusion, and the ~unprecedented~ level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the sea level rise, melting of global ice, increase in temperatures, stronger storms, etc.
400
For Confucius, this person morally superior person is always contrasted with the person of gain, and will be relied upon as the exemplary person to lead through example and not force.
What is the junzi?
400
This theodicy, suggested by St. Augustine, gives evil a negative, dependent existence, and puts it in the hands of human choice.
What is the free will theodicy?
400
This is a criticism of Pascal's Wager.
What is...
400
For Buddhism, to have right understanding, you must grasp and believe these three marks of existence.
What is that in phenomenal reality there is no permanence to discover in the outside world, no permanent soul/self to discover, and that dukkha (dissatisfaction & suffering) exists in a significant sense?
500
This is what Bob's Bugatti analogy was meant to convey.
What is ...leading to we all fail to pull the switch every day by spending money that could go to dying children (due to poverty) on luxury items?
500
Although Confucius did not/ would not speak about this, later Confucians did. For instance, Mencius believed that this was fundamentally good, while Xunzi essentially thought the opposite.
Who is human nature?
500
This is Kant's criticism of the ontological argument.
What is you can't define God into existence (or existence is not a predicate)?
500
In stating that there is a contradiction between God being the infinite creator of all that exists and evil existing, St. Augustine might state that we are committing this fallacy.
What is equivocation?
500
This is why the Buddha did not propose extreme asceticism, but a middle way.
What is we need to train our mind in order to overcome suffering, not focus in on our body (either in a hedonistic life or extreme asceticism)?
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