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The Rational God is dedicated to investigating the ultimate questions of existence. Such questions can be approached through science but even a scientific investigation requires contextualizing. Whatever science discovers is seldom final, a deeper explanation is usually needed. This is where philosophical analysis can help.
The title is two words. Rational and God. I have no [...]

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Hello Again World

Welcome to the new home of TheRationalGod. I have recently moved server and transferred all the posts from the previous wordpress blog. Soon I shall be blogging away again but just need to keep you informed about the new format for the blogging which is going to help you discover the ultimate secrets of the [...]

June 7th, 2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Materialism and Physicalism

Materialism and Physicalism

The heyday of materialism was the 19th century, when it seemed to be clear that in time the universe and everything in it would be explained by one thing, the material. Materialism was the world view that the only truly existing entity was matter. All other things (particularly thinking) could be [...]

December 20th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Materialism Philosophy

Materialism Philosophy

Materialism philosophy comes in too different brands. There is metaphysical materialism which is concerned with the nature of things that exist. There is also political materialism which is concerned with human behaviour and social organisation. This article is concerned only with the former type of philosophical materialism.
In recent decades there has been [...]

December 16th, 2007 | therationalgod | 2 comments | Continued
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Materialism and Monism

Materialism and Monism

From a purely rational perspective it seems that we are forced to accept that there is only one thing that exists in the universe. What it is we should consider that thing to be is a very difficult problem to present a conclusion to. Materialism and monism are presented together as the [...]

December 13th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Materialism Definition

Materialism Definition

The modern scientific notion of materialism was founded in the ideas of Descartes in the early years of the seventeenth century. Any discussion of philosophical materialism usually has Descartes materialism definition in mind. To recap, Descartes was distinguishing between two types of things which he assumed exists; mind and matter. Descartes concept of [...]

December 13th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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A Definition of Monism

A Definition of Monism
Metaphysical monism is an ancient problem which still continues to this day, at least for some. A definition of monism can be framed quite succinctly; monism states that there is just one kind of thing that exists in the universe, everything is thus reducible to this one thing.
The earliest form of this [...]

December 8th, 2007 | therationalgod | 2 comments | Continued
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Christian Science and Pantheism

Christian Science and Pantheism
During my surfing hours the other day I came across what to me is a little known organisation called Christian Science which was founded by Mary Baker Eddy towards the end of the 19th century. She wrote an article called Christian Science and Pantheism which was aimed at damning pantheism and promoting [...]

November 25th, 2007 | therationalgod | 1 comment | Continued
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Understanding Spinoza (Part 3): Freedom and Necessity

Understanding Spinoza (part 3): Freedom and Necessity
When understanding Spinoza we discover that the most profound conclusion from his philosophy is to be found in Part I, Proposition XXIX.
‘In the nature of things nothing contingent is admitted, but all things are determined by the necessity of divine nature to exist and act in a certain [...]

November 16th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Understanding Spinoza (Part 2)

Understanding Spinoza (Part 2)
This post is to develop further towards understanding Spinoza’s metaphysics and to look at the crucial ideas he raises. Spinoza’s main work, The Ethics, in effect introduces a set of definitions and elucidations of each of the fundamental notions of substance, cause, attribute, freedom and necessity, explaining each in terms of the [...]

November 10th, 2007 | therationalgod | 0 comments | Continued
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Understanding Spinoza

Understanding Spinoza
If you are ever going to get more than a brief understanding of pantheism then it is vital to get to grips with understanding Spinoza. Spinoza was not the first pantheist, but he is probably the most influential pantheist since the time of the enlightenment. The decline of theism and the rise of alternative [...]

November 5th, 2007 | therationalgod | 2 comments | Continued
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