Francis Bacon (1561—1626) Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam and the Viscount St. Albans) was an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian, intellectual reformer, Philosoph, and champion of modern science. Early in his career he claimed “all knowledge as his province” and afterwards dedicated himself to a wholesale revaluation and re-structuring of traditional learning. To take the place of the established tradition (a miscellany of Scholasticism,

Open Theism Open Theism is the thesis that, because God loves us and desires that we freely choose to reciprocate His love, He has made His knowledge of, and plans for, the future conditional upon our actions. Though omniscient, God does not know what we will freely do in the future. Though omnipotent, He has chosen to invite us to freely collaborate with Him in

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Tibetische Philosophie Der Begriff „Tibet“ bezieht sich auf ein geografisches Gebiet rund um das Himalaya-Gebirge und die dort entstandene Kultur. Das tibetische Denken ist eine lebendige Tradition rigoroser Argumentation, psychologische Erkenntnisse, und philosophisch relevante Ideen zur Metaphysik, Erkenntnistheorie, Ethik, und Moralpsychologie. Es verfügt über ein strenges und formales System philosophischer Debatten und eine Fülle meditativer Traditionen, Beides liefert Erkenntnisse für