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Huston-Tillotson RELI2302
Comparative Religion: Discovering Through Mindfulness Its Significance in Your Vision of a Life Worth Living
Of the many philosophical and religious ideas, which ones can I and my students be tethered to, and how would they support a life worth living?
While comparing religions, each of us will be discovering with others through mindfulness the significance of religious diversity in their own vision of a life worth living.
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Course Description:
This course describes and compares the fundamental beliefs and practices of many religions from the East and West, from the North and the South, and from both pre-historic and historic times, although emphasis will be on religions today. We compare the religions with respect to their views on the origin of our universe, what it means to live a life worth living, ethics, and the natural environment. While comparing the religions, each of us will be discovering with others through mindfulness the significance of religious diversity in their own vision of a life worth living. We build a supportive community through discussions where each helps the other to think deeply about their search for truth in a pluralist environment and to answer life’s most important existential issues. We will learn a method—Mindfulness-Based Self-Knowledge (MBSK)—that helps individuals gain self-knowledge of what one deeply thinks about the value of religious diversity and its significance in one’s vision of a life worth living.
Some Discussion Questions, and Related Thinkers Include:
How did the universe come to exist?:
Aquinas, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, David Hume, William Lane Craig
What is the meaning of death?:
Maimonides, Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Martin Heidegger
What does AI have to do in my vision of a life worth living?:
Marc Anderson, Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Ng, Gary Marcus
What should we do when we fail to live a good life?
Plato, Confucius, Lao Tzu, The Dalai Lama
Course Description:
This course describes and compares the fundamental beliefs and practices of many religions from the East and West, from the North and the South, and from both pre-historic and historic times, although emphasis will be on religions today. We compare the religions with respect to their views on the origin of our universe, what it means to live a life worth living, ethics, and the natural environment. While comparing the religions, each of us will be discovering with others through mindfulness the significance of religious diversity in their own vision of a life worth living. We build a supportive community through discussions where each helps the other to think deeply about their search for truth in a pluralist environment and to answer life’s most important existential issues. We will learn a method—Mindfulness-Based Self-Knowledge (MBSK)—that helps individuals gain self-knowledge of what one deeply thinks about the value of religious diversity and its significance in one’s vision of a life worth living.
Some Discussion Questions, and Related Thinkers Include:
How did the universe come to exist?:
Aquinas, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, David Hume, William Lane Craig
What is the meaning of death?:
Maimonides, Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Martin Heidegger
What does AI have to do in my vision of a life worth living?:
Marc Anderson, Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Ng, Gary Marcus
What should we do when we fail to live a good life?
Plato, Confucius, Lao Tzu, The Dalai Lama
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