Tag: Noda, Keisuke
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Integration of Science and Religion: A Hermeneutic Approach
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 19, 2018 – Pages 101-132 Note: This article is based on the author’s work Multi-Dimensional Hermeneutics for the Integration Science and Religion. This article takes a hermeneutic approach in articulating a thesis for the unity of science and religion. It examines interpretive frameworks in Unificationism and how it shapes our…
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Multi-Dimensional Hermeneutics for the Integration of Knowledge: A Preparatory Analysis for Unification Hermeneutics
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 18, 2017 – Pages 139-156 Unity of knowledge is one of the central theses of Unificationism. This article is a preparatory analysis to explore the methodology with which one can approach this unity from a Unificationist perspective.[1] In this article I use hermeneutics, a theory of interpretation, to present a…
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Hermeneutics and the Meaning of Life: A Step toward Unification Hermeneutics
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 17, 2016 – Pages 115-142 The meaning of life is one of the most critical questions for the majority of people. Feelings of meaninglessness are an open invitation to despair, addiction, sexual promiscuity, violent behavior, and even blind obedience to manipulative ideologies. Viktor Frankl, a holocaust-surviving psychiatrist, characterized the state…
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From Unification Thought to Unification Philosophy
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 16, 2015 – Pages 129-146 Unification Thought (UT), as systematized by the late Dr. Sang Hun Lee, is currently the only “philosophical” exposition of the Divine Principle (DP or the Principle) in the Unification Movement.[1] The Divine Principle, or simply the Principle, contains the core teachings of Unificationism and it…
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God’s Silence
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 15, 2014 – Pages 115-130 One of the most enigmatic questions is God’s silence when atrocities occur and human beings cry for help. The issue has been addressed in terms of the compatibility of all-powerful, loving God and the existence of evil. In theology, this problem is known as theodicy.…
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Paradoxes of Life: Challenges, Responses, and the Meaning of Life
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 14, 2013 – Pages 107-126 From birth to death, life is filled with challenges. One is born into challenges, encounters a series of challenges, and faces death as the final enigmatic gate of no return. In order to cope with these challenges, the so-called positive thinking literature offers various tools…
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Tipping Point Of Good And Evil: The Power Of Authentic Love In Moral Discourse
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 13, 2012 – Pages 1-20 Why do good people do evil things? Social psychologists often point to social and environmental forces that entice or pressure people to do wrongs. Those forces include desire for group acceptance, social conformity, and obedience to authority. At the same time, in the individualistic culture…
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An Ethics of Care from a Unificationist Perspective
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 12, 2011 – Pages 41-56 The ethics of care is an emerging discipline developed by feminist ethicists in the latter half of the twentieth century. After decades of both criticism and support, it gradually gained support from non-feminist ethicists and is now examined not as a feminist ethics but as…
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Nietzsche, Apostle of Faith? A Unificationist Reading
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 7, 2006 – Pages 1-8 Nietzsche is known for being a major atheist and for his statement that “God is dead.” He is also known as the most religious atheist. In this contradictory tension lies the enigmatic thinker, Nietzsche. He was extremely critical of Christianity (see Antichrist) and developed a…
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Cosmic Good and Liberation of the Original Conscience
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 5, 2003 – Pages 93-110 In 1933, Martin Heidegger became the first National Socialist rector of the University of Freiburg. He delivered a public speech entitled “Role of the University in the New Reich,” in which he praised and celebrated the rise of the new Nazi Germany. After the war,…