Tag: Unification Philosophy
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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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Evolution and Unification Thought
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 12, 2011 – Pages 115-142 Parts of this article are excerpted from Jonathan Wells’ 2008 book Evolution and Unification Thought. Evolution has many meanings, and it is important to distinguish them from each other. For example: Evolution can mean simply change over time. The present is different from the past.…
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Epigenetics and the Convergence of Evolutionary Biology and Unification Thought
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 12, 2011 – Pages 143-162 What missions must the new truth fulfill? The new truth should be able to unify knowledge by reconciling the internal truth pursued by religion and the external truth pursued by science. Consequently, it will enable all people to overcome the two types of ignorance, internal…
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Force and Relationship in Unification Thought and Classical Physics
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 11, 2010 – Pages 185-198 Unification Thought and physics both attempt to provide explanations for the nature of existence, but they begin from different perspectives. Unification Thought begins from a religious perspective and physics from a scientific viewpoint. However if both embody some degree of truth, then we might expect there…
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Yang and Yin: Unification Thought, Science, and the Book of Changes
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008 – Pages 163-184 In my ongoing investigation of the relationship of natural science to Unification Thought, I have been led to consider traditional Christian ontology time and again. This has suggested to me that an unrecognized aspect of the debate between science and religion is the relationship of…
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What is the Matter? Understandings of Matter in Unification Thought and Modern Physics
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 6, 2004-2005 – Pages 143-160 In any given age, the understanding of matter and material beings underpins the thought of that age. This is because our fundamental categories for understanding existence derive from our view of matter. Ontology has therefore been an important branch of philosophy, and hence in Unification…
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Unification Thought’s Methodology and the Dual Characteristics
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 5, 2003 – Pages 81-92 Unification Thought, as developed by Dr. Sang Hun Lee, differs from the Divine Principle in several ways. One of the more significant ways relates to its underlying principles of development. The Divine Principle organizes the basic content of Rev. Moon’s thought and then lays it…
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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,…
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Understanding God: The Conceptual and the Experiential in Unification Thought
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 4, 2001-2002 – Pages 7-16 How can we understand God? This is a difficult question. Because God does not supply us physically sensible contents[1] that we can detect and measure with a common standard, we cannot describe Him in an ordinary manner. Furthermore, we do not know exactly what kind…
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Knowledge of God? A Critique and Proposal for Epistemology in Unification Thought
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 4, 2001-2002 – Pages 33-42 The chapter on Epistemology is one of the less developed chapters in Essentials of Unification Thought and in Dr. Lee’s earthly corpus of philosophy. Unlike most other chapters that present the Unification perspective outright, it begins with an overview of traditional epistemologies, and then tries…