We cannot, however, hope to attain the final goal of Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics - "to understand the discourse . . . better than its creator." ... We can achieve certainty in our beliefs by way of our assured pact with God. ... This, Heschel believes, is one of the primary goals of his religious tradition: "to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things." ... "Faith is not something achieved once and for all, but an attitude that may be gained or lost." ...

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The goal of a human being then is to justify his existence. ... Even before the present day techniques were developed, people already had in place procedures that essentially had similar goals to what is now termed as euthanasia. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

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Final Examination 1. Heraclitus makes the statement that "you can't step into the same river twice." This comes from the idea that the river is flowing and ever changing. With its constant flow, by the time you put your foot in take it out and put it back in again, the water you first touched wi...

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