Philosophy and Religions

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Philosophy and Religions

This page will include links to sites about some of my favorite philosophers, as well as links to sites about major religions and religious texts.

Philosophy

This philosopher believed strongly in the ethics of virtue. His model for becoming virtuous through habit is one of my favorite:

Aristotle

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/authors/aristotle.html

Rene Discartes

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/phil-D.html#descartes

Noam Chomsky

http://www.chomsky.info/

Immanuel Kant

http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/Kant.html

Frederick Nietzche

http://www.fns.org.uk/index.htm

Plato

http://sangha.net/messengers/plato.htm

Chinese Philosophy

http://sangle.web.wesleyan.edu/etext/index.html

Medieval Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Religions

The following sites are for reference to different, major religions.

Wondering what all the hubbub is about Christianity? What's it all about? How did it come to be a dominant religion in the last thousand or so years? This page has all the answers you've been looking for:

What is Christianity?

http://geneva.rutgers.edu/src/christianity/

Here's an online magazine devoted solely to Christianity:

Christianity Today

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/

This site claims to be the portal to Christianity on the web. I suppose it has all the links that Christians would want on a Christian site. But I offer it here in the interest of completeness:

Christianity.com

http://new.christianity.com/

This site is an introduction to one of the very greatest Christian writers who ever lived. His Summa Theologica is still a widely-studies, highly-admired philosophical text:

St. Thomas Aquinas

http://www.hope.edu/academic/ids/171/Aquinas.html

More on Aquinas:

http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/aqui.htm

And still more...

http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ75.HTM

Here's the amazon.com link to the bible:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-2858511-2139262

JUDAISM

The following sites are offered to expand knowledge of Judaism.

A basic introduction to Judaism and the Jewish faith:

Judaism 101