by Kenneth L. Foster Many critics claim that Buddhism is based upon the negation of human existence. Not fully understanding its core tenets, they see it as a “life-denying,” nihilistic philosophy which rejects life and embraces a dark state of nothingness. In this paper, I will attempt to dispel much of that confusion, and by…
by Kenneth L. Foster In the beginning of Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” he states that “art has always been reproducible,” but he quickly makes a distinction between human-made and mechanized reproductions (218). It is the mechanized variety which stimulated thought on what constitutes the essence of…
by Kenneth L. Foster Renown author and concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel was present at Auschwitz when a group of Jewish scholars put God on trial for refusing to intervene in the Holocaust. During the indictment and trial that lasted several days, different arguments were proposed to explain God’s lack of response as the Nazis…
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