"She is... the nightmare of all doctrines, all consensus thinkers, all moralists and all politicians," Holmberg writes.
Central to his philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation," which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent those views might be.
At the other extreme, critics on the left will retort that capitalism is so wicked that it cannot be redeemed by anything, least of all the doctrines of Catholicism.Yet the paper by Clifford Longley is well worth reading, if only because it presents in readable language ideas which normally lie buried deep inside closely argued papal encyclicals and other cerebral writings.
David Cameron, the Tory leader, who has prospered by adapting his views and political persona (and who sounds more sceptical of all-encompassing doctrines than some of his colleagues) is himself an example of this talent.
John Amos Comenius, a Czech Brethren educator and advocate of union, produced a plan of union for Protestants based upon the adoption of a scriptural basis for all doctrine and polity and the integration of all human culture.
In an email to The Huffington Post, he called the survey's findings "irrelevant," adding that "science itself is incompatible with the scriptures and doctrines of all the world's religions..
As Epicurus said in the Principal Doctrines; "Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship".
As Epicurus was quoted through the Principal Doctrines; "Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship".
All doctrines of exception can be abused, judge-made exceptions no less than legislative ones.
This amounts to the division of all dogmatic doctrines, i.e., all knowledge-claims with respect to the ultimate constitution of reality, into monistic and dualistic theories.
The latter notion of autonomy is much stronger than the first, and is certainly not endorsed, even implicitly, in all societal cultures or by proponents of all ethical doctrines.
