Philosophy - BahaiTeachings.org https://bahaiteachings.org/tag/philosophy/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:30:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Do You Believe in Free Will — or the Will of a Creator? https://bahaiteachings.org/believe-free-will-or-will-creator/ https://bahaiteachings.org/believe-free-will-or-will-creator/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=67976 In the study of our universe, physicists have managed to construct models that describe the behavior of things, from fundamental particles to galaxies. Of course, large and obvious parts are...

The post Do You Believe in Free Will — or the Will of a Creator? appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/believe-free-will-or-will-creator/feed/ 3 What Is Reality – and Can Our Senses Understand it? https://bahaiteachings.org/what-is-reality-can-senses-understand/ https://bahaiteachings.org/what-is-reality-can-senses-understand/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=65700 My friend is a materialist—that is to say, he accepts as reality only that which can be perceived by the senses. Are you a materialist, too? If so, along with...

The post What Is Reality – and Can Our Senses Understand it? appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/what-is-reality-can-senses-understand/feed/ 3 Beyond Nihilism and Existentialism: Finding Meaning in Mortality https://bahaiteachings.org/beyond-nihilism-and-existentialism-finding-meaning-in-mortality/ https://bahaiteachings.org/beyond-nihilism-and-existentialism-finding-meaning-in-mortality/#comments Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=85944 Are you a nihilist or an existentialist? Those philosophies have become dominant concepts in modern thought for more than a hundred years, so to make that decision, let’s first look...

The post Beyond Nihilism and Existentialism: Finding Meaning in Mortality appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/beyond-nihilism-and-existentialism-finding-meaning-in-mortality/feed/ 1 The Meanings of the Middle Way https://bahaiteachings.org/the-meanings-of-the-middle-way/ https://bahaiteachings.org/the-meanings-of-the-middle-way/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=85708 The Middle Way — a term in a number of spiritual and philosophical traditions in both the East and West — means, as Aristotle suggested, finding the middle ground between...

The post The Meanings of the Middle Way appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/the-meanings-of-the-middle-way/feed/ 0 Kant and the Baha’i View: A World Republic for Global Citizens https://bahaiteachings.org/kant-and-the-bahai-view-a-world-republic-for-global-citizens/ https://bahaiteachings.org/kant-and-the-bahai-view-a-world-republic-for-global-citizens/#comments Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=85413 With several regional wars raging, the world currently seems to be heading away from the goal of world peace. Can reason and science change this terrible trend?  Einstein’s words “Science...

The post Kant and the Baha’i View: A World Republic for Global Citizens appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/kant-and-the-bahai-view-a-world-republic-for-global-citizens/feed/ 3 Duality and Unity: the Mystical Path to Knowledge https://bahaiteachings.org/duality-unity-mystical-path-knowledge/ https://bahaiteachings.org/duality-unity-mystical-path-knowledge/#respond Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:00:35 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=80208 How do we speak of the unspeakable? What do we say about the unsayable? How can words and language help communicate our thoughts about things beyond thought? The transcendent longing...

The post Duality and Unity: the Mystical Path to Knowledge appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/duality-unity-mystical-path-knowledge/feed/ 0 Searching for a New Spiritual Susceptibility – In Ourselves https://bahaiteachings.org/searching-new-spiritual-susceptibility-ourselves/ https://bahaiteachings.org/searching-new-spiritual-susceptibility-ourselves/#respond Sat, 08 Apr 2023 13:00:32 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=80177 Baha’is are encouraged to find correspondences to our Faith’s principles, to take note of parallel efforts by like-minded thinkers and activists also engaged in mitigating the pain of the world....

The post Searching for a New Spiritual Susceptibility – In Ourselves appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/searching-new-spiritual-susceptibility-ourselves/feed/ 0 The Absolute Perfection of This Endless Universe https://bahaiteachings.org/the-absolute-perfection-of-this-endless-universe/ https://bahaiteachings.org/the-absolute-perfection-of-this-endless-universe/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:00:46 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=78673 “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well, for there is a force of love moving through the universe that holds us...

The post The Absolute Perfection of This Endless Universe appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/the-absolute-perfection-of-this-endless-universe/feed/ 3 Neoplatonism, the Trinity, and How Baha’is View God’s Prophets https://bahaiteachings.org/neoplatonism-the-trinity-and-how-bahais-view-gods-prophets/ https://bahaiteachings.org/neoplatonism-the-trinity-and-how-bahais-view-gods-prophets/#respond Sun, 25 Sep 2022 01:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=78257 One of the central religious differences dividing Jews and Muslims against Christians involves how Christians have come to understand God in terms of the Trinity.  For Muslims, the idea that...

The post Neoplatonism, the Trinity, and How Baha’is View God’s Prophets appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/neoplatonism-the-trinity-and-how-bahais-view-gods-prophets/feed/ 0 Boltzmann’s Philosophy and the Baha’i Teachings Against Dogma https://bahaiteachings.org/boltzmanns-philosophy-and-the-bahai-teachings-against-dogma/ https://bahaiteachings.org/boltzmanns-philosophy-and-the-bahai-teachings-against-dogma/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2022 14:00:29 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=77902 Scientist and philosopher Ludwig Boltzmann developed a philosophy he called Realism – which completely opposed what he understood as the naïve idealism of his day: The idealist compares the assertion...

The post Boltzmann’s Philosophy and the Baha’i Teachings Against Dogma appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/boltzmanns-philosophy-and-the-bahai-teachings-against-dogma/feed/ 1