My views on an Ethics of Forgiveness in a few bullet points (Part 1)

To put it in a nutshell: Timo Schmitz, 3 April 2023

Reflecting about God with our Tibetan friends – Part 7

“Parents make rules for their children in order to keep them safe. For example, a father tells his son not to go near the bank of a river. If the son obeys his father’s command, he will be kept safe.” ༄༅།།དཀོན་མཆོག་གི་བཀའ་ཁྲིམས་བཅུའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་བཞུགས་སོ།། བོད་དབྱིན་ཤན་སྦྱར། / Commentary on God’s Ten Commandments, Tibetan-English Edition. Gsungrab, 2017, p. 8. Our

Reflecting about God with our Tibetan friends – Part 6

An important question which always pops up when talking about virtues is the question of their source. Do they have a reliable source and are they trustworthy? When we want to talk of the Laws of Judaism or the Ten Commandments in a Christian perspective, then it is not enough to say that they were

The Noble Eightfold Path in a nutshell

Based on Chapter 5 “The rationality of Buddhist etiquette” of my book Buddhism for Overthinkers. Trier & Vachendorf: Buddha TS Publishing, 2018. [formerly known as : Rationalism versus Spiritualism and Atheism versus Polytheism in Buddhism. Berlin: epubli, 2015.] The Noble Eightfold Path can be summarized into three categories: prajna, sila, and samadhi. Sammadhitti (‘right view’) which is the

Philosophy enlightens our path to realize God’s Creation!

Philosophy—God honor you—is broad and great, and to strive for her is a duty and honorific; for she enlightens the intellect and the soul with the light of eternal beauty when they strive for her, and when they have grasped her meaning and reason for cause of life, she lets them renounce this transitory perishing

Individual versus Collectivist Morality

Written by Timo Schmitz. Based on an excerpt of the author’s article “Cognitivism failed!” (2017). The peak of nonsense is utilitarianism, since the moral quality does not play a role anymore, but the usefulness for the collective. Is it useful to exploit nature and resettle tribes, so that a rich “developed” society can continue its

[Podcast] TIMO AND IULIAN TALK PHILOSOPHY #10: Discussion on Greek Philosophy (Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics) – with Julien Sita

This is the tenth episode of the new podcast: Timo and Iulian Talk Philosophy. Today we will talk about ARISTOTLE’S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS in the context of Greek philosophy in general. Our guest is Julien Sita who is studying philosophy and history at Trier University (Germany). CAST: Timo Schmitz (Germany), Iulian Mitran (Romania), and our guest