Western Classical Culture & Christian Culture
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Item Excluding the divine from the explanations of cosmogony An analysis of the contribution of The Milesians(Faculty of Humanities, 2022) Jayasekara, I.K.Human’s earliest period in history had been awestruck by natural phenomena and the working of the universe. Greece was considered the cradle of Western civilization. They had sought peace and come to a compromise through beliefs connected to religion. As thoughts advanced, they became dissatisfied by this. The result was that men who began to think rationally started to find answers to the questions they faced excluding the involvement of the divine. The foremost person to present his ideas was Miletus. He was Thales. The second and the third to express themselves in the same context were Anaximander and Anaximenes, who was also from Miletus. The objective of this study is to trace if there is a connection between their ideas. Were they to be studied as separate philosophers or were they a part of a single process? Individual theories are examined with reference to the comments of the authors who later had examined them pitting them against the original fragments which are limited since they have not survived the test of time. Careful analysis show that the thoughts had emerged as a denial of the supernatural forces in solving the problem of becoming. Yet when the other two philosophers explored the alternative resolutions, they had gradually provided new suggestions of new possibilities. This is what is intended to explore in this study. The thoughts which started by rejecting religion seems to explore an affinity of the most important part in himself – the soul, and the primordial substance of the world process. The sense of justice , injustice and compensation and time limit. The question that arises is – are we to expect more in consequent thoughts that are to be explored later.Item Judah and Benjamin : Evolving a Theology of Peace in Sri Lanka(Théologiques, 18(1), 217–240., Faculté de théologie et de sciences des religions, Université de Montréal, 2010) Wijesinghe, S.L.This article presents a Sri Lankan hermeneutic of the Joseph Story (Genesis 37-50) in relation to grassroots peacemaking in Sri Lanka. On a global scale, peacemaking at the grassroots level is a rare phenomenon outside of the confines of small groups. Conflicts are often aggravated and even reach the point of armed struggles due to conditions of dispossession. These eventually lead to war economies which are ultimately beneficial to the rich. Sri Lanka could achieve sustainable peace if solidarity could be created among the dispossessed of the ethnic divide. Genesis 37-50 reveals four challenges to peacemaking in Sri Lanka, namely, (i) constituting Benjamin or creating solidarity among the dispossessed of the ethnic divide, (ii) highlighting the importance of brotherhood/ sisterhood for the survival of the nation which is jeopardized by the existing economic policies which are beneficial to the national and global elite, (iii) understanding peace as renunciation, and (iv) understanding and interpreting forgiveness.Item A Critical examination of Plato’s ideas on imitation and inspiration in literature(Journal of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2012) Jayasekera, KItem Poetic Inspiration and Social Consciousness –A study based on a cross section of 21stcen Sri Lankan Creative Artists(S. Godage publishes, 2011) Jayasekera, KItem The Impact of Indo European Culture On The Olympian Religion of The Greeks(Vidyodaya Dharma Shasthreeya Sangrahaya, 2011) Jayasekera, KItem The Nature of Religion in Pre Greek Society. Collective Needs or Individual Salvation?(S. Godage publishes, 2010) Jayasekera, KItem Fears and Aspirations of Humans as Expounded by Lucretius and Juvenal(Journal of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2009) Jayasekera, KItem An Analysis of the Ideas akin to the Indo-Aryan Concepts of Plato(Journal of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2009) Jayasekera, KItem Man in the universe without diving assistance and the dawn of Greek philosophical thought(S. Godage publishes, 2009) Jayasekera, KItem A Comparative Study Between women Depicted as Victims of Love by the Greek and Roman Epic Poets(S. Godage publishes, 2009) Jayasekera, K