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Will Hughes Philosophy (Home)

 * Terms || Explanation ||
 * **__Universalism:__** || Universalism means to be open to all cultures and to respect them for the way they are. It also means to be open to suggestions from other cultures, and to be open to sharing our Jewish values with the rest of the world. ||
 * **__Jewish Pluralism:__** || This means that everyone can practice the ways of Judaism and not just a select few. Letting all people follow, practice, and respect us is the only way for the Jewish people to survive. ||
 * **__Jewish Peoplehood:__** || Meaning that we as a Jewish people are related with a shared history, blood-line, and life-style and not as a religion, rather a people. The Jewish people all share one way or another the same culture some how, through holidays or family. ||
 * **__Judaism:__** || Judaism is a culture that has survived for many centuries. The Jewish people are linked by blood and history; we are linked through history by our shared treacherous past, we also have shared the same experiences of Antisemitism and getting kicked out of countries. We are linked through blood because we come from the same genetic background. ||
 * **__Social Ethics:__** || Social Ethics is when the Jewish people work best with other people in their communities and not just by themselves. The belief of helping other nations by using our moral reasoning (try to convince people to help one another). ||
 * **__Ethics:__** || An action that you think is wrong and is more of a rule that must be enforced. Such as if someone were to throw a snowball at an elderly citizen that would be Ethically wrong. ||
 * **__Moral Authority:__** || It is up to the individual to use their ability to decide what is right and wrong. Having moral authority means to be able to know what is right and wrong in situations and not always go with the pack or do what everyone else is doing. An example of this is from Smokey the Bear "Only you can prevent forest fires". ||
 * **__Purpose or Meaning of Life__** || To live out your life happily and improve the live of others. To improve the life of others means to donate to charity funds and help people in need. This meaning of life should be universal (meaning to apply to everybody). Donating is great, but there is always a place to stop just to make sure that you are happy before making someone else happy. ||
 * **__Nature and Reality__**: || The Nature and Reality Philosophy is based on Human life/changes in humanity and the natural world around us over a period of time with scientific evidence (tangible). Secular Jews who believe in this Philosophy also like to use logic and reason to figure out ways of understanding the unknown. Secular Jews who believe in this Philosophy and the rest of nature gather information with scientific evidence and/or the five senses. This also means that there would be no god/gods due to the lack of scientific evidence. Secular Jews that follow this Philosophy would base their/our understanding of the creation, evaluation, and development of the universe through astronomy and other forms of science. ||
 * **__Nature of Truth__** || This basically means that nothing is impossible until proven wrong. What this philosophy is, is to keep an open mind to all possibilities. I agree with it because I am a sci-fi fanatic and love to keep an open mind. ||
 * __//**Problem Solving**//__ || Problem Solving mean to be able to solve problems with science and rational thought. We also figure out things that don't seem to make sense by using logic. When there is a conflict we use peaceful negotiations and not violence. ||