Philosophers_Search_for_Wisdom_Article
... politics, art, speech, and philosophy. He collected information on over five hundred kinds of living organisms because he believed it is important to have scientific knowledge of the world. He taught and encouraged others to examine, describe and classify as many forms of life as possible. From his ...
... politics, art, speech, and philosophy. He collected information on over five hundred kinds of living organisms because he believed it is important to have scientific knowledge of the world. He taught and encouraged others to examine, describe and classify as many forms of life as possible. From his ...
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY—a trend in contemporary philosophy with
... metaphysical statements. This means that the more powerful theses of the analytic philosophers who had gone before, that the analysis of language enables us to avoid or resolve traditional philosophical problems, was replaced by the weaker thesis, that the philosophy of language is the central philo ...
... metaphysical statements. This means that the more powerful theses of the analytic philosophers who had gone before, that the analysis of language enables us to avoid or resolve traditional philosophical problems, was replaced by the weaker thesis, that the philosophy of language is the central philo ...
Reading Euthyphro
... This also brings out the fact that Socrates is encountering an unconventional man, not just an ordinary one. This make the drama even more striking. - Socrates is best known for the Socratic irony; that is, he claimed to be ignorant and went around searching for people who had knowledge and were wil ...
... This also brings out the fact that Socrates is encountering an unconventional man, not just an ordinary one. This make the drama even more striking. - Socrates is best known for the Socratic irony; that is, he claimed to be ignorant and went around searching for people who had knowledge and were wil ...
Boethius Dacus on the supreme good
... is the cause which most greatly prevents him from attaining that which is desired naturally. For all men naturally desire to know. But only the smallest number of men, sad to say, devote themselves to the pursuit of wisdom. Inordinate desire bars the others from such a good. Thus we find certain men ...
... is the cause which most greatly prevents him from attaining that which is desired naturally. For all men naturally desire to know. But only the smallest number of men, sad to say, devote themselves to the pursuit of wisdom. Inordinate desire bars the others from such a good. Thus we find certain men ...
Treatise of Human Nature Book III: Morals
... the source of such an active principlec as is conscience, or a sense of morals. You may want to say: Although no will or action can be immediately contradictory to reason, perhaps reason can be contradicted by some of the causes or effects of the action. The action may cause a judgment; or it may be ...
... the source of such an active principlec as is conscience, or a sense of morals. You may want to say: Although no will or action can be immediately contradictory to reason, perhaps reason can be contradicted by some of the causes or effects of the action. The action may cause a judgment; or it may be ...
Journal - Vassar Philosophy
... plan communities “where each building is a live thing and a natural extension of others. Together they will make the places where a man can realize what he wishes to be” (Smithson 3). For the architect to tap into the truest form of architecture, she had to reimagine architecture as an organic exten ...
... plan communities “where each building is a live thing and a natural extension of others. Together they will make the places where a man can realize what he wishes to be” (Smithson 3). For the architect to tap into the truest form of architecture, she had to reimagine architecture as an organic exten ...
Aristotle and the Early Stoics on Moral Responsibility
... thus sacrifice the lives of his crew. Hence the origin of the action is in him, he knows what he is doing, and so the action is voluntary. Aristotle explains: Now the man acts voluntarily; for the principle that moves the instrumental parts of the body in such actions [i.e., mixed actions] is in him ...
... thus sacrifice the lives of his crew. Hence the origin of the action is in him, he knows what he is doing, and so the action is voluntary. Aristotle explains: Now the man acts voluntarily; for the principle that moves the instrumental parts of the body in such actions [i.e., mixed actions] is in him ...
Editorial
... Han has characterized the emptiness from that that is open, opposite to the substance that is closed. In this sense, to the Western World, the substance has not only been what identifies what is proper of one thing, but also that that divides it from others, as the Korean philosopher declares “subst ...
... Han has characterized the emptiness from that that is open, opposite to the substance that is closed. In this sense, to the Western World, the substance has not only been what identifies what is proper of one thing, but also that that divides it from others, as the Korean philosopher declares “subst ...
Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is. verseny 07 L
... meaningless, because the metaphysical reality lies otside the world and the language deals only with the facts of the world. However, these systems may be used as „ladders“, ways of getting nearer to the metaphysical reality, and in some non-logical way allow for a higher understanding, and the tran ...
... meaningless, because the metaphysical reality lies otside the world and the language deals only with the facts of the world. However, these systems may be used as „ladders“, ways of getting nearer to the metaphysical reality, and in some non-logical way allow for a higher understanding, and the tran ...
NC-Contractualism
... how to treat others, only how they feel about certain things. The individual requires input from others to understand what sort of actions they find acceptable. And, humans have a need to justify their actions to one another. Even the worst murderers like Hitler and Stalin attempt to give justifica ...
... how to treat others, only how they feel about certain things. The individual requires input from others to understand what sort of actions they find acceptable. And, humans have a need to justify their actions to one another. Even the worst murderers like Hitler and Stalin attempt to give justifica ...
On Moral Progress: A Response to Richard Rorty
... different religious and secular doctrines from one another. In that way, we may build an “overlapping consensus” (to use Rawls’ phrase) concerning the political doctrines. I believe this distinction between the ethical and the political to be fundamental; I do not know whether Richard Rorty would ag ...
... different religious and secular doctrines from one another. In that way, we may build an “overlapping consensus” (to use Rawls’ phrase) concerning the political doctrines. I believe this distinction between the ethical and the political to be fundamental; I do not know whether Richard Rorty would ag ...
Ancient Skepticism, for
... Plato’s Academy turns skeptical in a phase of intense epistemological debate. Arcesilaus overlaps in the Academy with Zeno, founder of Stoicism. The Stoics understand themselves as Socratics, rejecting the Forms as well as Plato’s tripartite psychology. They embrace the views that the soul is reason ...
... Plato’s Academy turns skeptical in a phase of intense epistemological debate. Arcesilaus overlaps in the Academy with Zeno, founder of Stoicism. The Stoics understand themselves as Socratics, rejecting the Forms as well as Plato’s tripartite psychology. They embrace the views that the soul is reason ...
ARISTOTLE'S PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN LIFE Sotshangane
... hand, is the result of habit, from which it has actually got its name, being a slight modification of the word . ethos', which means a character. The ethical aspect of any man appears through the development of his or her characte~. A character makes it obvious that none of the moral virtues arises ...
... hand, is the result of habit, from which it has actually got its name, being a slight modification of the word . ethos', which means a character. The ethical aspect of any man appears through the development of his or her characte~. A character makes it obvious that none of the moral virtues arises ...
lecture1-Science
... Interaction with the Environment Naturalized knowledge generation acknowledges the body as our basic cognitive instrument. All cognition is embodied cognition, in both microorganisms and humans (Gärdenfors, Stuart). In more complex cognitive agents, knowledge is built upon not only reasoning about i ...
... Interaction with the Environment Naturalized knowledge generation acknowledges the body as our basic cognitive instrument. All cognition is embodied cognition, in both microorganisms and humans (Gärdenfors, Stuart). In more complex cognitive agents, knowledge is built upon not only reasoning about i ...
What is Ethics? - ChristianEthics
... A well-formed conscience is upright and truthful. It formulates its judgments according to reason, in conformity with the true good willed by the wisdom of the Creator.” - Catechism, #1783 ...
... A well-formed conscience is upright and truthful. It formulates its judgments according to reason, in conformity with the true good willed by the wisdom of the Creator.” - Catechism, #1783 ...
Physics Book I Study Guide Part 1 of 1 File
... At the beginning of chapter 8 of Book I of the Physics, Aristotle claims, “We will now proceed to show that the difficulty of the early thinkers, as well as our own, is solved in this way alone.” (191a 24- 25) a. Identify the earlier philosopher Aristotle has in mind. b. What was ‘the difficulty’? c ...
... At the beginning of chapter 8 of Book I of the Physics, Aristotle claims, “We will now proceed to show that the difficulty of the early thinkers, as well as our own, is solved in this way alone.” (191a 24- 25) a. Identify the earlier philosopher Aristotle has in mind. b. What was ‘the difficulty’? c ...
Plato`s Vision of the Human
... The account is, if anything, more complex than the account we get of justice. Book I doesn’t give us much to work with, but the rest of the Republic does. In particular a section called the Allegory of the Cave. The Allegory is part of Plato’s response to metaphysical and epistemological issue c ...
... The account is, if anything, more complex than the account we get of justice. Book I doesn’t give us much to work with, but the rest of the Republic does. In particular a section called the Allegory of the Cave. The Allegory is part of Plato’s response to metaphysical and epistemological issue c ...
What is Philosophy? Minds and Machines
... and Leadership • Humans are very social animals, and we have a lot to gain or lose depending on our social status. Thus, we tend to do three things: – 1. Herd Instinct: We are quick to accept the beliefs of those around us (family, friends, culture, etc.): we would hate to come off as being critical ...
... and Leadership • Humans are very social animals, and we have a lot to gain or lose depending on our social status. Thus, we tend to do three things: – 1. Herd Instinct: We are quick to accept the beliefs of those around us (family, friends, culture, etc.): we would hate to come off as being critical ...
What is Philosophy?
... and Leadership • Humans are very social animals, and we have a lot to gain or lose depending on our social status. Thus, we tend to do three things: – 1. Herd Instinct: We are quick to accept the beliefs of those around us (family, friends, culture, etc.): we would hate to come off as being critical ...
... and Leadership • Humans are very social animals, and we have a lot to gain or lose depending on our social status. Thus, we tend to do three things: – 1. Herd Instinct: We are quick to accept the beliefs of those around us (family, friends, culture, etc.): we would hate to come off as being critical ...
Evolution and Logic
... I think that a reason is that logical truth, since Frege, is often seen as the prime example of analytic truth and hence not in need of any further understanding. But one must not confuse the validity of logic with that of a derivation using logic; in my opinion, the underlying basic logic is not an ...
... I think that a reason is that logical truth, since Frege, is often seen as the prime example of analytic truth and hence not in need of any further understanding. But one must not confuse the validity of logic with that of a derivation using logic; in my opinion, the underlying basic logic is not an ...
- National Affairs
... kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others when we either see it or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner .... By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation .... we enter, as it were, into his body and become in some measure the same person with ...
... kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others when we either see it or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner .... By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation .... we enter, as it were, into his body and become in some measure the same person with ...
research on the contribution of confucian ethics
... planet. We could be destroyed by the realities in their negative and evil dimensions, unable to bear what millions of fellow men have to endure. The Confucian approach of focusing on what is positive and possible in relation to our own responsibility is important. However, more than just emphasizing ...
... planet. We could be destroyed by the realities in their negative and evil dimensions, unable to bear what millions of fellow men have to endure. The Confucian approach of focusing on what is positive and possible in relation to our own responsibility is important. However, more than just emphasizing ...
the value in a story
... to feel at least as confident about an individual understanding as about the allegedly underlying logic or principles. That is a less dogmatic a view than the casuist’s assertion that moral knowledge is essentially particular;9 and it is not quite the point made many times in the long-running differ ...
... to feel at least as confident about an individual understanding as about the allegedly underlying logic or principles. That is a less dogmatic a view than the casuist’s assertion that moral knowledge is essentially particular;9 and it is not quite the point made many times in the long-running differ ...
ethics and human conduct in the society
... disciplines and facets of life that require effective response that is able to ensure that moral principles are ‘sustained in the various areas of human operations.’ Ethics is a rational inquiry into the grounds of moral conduct which stands in contrast to revelations, special intuition, mystical in ...
... disciplines and facets of life that require effective response that is able to ensure that moral principles are ‘sustained in the various areas of human operations.’ Ethics is a rational inquiry into the grounds of moral conduct which stands in contrast to revelations, special intuition, mystical in ...
Stoicism
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. The Stoics taught that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and the active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom, and the belief that it is virtuous to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is in accord with nature. Because of this, the Stoics presented their philosophy as a way of life, and they thought that the best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how that person behaved.Later Stoics—such as Seneca and Epictetus—emphasized that, because ""virtue is sufficient for happiness"", a sage was immune to misfortune. This belief is similar to the meaning of the phrase ""stoic calm"", though the phrase does not include the ""radical ethical"" Stoic views that only a sage can be considered truly free, and that all moral corruptions are equally vicious.From its founding, Stoic doctrine was popular with a following in Roman Greece and throughout the Roman Empire — including the Emperor Marcus Aurelius — until the closing of all pagan philosophy schools in 529 AD by order of the Emperor Justinian I, who perceived them as being at odds with Christian faith. Neostoicism was a syncretic philosophical movement, joining Stoicism and Christianity, influenced by Justus Lipsius.