EECS 690
... A moral agent must be able to have chosen otherwise than she did. (AP) The moral agent must be ultimately responsible for her decisions (UR) - For AP: Consider Martin Luther, “Here I stand, I can do no other”. Whatever he is doing here, he is not trying to duck responsibility. Also consider what has ...
... A moral agent must be able to have chosen otherwise than she did. (AP) The moral agent must be ultimately responsible for her decisions (UR) - For AP: Consider Martin Luther, “Here I stand, I can do no other”. Whatever he is doing here, he is not trying to duck responsibility. Also consider what has ...
Notes on Hume`s And Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
... If we are to satisfy ourselves concerning the nature of that evidence by which we assume matters of fact, then we must inquire how we arrive at the knowledge of cause and effect. The knowledge of that cause and effect is not a priori; it comes entirely from the senses. If we come into contact with s ...
... If we are to satisfy ourselves concerning the nature of that evidence by which we assume matters of fact, then we must inquire how we arrive at the knowledge of cause and effect. The knowledge of that cause and effect is not a priori; it comes entirely from the senses. If we come into contact with s ...
An introduction to philosophy
... • Those who apply themselves to philosophy in the proper way are doing no more nor less than to prepare themselves for the moment of dying and the state of death Phaedo in The Trial and Execution of Socrates ...
... • Those who apply themselves to philosophy in the proper way are doing no more nor less than to prepare themselves for the moment of dying and the state of death Phaedo in The Trial and Execution of Socrates ...
Rape of Aphrodite
... Postmodernism. The fetishistic penchant of Post-structuralists and Post-modernists has made the treatment of art and literature destructively convoluted and obfuscated, and offers infinite leeway for analysis of any kind. The trite adage ''Kill the writer’’ has been grossly misused and misidentified ...
... Postmodernism. The fetishistic penchant of Post-structuralists and Post-modernists has made the treatment of art and literature destructively convoluted and obfuscated, and offers infinite leeway for analysis of any kind. The trite adage ''Kill the writer’’ has been grossly misused and misidentified ...
Julie`s Thoughts On Plato`s Republic (Part 2 of 3) You`ll remember
... different. We've just never seen or heard the real thing, only imitators. We mistake fighters with words, (i.e. Sophists) a thing for which true philosophers don't have time, with true philosophy. If philosophers seem to us useless, perhaps it’s because we don't use them properly. Satesmen ought not ...
... different. We've just never seen or heard the real thing, only imitators. We mistake fighters with words, (i.e. Sophists) a thing for which true philosophers don't have time, with true philosophy. If philosophers seem to us useless, perhaps it’s because we don't use them properly. Satesmen ought not ...
gst113 ethics and human conduct in the society
... is faced with making morall decisions. Such standards or norms will specify criteria that make an act moral or immoral and help one make moral judgement ‘’on the right thing to do or the appropriate course of action to take’’. Normative ethics is the sub-branch of philosophy that deals with this iss ...
... is faced with making morall decisions. Such standards or norms will specify criteria that make an act moral or immoral and help one make moral judgement ‘’on the right thing to do or the appropriate course of action to take’’. Normative ethics is the sub-branch of philosophy that deals with this iss ...
meth-XI
... their occasional refluence (and though, as in successive schematisms of Becher, Stahl, and Lavoisier,174 the varying stream may for a time appear to comprehend and inisle some particular department of knowledge which even then it only peninsulates) are yet flowing towards this mid channel, and will ...
... their occasional refluence (and though, as in successive schematisms of Becher, Stahl, and Lavoisier,174 the varying stream may for a time appear to comprehend and inisle some particular department of knowledge which even then it only peninsulates) are yet flowing towards this mid channel, and will ...
Intro to Philosophy
... If someone were to claim that there is an elephant in your living room, we could prove or disprove the claim by going into your living room, looking around, and, on the basis of our perceptions, discovering whether there is an elephant there or not. And the result of our investigation -- i.e., our ...
... If someone were to claim that there is an elephant in your living room, we could prove or disprove the claim by going into your living room, looking around, and, on the basis of our perceptions, discovering whether there is an elephant there or not. And the result of our investigation -- i.e., our ...
Ethics of Aspiration - webteach.mc.uky.edu
... individual’s personality (psyche) which motivates them to control their behavior by abiding by rules of morality are virtues. With the rules of morality being those rules/behaviors necessary for successful social living. ...
... individual’s personality (psyche) which motivates them to control their behavior by abiding by rules of morality are virtues. With the rules of morality being those rules/behaviors necessary for successful social living. ...
FORMAL METHODS AND SCIENCE IN PHILOSOPHY
... which mention properties of God in relation to the world as being its creator. (B) Those descriptions which mention properties of God which are (more or less) independent of his relation to the world. For example Aristotle’s description of God as the unmoved mover belongs to (A) whereas Anselm’s des ...
... which mention properties of God in relation to the world as being its creator. (B) Those descriptions which mention properties of God which are (more or less) independent of his relation to the world. For example Aristotle’s description of God as the unmoved mover belongs to (A) whereas Anselm’s des ...
Handout - John Provost, PhD
... science could offer us a natural explanation for something that had once been attributed to the gods, than it was good. But if it offered us several different and contradictory explanations then there was no need to decide between them. What did it matter? The main thing was not attributing the myst ...
... science could offer us a natural explanation for something that had once been attributed to the gods, than it was good. But if it offered us several different and contradictory explanations then there was no need to decide between them. What did it matter? The main thing was not attributing the myst ...
Word - The Smallings
... Logic is the only means for discovering or evaluating truth Since the entire basis of logic is the fact of existence, we are compelled to use logic to prove things. This compulsion is not an accident of human nature, a mere philosophical choice, nor a product of our culture. We cannot avoid it if we ...
... Logic is the only means for discovering or evaluating truth Since the entire basis of logic is the fact of existence, we are compelled to use logic to prove things. This compulsion is not an accident of human nature, a mere philosophical choice, nor a product of our culture. We cannot avoid it if we ...
6th-annual-house-bulletin-abstracts-9-oct1
... possibilities and implies that we are not ultimate sources of our actions, others, the so called compatibilists, hold that determinism has no bearing on the freedom of our wills because it is not incompatible with any ability worth wanting. But, beside these philosophers who have radically different ...
... possibilities and implies that we are not ultimate sources of our actions, others, the so called compatibilists, hold that determinism has no bearing on the freedom of our wills because it is not incompatible with any ability worth wanting. But, beside these philosophers who have radically different ...
(2.3) spirituality in the peripatetic philosophical traditions of islam
... since the Peripatetic thinkers in Islam aimed further at executing spiritual exercises, which seemingly opened up experiential vistas and unveiled intellectual horizons that surpassed the inner-worldly limits of Heidegger’s take on Dasein’s solitary authenticity (39-40). Cultivating virtue and the s ...
... since the Peripatetic thinkers in Islam aimed further at executing spiritual exercises, which seemingly opened up experiential vistas and unveiled intellectual horizons that surpassed the inner-worldly limits of Heidegger’s take on Dasein’s solitary authenticity (39-40). Cultivating virtue and the s ...
Right
... • Morality—Concerns beliefs about right and wrong actions and good and bad persons or character. • Philosophy—The systematic exploration of life’s big questions using critical thinking and logical argument. ...
... • Morality—Concerns beliefs about right and wrong actions and good and bad persons or character. • Philosophy—The systematic exploration of life’s big questions using critical thinking and logical argument. ...
252520virtuetheory2k8
... Because it will make living together easier (Hobbes and Locke and social contract theory) ...
... Because it will make living together easier (Hobbes and Locke and social contract theory) ...
Medical Ethics VTS mg[1]
... • Not injuring patients by what we do • Non-iatrogenesis • Well understood but sometimes happens inadvertently ...
... • Not injuring patients by what we do • Non-iatrogenesis • Well understood but sometimes happens inadvertently ...
Document
... the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sense they have been to every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects were to ...
... the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sense they have been to every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects were to ...
epistemological puzzles alexandru anghelescu, laurenţiu rozylowicz
... M0. It was pointed out that the way back from M2012 to M0 will mean passing from humans to monkeys, for we developed from monkeys, or -as it looks today- from Ardi. This is where evolution comes into place. It was argued that knowledge was passed from monkeys/Ardi (via genes?) to humans in the proce ...
... M0. It was pointed out that the way back from M2012 to M0 will mean passing from humans to monkeys, for we developed from monkeys, or -as it looks today- from Ardi. This is where evolution comes into place. It was argued that knowledge was passed from monkeys/Ardi (via genes?) to humans in the proce ...
c1w3 - GEOCITIES.ws
... • Plato’s belief in a separate metaphysical world beyond space and time seemed t contradict reason • This seemed to be mystical and showed that Plato undervalued the physical world • Said that forms were not located in a higher world but existed in things themselves • Aristotle favored the empirical ...
... • Plato’s belief in a separate metaphysical world beyond space and time seemed t contradict reason • This seemed to be mystical and showed that Plato undervalued the physical world • Said that forms were not located in a higher world but existed in things themselves • Aristotle favored the empirical ...
PHIL 235: Business and Professional Ethics
... Justification by reference to norms for which we ourselves are prepared to offer a reasoned defense – i.e., we consider for ourselves whether or not any particular rule or principle is or can be justified. Note: Reflective judgment can (and often does) end up accepting rules and principles that ...
... Justification by reference to norms for which we ourselves are prepared to offer a reasoned defense – i.e., we consider for ourselves whether or not any particular rule or principle is or can be justified. Note: Reflective judgment can (and often does) end up accepting rules and principles that ...
Emotivism - Pegasus Cc Ucf
... Ethical concepts are pseudo-concepts Ethical or moral statement does not add factual content to a proposition Simply evincing moral approval or disapproval A proposition only containing ethical symbols has no factual meaning ...
... Ethical concepts are pseudo-concepts Ethical or moral statement does not add factual content to a proposition Simply evincing moral approval or disapproval A proposition only containing ethical symbols has no factual meaning ...
Advances in Pneumology
... resolved in the light of bioethical theories, among which principlism remains the mainstream approach to biomedical ethics. The question arises however whether this approach in itself, as being strictly bound to the specific and distinct American philosophical tradition, is to be considered the tool ...
... resolved in the light of bioethical theories, among which principlism remains the mainstream approach to biomedical ethics. The question arises however whether this approach in itself, as being strictly bound to the specific and distinct American philosophical tradition, is to be considered the tool ...
Against Fantology - Buffalo Ontology Site
... present-day philosophers are marked by fantology only tacitly, through their use of predicate logic and of ways of thinking associated therewith. David Armstrong seems, in this respect, to be a border-line case. The dark force of fantology has spread its tentacles also beyond the realm of philosophy ...
... present-day philosophers are marked by fantology only tacitly, through their use of predicate logic and of ways of thinking associated therewith. David Armstrong seems, in this respect, to be a border-line case. The dark force of fantology has spread its tentacles also beyond the realm of philosophy ...
quotes
... “I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.” --Publilius Syrus (Roman author, 1st century B.C.) “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” --Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD) “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” ...
... “I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.” --Publilius Syrus (Roman author, 1st century B.C.) “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” --Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD) “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” ...
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.