CONTENDING WITH STANLEY CAVELL
... to undo what I call the repression of Emerson as a thinker by his culture, then there is no hope for it.) The peculiar difference in the instance of the concept of philosophy, using Conant’s application of Kierkegaard, is suggested in the very fact of objective ways of challenging being a Christian, ...
... to undo what I call the repression of Emerson as a thinker by his culture, then there is no hope for it.) The peculiar difference in the instance of the concept of philosophy, using Conant’s application of Kierkegaard, is suggested in the very fact of objective ways of challenging being a Christian, ...
Nel Noddings Chapter 8: Ethics and Moral Education
... Those who argue for relativity ask why, if there is absolute truth, its advocates disagree with one another about what it is. TWO CHOICES: • Believe in absolute universal moral truths that are valid for everyone everywhere. Or • Believe that morality is relative to the situation, so that you might a ...
... Those who argue for relativity ask why, if there is absolute truth, its advocates disagree with one another about what it is. TWO CHOICES: • Believe in absolute universal moral truths that are valid for everyone everywhere. Or • Believe that morality is relative to the situation, so that you might a ...
Morality and Practical Reason: Kant
... that it should become a universal law • Moral or categorical imperatives provide universal laws that tell us what to do in every circumstance. With hypothetical imperatives, on the other hand, what is commanded depends upon particular circumstances ...
... that it should become a universal law • Moral or categorical imperatives provide universal laws that tell us what to do in every circumstance. With hypothetical imperatives, on the other hand, what is commanded depends upon particular circumstances ...
Anaxagoras 500 - 428, came to Athens in 480
... leaves the body, the water and earth remaining are worthless. Remaining dry is the wisest and best course of action. ‘It may pleasure souls to become moist, but it is death to soul to become water.’ Human laws should be the embodiment of the Universal Law. This participation of man in the Reason of ...
... leaves the body, the water and earth remaining are worthless. Remaining dry is the wisest and best course of action. ‘It may pleasure souls to become moist, but it is death to soul to become water.’ Human laws should be the embodiment of the Universal Law. This participation of man in the Reason of ...
Powerpoint - John Provost, PhD
... everyone disobeyed this we would have chaos and it would be very dangerous. But there are times, such as when rushing to a hospital in an emergency, when we expect people to be able to evaluate the good of obeying a law and the good of saving a life and see that saving a life is more important. When ...
... everyone disobeyed this we would have chaos and it would be very dangerous. But there are times, such as when rushing to a hospital in an emergency, when we expect people to be able to evaluate the good of obeying a law and the good of saving a life and see that saving a life is more important. When ...
Language sometimes is deceptive
... it makes me wonder just what we share as philosophers. Some philosophy journals and books contain far more mathematical and logical symbols than they do prose, and many philosophers would be unable to follow the arguments presented. Furthermore, many philosophers believe that the issues that other p ...
... it makes me wonder just what we share as philosophers. Some philosophy journals and books contain far more mathematical and logical symbols than they do prose, and many philosophers would be unable to follow the arguments presented. Furthermore, many philosophers believe that the issues that other p ...
THE ULTIMATE PROOF OF CREATION – Dr. Jason Lisle (AiG
... with disorder and people acting like animals? Besides, different cultures would adapt different moral codes anyway. Benefit assumes a standard of goodness anyway. “People can adopt their own moral codes.” Response: “But if you can so can I... what if I want to shoot you?” Why should an evolutionis ...
... with disorder and people acting like animals? Besides, different cultures would adapt different moral codes anyway. Benefit assumes a standard of goodness anyway. “People can adopt their own moral codes.” Response: “But if you can so can I... what if I want to shoot you?” Why should an evolutionis ...
The Beginnings of the Modern World
... There are always many who see in this, divine punishment for some or the other of someone’s alleged sins. Ignorance and superstition were everywhere. Few knew how to read and their was little for anyone to read. Most people were tied to the land whether as slaves or serfs. Legally and by custom, the ...
... There are always many who see in this, divine punishment for some or the other of someone’s alleged sins. Ignorance and superstition were everywhere. Few knew how to read and their was little for anyone to read. Most people were tied to the land whether as slaves or serfs. Legally and by custom, the ...
Ethics in Medieval Western Philosophy
... Apart from its own intrinsic and variety, the thought of medieval philosophers has a special lesson for people of India in this century to lead moral life. For, whether we endorse their views or not, these people succeeded in a goal that we are far from having realised. They found a pastoral and mea ...
... Apart from its own intrinsic and variety, the thought of medieval philosophers has a special lesson for people of India in this century to lead moral life. For, whether we endorse their views or not, these people succeeded in a goal that we are far from having realised. They found a pastoral and mea ...
1 Philosophy of New Times. Rationalism and empiricism
... equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides") are examples of the first, while propositions involving some contingent observation of the world (e.g. "the sun rises in the East") are examples of the second. All of people's "ideas", in turn, are derived from their "impressions". For Hume, an "imp ...
... equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides") are examples of the first, while propositions involving some contingent observation of the world (e.g. "the sun rises in the East") are examples of the second. All of people's "ideas", in turn, are derived from their "impressions". For Hume, an "imp ...
What`s in a word: philosophy, theology and thinking?
... As an informal educator and one who has been practically involved in helping young people to think about what they ought to be doing with their lives, what is worth living for, and the need for public action, I found much in the book with which I can agree. The book is in three parts, the first two ...
... As an informal educator and one who has been practically involved in helping young people to think about what they ought to be doing with their lives, what is worth living for, and the need for public action, I found much in the book with which I can agree. The book is in three parts, the first two ...
Plato and Aristotle
... • Virtually created the sciences of logic and linguistics, developed extravagant theories in physics and astronomy, and made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics • Metaphysics is still a basic text on the subject • Nicomachean Ethics codified ancient Greek moral ...
... • Virtually created the sciences of logic and linguistics, developed extravagant theories in physics and astronomy, and made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics • Metaphysics is still a basic text on the subject • Nicomachean Ethics codified ancient Greek moral ...
Bertrand Russell - UOWM Open eClass
... was honoured and reviled in almost equal measure throughout the world. Inspired by the work of the mathematicians whom he so greatly admired, Russell conceived the idea of demonstrating that mathematics not only had logically rigorous foundations but also that it was in its entirety nothing but logi ...
... was honoured and reviled in almost equal measure throughout the world. Inspired by the work of the mathematicians whom he so greatly admired, Russell conceived the idea of demonstrating that mathematics not only had logically rigorous foundations but also that it was in its entirety nothing but logi ...
14 pages
... ordinary people thinking philosophers would be all the same and he would also refuse to worship the “official” state gods. He emphasized the truth in Protogoras’ dictum, as the good is in the personal “well-being (=happiness)” of individuals. It becomes objective by the generalized concepts of the s ...
... ordinary people thinking philosophers would be all the same and he would also refuse to worship the “official” state gods. He emphasized the truth in Protogoras’ dictum, as the good is in the personal “well-being (=happiness)” of individuals. It becomes objective by the generalized concepts of the s ...
Class #2
... What is the nature of man’s obligation to other men? How should we live to be good? What responsibilities do governments have to their citizens? Is man essentially selfish? Or can he be motivated by principles beyond his own self-interest? ...
... What is the nature of man’s obligation to other men? How should we live to be good? What responsibilities do governments have to their citizens? Is man essentially selfish? Or can he be motivated by principles beyond his own self-interest? ...
What Does it Mean to Practise Philosophy?
... with accepting on the grounds of faith. It may be that the only true worth of philosophy in a practical sense is that it is something we can ‘go through’, that is ‘go beyond’. Unless we can go through philosophy, we will always be stalked and dogged by philosophical questions - ‘what is the meaning ...
... with accepting on the grounds of faith. It may be that the only true worth of philosophy in a practical sense is that it is something we can ‘go through’, that is ‘go beyond’. Unless we can go through philosophy, we will always be stalked and dogged by philosophical questions - ‘what is the meaning ...
Ethical problems in natural sciences — challenges of the 21st century
... The science of bioethics is about thirty years old. This science was one of the first kind of applied ethics which — as some assert — came into being due to the ,,insufficiency" of ethical theories. It turned out that neither perfection of ethical theories nor methaethical disputes about the meaning ...
... The science of bioethics is about thirty years old. This science was one of the first kind of applied ethics which — as some assert — came into being due to the ,,insufficiency" of ethical theories. It turned out that neither perfection of ethical theories nor methaethical disputes about the meaning ...
Philosophy of Science
... claim. This accounts for Aristotle, for example, as the dictator of science. 5. Idols of the Mind: In addition to distempers of learning Bacon identified Idols in the Mind, which corrupt thinking. These idols or “false phantoms” are distortions of the mind, like distortions of beams of light reflect ...
... claim. This accounts for Aristotle, for example, as the dictator of science. 5. Idols of the Mind: In addition to distempers of learning Bacon identified Idols in the Mind, which corrupt thinking. These idols or “false phantoms” are distortions of the mind, like distortions of beams of light reflect ...
Contemporary Political Theory : Exam 1 Essay, Research Paper
... do so, in that it destroys initiative of the those in need. The needy person will grow to depend on others for help, and the needy person will never do anything for himself. Look at it this way : two children, each brought up in different households are brought up in two distinct ways. Child A is gi ...
... do so, in that it destroys initiative of the those in need. The needy person will grow to depend on others for help, and the needy person will never do anything for himself. Look at it this way : two children, each brought up in different households are brought up in two distinct ways. Child A is gi ...
Non-rational human beings, the poverty of philosophy
... things or actions, the selection of narratives within which to comprehend events, and the appreciation of music and art. These non-rational activities can all be categorised under one heading: thought which helps us frame events in a Camusian world, devoid of inherent meaning or order. Moral values ...
... things or actions, the selection of narratives within which to comprehend events, and the appreciation of music and art. These non-rational activities can all be categorised under one heading: thought which helps us frame events in a Camusian world, devoid of inherent meaning or order. Moral values ...
Are We Really So Modern - Northampton Community College
... inquisitive cast of mind than the history of a sharply defined discipline.” You might say that philosophy is what we call thought in its first, molten state, before it has had a chance to solidify into a scientific discipline, like psychology or cosmology. When scientists ask how people think or how ...
... inquisitive cast of mind than the history of a sharply defined discipline.” You might say that philosophy is what we call thought in its first, molten state, before it has had a chance to solidify into a scientific discipline, like psychology or cosmology. When scientists ask how people think or how ...
Ethics Paper
... Although there is no denying Aristotle’s genius, it is hard not to find his list of ethics presented in book in book IV somewhat dated, from our perspective at least. Although there is no denying ancient Greece’s influence on our concept of virtue, there is also no denying that Christian morals infl ...
... Although there is no denying Aristotle’s genius, it is hard not to find his list of ethics presented in book in book IV somewhat dated, from our perspective at least. Although there is no denying ancient Greece’s influence on our concept of virtue, there is also no denying that Christian morals infl ...
January 30 Reading - Are We Really So Modern
... existence of a good God, who guarantees the truth of my perceptions and so underwrites the existence of the world. But here most people believe that Descartes went astray. “God’s guarantee is not worth the paper Descartes wrote it on,” Gottlieb quips. And, if God doesn’t exist, then all Descartes ha ...
... existence of a good God, who guarantees the truth of my perceptions and so underwrites the existence of the world. But here most people believe that Descartes went astray. “God’s guarantee is not worth the paper Descartes wrote it on,” Gottlieb quips. And, if God doesn’t exist, then all Descartes ha ...
A response to the essay on Schopenhauer`s
... To be fair I should go back to the primary sources, but life is short, and it is not fair to keep you waiting forever for a reply. And you have after all recommended this as an excellent essay on Schopenhauer’s philosophy, so I am prepared to trust you that it does not misrepresent his thought too d ...
... To be fair I should go back to the primary sources, but life is short, and it is not fair to keep you waiting forever for a reply. And you have after all recommended this as an excellent essay on Schopenhauer’s philosophy, so I am prepared to trust you that it does not misrepresent his thought too d ...
Supplemental Notes on Aristotle Philosophy 2
... 1. Agent desires an end 2. Agent deliberates, seeing that B is a means to A; C the means to B, etc until 3. Agent perceives that some particular means can be done here and now. 4. Agent chooses this means that presents itself to him as practicable here and now 5. Agent does the act. If virtuous acti ...
... 1. Agent desires an end 2. Agent deliberates, seeing that B is a means to A; C the means to B, etc until 3. Agent perceives that some particular means can be done here and now. 4. Agent chooses this means that presents itself to him as practicable here and now 5. Agent does the act. If virtuous acti ...
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.