Intuitive Methods of Moral Decision Making, A
... putting in action what is already acknowledged as the right thing to do. Though the argument that ethical theory should supervise this practice can be made, it is not necessary to start with ethical theory. Philosophers do share this reasonable picture.17 For Kant a philosophical investigation shoul ...
... putting in action what is already acknowledged as the right thing to do. Though the argument that ethical theory should supervise this practice can be made, it is not necessary to start with ethical theory. Philosophers do share this reasonable picture.17 For Kant a philosophical investigation shoul ...
Giambattista Vico`s Idea Of "Progress": The Collapse Of Reason
... Vico stands apart from the grand thinkers of the- Enlightenment, integrating a personal conviction in God with the secular idea of reason and progress. Providence was presupposed in Vico' s philosophy, underlying all his ideas, though at times not explicitly stated. God was an active participant in ...
... Vico stands apart from the grand thinkers of the- Enlightenment, integrating a personal conviction in God with the secular idea of reason and progress. Providence was presupposed in Vico' s philosophy, underlying all his ideas, though at times not explicitly stated. God was an active participant in ...
The New Organon
... The work’s ambitiousness matched that of its author; nor did Bacon separate this bid for worldwide intellectual recognition from his more parochial aspirations at the English court. It would, he hoped, further cement the king’s personal commitment to him. In a private letter to James accompanying th ...
... The work’s ambitiousness matched that of its author; nor did Bacon separate this bid for worldwide intellectual recognition from his more parochial aspirations at the English court. It would, he hoped, further cement the king’s personal commitment to him. In a private letter to James accompanying th ...
Constructing and Representing Reality: Hegel and the Making of
... vice versa; hence, history signifies the rise and progress of human consciousness. Auerbach also shared Hegel’s view that the art of mimesis produces an image of a reality, in contrast to Plato, who thought a work of art is a resemblance opposed to reality. This paper analyzes the influence of Hegel ...
... vice versa; hence, history signifies the rise and progress of human consciousness. Auerbach also shared Hegel’s view that the art of mimesis produces an image of a reality, in contrast to Plato, who thought a work of art is a resemblance opposed to reality. This paper analyzes the influence of Hegel ...
The Beautiful Soul and the Autocratic Agent: Schilleris
... action requires recalcitrant inclination in conflict with duty, continue to entertain readers today. But they ought not to be remembered as Schiller’s philosophical contribution to our understanding of Kant’s moral theory.2 In his extended essay “On Grace and Dignity,” Schiller sets out a more subtl ...
... action requires recalcitrant inclination in conflict with duty, continue to entertain readers today. But they ought not to be remembered as Schiller’s philosophical contribution to our understanding of Kant’s moral theory.2 In his extended essay “On Grace and Dignity,” Schiller sets out a more subtl ...
Levels of Reasons and Causal Explanation
... 1965, 352), and philosophers have been proposing them ever since. But believers in the existence of non-causal explanations have to aim at a moving target, for different philosophers understand the claim that explanations must “say something” about causes in different ways. I have a new way to under ...
... 1965, 352), and philosophers have been proposing them ever since. But believers in the existence of non-causal explanations have to aim at a moving target, for different philosophers understand the claim that explanations must “say something” about causes in different ways. I have a new way to under ...
pages 22-48
... (Nagy 1996, abstract), and one can find strands in Polanyi’s work that prefigure certain much acclaimed arguments advanced by Alasdair MacIntyre. Yet it seems hard to fault moral philosophers and theologians for being less attentive to Polanyi’s contribution than epistemologists, social and politic ...
... (Nagy 1996, abstract), and one can find strands in Polanyi’s work that prefigure certain much acclaimed arguments advanced by Alasdair MacIntyre. Yet it seems hard to fault moral philosophers and theologians for being less attentive to Polanyi’s contribution than epistemologists, social and politic ...
A Conception of Philosophical Progress
... with an alternative but equally powerful conception of ourselves as creatures of nature, part of the everyday causal flux. We need to restore harmony, and this is where the philosophy becomes hard (Blackburn, 2006, 109-110). The apparent incompatibility of these two conceptions is the philosophical ...
... with an alternative but equally powerful conception of ourselves as creatures of nature, part of the everyday causal flux. We need to restore harmony, and this is where the philosophy becomes hard (Blackburn, 2006, 109-110). The apparent incompatibility of these two conceptions is the philosophical ...
Handout #2: Moral Motivation and Moral Semantics
... wrongness of murdering innocent children. This is why the moral claim in the antecedent of the conditional in (1) involves an unasserted context. But what then is its meaning? Frege ...
... wrongness of murdering innocent children. This is why the moral claim in the antecedent of the conditional in (1) involves an unasserted context. But what then is its meaning? Frege ...
Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon
... devotes an entire chapter to “The Problem of Socrates,” Nietzsche’s entire conception of philosophy—in both substance and, as everyone knows, style—stands wholly opposed to the Socratic. Let us begin with the style. Nietzsche, as every reader knows, can be funny, sarcastic, rude, wicked, scholarly, ...
... devotes an entire chapter to “The Problem of Socrates,” Nietzsche’s entire conception of philosophy—in both substance and, as everyone knows, style—stands wholly opposed to the Socratic. Let us begin with the style. Nietzsche, as every reader knows, can be funny, sarcastic, rude, wicked, scholarly, ...
Ethics—The Basics by John Mizzoni
... develop his philosophy (and ethics) without any reference to religion. • Kant may have been influenced by Pietism in his view of man and his view of the world, but he never refers to his religious background in his ...
... develop his philosophy (and ethics) without any reference to religion. • Kant may have been influenced by Pietism in his view of man and his view of the world, but he never refers to his religious background in his ...
Ethical Encounter - sikkim university library
... taste.7 Or: ‘objectivism’ – the view that value is somehow ‘in the world’ rather than merely ‘in us’ – can be preserved by holding that ‘brutal’ and ‘callous’ register so-called ‘evaluative properties’ of (in this case) the boys’ deeds. (And the evaluative properties are not entailed by the non-eval ...
... taste.7 Or: ‘objectivism’ – the view that value is somehow ‘in the world’ rather than merely ‘in us’ – can be preserved by holding that ‘brutal’ and ‘callous’ register so-called ‘evaluative properties’ of (in this case) the boys’ deeds. (And the evaluative properties are not entailed by the non-eval ...
rethinkingdemandingness
... a basis for maintaining that maximizing consequentialism is more demanding than scalar consequentialism even if the two theories issue reasons of the same normative weight to undertake burdensome actions. This proposal, though, does not make maximizing consequentialism inherently more demanding than ...
... a basis for maintaining that maximizing consequentialism is more demanding than scalar consequentialism even if the two theories issue reasons of the same normative weight to undertake burdensome actions. This proposal, though, does not make maximizing consequentialism inherently more demanding than ...
Notes on Epistemology
... The fourth attitude was the one adopted by St. Thomas towards the propositions which he defended in his Summa. It is exemplified everywhere in the sciences. When I adopt this attitude, I may sometimes throw the proposition into the form of a question. This may happen for two reasons: First, because ...
... The fourth attitude was the one adopted by St. Thomas towards the propositions which he defended in his Summa. It is exemplified everywhere in the sciences. When I adopt this attitude, I may sometimes throw the proposition into the form of a question. This may happen for two reasons: First, because ...
MacIntyre`s Moral Theory and the Possibility of an Aretaic Ethics of
... We want to be courageous, for example, because this is part of the fabric of a good life, and not merely because courage will buy us some good. Even though the virtues are eminently useful for achieving the good, one must, paradoxically, deem the virtues intrinsically valuable in order to possess th ...
... We want to be courageous, for example, because this is part of the fabric of a good life, and not merely because courage will buy us some good. Even though the virtues are eminently useful for achieving the good, one must, paradoxically, deem the virtues intrinsically valuable in order to possess th ...
Kant`s Account of Moral Education
... to the Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, whose basic philosophical ideas were further developed in the Christian philosophy of the Middle Ages. This version of natural teleology was widely rejected in modern philosophy. According to Brandt, the notion of Bestimmung has different historical roo ...
... to the Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, whose basic philosophical ideas were further developed in the Christian philosophy of the Middle Ages. This version of natural teleology was widely rejected in modern philosophy. According to Brandt, the notion of Bestimmung has different historical roo ...
On the Objectivity of Morals - Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository
... is a right answer to the question of slavery, namely that it is wrong. I cannot intelligibly hold the first opinion as a moral opinion without also holding the second. .... They are both statements within rather than about the enterprise of morality.... I hasten to add that recognizing the crucial p ...
... is a right answer to the question of slavery, namely that it is wrong. I cannot intelligibly hold the first opinion as a moral opinion without also holding the second. .... They are both statements within rather than about the enterprise of morality.... I hasten to add that recognizing the crucial p ...
Alexander of Aphrodisias`s Account of Universals and
... On interpretation (i), for a given universal to exist it must be multiply instantiated, i.e. its existence requires the existence of more than one particular. So if just one human being exists, the universal, human being, does not exist. The universal exists only when more than one human being exist ...
... On interpretation (i), for a given universal to exist it must be multiply instantiated, i.e. its existence requires the existence of more than one particular. So if just one human being exists, the universal, human being, does not exist. The universal exists only when more than one human being exist ...
The Missing Formal Proof of Humanity`s Radical Evil in Kant`s
... relative priority he assigns to the two basic incentives that we all experience, morality as respect for the moral law as embodied in the Categorical Imperative, and self-love as the pursuit of happiness through maximal satisfaction of the inclinations (R 6:36). The good person subordinates the ince ...
... relative priority he assigns to the two basic incentives that we all experience, morality as respect for the moral law as embodied in the Categorical Imperative, and self-love as the pursuit of happiness through maximal satisfaction of the inclinations (R 6:36). The good person subordinates the ince ...
Learning to Love the End of History
... system flock to it. But the accessibility of this work is entirely misleading. The work is not valueless, but accessing its value requires a circuitous route. To get at the conception of history articulated here, one must navigate a perilous path. The only way to the purported ease of the Philosophy ...
... system flock to it. But the accessibility of this work is entirely misleading. The work is not valueless, but accessing its value requires a circuitous route. To get at the conception of history articulated here, one must navigate a perilous path. The only way to the purported ease of the Philosophy ...
FROM FICTION TO PHRONÉSIS A critical dialogue with Martha
... I share my concern to acknowledge the above mentioned characteristics as important aspects of our human ethical existence with many thinkers, of which the most prominent one is undoubtedly Aristotle. In his Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle gives great priority to the fact that we have unique value syste ...
... I share my concern to acknowledge the above mentioned characteristics as important aspects of our human ethical existence with many thinkers, of which the most prominent one is undoubtedly Aristotle. In his Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle gives great priority to the fact that we have unique value syste ...
Lecture notes on Immanuel Kant
... Kant arrived at these conclusions will be explored in this series of lectures. 3. The Nature of Knowledge Another word which is given only an approximate English translation is Understanding from the German ‘Verstand’. Kant intended this word to refer simply to the use of reason and concepts in know ...
... Kant arrived at these conclusions will be explored in this series of lectures. 3. The Nature of Knowledge Another word which is given only an approximate English translation is Understanding from the German ‘Verstand’. Kant intended this word to refer simply to the use of reason and concepts in know ...
A Comparative Study of the Epistemology of Immanuel Kant and that
... Section i: Epistemological Resemblance between the Two The present study begins by observing a resemblance between the two systems of thought. Both may be said to resemble each other, in the way they had been influenced by, and had subsequently responded to, the dominant epistemological theses of t ...
... Section i: Epistemological Resemblance between the Two The present study begins by observing a resemblance between the two systems of thought. Both may be said to resemble each other, in the way they had been influenced by, and had subsequently responded to, the dominant epistemological theses of t ...
Kafka and Brentano - Buffalo Ontology Site
... of the quite peculiar cross-fertilization which characterized Austrian intellectual life.3 But it was also, at least in part, a product of a wider political contagion which marked the later Habsburg Empire. The ideas of the liberal enlightenment which had sustained the intellectuals of Europe throug ...
... of the quite peculiar cross-fertilization which characterized Austrian intellectual life.3 But it was also, at least in part, a product of a wider political contagion which marked the later Habsburg Empire. The ideas of the liberal enlightenment which had sustained the intellectuals of Europe throug ...
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.