The play of Meaning(s): Reader-Response Criticism, Dialogics, and
... literature aroused people’s emotions, especially those that ought to be stringently controlled. Aristotle argues that literature exerted a good psychological influence. ...
... literature aroused people’s emotions, especially those that ought to be stringently controlled. Aristotle argues that literature exerted a good psychological influence. ...
Knowing justice and acting justly What is the source of virtue in
... Plato’s argument in the Republic as a whole develops an account of what the perfect state would be like. How would it be organized? In the next section, we will see that Plato argues that in the perfect state, philosophers must be rulers. This is the main political implication of the theory of the F ...
... Plato’s argument in the Republic as a whole develops an account of what the perfect state would be like. How would it be organized? In the next section, we will see that Plato argues that in the perfect state, philosophers must be rulers. This is the main political implication of the theory of the F ...
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... The nature of philosophy Thales, Anaximader, and Anaximenes .Prior to the first set of philosophers there were no doubt, some set of explanations but these explanations were mythical mysterious, or religious in nature. The milesian philosophers departed radically from the kind of explanations that p ...
... The nature of philosophy Thales, Anaximader, and Anaximenes .Prior to the first set of philosophers there were no doubt, some set of explanations but these explanations were mythical mysterious, or religious in nature. The milesian philosophers departed radically from the kind of explanations that p ...
16. Plato: Moral Theory
... nor memory nor knowledge had any share, “would be, not human life, but that of an oyster.” b. On the other hand, a life of “unmixed mind” which was destitute of pleasure, could not be the sole good of man; even if intellect is the highest part of man since man is not pure intellect. c. Thus the good ...
... nor memory nor knowledge had any share, “would be, not human life, but that of an oyster.” b. On the other hand, a life of “unmixed mind” which was destitute of pleasure, could not be the sole good of man; even if intellect is the highest part of man since man is not pure intellect. c. Thus the good ...
Was Wittgenstein Right?
... The singular achievement of the controversial early 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was to have discerned the true nature of Western philosophy — what is special about its problems, where they come from, how they should and should not be addressed, and what can and cannot be accomplishe ...
... The singular achievement of the controversial early 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was to have discerned the true nature of Western philosophy — what is special about its problems, where they come from, how they should and should not be addressed, and what can and cannot be accomplishe ...
History of Philosophy
... of undetermined subjectivity and abstract freedom, or of the impulse of the natural will, or of the moral will which fixes upon its undetermined good capriciously. But in point of fact the individual finds in duty liberation. He is freed from subjection to mere natural impulse; he is freed from the ...
... of undetermined subjectivity and abstract freedom, or of the impulse of the natural will, or of the moral will which fixes upon its undetermined good capriciously. But in point of fact the individual finds in duty liberation. He is freed from subjection to mere natural impulse; he is freed from the ...
Can Philosophy Serve a High Purpose
... That is to say, we distinguish between the activity of formulating hypotheses, and the activity of displaying the logical relationship of these hypotheses and defining the symbols which occur in them. It is of no importance whether we call one who is engaged in the latter activity a philosopher or a ...
... That is to say, we distinguish between the activity of formulating hypotheses, and the activity of displaying the logical relationship of these hypotheses and defining the symbols which occur in them. It is of no importance whether we call one who is engaged in the latter activity a philosopher or a ...
PlatoX6_Commentary-_..
... it can only be educed from them through dialectic. “When something is good, it is so because that thing partakes of an archetypal essence of goodness that is absolute and perfect, that exists on a timeless level that transcends its passing particular manifestation, and that is accessible only to the ...
... it can only be educed from them through dialectic. “When something is good, it is so because that thing partakes of an archetypal essence of goodness that is absolute and perfect, that exists on a timeless level that transcends its passing particular manifestation, and that is accessible only to the ...
On philosophical method and Eastern Philosophy as a pdf file
... requires both sincerity, in approaching the areas of study critically AND fairly, and a degree of authenticity, in approaching areas close to you with a (fair) degree of critical analysis. Studying Eastern Philosophy: Avoid being gullible (commonly referred to as 'being flakey') or dismissive. Neith ...
... requires both sincerity, in approaching the areas of study critically AND fairly, and a degree of authenticity, in approaching areas close to you with a (fair) degree of critical analysis. Studying Eastern Philosophy: Avoid being gullible (commonly referred to as 'being flakey') or dismissive. Neith ...
Philosophy, Spoken Word, Written Text and Beyond
... with the work of philosophy itself. The assumption in this notion of a literary “museum without walls“ is that philosophical meaning is self-generating and transparent – that both the medium and form of philosophical texts as they appear to the reader (and before that, of course, to the writer) are ...
... with the work of philosophy itself. The assumption in this notion of a literary “museum without walls“ is that philosophical meaning is self-generating and transparent – that both the medium and form of philosophical texts as they appear to the reader (and before that, of course, to the writer) are ...
plato n aristotle
... the few individuals who can make the hard journey through the Cave will be able to give a solution for all questions of value. Aristotle does not have the same view – according to him, we should not ask for more certainty than the subject matter allows. A normal person is able to make good decisions ...
... the few individuals who can make the hard journey through the Cave will be able to give a solution for all questions of value. Aristotle does not have the same view – according to him, we should not ask for more certainty than the subject matter allows. A normal person is able to make good decisions ...
Pre Socratics and The School of Athens PowerPoint
... Primarily he wanted to know what was the principle behind it: What was it made of, how was it made and what made it. This is both a scientific and philosophical question. The Greeks made no distinction between what we now see as different disciplines. Maths, Science, Philosophy, Music, Arts etc were ...
... Primarily he wanted to know what was the principle behind it: What was it made of, how was it made and what made it. This is both a scientific and philosophical question. The Greeks made no distinction between what we now see as different disciplines. Maths, Science, Philosophy, Music, Arts etc were ...
"Cannon-fodder for whose science wars?", reply by Alan Sokal and
... them; the arguments must be analyzed in their own right. Krige doesn’t bother. In short, Krige’s “review” of our book is a caricature of its contents. Readers interested in an honest summary of our arguments will have to look elsewhere: for example, to the reviews by philosopher Thomas Nagel (The Ne ...
... them; the arguments must be analyzed in their own right. Krige doesn’t bother. In short, Krige’s “review” of our book is a caricature of its contents. Readers interested in an honest summary of our arguments will have to look elsewhere: for example, to the reviews by philosopher Thomas Nagel (The Ne ...
Social Studies 9R – Mr. Berman Aim #7: How did early Greek
... best kind of government. He did not believe that most people could make good decisions about government. Instead, Plato imagined an ideal government where a small group of wise men that were educated and trained to be philosophers (called “philosopher kings”) would hold all the power and make decisi ...
... best kind of government. He did not believe that most people could make good decisions about government. Instead, Plato imagined an ideal government where a small group of wise men that were educated and trained to be philosophers (called “philosopher kings”) would hold all the power and make decisi ...
philosophers. The guardians who are selected
... When Plato has Socrates first introduce the idea that the rulers of the republic should be philosophers, Socrates does so with hesitation and in recognition that the view is somewhat ridiculous. But in fact, it was not so unheard of as might be thought; there were a number of city-states in which me ...
... When Plato has Socrates first introduce the idea that the rulers of the republic should be philosophers, Socrates does so with hesitation and in recognition that the view is somewhat ridiculous. But in fact, it was not so unheard of as might be thought; there were a number of city-states in which me ...
Päivi Mehtonen, Obscure Language, Unclear Literature: Theory and
... Scottish philosopher George Campbell. After the philosophers’ attacks on literature, or poetry, there was a need to defend these, and Campbell does just that. In the tradition of Quintilian, he is an advocate of clarity, but he also seeks to develop a theory for interpreting the obscurity and unclar ...
... Scottish philosopher George Campbell. After the philosophers’ attacks on literature, or poetry, there was a need to defend these, and Campbell does just that. In the tradition of Quintilian, he is an advocate of clarity, but he also seeks to develop a theory for interpreting the obscurity and unclar ...
Allegory of the Cave
... • Democracy: Empowered ignorant people • Sophist’s false teachings- that nothing is permanent, values are relative, and knowledge is impossible. ...
... • Democracy: Empowered ignorant people • Sophist’s false teachings- that nothing is permanent, values are relative, and knowledge is impossible. ...
2. Scientific Renaissance in the sixteenth century: Renewing ancient
... 2. Scientists are autonomous agents working outside social-cultural context 3. Science is itself is value free Natural philosophy: a category, also known as “physics”, approximately equal to Aristotle’s term physis. It referred to systematic knowledge of all aspects of the physical world, including ...
... 2. Scientists are autonomous agents working outside social-cultural context 3. Science is itself is value free Natural philosophy: a category, also known as “physics”, approximately equal to Aristotle’s term physis. It referred to systematic knowledge of all aspects of the physical world, including ...
Jacob Bunce PHIL 2200 Final 1) What is hermeneutics? How does it
... 4) What does “philo-sophia” literally mean? How would this be different from geometry? How is it similar? It literally means “love of wisdom.” Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, not the possession of wisdom. There are no hard facts in philosophy, only questions and the desire to find those facts w ...
... 4) What does “philo-sophia” literally mean? How would this be different from geometry? How is it similar? It literally means “love of wisdom.” Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, not the possession of wisdom. There are no hard facts in philosophy, only questions and the desire to find those facts w ...
Josef Früchtl Professor in Philosophy University of Amsterdam
... Josef Früchtl Professor in Philosophy University of Amsterdam Academic CV ...
... Josef Früchtl Professor in Philosophy University of Amsterdam Academic CV ...
SESSION I: The Social Sciences and the Human Sciences: A
... Merleau-Ponty wrote a Phenomenology of Perception, a title bearing significance in and of itself, given its contraposition to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. In his work, Merleau-Ponty considered that two rival errors – positivist empiricism and reflexive idealism – were obstacles to an effective d ...
... Merleau-Ponty wrote a Phenomenology of Perception, a title bearing significance in and of itself, given its contraposition to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. In his work, Merleau-Ponty considered that two rival errors – positivist empiricism and reflexive idealism – were obstacles to an effective d ...
Plato
... unless political power & philosophy are brought together & those who now pursue either the one or the other exclusively are prevented from doing so -neither our political problems nor our human troubles in general can be ended . . . . ” ...
... unless political power & philosophy are brought together & those who now pursue either the one or the other exclusively are prevented from doing so -neither our political problems nor our human troubles in general can be ended . . . . ” ...
Plato
... unless political power & philosophy are brought together & those who now pursue either the one or the other exclusively are prevented from doing so -neither our political problems nor our human troubles in general can be ended . . . . " ...
... unless political power & philosophy are brought together & those who now pursue either the one or the other exclusively are prevented from doing so -neither our political problems nor our human troubles in general can be ended . . . . " ...
Language sometimes is deceptive
... I don’t mean that people use language to deceive, which, of course, we often do. Nor do I mean that words and sentences communicate something different to the listener or reader than what the speaker or author intends to communicate. This also is obvious and commonplace. The effect of this “deceptiv ...
... I don’t mean that people use language to deceive, which, of course, we often do. Nor do I mean that words and sentences communicate something different to the listener or reader than what the speaker or author intends to communicate. This also is obvious and commonplace. The effect of this “deceptiv ...
Obscurantism
Obscurantism (/ɵbˈskjʊərəntɪsm/) is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known. There are two common historical and intellectual denotations to Obscurantism: (1) deliberately restricting knowledge—opposition to the spread of knowledge, a policy of withholding knowledge from the public; and, (2) deliberate obscurity—an abstruse style (as in literature and art) characterized by deliberate vagueness. The name comes from French: obscurantisme, from the Latin obscurans, ""darkening"".The term obscurantism derives from the title of the 16th-century satire Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum (Letters of Obscure Men), based upon the intellectual dispute between the German humanist Johann Reuchlin and Dominican monks, such as Johannes Pfefferkorn, about whether or not all Jewish books should be burned as un-Christian. Earlier, in 1509, the monk Pfefferkorn had obtained permission from Maximilian I (1486–1519), the Holy Roman Emperor, to incinerate all copies of the Talmud (Jewish law and Jewish ethics) known to be in the Holy Roman Empire (AD 926–1806); the Letters of Obscure Men satirized the Dominican monks' arguments at burning ""un-Christian"" works.In the 18th century, Enlightenment philosophers used the term ""obscurantism"" to denote the enemies of the Enlightenment and its concept of the liberal diffusion of knowledge. Moreover, in the 19th century, in distinguishing the varieties of obscurantism found in metaphysics and theology from the ""more subtle"" obscurantism of the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and of modern philosophical skepticism, Friedrich Nietzsche said: ""The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.""