Public Reason Liberalism
... reason itself is always right reason, as well as arithmetic is a certain and infallible art, but no one man’s reason, nor the reason of any one number of men, makes the certainty… And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up, for right rea ...
... reason itself is always right reason, as well as arithmetic is a certain and infallible art, but no one man’s reason, nor the reason of any one number of men, makes the certainty… And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up, for right rea ...
Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon
... reason, especially in the guise of philosophical metaphysics, is also really subservient to values. Nietzsche, pointing to the Stoic metaphysics of nature, observes that their “pride wants to dictate and annex [their] morals and ideals onto nature” (BGE 9), but in doing so they are just exemplifying ...
... reason, especially in the guise of philosophical metaphysics, is also really subservient to values. Nietzsche, pointing to the Stoic metaphysics of nature, observes that their “pride wants to dictate and annex [their] morals and ideals onto nature” (BGE 9), but in doing so they are just exemplifying ...
Disagreement and the Ethics of Belief
... Sunstein calls the ‘law of group polarization”. So, there are also dangers with likeminded groups. B. Groups reach more accurate conclusions when dissenting parties genuinely hold their dissenting beliefs in the debate. Evidence for B comes from Mercier (2012) who suggests that we tend to seek out a ...
... Sunstein calls the ‘law of group polarization”. So, there are also dangers with likeminded groups. B. Groups reach more accurate conclusions when dissenting parties genuinely hold their dissenting beliefs in the debate. Evidence for B comes from Mercier (2012) who suggests that we tend to seek out a ...
3. Kant`s Moral Constructivism
... accordance with the stipulations we have just surveyed. Unless a maxim passes the test of that procedure, acting from the maxim is forbidden. This outcome is final from the standpoint of practical reason as a whole, both pure and empirical. The survey of six conceptions of the good in Kant's doctrin ...
... accordance with the stipulations we have just surveyed. Unless a maxim passes the test of that procedure, acting from the maxim is forbidden. This outcome is final from the standpoint of practical reason as a whole, both pure and empirical. The survey of six conceptions of the good in Kant's doctrin ...
Govier`s Distinguishing A Priori from Inductive Arguments by
... We can easily see that this argument is defeasible. Although it might tax our imaginations, it is certainly not logically impossible that there be some reason for forcing people to breathe secondhand smoke, which could be offered as a rebutting defeater to the argument. We shall later see how this a ...
... We can easily see that this argument is defeasible. Although it might tax our imaginations, it is certainly not logically impossible that there be some reason for forcing people to breathe secondhand smoke, which could be offered as a rebutting defeater to the argument. We shall later see how this a ...
Kant`s History of Ethics
... misunderstood. Epicurus’ ideal, he says, was that of “an inner contentment and a cheerful heart. One must be secure against all reproaches from oneself or others – but that is no philosophy of pleasure, and he has been poorly understood. We still have a letter from him, in which he invites someone ...
... misunderstood. Epicurus’ ideal, he says, was that of “an inner contentment and a cheerful heart. One must be secure against all reproaches from oneself or others – but that is no philosophy of pleasure, and he has been poorly understood. We still have a letter from him, in which he invites someone ...
The epistemological tradition in French sociology
... the most important collaborators in the first series of L’Année sociologique.3 I wish to add one or two scholars who did not contribute to this series but who later on were to appear as prominent advocates for the Durkheimian school. This goes first and foremost for the sinologist Marcel Granet, who ...
... the most important collaborators in the first series of L’Année sociologique.3 I wish to add one or two scholars who did not contribute to this series but who later on were to appear as prominent advocates for the Durkheimian school. This goes first and foremost for the sinologist Marcel Granet, who ...
Kant on Irresistible Inclinations: Moral Worth, Happiness
... The title of this paper should strike the reader as perplexing; after all, on most interpretations of Kant, there are no such things as irresistible inclinations. Most contemporary interpretations accept that, for Kant, ought implies can and we are all subject to moral demands that require that we s ...
... The title of this paper should strike the reader as perplexing; after all, on most interpretations of Kant, there are no such things as irresistible inclinations. Most contemporary interpretations accept that, for Kant, ought implies can and we are all subject to moral demands that require that we s ...
Truth and Friendship: The Importance of the Conversation of Friends
... action most characteristic of friendship: conversation. It is no accident that an age marked by paucity in virtuous friendships, is marked also by a loss of the art of conversation. If the thesis of this paper stands, it is then also no accident that there is a dearth of men and women reaching to th ...
... action most characteristic of friendship: conversation. It is no accident that an age marked by paucity in virtuous friendships, is marked also by a loss of the art of conversation. If the thesis of this paper stands, it is then also no accident that there is a dearth of men and women reaching to th ...
... many others feel, and foremost among these, perhaps, the philosophers. If my friend is so interested in physics, it is because he believes that its laws are, in some sense, the closest to the essence of things (and no one mentions any possible reduction to another science). What is then his problem? ...
Against the Idols of the Age
... University revealed biases in appointments. When he wrote that a philosopher in the ...
... University revealed biases in appointments. When he wrote that a philosopher in the ...
Hegel`s Phenomenology of Spirit Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
... Absolute is infinite life and love and the Absolute is the conscious unity of this life, of unity with the infinite and unity with others. Note the effort after “wholeness” so alien to scientific materialism, empiricism, individualism, and instrumental reason. In 1800 Hegel published Fragment of a s ...
... Absolute is infinite life and love and the Absolute is the conscious unity of this life, of unity with the infinite and unity with others. Note the effort after “wholeness” so alien to scientific materialism, empiricism, individualism, and instrumental reason. In 1800 Hegel published Fragment of a s ...
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... ferent means and with different results — sets him apart from both mainstream philosophers of film as well as film theorists engaging with philosophy. So how to make sense of Cavell’s claim that the “marriage” between film and philosophy is grounded in their responses to scepticism? It is not that t ...
... ferent means and with different results — sets him apart from both mainstream philosophers of film as well as film theorists engaging with philosophy. So how to make sense of Cavell’s claim that the “marriage” between film and philosophy is grounded in their responses to scepticism? It is not that t ...
Thinking Through the Body, Educating for the Humanities: A Plea for
... If we turn from ethics and action to epistemology, the body remains emblematic of human ambiguity. As both an indispensable source of perception and an insurmountable limit to it, the body epitomizes the human condition of knowledge and ignorance. Because, as a body, I am a thing among things in the ...
... If we turn from ethics and action to epistemology, the body remains emblematic of human ambiguity. As both an indispensable source of perception and an insurmountable limit to it, the body epitomizes the human condition of knowledge and ignorance. Because, as a body, I am a thing among things in the ...
william wordsworth and idealism - Bangladesh Research Publications
... The above extract from the poem ‘Immortality Ode’ expressing the poet’s yearning to reach world of the true ideas. He wants to be united with that world but he wants to do so through the events of nature_ he will join the ecstasy of the ‘bird’s song’ and feel the ‘gladness of May’ via his thought. T ...
... The above extract from the poem ‘Immortality Ode’ expressing the poet’s yearning to reach world of the true ideas. He wants to be united with that world but he wants to do so through the events of nature_ he will join the ecstasy of the ‘bird’s song’ and feel the ‘gladness of May’ via his thought. T ...
maimon and deleuze: the viewpoint of internal genesis and the
... understanding and sensibility are two entirely different sources of representation, “which could judge about things with objective validity only in conjunction” (A 271/B 327). Therefore, a special act of synthesis is required through which a manifold of intuition is united in accordance with the a p ...
... understanding and sensibility are two entirely different sources of representation, “which could judge about things with objective validity only in conjunction” (A 271/B 327). Therefore, a special act of synthesis is required through which a manifold of intuition is united in accordance with the a p ...
Virtue, Knowledge, and Goodness
... This thesis consists of three parts. Part one responds to an argument by Jason Baehr that virtues of intellectual character which make their possessor good qua person can also figure as virtues in reliabilist accounts of knowledge. I analyze his argument with special attention to the cases he uses t ...
... This thesis consists of three parts. Part one responds to an argument by Jason Baehr that virtues of intellectual character which make their possessor good qua person can also figure as virtues in reliabilist accounts of knowledge. I analyze his argument with special attention to the cases he uses t ...
EINSTEIN: PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS
... relations among sensory experiences. He may even appear as Platonist or Pythagorean insofar as he considers the viewpoint of logical simplicity as an indispensable and effective tool of his research.” Einstein, in Schilpp, LLP, ”reply to criticisms”, p. 683 One cannot fail to notice the humour here, ...
... relations among sensory experiences. He may even appear as Platonist or Pythagorean insofar as he considers the viewpoint of logical simplicity as an indispensable and effective tool of his research.” Einstein, in Schilpp, LLP, ”reply to criticisms”, p. 683 One cannot fail to notice the humour here, ...
6 S Being and Being Grounded
... adds that this claim follows from the principle that nothing comes to be without reason.11 While Leibniz seems to think that the principle of sufficient reason, together with the principle of contradiction, holds for all true propositions, he distinguishes the scope of what depends upon it from the ...
... adds that this claim follows from the principle that nothing comes to be without reason.11 While Leibniz seems to think that the principle of sufficient reason, together with the principle of contradiction, holds for all true propositions, he distinguishes the scope of what depends upon it from the ...
Overview - Course Materials
... 1. Kant does not think of ethics in terms of eudaemonia (happiness). Happiness, however we define it, is not the goal of ethics. Happiness is sought through our “inclinations,” not moral laws. In addition, finding out what is ethical and what is not applies to all rational beings (whether they are h ...
... 1. Kant does not think of ethics in terms of eudaemonia (happiness). Happiness, however we define it, is not the goal of ethics. Happiness is sought through our “inclinations,” not moral laws. In addition, finding out what is ethical and what is not applies to all rational beings (whether they are h ...
Does Changing the Subject From A to B Really
... other kind of definition? Moore’s (controversial) answer is that the meaning of simple concepts, such as the concept of good, is graspable by intellectual intuition. Moore is no mystic. Intuition is simply the cognitive means we all possess for knowing what an indefinable concept means without being ...
... other kind of definition? Moore’s (controversial) answer is that the meaning of simple concepts, such as the concept of good, is graspable by intellectual intuition. Moore is no mystic. Intuition is simply the cognitive means we all possess for knowing what an indefinable concept means without being ...
chapter 2 - Robert M Wallace
... the question of whether one could maintain his (Williams’s) rejection of “external reasons” in regard to the fully first-person question of one’s judgments about what one has reason, oneself, to do. Kant was so concerned about the apparent contrast between the point of view of explanation and the po ...
... the question of whether one could maintain his (Williams’s) rejection of “external reasons” in regard to the fully first-person question of one’s judgments about what one has reason, oneself, to do. Kant was so concerned about the apparent contrast between the point of view of explanation and the po ...
On the Theory and Practice of Intercultural Philosophy
... without the violence of a particular structure. It is about a new cul‐ ture of philosophising. Several questions that are inseparable from this new culture arise naturally: What obstacles may hinder a peaceful meeting and constructive exchange between cultures, systems of thought, ...
... without the violence of a particular structure. It is about a new cul‐ ture of philosophising. Several questions that are inseparable from this new culture arise naturally: What obstacles may hinder a peaceful meeting and constructive exchange between cultures, systems of thought, ...
The Influence and Application of Eastern Philosophy
... vocal part, and the text nicely depicts the fundamental suffering that Schopenhauer associates with existence: “the world is deep... deeps is its woe.” The text is taken from a poem by Friedrich Nietzsche, whose original philosophical musings were prompted by conversations with Wagner and thus also ...
... vocal part, and the text nicely depicts the fundamental suffering that Schopenhauer associates with existence: “the world is deep... deeps is its woe.” The text is taken from a poem by Friedrich Nietzsche, whose original philosophical musings were prompted by conversations with Wagner and thus also ...
Metaphysics as the First Philosophy
... or how they are. Ontologically independent, fundamental entities are (primary) substances – of which forms are the key example. Here, we once again encounter essences, for Aristotle says that “By form I mean the essence of each thing and its primary substance” (1032b1–2).6 On a related note, Tierney ...
... or how they are. Ontologically independent, fundamental entities are (primary) substances – of which forms are the key example. Here, we once again encounter essences, for Aristotle says that “By form I mean the essence of each thing and its primary substance” (1032b1–2).6 On a related note, Tierney ...