Why did Hume call his Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals
... is basically seen as a series of more or less connected essays addressing various aspects of moral theory. This, however, is decidedly not Hume’s own opinion. III Interlude: Hume on the difference between theoretical and practical philosophy Although he was publishing all of his work, apart from th ...
... is basically seen as a series of more or less connected essays addressing various aspects of moral theory. This, however, is decidedly not Hume’s own opinion. III Interlude: Hume on the difference between theoretical and practical philosophy Although he was publishing all of his work, apart from th ...
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
... (then called natural philosophy) as a guide was no accident, for one of the overriding assumptions of enlightened thought was that nature served as the grand analogy for all human activity. Human society, it was believed, should be brought into harmony with nature. In more traditional interpretation ...
... (then called natural philosophy) as a guide was no accident, for one of the overriding assumptions of enlightened thought was that nature served as the grand analogy for all human activity. Human society, it was believed, should be brought into harmony with nature. In more traditional interpretation ...
Anton Tomaž Linhart Between the German and the Slovenian
... in the 18th century and acquired a new and deeper meaning, as the unlimited expansion of emotions gave way to reason as the prime mover of all the manifestations of human life. From arts to politics, the need to expand exact knowledge was given prominence. In Central and Eastern Europe the Enlighten ...
... in the 18th century and acquired a new and deeper meaning, as the unlimited expansion of emotions gave way to reason as the prime mover of all the manifestations of human life. From arts to politics, the need to expand exact knowledge was given prominence. In Central and Eastern Europe the Enlighten ...
Hume on Monkish Virtue
... do well to remove himself, for a time, from the familiar social environment with its host of cues to smoke, the worst of which are probably other smokers. Many people find that solitude promotes insight as well as affording an opportunity for change. This has ever been so; it is not just a fact abou ...
... do well to remove himself, for a time, from the familiar social environment with its host of cues to smoke, the worst of which are probably other smokers. Many people find that solitude promotes insight as well as affording an opportunity for change. This has ever been so; it is not just a fact abou ...
What Does the Scientist of Man Observe?
... experience and observation” (T xvi). This methodological principle is a familiar Newtonian one; indeed Hume makes a point of saying it applies to “all the sciences” (Txviii), not just to the science of man. Although the principle is familiar, just what it enjoins is not clear. We are to renounce inv ...
... experience and observation” (T xvi). This methodological principle is a familiar Newtonian one; indeed Hume makes a point of saying it applies to “all the sciences” (Txviii), not just to the science of man. Although the principle is familiar, just what it enjoins is not clear. We are to renounce inv ...
Unbounded Ocean.Mormann copia
... synthesis of ideas of Mach and Poincaré as Frank put it. The main contention of the following section is that this interpretation ignores what may be called Carnap’s German philosophical legacy. It is argued that this current not only comprises Neokantian ingredients but also a strong dose of German ...
... synthesis of ideas of Mach and Poincaré as Frank put it. The main contention of the following section is that this interpretation ignores what may be called Carnap’s German philosophical legacy. It is argued that this current not only comprises Neokantian ingredients but also a strong dose of German ...
Voltaire`s Conception of National and International Society
... ruler would "abstain from conquest and political warfare" and that such an individual would make international peace his cardinal virtue. In the same year, Voltaire would fmd the incarnation of his ideal legislator in Prince Frederick, whose work, Anti-Machiavelli, expressed his views on the futilit ...
... ruler would "abstain from conquest and political warfare" and that such an individual would make international peace his cardinal virtue. In the same year, Voltaire would fmd the incarnation of his ideal legislator in Prince Frederick, whose work, Anti-Machiavelli, expressed his views on the futilit ...
The Enlightenment and religion
... historical record because there is clear evidence to indicate that the protagonists of the Enlightenment also wished to be remembered as ‘new thinkers’ unsullied with the intellectual baggage of the past. They thus propagandized that which was new or radical in that century, and usually failed to in ...
... historical record because there is clear evidence to indicate that the protagonists of the Enlightenment also wished to be remembered as ‘new thinkers’ unsullied with the intellectual baggage of the past. They thus propagandized that which was new or radical in that century, and usually failed to in ...
Jani Hakkarainen. Hume`s Scepticism and Realism: His Two
... when it comes to explaining why we think this (in 1.4 of the Treatise) Hume goes through great pains to demonstrate that neither the senses nor reason can supply us with our pre-philosophical belief which is, rather, the result of natural instinct (which combines with the imagination to resolve case ...
... when it comes to explaining why we think this (in 1.4 of the Treatise) Hume goes through great pains to demonstrate that neither the senses nor reason can supply us with our pre-philosophical belief which is, rather, the result of natural instinct (which combines with the imagination to resolve case ...
Re-thinking Catholic Philosophy: Alasdair MacIntyre and the
... kindred concept, “modern.” For one, historically speaking, there is not just one but multiple versions of Enlightenment from the seventeenth century up to the early part of the nineteenth century: there were the French Enlightenment, the Scottish Enlightenment and the German Enlightenment to which K ...
... kindred concept, “modern.” For one, historically speaking, there is not just one but multiple versions of Enlightenment from the seventeenth century up to the early part of the nineteenth century: there were the French Enlightenment, the Scottish Enlightenment and the German Enlightenment to which K ...
Jonathan Yeager, "Puritan or enlightened? John Erskine and the
... G. D. Henderson contends that the 'Evangelical party in the Scottish Church of the eighteenth century displays very clearly the main characteristics of puritanism'.' John Erskine 0721-1803), the leader of the Popular party, was listed by Henderson as 'the most distinguished of the later Evangelicals ...
... G. D. Henderson contends that the 'Evangelical party in the Scottish Church of the eighteenth century displays very clearly the main characteristics of puritanism'.' John Erskine 0721-1803), the leader of the Popular party, was listed by Henderson as 'the most distinguished of the later Evangelicals ...
remembering rousseau`s discourse on political economy as a
... After all, the Enlightenment writers from Smith to the physiocrats like Turgot believed that they were living in a new condition and stage of the history of humanity; progressive and materially wealthy. So, political economy was important for the Enlightenment thinkers to legitimize their commercial ...
... After all, the Enlightenment writers from Smith to the physiocrats like Turgot believed that they were living in a new condition and stage of the history of humanity; progressive and materially wealthy. So, political economy was important for the Enlightenment thinkers to legitimize their commercial ...
CLASSROOM ACTIVITY A Lot of “Light” Music
... a kind of information explosion, the Age of Enlightenment. Scholars began to argue that through careful observation and the application of reason—and only through this—humans could come to understand the universe. This was the beginning of modern science. Enlightenment thinkers took nothing on faith ...
... a kind of information explosion, the Age of Enlightenment. Scholars began to argue that through careful observation and the application of reason—and only through this—humans could come to understand the universe. This was the beginning of modern science. Enlightenment thinkers took nothing on faith ...
THE CASE FOR THE ENLIGHTENMENT
... closely linked to the American and French revolutions, which he regards, in their better parts, as its fulfilment. His is not, therefore, an Enlightenment which stands or falls on its own independent merits. A second, much more substantial restatement of the case for the Enlightenment as a coherent ...
... closely linked to the American and French revolutions, which he regards, in their better parts, as its fulfilment. His is not, therefore, an Enlightenment which stands or falls on its own independent merits. A second, much more substantial restatement of the case for the Enlightenment as a coherent ...
heraclitean critique of kantian and enlightenment ethics through the
... freedom, progress and equality. Particularly the scientific revolution made it compulsory for philosophers and social scientists to question not only the medieval theology and cosmology (as two branches of metaphysics) but also the dualistic presuppositions of medieval thought. This questioning led ...
... freedom, progress and equality. Particularly the scientific revolution made it compulsory for philosophers and social scientists to question not only the medieval theology and cosmology (as two branches of metaphysics) but also the dualistic presuppositions of medieval thought. This questioning led ...
Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Rationalism
... The authentic rationalism that Jacobi wants to advance is opposed to the false rationalism of the Enlightenment, where reason is a flame that illuminates experience. The Enlightenment, which makes perception into an intellectual construction and belief in the reality of the object into a conclusion ...
... The authentic rationalism that Jacobi wants to advance is opposed to the false rationalism of the Enlightenment, where reason is a flame that illuminates experience. The Enlightenment, which makes perception into an intellectual construction and belief in the reality of the object into a conclusion ...
Reason, Liberty and Science. The Contribution of Freemasonry to
... forever and cannot be destroyed”; also on his famous school gates it was written: “Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors”. Not only geometry, but all sciences, currents and doctrines have emerged from philosophical thinking. Nevertheless, philosophical allegations are not enough for an ide ...
... forever and cannot be destroyed”; also on his famous school gates it was written: “Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors”. Not only geometry, but all sciences, currents and doctrines have emerged from philosophical thinking. Nevertheless, philosophical allegations are not enough for an ide ...
Ethics without Ontology
... paying no attention to the man who had been bound, neglecting him because he was a murderer and it would be no great matter even if he died. And that is what happened.” And so Euthyphro has taken it upon himself to charge his own father for murder. Moreover, Euthyphro is absolutely certain that this ...
... paying no attention to the man who had been bound, neglecting him because he was a murderer and it would be no great matter even if he died. And that is what happened.” And so Euthyphro has taken it upon himself to charge his own father for murder. Moreover, Euthyphro is absolutely certain that this ...
HUMANITIES 155 -- THE ROMANTIC SPIRIT
... individual freedom and against the absolutism of church and state, his conception of the state as the embodiment of the abstract will of the people and his arguments for strict enforcement of political and religious conformity are regarded by some historians as a source of totalitarian ideology. Rou ...
... individual freedom and against the absolutism of church and state, his conception of the state as the embodiment of the abstract will of the people and his arguments for strict enforcement of political and religious conformity are regarded by some historians as a source of totalitarian ideology. Rou ...
The Concept of Upaya - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
... Fully realizing the inadequacies of human language, ...
... Fully realizing the inadequacies of human language, ...
Introduction: the Enlightenment in Bohemia1
... save scholastic metaphysics. Finally, there is Israel’s dichotomy of ‘radical’ and ‘mainstream Enlightenments’, which puts forward the fundamental truth that there was never only one Enlightenment.17 At first glance, it seems that Israel has brought the multiple-Enlightenments approach to a higher le ...
... save scholastic metaphysics. Finally, there is Israel’s dichotomy of ‘radical’ and ‘mainstream Enlightenments’, which puts forward the fundamental truth that there was never only one Enlightenment.17 At first glance, it seems that Israel has brought the multiple-Enlightenments approach to a higher le ...
The Enlightenment, sometimes referred to as the Age of
... John Locke was one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers. He influenced other thinkers such as Rousseau and Voltaire, among others. "He is one of the dozen or so thinkers who are remembered for their influential contributions across a broad spectrum of philosophical subfields--in Locke's c ...
... John Locke was one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers. He influenced other thinkers such as Rousseau and Voltaire, among others. "He is one of the dozen or so thinkers who are remembered for their influential contributions across a broad spectrum of philosophical subfields--in Locke's c ...
Preface - PhilPapers
... object to the way the Enlightenment gives far too great an importance to natural science and to scientific rationality. My discovery is that what is wrong with the traditional Enlightenment, and the kind of academic inquiry we now possess derived from it – knowledge-inquiry – is not too much 'scient ...
... object to the way the Enlightenment gives far too great an importance to natural science and to scientific rationality. My discovery is that what is wrong with the traditional Enlightenment, and the kind of academic inquiry we now possess derived from it – knowledge-inquiry – is not too much 'scient ...
عمادة التعلم الإلكتروني والتعليم عن بعد
... The integration of algebraic thinking, acquired from the Islamic world over the previous two centuries, and geometric thinking which had dominated Western mathematics and philosophy since at least Eudoxus, precipitated a scientific and mathematical revolution. عمادة التعلم اإللكتروني والتعليم عن بع ...
... The integration of algebraic thinking, acquired from the Islamic world over the previous two centuries, and geometric thinking which had dominated Western mathematics and philosophy since at least Eudoxus, precipitated a scientific and mathematical revolution. عمادة التعلم اإللكتروني والتعليم عن بع ...
Scottish Enlightenment
The Scottish Enlightenment (Scots: Scots Enlichtenment, Scottish Gaelic: Soillseachadh na h-Alba) was the period in 18th century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By the eighteenth century, Scotland had a network of parish schools in the Lowlands and five universities. The Enlightenment culture was based on close readings of new books, and intense discussions took place daily at such intellectual gathering places in Edinburgh as The Select Society and, later, The Poker Club as well as within Scotland’s ancient universities such as St Andrews, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.Sharing the humanist and rationalist outlook of the European Enlightenment of the same time period, the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment asserted the fundamental importance of human reason combined with a rejection of any authority that could not be justified by reason. They held to an optimistic belief in the ability of humanity to effect changes for the better in society and nature, guided only by reason. This latter feature gave the Scottish Enlightenment its special flavour, distinguishing it from its continental European counterpart. In Scotland, the Enlightenment was characterised by a thoroughgoing empiricism and practicality where the chief values were improvement, virtue, and practical benefit for the individual and society as a whole.Among the fields that rapidly advanced were philosophy, political economy, engineering, architecture, medicine, geology, archaeology, law, agriculture, chemistry and sociology. Among the Scottish thinkers and scientists of the period were Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Reid, Robert Burns, Adam Ferguson, John Playfair, Joseph Black and James Hutton.The Scottish Enlightenment had effects far beyond Scotland, not only because of the esteem in which Scottish achievements were held outside Scotland, but also because its ideas and attitudes were carried across the Atlantic world as part of the Scottish diaspora, and by American students who studied in Scotland.