Philosophy of Language
... Saul Kripke famously argued that identities between rigid designators are necessary truths, even though they are discovered by scientific investigation (‘a posteriori’), and that therefore they reveal (part of) the essence of what it is to be that thing (or that ‘natural kind’ of thing). But in my v ...
... Saul Kripke famously argued that identities between rigid designators are necessary truths, even though they are discovered by scientific investigation (‘a posteriori’), and that therefore they reveal (part of) the essence of what it is to be that thing (or that ‘natural kind’ of thing). But in my v ...
View/Open
... the usual issues, but by picking up the lost opportunities. And perhaps we will recognize in these lost opportunities some facets of a reality picked up in Eastern thinking. Indeed, what orientation would Western thinking have taken if Ancient Greek Philosophy had not followed the way pointed out by ...
... the usual issues, but by picking up the lost opportunities. And perhaps we will recognize in these lost opportunities some facets of a reality picked up in Eastern thinking. Indeed, what orientation would Western thinking have taken if Ancient Greek Philosophy had not followed the way pointed out by ...
Journal of Philosophy of Education
... perceptions that, by their very existence, call into question the dubious treaties struck between the humanities as they are now increasingly organised and the larger goals of education. The Sacred Desert is peppered with criticism of Western Christian annexations of the Eastern desert, as both othe ...
... perceptions that, by their very existence, call into question the dubious treaties struck between the humanities as they are now increasingly organised and the larger goals of education. The Sacred Desert is peppered with criticism of Western Christian annexations of the Eastern desert, as both othe ...
投影片 1
... 1) that different perspectives are ultimately committed to the recognition of truth, and of acting on this truth; 2) these different perspectives contain 'truth‘; 3) there is a truth or set of truths which all do or can come to share, and all cultures share in some truth; 4) no one group has articul ...
... 1) that different perspectives are ultimately committed to the recognition of truth, and of acting on this truth; 2) these different perspectives contain 'truth‘; 3) there is a truth or set of truths which all do or can come to share, and all cultures share in some truth; 4) no one group has articul ...
Chapter 1 - WordPress.com
... Causative Interpretation of History Why is there history? What causes a historical event to happen? These questions have haunted man ever since the advent of civilization. In various times and in different places, man has attempted to answer these philosophical questions. ...
... Causative Interpretation of History Why is there history? What causes a historical event to happen? These questions have haunted man ever since the advent of civilization. In various times and in different places, man has attempted to answer these philosophical questions. ...
Lec 9 - Ursula Stange
... All things emanate from the One The One creates things like itself – souls And things not like itself -- matter -------------------Neoplatonism Neo-Platonism revived again by the 19th century American writers known collectively as the Transcendentalists Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau ...
... All things emanate from the One The One creates things like itself – souls And things not like itself -- matter -------------------Neoplatonism Neo-Platonism revived again by the 19th century American writers known collectively as the Transcendentalists Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau ...
The Philosophy of Physics - Trin
... This is an excellent book, by a very distinguished historian and philosopher of physics. Roberto Torretti is principally known to historians and philosophers of physics through his previous books, Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincare (1978), Relativity and Geometry (1983), and Creative U ...
... This is an excellent book, by a very distinguished historian and philosopher of physics. Roberto Torretti is principally known to historians and philosophers of physics through his previous books, Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincare (1978), Relativity and Geometry (1983), and Creative U ...
International Seminar on "Science, Vedanta and
... [I am this entire world.]'' According to his biographer Walter Moore, there is a clear continuity between Schrodinger's understanding of Vedanta and his research, “The unity and continuity of Vedanta are reflected in the unity and continuity of wave mechanics. In 1925, the worldview of physics was a ...
... [I am this entire world.]'' According to his biographer Walter Moore, there is a clear continuity between Schrodinger's understanding of Vedanta and his research, “The unity and continuity of Vedanta are reflected in the unity and continuity of wave mechanics. In 1925, the worldview of physics was a ...
Plato, knowledge and virtue
... both beautiful and not beautiful. • Therefore, we can have knowledge of the Forms, though not through our senses. • The highest knowledge is knowledge of the Form of the Good: it is from the good that ‘things that are just and so on derive their usefulness and value… Is there any point in having the ...
... both beautiful and not beautiful. • Therefore, we can have knowledge of the Forms, though not through our senses. • The highest knowledge is knowledge of the Form of the Good: it is from the good that ‘things that are just and so on derive their usefulness and value… Is there any point in having the ...
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101 Basic Issues in Philosophy [OC-H] This course is an introduction
... ways of being––that is, religious ethos–and explore how one might responsibly think about and evaluate such ways. We do not explore in any substantial way various world religions, but rather we examine how to think about religious perspectives, how to understand their complexity and force, how to lo ...
... ways of being––that is, religious ethos–and explore how one might responsibly think about and evaluate such ways. We do not explore in any substantial way various world religions, but rather we examine how to think about religious perspectives, how to understand their complexity and force, how to lo ...
Happiness and Agency
... Ancient authors like Plato (428-348 BC) and Aristotle (384-322 BC), following the example of Socrates, (470-399 BC), emphasized the role of Reason in checking our impulses and bringing our appetites under rational legislation. They noted that persons who cannot control their emotions become slaves t ...
... Ancient authors like Plato (428-348 BC) and Aristotle (384-322 BC), following the example of Socrates, (470-399 BC), emphasized the role of Reason in checking our impulses and bringing our appetites under rational legislation. They noted that persons who cannot control their emotions become slaves t ...
“Mystical Marriage.” Two entries in the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1911
... With Christianity, the history of Mysticism enters into a new period. The Fathers recognized indeed the partial truth of the pagan system, but they pointed out also its fundamental errors. They made a distinction between reason and faith, philosophy and theology; they acknowledged the aspirations o ...
... With Christianity, the history of Mysticism enters into a new period. The Fathers recognized indeed the partial truth of the pagan system, but they pointed out also its fundamental errors. They made a distinction between reason and faith, philosophy and theology; they acknowledged the aspirations o ...
Hinduism and Buddhism in Greek Philosophy
... thereseem to be tracesof in the Orphicabstinencefromanimalsacrifice theprimitivetaboo which,accordingto the latestevidence,35 gave rise to for or reverence thecastesystemand to thedoctrineof ahimisa(non-injury featureof Orphismthatit inculcatesfriendlilife). Indeed,it is a striking is nessto all cre ...
... thereseem to be tracesof in the Orphicabstinencefromanimalsacrifice theprimitivetaboo which,accordingto the latestevidence,35 gave rise to for or reverence thecastesystemand to thedoctrineof ahimisa(non-injury featureof Orphismthatit inculcatesfriendlilife). Indeed,it is a striking is nessto all cre ...
Revision Notes Ethical Theory
... your parents taught you, etc. You will not look to religion for guidance, although it may be a small influence. ...
... your parents taught you, etc. You will not look to religion for guidance, although it may be a small influence. ...
Review of Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School
... beyond the opposition of God and nothingness was something more fundamental, which he identifies as emptiness. It was Nishitani’s work, traversing both ancient and contemporary Eastern and Western traditions, comprehensive as well as accessible, that brought attention to the works of the Kyoto Schoo ...
... beyond the opposition of God and nothingness was something more fundamental, which he identifies as emptiness. It was Nishitani’s work, traversing both ancient and contemporary Eastern and Western traditions, comprehensive as well as accessible, that brought attention to the works of the Kyoto Schoo ...
(2.3) spirituality in the peripatetic philosophical traditions of islam
... since the Peripatetic thinkers in Islam aimed further at executing spiritual exercises, which seemingly opened up experiential vistas and unveiled intellectual horizons that surpassed the inner-worldly limits of Heidegger’s take on Dasein’s solitary authenticity (39-40). Cultivating virtue and the s ...
... since the Peripatetic thinkers in Islam aimed further at executing spiritual exercises, which seemingly opened up experiential vistas and unveiled intellectual horizons that surpassed the inner-worldly limits of Heidegger’s take on Dasein’s solitary authenticity (39-40). Cultivating virtue and the s ...
Class #2 - 3-18-13
... that the principles of science qualify as genuine knowledge or that God exists (or doesn't exist) then, on each of those issues, you are a skeptic. ...
... that the principles of science qualify as genuine knowledge or that God exists (or doesn't exist) then, on each of those issues, you are a skeptic. ...
Reason and Belief in the Societies of Knowledge
... religions yielded empirical findings supporting a hypothesis first formulated by Friedrich August von Hayek in 1982: Religious beliefs in superempirical agents may be adaptive even if they clearly conflict with modern scientific knowledge. For example, religious demography has been able to explain a ...
... religions yielded empirical findings supporting a hypothesis first formulated by Friedrich August von Hayek in 1982: Religious beliefs in superempirical agents may be adaptive even if they clearly conflict with modern scientific knowledge. For example, religious demography has been able to explain a ...
Lesson Plan: Descarte`s Rationalism
... beautiful for one person seems wrong or ugly to the other. If there is any truth to be ascertained then it is with reason and logical scrutiny like in mathematics (although some argue today that mathematical truths also are relative and depends on aesthetical intuitions). We’ve learned from Plato th ...
... beautiful for one person seems wrong or ugly to the other. If there is any truth to be ascertained then it is with reason and logical scrutiny like in mathematics (although some argue today that mathematical truths also are relative and depends on aesthetical intuitions). We’ve learned from Plato th ...
1 - Understanding World Religions
... Introduction to the Study of Religion • The How do we decide whether Scientology is a religion? – Most people who say that Scientology is not a religion argue that religions involve a belief in God that is missing from Scientology. – Others, like some members of the German and French Governments, s ...
... Introduction to the Study of Religion • The How do we decide whether Scientology is a religion? – Most people who say that Scientology is not a religion argue that religions involve a belief in God that is missing from Scientology. – Others, like some members of the German and French Governments, s ...
Class #2
... Dualism is the view that all of reality is divided into two kinds of things. Thus, if you believe that all of reality is divided between the realm of God and the physical universe, or that there is a "higher world" and a "lower world", or that reality is composed of spirit and matter, you are a dual ...
... Dualism is the view that all of reality is divided into two kinds of things. Thus, if you believe that all of reality is divided between the realm of God and the physical universe, or that there is a "higher world" and a "lower world", or that reality is composed of spirit and matter, you are a dual ...
Belief, Truth, & Knowledge
... • Rationalist statements are true without the use of senses. (If A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A is great than C) • Cause and Effect - (yes remember Aquinas) - rock hitting window - we don’t see the cause yet we believe it happened. ...
... • Rationalist statements are true without the use of senses. (If A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A is great than C) • Cause and Effect - (yes remember Aquinas) - rock hitting window - we don’t see the cause yet we believe it happened. ...
PHIL 219
... “…when your guardians...arrange unseasonable marriages, the children of such marriages will not be well-endowed or fortunate. The best of them will be established in power by their predecessors; but nevertheless they will be unworthy of it...”(112c1). “…the instant the son has seen and felt this (th ...
... “…when your guardians...arrange unseasonable marriages, the children of such marriages will not be well-endowed or fortunate. The best of them will be established in power by their predecessors; but nevertheless they will be unworthy of it...”(112c1). “…the instant the son has seen and felt this (th ...
Approaches to the study of religion lecture
... “The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore the ideas of its dominance.” “Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their cor ...
... “The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore the ideas of its dominance.” “Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their cor ...
Book Review - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
... defines the practice and style of thought. Even though Nancy is critical of language as a signifying (representing) practice and thus of structuralism, in his works The Sense of the World and Gravity of Thought, one should not forget that in some of Nancy’s works language does play a positive role. ...
... defines the practice and style of thought. Even though Nancy is critical of language as a signifying (representing) practice and thus of structuralism, in his works The Sense of the World and Gravity of Thought, one should not forget that in some of Nancy’s works language does play a positive role. ...