FULL-TEXT - Manchester eScholar
... inverse squares’ to the necessary existence of God and His continuing activity in the universe, a key strategy in the defence of divine truth against the atheistic tendencies of the time – it also had relevance for aesthetic theory: Newton claimed that the pleasure that comes from experiencing beaut ...
... inverse squares’ to the necessary existence of God and His continuing activity in the universe, a key strategy in the defence of divine truth against the atheistic tendencies of the time – it also had relevance for aesthetic theory: Newton claimed that the pleasure that comes from experiencing beaut ...
Nishitani Keiji and the Overcoming of Modernity (1940–1945)
... Nearly a year later, and not after considerable resistance to the prompting of Mori Tetsurō, Minamoto Ryōen, Ueda Shizuteru, and others, I began, halfheartedly, to read Nishitani again, this time focusing on his wartime writings and without any ambitions to make a contribution to the debate. My own ...
... Nearly a year later, and not after considerable resistance to the prompting of Mori Tetsurō, Minamoto Ryōen, Ueda Shizuteru, and others, I began, halfheartedly, to read Nishitani again, this time focusing on his wartime writings and without any ambitions to make a contribution to the debate. My own ...
history of western philosophy_unit2_2012_draft2
... 2.1.2.2.1. Proof of God from Eternal Truths The fact of the existence of these eternal truths provides St Augustine with his famous proof for God’s existence from thought, that is from within. The starting point of the proof, : necessary and eternal truths. Such truths are superior to the min ...
... 2.1.2.2.1. Proof of God from Eternal Truths The fact of the existence of these eternal truths provides St Augustine with his famous proof for God’s existence from thought, that is from within. The starting point of the proof, : necessary and eternal truths. Such truths are superior to the min ...
Cornelius Castoriadis on Social Imaginary and Truth*
... KAVOULAKOS Castoriadis on Social Imaginary and Truth ...
... KAVOULAKOS Castoriadis on Social Imaginary and Truth ...
Advaita Vedanta
... Vedanta to the west via the Ramakrishna Mission. His interpretation of Advaita Vedanta has been called "Neo-Vedanta".[21] In a talk on "The absolute and manifestation" given in at London in 1896 Swami Vivekananda said, I may make bold to say that the only religion which agrees with, and even goes a ...
... Vedanta to the west via the Ramakrishna Mission. His interpretation of Advaita Vedanta has been called "Neo-Vedanta".[21] In a talk on "The absolute and manifestation" given in at London in 1896 Swami Vivekananda said, I may make bold to say that the only religion which agrees with, and even goes a ...
Notes on Epistemology
... II. Second Objection: The power of analyzing the assents is either a power of arriving at truth or it is not. If it is not, it will be of no avail to employ it in investigating the spontaneous assents; for by its use we shall learn nothing about them. If it is a power of arriving at truth, then you ...
... II. Second Objection: The power of analyzing the assents is either a power of arriving at truth or it is not. If it is not, it will be of no avail to employ it in investigating the spontaneous assents; for by its use we shall learn nothing about them. If it is a power of arriving at truth, then you ...
Alfarabi`s Conversion of Plato`s Republic
... the human being’s moral conduct and helps him to find the way to the ultimate aim of his existence, while indirectly arousing the intellect so that it should achieve wisdom, which al-Farabi held to be the highest level of intellectual attainment permitted to human beings in this life. (al-Talbi, 199 ...
... the human being’s moral conduct and helps him to find the way to the ultimate aim of his existence, while indirectly arousing the intellect so that it should achieve wisdom, which al-Farabi held to be the highest level of intellectual attainment permitted to human beings in this life. (al-Talbi, 199 ...
1 Making Sense of Nietzsche`s “Truths”: Slavery, Misogyny and
... slavery to a set of values. This does not even necessarily involve the “mind-control” or brainwashing of one group of people by another. Each person that blindly accepted the values handed down to them, perhaps through religion or the state, would be enslaved by their own inability to create new val ...
... slavery to a set of values. This does not even necessarily involve the “mind-control” or brainwashing of one group of people by another. Each person that blindly accepted the values handed down to them, perhaps through religion or the state, would be enslaved by their own inability to create new val ...
1929 Davos Disputation - The Dallas Philosophers Forum
... I would like to pull back from the fray and elucidate what I see as the most significant underlying issue that all the other treatments I have seen of the debate overlook. We have to go below the surface and compare the respective readings of Kant from Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and fro ...
... I would like to pull back from the fray and elucidate what I see as the most significant underlying issue that all the other treatments I have seen of the debate overlook. We have to go below the surface and compare the respective readings of Kant from Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and fro ...
all about hinduism
... religions. It does not revile any other religion. It accepts and honours truth—wherever it may come from and whatever garb it may put on. There are considerable numbers of the followers of other religions in India. And yet, the Hindus live in perfect harmony, peace and friendship with all of them. T ...
... religions. It does not revile any other religion. It accepts and honours truth—wherever it may come from and whatever garb it may put on. There are considerable numbers of the followers of other religions in India. And yet, the Hindus live in perfect harmony, peace and friendship with all of them. T ...
Bill - Kyoo Lee
... He would rather die than to quit practicing philosophy. It was more important for him to philosophize then to please the people of Athens. Socrates knew that many people thought they are much more than what they really were. Many with the highest reputation had the least amount of knowledge. Socrate ...
... He would rather die than to quit practicing philosophy. It was more important for him to philosophize then to please the people of Athens. Socrates knew that many people thought they are much more than what they really were. Many with the highest reputation had the least amount of knowledge. Socrate ...
William James - Pragmatism - Collin College Faculty Website Directory
... mixtures which I have written down are each inwardly coherent and selfconsistent or not- I shall very soon have a good deal to say on that point. It suffices for our immediate purpose that tender-minded and tough-minded people, characterized as I have written them down, do both exist. Each of you pr ...
... mixtures which I have written down are each inwardly coherent and selfconsistent or not- I shall very soon have a good deal to say on that point. It suffices for our immediate purpose that tender-minded and tough-minded people, characterized as I have written them down, do both exist. Each of you pr ...
A Conception of Philosophical Progress
... problems, not by reaching settled truths. There is philosophical progress every time a warranted, defensible position is developed that resolves a philosophical problem. This is a score in the philosophical game, even if it is it is a tentative and fallible position which raises other potential prob ...
... problems, not by reaching settled truths. There is philosophical progress every time a warranted, defensible position is developed that resolves a philosophical problem. This is a score in the philosophical game, even if it is it is a tentative and fallible position which raises other potential prob ...
Ought and Reality - Scandinavian Studies in Law
... © Stockholm Institute for Scandianvian Law 1957-2009 ...
... © Stockholm Institute for Scandianvian Law 1957-2009 ...
Dharma as the Philosphy of India
... A thorough understanding of Hindu view of life presupposes a deep cognizance of Purusarthas i.e. Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha.7 The terms may be roughly rendered as ‘duty’ or ‘virtue,’ wealth or material well-being, pleasure and aesthetic satisfaction of desire and final release or salvation. They ...
... A thorough understanding of Hindu view of life presupposes a deep cognizance of Purusarthas i.e. Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha.7 The terms may be roughly rendered as ‘duty’ or ‘virtue,’ wealth or material well-being, pleasure and aesthetic satisfaction of desire and final release or salvation. They ...
Relativism, Vagueness and What is Said
... explicit’’ (op. cit., 143).³ I offer below my own elaboration of the notion of locutionary saying, to which I will henceforth refer as semantic content or just content. But we must first concentrate on the other notion, illocutionary saying, which, like Bach, I take to be the one Grice intended, the ...
... explicit’’ (op. cit., 143).³ I offer below my own elaboration of the notion of locutionary saying, to which I will henceforth refer as semantic content or just content. But we must first concentrate on the other notion, illocutionary saying, which, like Bach, I take to be the one Grice intended, the ...
Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon
... has nothing to do with it” (A:12). But even in the domain of theoretical reason, philosophy fares not much better, since theoretical reason, especially in the guise of philosophical metaphysics, is also really subservient to values. Nietzsche, pointing to the Stoic metaphysics of nature, observes th ...
... has nothing to do with it” (A:12). But even in the domain of theoretical reason, philosophy fares not much better, since theoretical reason, especially in the guise of philosophical metaphysics, is also really subservient to values. Nietzsche, pointing to the Stoic metaphysics of nature, observes th ...
All About Hinduism - The Divine Life Society
... Hinduism, unlike other religions, does not dogmatically assert that the final emancipation is possible only through its means and not through any other. It is only a means to an end and all means which will ultimately lead to the end are equally approved. Hinduism allows absolute freedom to the rati ...
... Hinduism, unlike other religions, does not dogmatically assert that the final emancipation is possible only through its means and not through any other. It is only a means to an end and all means which will ultimately lead to the end are equally approved. Hinduism allows absolute freedom to the rati ...
quine - University of St Andrews
... Thus, logical truths are just true by convention. They are made true by the stipulations we make how the logical constants are to be used. That is why we think they are analytic. (Quine also thinks the same is true of mathematics.) ...
... Thus, logical truths are just true by convention. They are made true by the stipulations we make how the logical constants are to be used. That is why we think they are analytic. (Quine also thinks the same is true of mathematics.) ...
Proposal for Progress
... Regardless of who in the Löwith-Blumenberg debate is correct, the latter perspective opens up a useful dimension to my inquiry. Namely, the idea that the scientific pursuit of a philosophy of progress in essence functions as the revelation of the hidden secrets of the universe. And this is, of cour ...
... Regardless of who in the Löwith-Blumenberg debate is correct, the latter perspective opens up a useful dimension to my inquiry. Namely, the idea that the scientific pursuit of a philosophy of progress in essence functions as the revelation of the hidden secrets of the universe. And this is, of cour ...
The Philosopher and the Sage: Plato and Lao
... In sum, both Tao and Good are transcendent, themselves “mysterious,” “beyond being,” and resistant to conceptual-linguistic definition. Consequently, images are used to capture the nature of both. Their natures are indeterminate and independent, “self-naturing,” but linked to the world and its bein ...
... In sum, both Tao and Good are transcendent, themselves “mysterious,” “beyond being,” and resistant to conceptual-linguistic definition. Consequently, images are used to capture the nature of both. Their natures are indeterminate and independent, “self-naturing,” but linked to the world and its bein ...
A Comparative Study of the Epistemology of Immanuel Kant and that
... philosophico-religious setting. He observes that, “by the time of the Late Upaniṣads” – the period in which the Buddha appeared, – “there were three main schools of thought in the Vedic tradition", which he lists as follows: (1) “the orthodox brahmins who believed in the supernatural revelation of t ...
... philosophico-religious setting. He observes that, “by the time of the Late Upaniṣads” – the period in which the Buddha appeared, – “there were three main schools of thought in the Vedic tradition", which he lists as follows: (1) “the orthodox brahmins who believed in the supernatural revelation of t ...
ABSOLUTE - Polskie Towarzystwo Tomasza z Akwinu
... perfect Person, the fullness of Truth and Love, an absolute being different from the world (transcendent), and not subject to the condition of the world. The Church Fathers in the first centuries of Christianity developed a metaphysical interpretation of the revealed truths about the person, single, ...
... perfect Person, the fullness of Truth and Love, an absolute being different from the world (transcendent), and not subject to the condition of the world. The Church Fathers in the first centuries of Christianity developed a metaphysical interpretation of the revealed truths about the person, single, ...
problemsofphilosophy
... Other philosophers since Berkeley have also held that, although the table does not depend for its existence upon being seen by me, it does depend upon being seen (or otherwise apprehended in sensation) by _some_ mind--not necessarily the mind of God, but more often the whole collective mind of the u ...
... Other philosophers since Berkeley have also held that, although the table does not depend for its existence upon being seen by me, it does depend upon being seen (or otherwise apprehended in sensation) by _some_ mind--not necessarily the mind of God, but more often the whole collective mind of the u ...