THE LEGACY OF AHITĀGNI RAJWADE
... the hegemony of Western modernity and to reinstate the pristine Hindu worldview and social order prefigured in the Vedas. In his foreword to Khristantaka (pp. 7-8), Rajwade describes The Antichrist as a book originally written in German by a great modern European sage (mahāmuni) of a Brahmanic disp ...
... the hegemony of Western modernity and to reinstate the pristine Hindu worldview and social order prefigured in the Vedas. In his foreword to Khristantaka (pp. 7-8), Rajwade describes The Antichrist as a book originally written in German by a great modern European sage (mahāmuni) of a Brahmanic disp ...
Schleiermacher ON RELIGION - The Partially Examined Life
... • They have moved to a different kind of particular positivism – by despising religion and rejecting all forms of positive religious belief – This really becomes its own kind of belief system ...
... • They have moved to a different kind of particular positivism – by despising religion and rejecting all forms of positive religious belief – This really becomes its own kind of belief system ...
D. C. Schindler Plato`s Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness
... In this book D. C. Schindler offers an interpretation of Plato that continues the trend toward honoring the dramaturgical elements as much as the philosophical arguments. One eccentricity of the book is that such an interpretation is intended to help rehabilitate what Schindler regards as an impover ...
... In this book D. C. Schindler offers an interpretation of Plato that continues the trend toward honoring the dramaturgical elements as much as the philosophical arguments. One eccentricity of the book is that such an interpretation is intended to help rehabilitate what Schindler regards as an impover ...
Princeton University Press 2009. xv + 525 pages $99.95 (cloth ISBN
... of laws, which may be amended if deficient. Although he recognized the value of passions, Machiavelli also saw how easily they could be manipulated and how they could lead people to ruin if not allied with careful reflection and analysis. Two passions he saw as most dangerous, most liable to lead to ...
... of laws, which may be amended if deficient. Although he recognized the value of passions, Machiavelli also saw how easily they could be manipulated and how they could lead people to ruin if not allied with careful reflection and analysis. Two passions he saw as most dangerous, most liable to lead to ...
Introduction
... “virtues” (500; cf. 759 [from the Manuscript Périer, not Copy B]).[20] Still, even within religion does imagination make moral life difficult: “Men often take their imagination for their heart, and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.” (739); they can therefore r ...
... “virtues” (500; cf. 759 [from the Manuscript Périer, not Copy B]).[20] Still, even within religion does imagination make moral life difficult: “Men often take their imagination for their heart, and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.” (739); they can therefore r ...
Hegel`s Phenomenology of Spirit Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
... Hegel use of the word ‘Spirit’ is important to the development of his philosophy. The question is whether we can conceptually unify the finite and infinite without dissolving either. Hegel in Fragment of a system maintains that is not possible. The gulf between the finite and infinite inevitably ten ...
... Hegel use of the word ‘Spirit’ is important to the development of his philosophy. The question is whether we can conceptually unify the finite and infinite without dissolving either. Hegel in Fragment of a system maintains that is not possible. The gulf between the finite and infinite inevitably ten ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Being, Beings, and Truth
... Heidegger believes that consciousness of decontextualized objects (“de-worlded” objects) can only make sense against a background of a very different, more “primordial” kind of understanding—what the analytic philosopher Gilbert Ryle called “knowing-how” rather than “knowing-that”. Actually, Dasein ...
... Heidegger believes that consciousness of decontextualized objects (“de-worlded” objects) can only make sense against a background of a very different, more “primordial” kind of understanding—what the analytic philosopher Gilbert Ryle called “knowing-how” rather than “knowing-that”. Actually, Dasein ...
Constructing and Representing Reality: Hegel and the Making of
... stands in clear contrast to Plato, who finds reality only in celestial ideas. Based on his Theory of Forms—the view that nonmaterial abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest, most fundamental reality—Plato denoun ...
... stands in clear contrast to Plato, who finds reality only in celestial ideas. Based on his Theory of Forms—the view that nonmaterial abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest, most fundamental reality—Plato denoun ...
The Importance of Being Earnest: Scepticism and the Limits of
... exactness that the ratio of sinful men to all men was as 1 to 1; still among the infinite generations of men there would be room for any finite number of sinless men without violating the proportion. The case is the same with a seven legged calf. [1.141] Now if exactitude, certitude, and universalit ...
... exactness that the ratio of sinful men to all men was as 1 to 1; still among the infinite generations of men there would be room for any finite number of sinless men without violating the proportion. The case is the same with a seven legged calf. [1.141] Now if exactitude, certitude, and universalit ...
hindu ethics
... intercourse, a trustworthy account of the religious experience of a community can scarcely be achieved by even the most careful student. 2. They seek to set each form of Indian religion by the side of Christianity in such a way that the relationship may stand out clear. Jesus Christ has become to th ...
... intercourse, a trustworthy account of the religious experience of a community can scarcely be achieved by even the most careful student. 2. They seek to set each form of Indian religion by the side of Christianity in such a way that the relationship may stand out clear. Jesus Christ has become to th ...
Three Meanings of Epistemic Rhetoric
... observation of it need not be shaped by discourse. Knowledge of material reality is knowledge one can be absolutely sure of. Material reality is unitary and objective. But much of life involves a reality that people cannot be sure of, the contingent realm of social reality. The reality of ethical, s ...
... observation of it need not be shaped by discourse. Knowledge of material reality is knowledge one can be absolutely sure of. Material reality is unitary and objective. But much of life involves a reality that people cannot be sure of, the contingent realm of social reality. The reality of ethical, s ...
Sensus communis Clarifications of a Kantian Concept on the Way to
... 'detachment' from our immediate egoistic interests. Aesthetic experience does not depend on private conditions: the work of art is held to have a unique ontological status, which has as a consequence that our perception of it is sui generis. Or as Moham Thampi writes: 'The poem exists only for our ...
... 'detachment' from our immediate egoistic interests. Aesthetic experience does not depend on private conditions: the work of art is held to have a unique ontological status, which has as a consequence that our perception of it is sui generis. Or as Moham Thampi writes: 'The poem exists only for our ...
the fragility of consciousness: lonergan and the postmodern concern
... between objects and the intentional acts by which they are "known" sensitively or intellectually. If we prescindfromLocke's nominalism, it becomes clear that Locke is interested not in the metaphysical paraphernalia of substantial forms or souls with their relevant faculties or accidents but in cons ...
... between objects and the intentional acts by which they are "known" sensitively or intellectually. If we prescindfromLocke's nominalism, it becomes clear that Locke is interested not in the metaphysical paraphernalia of substantial forms or souls with their relevant faculties or accidents but in cons ...
Hume`s Aesthetic Theism
... can neither observe the beauty of the work, nor comprehend the grandeur of its author. (NHR 317) Cleanthes: All these various machines, and even their most minute parts, are adjusted to each other with an accuracy which ravishes into admiration all men who have ever contemplated them. (DNR 143) Phil ...
... can neither observe the beauty of the work, nor comprehend the grandeur of its author. (NHR 317) Cleanthes: All these various machines, and even their most minute parts, are adjusted to each other with an accuracy which ravishes into admiration all men who have ever contemplated them. (DNR 143) Phil ...
Foucault and Rorty on Truth and Ideology: A
... So I claim it is important to stick with a notion of ideology as ‘false consciousness’, suitably demystified of both representationalist and rationalist assumptions. Foucault’s truth objection, construed as a kind of historicised antirepresentationalist critique, works against a certain notion of id ...
... So I claim it is important to stick with a notion of ideology as ‘false consciousness’, suitably demystified of both representationalist and rationalist assumptions. Foucault’s truth objection, construed as a kind of historicised antirepresentationalist critique, works against a certain notion of id ...
Truth, Value and Epistemic Expressivism
... Of course, the nature and explanation of this fact, like its sister fact about belief, is a matter of dispute.17 Although they are distinct claims, (TN) and (TG) are interdependent. One connection between them consists in the structure of their justification (Lynch 2005a; cf. David 2005; McGrath 200 ...
... Of course, the nature and explanation of this fact, like its sister fact about belief, is a matter of dispute.17 Although they are distinct claims, (TN) and (TG) are interdependent. One connection between them consists in the structure of their justification (Lynch 2005a; cf. David 2005; McGrath 200 ...
Dialectic and Dialogue in Plato: Revisiting the Image of "Socrates
... employed and is capable of producing definitive results. Educators (Ozmon & Craver, 1990) critical of idealism state that its absolutist notion “of a finished and absolute universe waiting to be discovered,” which has “hindered progress in science and the creation of new ideas and processes. If one ...
... employed and is capable of producing definitive results. Educators (Ozmon & Craver, 1990) critical of idealism state that its absolutist notion “of a finished and absolute universe waiting to be discovered,” which has “hindered progress in science and the creation of new ideas and processes. If one ...
ESSENTIALISM IN PARMENIDES OF ELEA
... hope to have shown two ‘lesser things’. First, neither Socrates nor Plato, or, a fortiori, Aristotle could be credited with being the first to embody essentialist urges. Parmenides had done so before them. Second, without detailed elaboration it appears that the notion of essentialism is not itself ...
... hope to have shown two ‘lesser things’. First, neither Socrates nor Plato, or, a fortiori, Aristotle could be credited with being the first to embody essentialist urges. Parmenides had done so before them. Second, without detailed elaboration it appears that the notion of essentialism is not itself ...
Meaning before truth
... 260 C o m p o s i t i o n a l i t y, Me a n i n g , a n d C o n t e x t This accounts for the ambiguity of (7). But it does not explain why (7) has no reading on which it implies (7c). We need some further theoretical claims according to which the structure indicated in (7b) does not support the fol ...
... 260 C o m p o s i t i o n a l i t y, Me a n i n g , a n d C o n t e x t This accounts for the ambiguity of (7). But it does not explain why (7) has no reading on which it implies (7c). We need some further theoretical claims according to which the structure indicated in (7b) does not support the fol ...
does gödel`s incompleteness theorem prove that truth transcends
... on the disquotation scheme: truth predicate is nothing else than a logical device for “disquoting” expressions and for expressing in finite sentences a infinite list of true sentences (“God knows every truth”). Both Ketland and Tennant recognize that it is not easy to give an unambiguous definition ...
... on the disquotation scheme: truth predicate is nothing else than a logical device for “disquoting” expressions and for expressing in finite sentences a infinite list of true sentences (“God knows every truth”). Both Ketland and Tennant recognize that it is not easy to give an unambiguous definition ...
Specious Present - Philsci
... microscope, we could discriminate indefinitely smaller units of time. The fourth and final theme is closely connected to each of the previous three. Those pre‐James authors who most clearly espouse something akin to the specious present doctrine do so as a consequence of endorsing a particular i ...
... microscope, we could discriminate indefinitely smaller units of time. The fourth and final theme is closely connected to each of the previous three. Those pre‐James authors who most clearly espouse something akin to the specious present doctrine do so as a consequence of endorsing a particular i ...
The Best of Best Paul Kurtz` philosophy of humanism
... a more viable strategy to strive for than outspoken atheistic humanism. In a secular society people can enjoy their personal delusions, as long as they don‟t harm others. The problem with Kurtz‟ term multisecularism could be that it has a ring of multiculturalism, and multiculturalism too often turn ...
... a more viable strategy to strive for than outspoken atheistic humanism. In a secular society people can enjoy their personal delusions, as long as they don‟t harm others. The problem with Kurtz‟ term multisecularism could be that it has a ring of multiculturalism, and multiculturalism too often turn ...
Knowledge and Reality in the Vedanta School with emphasis on
... upcoming misunderstanding. First, the main thrust of this paper is only to shed some light on Shankara’s metaphysical and epistemological views in a synoptic manner, rather than delving into the depth of the matter, or carrying out a comparative study of Vedanta philosophers concerning knowledge and ...
... upcoming misunderstanding. First, the main thrust of this paper is only to shed some light on Shankara’s metaphysical and epistemological views in a synoptic manner, rather than delving into the depth of the matter, or carrying out a comparative study of Vedanta philosophers concerning knowledge and ...
sadwcn_adwy - Square
... values secured are recognized the more easily for having been first enjoyed when other people furnished the means to them; while the maintenance of these values is facilitated by an external tradition (1052) …’ Santayana reveals how the reality of imagination can transcend mere sense through intuiti ...
... values secured are recognized the more easily for having been first enjoyed when other people furnished the means to them; while the maintenance of these values is facilitated by an external tradition (1052) …’ Santayana reveals how the reality of imagination can transcend mere sense through intuiti ...
Truth and Perspectivism
... to the world on Nietzsche’s account as long as they characterized the world by denying thinghood, permanence, equality or permanence to anything in it. But Nietzsche has an even more radical step to take, which deprives thought and language even of the capacity to represent the world truly in purely ...
... to the world on Nietzsche’s account as long as they characterized the world by denying thinghood, permanence, equality or permanence to anything in it. But Nietzsche has an even more radical step to take, which deprives thought and language even of the capacity to represent the world truly in purely ...