Efforts to Explain all Existence
... guided by no mysteriously error-proof intuitions, no innate ideas known to be correct because they themselves say that they are. Yet we do for instance place our trust in inductive reasoning, taking the past (including past successes of inductive reasoning) as a guide to the future. Again, induction ...
... guided by no mysteriously error-proof intuitions, no innate ideas known to be correct because they themselves say that they are. Yet we do for instance place our trust in inductive reasoning, taking the past (including past successes of inductive reasoning) as a guide to the future. Again, induction ...
Plato`s Vision of the Human
... We still need to talk about human Nature The account is, if anything, more complex than the account we get of justice. Book I doesn’t give us much to work with, but the rest of the Republic does. In particular a section called the Allegory of the Cave. The Allegory is part of Plato’s response t ...
... We still need to talk about human Nature The account is, if anything, more complex than the account we get of justice. Book I doesn’t give us much to work with, but the rest of the Republic does. In particular a section called the Allegory of the Cave. The Allegory is part of Plato’s response t ...
Aristotle
... 2. The distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic good. According to Aristotle not all goods can be extrinsic; there has to be at least one sort of thing which is intrinsically good. 3. The ultimate good (or end) for human beings is happiness. 4. Emphasis on pleasure and happiness does not necessar ...
... 2. The distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic good. According to Aristotle not all goods can be extrinsic; there has to be at least one sort of thing which is intrinsically good. 3. The ultimate good (or end) for human beings is happiness. 4. Emphasis on pleasure and happiness does not necessar ...
Death - Philosophy
... There is the question whether psychological connectedness is the mark of personal identity. Another question is whether we can live again after we have died. There is also a question about the relation between a person and his “remains.” Is this relation identity, or is it rather a relation that ho ...
... There is the question whether psychological connectedness is the mark of personal identity. Another question is whether we can live again after we have died. There is also a question about the relation between a person and his “remains.” Is this relation identity, or is it rather a relation that ho ...
In Defence of the Thin Red Line
... i stit A then *i stit *i stit A++” in form of axioms. Otherwise, they could have proceeded by first identifying the structures on which stit sentences will have to be interpreted, that is to say, the form of the world which provides a semantics to the language of agency. The latter is the way they c ...
... i stit A then *i stit *i stit A++” in form of axioms. Otherwise, they could have proceeded by first identifying the structures on which stit sentences will have to be interpreted, that is to say, the form of the world which provides a semantics to the language of agency. The latter is the way they c ...
Class #5 - 1/15/14
... Genevieve Lloyd suggests that the issue is even more fundamental and may be near impossible to resolve. Read your text on page 73 carefully!! We will discuss this passage in class next week. ...
... Genevieve Lloyd suggests that the issue is even more fundamental and may be near impossible to resolve. Read your text on page 73 carefully!! We will discuss this passage in class next week. ...
Pragmatism and Humanism: Bergson as a reader of - PUC-SP
... Bergson did. Lets initially approach the general question of the relation between thought and reality. “ We would misunderstand the pragmatism of James if we do not begin by changing the idea that we have about reality generally. We talk about ‘world’ or about ‘cosmos’; and these words, according to ...
... Bergson did. Lets initially approach the general question of the relation between thought and reality. “ We would misunderstand the pragmatism of James if we do not begin by changing the idea that we have about reality generally. We talk about ‘world’ or about ‘cosmos’; and these words, according to ...
Aristotle - Start.ca
... i.e. it is not a fixed goal that we can arrive at in the way we arrive at our destination at the end of a trip; it is a characteristic that accompanies certain activities as we do them in that sense, happiness is like other characteristics of our lives; e.g. persistence. A student who pursues the ...
... i.e. it is not a fixed goal that we can arrive at in the way we arrive at our destination at the end of a trip; it is a characteristic that accompanies certain activities as we do them in that sense, happiness is like other characteristics of our lives; e.g. persistence. A student who pursues the ...
From Individual to Collective Intentionality
... In the first chapter, Deborah Tollefsen illustrates how cognitive science can contribute to the philosophical analysis and the explanatory project arising from the question of how individuals ac ...
... In the first chapter, Deborah Tollefsen illustrates how cognitive science can contribute to the philosophical analysis and the explanatory project arising from the question of how individuals ac ...
Philosophers_Search_for_Wisdom_Article
... Aristotle returned to Athens to set up a school there. Aristotle was interested in many fields: astronomy, physics, math, anatomy, politics, art, speech, and philosophy. He collected information on over five hundred kinds of living organisms because he believed it is important to have scientific kno ...
... Aristotle returned to Athens to set up a school there. Aristotle was interested in many fields: astronomy, physics, math, anatomy, politics, art, speech, and philosophy. He collected information on over five hundred kinds of living organisms because he believed it is important to have scientific kno ...
What is Hindu Spirituality
... existence of spirit or consciousness but its ultimate reality. According to this perspective, matter constitutes the ultimate reality about the universe, and consciousness is an epiphenomenon of matter. Just as two gases—hydrogen and oxygen—generate water, which possesses a quality they don’t, namel ...
... existence of spirit or consciousness but its ultimate reality. According to this perspective, matter constitutes the ultimate reality about the universe, and consciousness is an epiphenomenon of matter. Just as two gases—hydrogen and oxygen—generate water, which possesses a quality they don’t, namel ...
Physics Book I Study Guide Part 1 of 1 File
... marble, you may say that it is beautiful qua work of art, not qua lump of marble; or of Shakespeare, you may say that he was brilliant qua writer, not qua mathematician; or of a human zygote, you may say that it is a human being qua genetic code, but not a human being qua conscious person. ...
... marble, you may say that it is beautiful qua work of art, not qua lump of marble; or of Shakespeare, you may say that he was brilliant qua writer, not qua mathematician; or of a human zygote, you may say that it is a human being qua genetic code, but not a human being qua conscious person. ...
Sartre and the Existentialist Vision of the Human
... metaphysical speculation. ◦ The metaphysical tradition has been dominated by philosophies of ‘essence.’ ...
... metaphysical speculation. ◦ The metaphysical tradition has been dominated by philosophies of ‘essence.’ ...
Leibniz Discourse 8
... and matter that is based on infinite divisibility must vanish into infinitesimally non-existents. To have matter, there must be something indivisible that makes the sizable matter possible. To get matter, we need monads with substantial forms. In a different source, Leibniz makes the point clear: At ...
... and matter that is based on infinite divisibility must vanish into infinitesimally non-existents. To have matter, there must be something indivisible that makes the sizable matter possible. To get matter, we need monads with substantial forms. In a different source, Leibniz makes the point clear: At ...
Human Personhood from a Kantian Perspective
... the ontological viewpoint, Kantian Ethics seems to support the idea that all humans are persons as members of the human race. If a biological Homo sapiens is a person, that means that all Homo sapiens are persons. The most compelling argument for Kantian Ethics in support of ontological personalism ...
... the ontological viewpoint, Kantian Ethics seems to support the idea that all humans are persons as members of the human race. If a biological Homo sapiens is a person, that means that all Homo sapiens are persons. The most compelling argument for Kantian Ethics in support of ontological personalism ...
Intro to Moral Theories
... Finally, the natural law principle is flawed. There is much disagreement over what principles can be drawn from the state of nature. Hobbes argues that the state of nature is chaotic and violent. Humans live only for self-preservation. Rousseau argues that intellectual thought is non-existent in the ...
... Finally, the natural law principle is flawed. There is much disagreement over what principles can be drawn from the state of nature. Hobbes argues that the state of nature is chaotic and violent. Humans live only for self-preservation. Rousseau argues that intellectual thought is non-existent in the ...
continental rationalism and British empiricism
... and Nature are identified. God is no longer the transcendent creator of the universe who rules it via providence, but Nature itself, understood as an infinite, necessary, and fully deterministic system of which humans are a part. Humans find happiness only through a rational understanding of this sy ...
... and Nature are identified. God is no longer the transcendent creator of the universe who rules it via providence, but Nature itself, understood as an infinite, necessary, and fully deterministic system of which humans are a part. Humans find happiness only through a rational understanding of this sy ...
1 - PhilPapers
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...
Class #2
... universe, or that there is a "higher world" and a "lower world", or that reality is composed of spirit and matter, you are a dualist. In general, most Christians are dualists. They hold that reality is divided into two parts. Our souls are eternal and non-material; our bodies, like the physical univ ...
... universe, or that there is a "higher world" and a "lower world", or that reality is composed of spirit and matter, you are a dualist. In general, most Christians are dualists. They hold that reality is divided into two parts. Our souls are eternal and non-material; our bodies, like the physical univ ...
PROLEGOMENON The consequences of the
... criticised. If you say ‘everyone should eat more meat’ and I, being a vegetarian, disagree, what I have to do to begin to be rationally persuasive is to find something within your belief or value system or customary practices, which would be undermined by eating more meat. ...
... criticised. If you say ‘everyone should eat more meat’ and I, being a vegetarian, disagree, what I have to do to begin to be rationally persuasive is to find something within your belief or value system or customary practices, which would be undermined by eating more meat. ...
Descartes’ Skeptical Observations
... crisp; from which we form the complex idea of apple, which, when compared with other ideas, gives rise to even more abstract ideas of fruit, taste, and nutrition. ...
... crisp; from which we form the complex idea of apple, which, when compared with other ideas, gives rise to even more abstract ideas of fruit, taste, and nutrition. ...
Averroes - The Incoherence of the Incoherence
... The Ash‘arites have taken over from the Stoics their epistemology, their sensationalism, their nominalism, their materialism. Some details of this epistemology are given by Ghazali in his autobiography: the clearness of representations is the criterion for their truth; the soul at birth is a blank ...
... The Ash‘arites have taken over from the Stoics their epistemology, their sensationalism, their nominalism, their materialism. Some details of this epistemology are given by Ghazali in his autobiography: the clearness of representations is the criterion for their truth; the soul at birth is a blank ...
1 Barry Smith Rivista di Estetica, 50 (2012), 179
... future is tied to expectations relating to the behavior and attitudes of your fellows, by your desire to preserve your good name, and by a host of other psychological factors operating in the sphere of local, face-to-face interactions. Here the debt is tied to a specific initiating event and to spec ...
... future is tied to expectations relating to the behavior and attitudes of your fellows, by your desire to preserve your good name, and by a host of other psychological factors operating in the sphere of local, face-to-face interactions. Here the debt is tied to a specific initiating event and to spec ...
Class #2 - 3-18-13
... universe, or that there is a "higher world" and a "lower world", or that reality is composed of spirit and matter, you are a dualist. In general, most Christians are dualists. They hold that reality is divided into two parts. Our souls are eternal and non-material; our bodies, like the physical univ ...
... universe, or that there is a "higher world" and a "lower world", or that reality is composed of spirit and matter, you are a dualist. In general, most Christians are dualists. They hold that reality is divided into two parts. Our souls are eternal and non-material; our bodies, like the physical univ ...
THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS AND SOCRATES
... in the writings of later philosophers, who wrote commentaries on their work. So we must guess what was on his mind, but I think that we can make some good guesses at this point in time. If “everything is water” was his answer to a question, then the question must have been something like this: What ...
... in the writings of later philosophers, who wrote commentaries on their work. So we must guess what was on his mind, but I think that we can make some good guesses at this point in time. If “everything is water” was his answer to a question, then the question must have been something like this: What ...
Ontology
Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or may be said to exist, and how such entities may be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences. Although ontology as a philosophical enterprise is highly theoretical, it also has practical application in information science and technology, such as ontology engineering.