Traditional Western View
... that humans are made in the image of God. Man has an immaterial and immortal soul and the ability to love and to know, in the very manner of God. • Augustine emphasized that humans have will and intellect, the ability to choose between good and evil. • “The purpose of man is to know God through reas ...
... that humans are made in the image of God. Man has an immaterial and immortal soul and the ability to love and to know, in the very manner of God. • Augustine emphasized that humans have will and intellect, the ability to choose between good and evil. • “The purpose of man is to know God through reas ...
CHAPTER 1 * A Process-Relational World/ A Relational Organic
... ‘modern age’ • In the Enlightenment, René Descartes and others argued for Being over Becoming - the world is composed of physical and mental “substances”. • Descartes imported Platonic immutable substances into this world of objects and human minds. • Our own minds (or souls) are, for Cartesian thin ...
... ‘modern age’ • In the Enlightenment, René Descartes and others argued for Being over Becoming - the world is composed of physical and mental “substances”. • Descartes imported Platonic immutable substances into this world of objects and human minds. • Our own minds (or souls) are, for Cartesian thin ...
Stanisław Judycki
... concept we discover an element of existence, but this does not mean that we assume that ‘existence’ is some general property among other such properties, the property which could be predicated on whatever content we can think of. Clear and distinct perception of existence as contained in the concept ...
... concept we discover an element of existence, but this does not mean that we assume that ‘existence’ is some general property among other such properties, the property which could be predicated on whatever content we can think of. Clear and distinct perception of existence as contained in the concept ...
Chapter 3: Emptiness, Relativity and Quantum Physics
... specific mode of inquiry. For example, he argues that to reject distinct identity, causation, and origination within the everyday world, as some interpreters of the philosophy of emptiness had suggested, simply because these notions are untenable from the perspective of ultimate reality, constitutes ...
... specific mode of inquiry. For example, he argues that to reject distinct identity, causation, and origination within the everyday world, as some interpreters of the philosophy of emptiness had suggested, simply because these notions are untenable from the perspective of ultimate reality, constitutes ...
The present as an empirically testable hypothesis: a case study in
... line found in Newton’s work, in which more and more questions previously taken to be a priori metaphysical questions are transformed into empirical ones. What makes this appropriate for an &HPS conference is that it is by situating Newton’s physics within history of philosophy, with philosophical qu ...
... line found in Newton’s work, in which more and more questions previously taken to be a priori metaphysical questions are transformed into empirical ones. What makes this appropriate for an &HPS conference is that it is by situating Newton’s physics within history of philosophy, with philosophical qu ...
Jacob Bunce PHIL 2200 Final 1) What is hermeneutics? How does it
... with applications. Along those same lines, Plato tends to deal with high level questions whereas Aristotle deals more with lower level questions… this makes Aristotle’s works more applicable than Plato. ...
... with applications. Along those same lines, Plato tends to deal with high level questions whereas Aristotle deals more with lower level questions… this makes Aristotle’s works more applicable than Plato. ...
here
... ethnographic analyses it informs can tend towards self-iteration, calling into question the need for field-based engagement in the very relations of which nondualism is said to be an infinite inflation. At the same time, a monologic of fractal relationship can come to function as a general interdict ...
... ethnographic analyses it informs can tend towards self-iteration, calling into question the need for field-based engagement in the very relations of which nondualism is said to be an infinite inflation. At the same time, a monologic of fractal relationship can come to function as a general interdict ...
May – What is the Nature of `Self`
... The Abrahamic superstitions are very clear that the ‘self’ or ‘soul’ retains responsibility for its actions throughout and beyond life. Certainly it can repent and reform but nevertheless the self exists as an independent entity. Indeed, Descartes maintained that this was something of which we could ...
... The Abrahamic superstitions are very clear that the ‘self’ or ‘soul’ retains responsibility for its actions throughout and beyond life. Certainly it can repent and reform but nevertheless the self exists as an independent entity. Indeed, Descartes maintained that this was something of which we could ...
Social Studies 9R – Mr. Berman Aim #7: How did early Greek
... Socrates taught his students to think clearly by asking them questions (for example: “What is courage?” “What is truth?”). When Socrates was not satisfied with an answer, he asked more questions. He believed that argument and discussion were the keys to learning. That method of teaching by asking qu ...
... Socrates taught his students to think clearly by asking them questions (for example: “What is courage?” “What is truth?”). When Socrates was not satisfied with an answer, he asked more questions. He believed that argument and discussion were the keys to learning. That method of teaching by asking qu ...
CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS
... Entities > anything that in any sense is. Question: what is it for something to be? So the being of entities is not itself an entity! Being > that what determines entities as entities. Heidegger distinguishes three elements when he discusses the question of being: 1. Being. ...
... Entities > anything that in any sense is. Question: what is it for something to be? So the being of entities is not itself an entity! Being > that what determines entities as entities. Heidegger distinguishes three elements when he discusses the question of being: 1. Being. ...
Allegory of the Cave
... the hands of Philosophers. • The Republic describes Plato’s ideal state (a small elite should rule, trained in philosophy, devoting their lives to the citizens’ happiness, living without property or families. ...
... the hands of Philosophers. • The Republic describes Plato’s ideal state (a small elite should rule, trained in philosophy, devoting their lives to the citizens’ happiness, living without property or families. ...
Mike Maxim
... rationalism came under attack by the British Empiricists for lacking the ability to connect knowledge with experience or reality. The empiricists, led by Hume, claimed the opposite of what the rationalists did. They held that all knowledge was a direct result of experience, and that no innate ideas ...
... rationalism came under attack by the British Empiricists for lacking the ability to connect knowledge with experience or reality. The empiricists, led by Hume, claimed the opposite of what the rationalists did. They held that all knowledge was a direct result of experience, and that no innate ideas ...
Person, Eros, Critical Ontology
... accuracy of the individual’s intellectual faculty verifies knowledge, even if proper communion of experience presupposes the accuracy of intellectual faculties.’1 ‘Signifiers allow us to share our common reference to reality and experience, but cannot replace the cognitive experience itself. This ob ...
... accuracy of the individual’s intellectual faculty verifies knowledge, even if proper communion of experience presupposes the accuracy of intellectual faculties.’1 ‘Signifiers allow us to share our common reference to reality and experience, but cannot replace the cognitive experience itself. This ob ...
Early Greek Philosophy
... T HE S OPHISTS Greek culture reached its climax in Athens with the convergence of various streams of art and thought during the fifth century B.C. The age of Pericles and the building of the Parthenon saw Athens at the peak of its cultural creativity and political influence in Greece. Athens had bec ...
... T HE S OPHISTS Greek culture reached its climax in Athens with the convergence of various streams of art and thought during the fifth century B.C. The age of Pericles and the building of the Parthenon saw Athens at the peak of its cultural creativity and political influence in Greece. Athens had bec ...
Introduction to Philosophy Test #2 Study Sheet Test: June 23, 2010
... explain what two of the passages mean. To do this you should point out the context of the passage and show how what is said relates to this context and why what is said is important. Your explanations should be at least 3 times longer than the passage itself. 1. ‘Suppose a person, though endowed wit ...
... explain what two of the passages mean. To do this you should point out the context of the passage and show how what is said relates to this context and why what is said is important. Your explanations should be at least 3 times longer than the passage itself. 1. ‘Suppose a person, though endowed wit ...
x - unbc
... because the apple is still there when we look at it again, most of us believe it has what philosophers call a “mind-independent” basis of existence, which is the matter it is made of ...
... because the apple is still there when we look at it again, most of us believe it has what philosophers call a “mind-independent” basis of existence, which is the matter it is made of ...
What is Metaphysics?
... concepts, minds are real, due to the a priori notions of the mind. • Reality then can consist of both Matter and IdeasDualism, material and immaterial exists- body and mindbut how does one explain the relation between the two due to their different nature? • Pragmatism: Unlike Plato and Aristotle, w ...
... concepts, minds are real, due to the a priori notions of the mind. • Reality then can consist of both Matter and IdeasDualism, material and immaterial exists- body and mindbut how does one explain the relation between the two due to their different nature? • Pragmatism: Unlike Plato and Aristotle, w ...
Prelude
... the fulcrum of the world and the judge of the world. My attitude is that if there is to be a world at all, it will have to exist on my terms, in a form that satisfies my standards of proof—standards that are laid down by my certainty that I myself exist. All my other knowledge becomes conditional on ...
... the fulcrum of the world and the judge of the world. My attitude is that if there is to be a world at all, it will have to exist on my terms, in a form that satisfies my standards of proof—standards that are laid down by my certainty that I myself exist. All my other knowledge becomes conditional on ...
Conversation with Johanna Seibt
... raining or snowing, we talk about a dynamic quality. My processes or dynamics are non-particular individuals—to signal this I speak of “general processes.” They may be so specific that there is only one space-time region in which this activity or dynamic happens to occur. This is well-familiar from ...
... raining or snowing, we talk about a dynamic quality. My processes or dynamics are non-particular individuals—to signal this I speak of “general processes.” They may be so specific that there is only one space-time region in which this activity or dynamic happens to occur. This is well-familiar from ...
Being and Time Introduction Chapter One
... • First treated by Parmenides (5th century B.C.E.), who distinguished on (being) from me on (nonbeing) • For Parmenides, being is one and non-being is impossible ...
... • First treated by Parmenides (5th century B.C.E.), who distinguished on (being) from me on (nonbeing) • For Parmenides, being is one and non-being is impossible ...
The Presocratic Sophos - Philosophy 1510 All Sections
... It’s possible to think of these ordered relations – which describe how things change or move – as an example of what Heraclitus meant by the Logos. ...
... It’s possible to think of these ordered relations – which describe how things change or move – as an example of what Heraclitus meant by the Logos. ...
Aristotle - Philosophy of Politics II
... and what is unjust.’ Are justice and what is advantageous the same or related? To Aristotle justice and what is advantageous go hand in hand. How different that is from Nietzsche who asked: “What if the truth turns out to be against our self interest?” For Aristotle there can be no self interest tha ...
... and what is unjust.’ Are justice and what is advantageous the same or related? To Aristotle justice and what is advantageous go hand in hand. How different that is from Nietzsche who asked: “What if the truth turns out to be against our self interest?” For Aristotle there can be no self interest tha ...
Existentialism
... life is nothing but the sum of the life he has shaped for himself. At every moment it is always his own free will choosing how to act. He is responsible for his actions, which limit future actions. Thus, he must create a morality in the absence of any known predetermined absolute values. God does no ...
... life is nothing but the sum of the life he has shaped for himself. At every moment it is always his own free will choosing how to act. He is responsible for his actions, which limit future actions. Thus, he must create a morality in the absence of any known predetermined absolute values. God does no ...
Against Fantology - Buffalo Ontology Site
... mereology), which has received some considerable attention in recent years (Simons 1987), and the theory of dependence – that is to say the theory of those links between entities of different types in virtue of which entities of one type cannot, as a matter of necessity, exist without some further ...
... mereology), which has received some considerable attention in recent years (Simons 1987), and the theory of dependence – that is to say the theory of those links between entities of different types in virtue of which entities of one type cannot, as a matter of necessity, exist without some further ...
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.