Aristotle and the Early Stoics on Moral Responsibility
... from being fixed or predetermined or necessary, consists largely of possibilities, and which possibilities will be realized depends on what agents choose to do. Aristotle thinks that if the sentence "There will be a seabattle tomorrow" is true, then there must necessarily be a sea-battle tomorrow; a ...
... from being fixed or predetermined or necessary, consists largely of possibilities, and which possibilities will be realized depends on what agents choose to do. Aristotle thinks that if the sentence "There will be a seabattle tomorrow" is true, then there must necessarily be a sea-battle tomorrow; a ...
A discussion of Aristotle`s De Anima
... coordinate editions and such? The easiest thing for non-Greek-readers would probably be to use the Barnes collected works (they’re good and common enough that the local library should have a set if one doesn’t want to purchase a set). We probably want to talk about commentaries and such. Depending o ...
... coordinate editions and such? The easiest thing for non-Greek-readers would probably be to use the Barnes collected works (they’re good and common enough that the local library should have a set if one doesn’t want to purchase a set). We probably want to talk about commentaries and such. Depending o ...
aristotle`s poetics - U
... recognises the potential significance of this engagement for the understanding of matters of major ethical import. Approached in these terms, tragedy can be seen to give substance to Aristotle's conviction that the appreciation of mimetic art is rooted in cognitive experience, and to lend sorne forc ...
... recognises the potential significance of this engagement for the understanding of matters of major ethical import. Approached in these terms, tragedy can be seen to give substance to Aristotle's conviction that the appreciation of mimetic art is rooted in cognitive experience, and to lend sorne forc ...
A Conception of Philosophical Progress
... we need to resolve. One way we might resolve this problem is by taking a compatibilist position and transforming our conception of freedom so that it is compatible with our choices and actions ultimately being determined by outside causes. This resolution takes an action to be free when done from ou ...
... we need to resolve. One way we might resolve this problem is by taking a compatibilist position and transforming our conception of freedom so that it is compatible with our choices and actions ultimately being determined by outside causes. This resolution takes an action to be free when done from ou ...
6 S Being and Being Grounded
... without reason.11 While Leibniz seems to think that the principle of sufficient reason, together with the principle of contradiction, holds for all true propositions, he distinguishes the scope of what depends upon it from the scope of what depends upon the principle of contradiction. Thus, in The P ...
... without reason.11 While Leibniz seems to think that the principle of sufficient reason, together with the principle of contradiction, holds for all true propositions, he distinguishes the scope of what depends upon it from the scope of what depends upon the principle of contradiction. Thus, in The P ...
Articles Plato and Aristophanes: Poets of Hope
... completing the oracle and deciding that it meant little about the man Socrates. Instead, Plato’s Socrates fades from view as an individual and becomes a character in a larger human drama, standing in for all human beings. In the twisted comedy of human life, Socrates holds up a mirror for us all, co ...
... completing the oracle and deciding that it meant little about the man Socrates. Instead, Plato’s Socrates fades from view as an individual and becomes a character in a larger human drama, standing in for all human beings. In the twisted comedy of human life, Socrates holds up a mirror for us all, co ...
MSWord
... ordinary hermeneutic understanding of discursive performances and their products. But this pragmatist line of thought does not entail that many aspects of discursive practice might not also be susceptible to understanding of the sort I have called “algebraic.” And where it is possible, broadly algeb ...
... ordinary hermeneutic understanding of discursive performances and their products. But this pragmatist line of thought does not entail that many aspects of discursive practice might not also be susceptible to understanding of the sort I have called “algebraic.” And where it is possible, broadly algeb ...
Plato`s Apology of Socrates: Philosophy, Religion, and the Gods in
... things good and evil.”1 There were philosophers before Socrates, but they were not interested in human affairs. Socrates himself began as such a philosopher, seeking “that wisdom, which they call the investigation concerning nature,” to know “the causes of each thing, through what each thing comes t ...
... things good and evil.”1 There were philosophers before Socrates, but they were not interested in human affairs. Socrates himself began as such a philosopher, seeking “that wisdom, which they call the investigation concerning nature,” to know “the causes of each thing, through what each thing comes t ...
Univocity and Analogy: A Comparative Study of Gilbert
... understanding of the meaning of being in general makes any sort of dualism between mind and body untenable. As Murray does well to point out, Ryle's critique of Cartesian dualism “is that of the linguistic portrayal or sentence-frame analysis; his goal is not a science or a clarification of the mean ...
... understanding of the meaning of being in general makes any sort of dualism between mind and body untenable. As Murray does well to point out, Ryle's critique of Cartesian dualism “is that of the linguistic portrayal or sentence-frame analysis; his goal is not a science or a clarification of the mean ...
A DEFENCE OF COMMON SENSE
... obvious truism as not to be worth stating: and it is also a proposition which (in my own opinion) I know, with certainty, to be true. But, nevertheless, it is, to the best of my belief, a proposition with regard to which many philosophers have, for different reasons, differed from me; even if they h ...
... obvious truism as not to be worth stating: and it is also a proposition which (in my own opinion) I know, with certainty, to be true. But, nevertheless, it is, to the best of my belief, a proposition with regard to which many philosophers have, for different reasons, differed from me; even if they h ...
1 Defusing Easy Arguments for Numbers Brendan Balcerak Jackson
... loaded sentences by offering innocent paraphrases for them. According to this response, easy arguments fail to establish the existence of numbers, because accepting (2) and its ilk amount to nothing over and above accepting their innocent paraphrases.4 Like the classic version of the paraphrase stra ...
... loaded sentences by offering innocent paraphrases for them. According to this response, easy arguments fail to establish the existence of numbers, because accepting (2) and its ilk amount to nothing over and above accepting their innocent paraphrases.4 Like the classic version of the paraphrase stra ...
Epoch: Heidegger and the Happening of History
... epoch is equally epochal. That is, every epoch is subject to conceptual and existential limitation. Human beings have no absolute point of view on things. No one epoch in the history of being could ever be privileged. ...
... epoch is equally epochal. That is, every epoch is subject to conceptual and existential limitation. Human beings have no absolute point of view on things. No one epoch in the history of being could ever be privileged. ...
reply to JJ Valberg - Keele Research Repository
... presupposed that this is a laudable aim; but that is not a good reason in itself. Valberg offers a simple phenomenological observation; that when we attend – honestly – to our experience, then all we find is the world, not experience itself (Valberg 1992: Chapter 2). This is to be ...
... presupposed that this is a laudable aim; but that is not a good reason in itself. Valberg offers a simple phenomenological observation; that when we attend – honestly – to our experience, then all we find is the world, not experience itself (Valberg 1992: Chapter 2). This is to be ...
Alexander of Aphrodisias`s Account of Universals and
... the medieval discussions of the problem of universals, but also for understanding Aristotle’s views on universals. Alexander, who was known to later generations as “the Commentator” (until Averroes took over that title), is usually taken to be a faithful follower of Aristotle, who rejected the Plato ...
... the medieval discussions of the problem of universals, but also for understanding Aristotle’s views on universals. Alexander, who was known to later generations as “the Commentator” (until Averroes took over that title), is usually taken to be a faithful follower of Aristotle, who rejected the Plato ...
Heidegger`s Method: Philosophical Concepts as Formal Indications
... the mere of any is not to be confused the tradition, presence same. can of the Nor the re particular thing or being or collection trieval not ...
... the mere of any is not to be confused the tradition, presence same. can of the Nor the re particular thing or being or collection trieval not ...
Beyond the organicist metaphor: Media ecology
... to reject the kind of soft constructivism which places an excessive emphasis on the social and symbolic dimensions of world and self, thus neglecting other pillars such as embodiment or temporality. According to Corey Anton (2000), these four ontological pillars – sociality, simbolicity, embodiment ...
... to reject the kind of soft constructivism which places an excessive emphasis on the social and symbolic dimensions of world and self, thus neglecting other pillars such as embodiment or temporality. According to Corey Anton (2000), these four ontological pillars – sociality, simbolicity, embodiment ...
On Aristotle and Economics
... however, regardless of the terms adopted, these authors stress something that could be left aside given that the criteria proposed by Aristotle for using properties in the house and in the polis are the same. Besides, if “the economic” is merely household management, where do we find current Politic ...
... however, regardless of the terms adopted, these authors stress something that could be left aside given that the criteria proposed by Aristotle for using properties in the house and in the polis are the same. Besides, if “the economic” is merely household management, where do we find current Politic ...
Ought and Reality - Scandinavian Studies in Law
... of morals“. Hence it follows that “ethics, as a branch of knowledge is nothing more that a department of psychology and sociology“. This position implies that the meta-philosophical inquiries into moral ideas are insulated from the substantive inquiries into moral questions and thus have no impact u ...
... of morals“. Hence it follows that “ethics, as a branch of knowledge is nothing more that a department of psychology and sociology“. This position implies that the meta-philosophical inquiries into moral ideas are insulated from the substantive inquiries into moral questions and thus have no impact u ...
Sameness and Referential Opacity in Aristotle Francis Jeffry
... helpful. As it stands, it appears to presuppose the proof later in Meta. VII 6 that per se entities (e.g., (a) man) are identical with their essences. The second problem with Ross' reconstruction again turns on the fact that he uses our modern '=' to capture Aristotle's sense of'the same'. But his c ...
... helpful. As it stands, it appears to presuppose the proof later in Meta. VII 6 that per se entities (e.g., (a) man) are identical with their essences. The second problem with Ross' reconstruction again turns on the fact that he uses our modern '=' to capture Aristotle's sense of'the same'. But his c ...
PLATO: THE SEVENTH LETTER_4
... it evidently differs in its nature from the real circle and from the aforementioned three. Of all d these four, understanding approaches nearest in affinity and likeness to the fifth entity, while the others are more remote from it. The same doctrine holds good in regard to shapes and surfaces, bot ...
... it evidently differs in its nature from the real circle and from the aforementioned three. Of all d these four, understanding approaches nearest in affinity and likeness to the fifth entity, while the others are more remote from it. The same doctrine holds good in regard to shapes and surfaces, bot ...
D. C. Schindler Plato`s Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness
... The second chapter draws out the triadic character of the good: things can be good intrinsically, extrinsically, or both. Justice is an instance of the latter. According to Schindler, this triad is unique to Plato; Aristotle, for instance, recognized only the first two. Schindler argues that Plato’s ...
... The second chapter draws out the triadic character of the good: things can be good intrinsically, extrinsically, or both. Justice is an instance of the latter. According to Schindler, this triad is unique to Plato; Aristotle, for instance, recognized only the first two. Schindler argues that Plato’s ...
Concrete Possible Worlds
... classes of worlds; for example, one proposition logically implies another just in case the class of worlds at which the one is true is included in the class of worlds at which the other is true. But see fn. 23. ...
... classes of worlds; for example, one proposition logically implies another just in case the class of worlds at which the one is true is included in the class of worlds at which the other is true. But see fn. 23. ...
12 Substances
... When we try to account for the being of these other things, then, we must make use of the sense of “is” in which only substances can be said to be. Although the primacy of substances proposed here is more elaborate than the doctrine of the Categories, it certainly recalls the earlier work’s doctrine ...
... When we try to account for the being of these other things, then, we must make use of the sense of “is” in which only substances can be said to be. Although the primacy of substances proposed here is more elaborate than the doctrine of the Categories, it certainly recalls the earlier work’s doctrine ...
1929 Davos Disputation - The Dallas Philosophers Forum
... Leibniz, and his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms celebrated the liberation of mankind from primitive bondage to modern freedom through the progressive unfolding of infinite reason. Even the Great War brought a republic to Germany and allowed Cassirer, a Jew, to be appointed professor at the new Univers ...
... Leibniz, and his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms celebrated the liberation of mankind from primitive bondage to modern freedom through the progressive unfolding of infinite reason. Even the Great War brought a republic to Germany and allowed Cassirer, a Jew, to be appointed professor at the new Univers ...
Constructing and Representing Reality: Hegel and the Making of
... to us through sensation, possess the highest, most fundamental reality—Plato denounces “poetry” as “injurious to the minds which do not possess the antidote in a knowledge of its real nature.” Given that the “art of representation” is “a long way from reality,” he continues, “all poetry, from Homer ...
... to us through sensation, possess the highest, most fundamental reality—Plato denounces “poetry” as “injurious to the minds which do not possess the antidote in a knowledge of its real nature.” Given that the “art of representation” is “a long way from reality,” he continues, “all poetry, from Homer ...
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.