PLATO`S THEORY OF LOVE IN THE LYSIS: A DEFENCE*
... Greek for friendship, but it is quite clear that in the Lysis and generally within the Greek philosophical tradition its meaning is not exhausted by the modern English word 'friendship'. It is often used interchangeably with eros (normally translated as 'love'), but it also comprises the feeling of ...
... Greek for friendship, but it is quite clear that in the Lysis and generally within the Greek philosophical tradition its meaning is not exhausted by the modern English word 'friendship'. It is often used interchangeably with eros (normally translated as 'love'), but it also comprises the feeling of ...
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... does not know in itself is a forward step in the direction of human wisdom and selfknowledge. Here Socrates admits to “a certain kind of wisdom,” or “human wisdom,” as he knows that he does not know.12 What is indicated in both Confucius and Socrates is the wisdom of acknowledging ignorance — the hu ...
... does not know in itself is a forward step in the direction of human wisdom and selfknowledge. Here Socrates admits to “a certain kind of wisdom,” or “human wisdom,” as he knows that he does not know.12 What is indicated in both Confucius and Socrates is the wisdom of acknowledging ignorance — the hu ...
The Value Question in Metaphysics
... (2C) Will it be better if God exists, than if He does not? are very different questions from (3). A world in which our reasons for action are dramatically different might also be a world that is neither better nor worse than the alternative. Practical implications can be driven by differences in val ...
... (2C) Will it be better if God exists, than if He does not? are very different questions from (3). A world in which our reasons for action are dramatically different might also be a world that is neither better nor worse than the alternative. Practical implications can be driven by differences in val ...
saying and showing the good
... One of the totalities of which we cannot speak is that of propositions. This is crucial for Wittgenstein’s much discussed account of generality, which of course is inseparable from his view about totalities. He wrote: “A proposition is a truth-function of elementary propositions. (An elementary pro ...
... One of the totalities of which we cannot speak is that of propositions. This is crucial for Wittgenstein’s much discussed account of generality, which of course is inseparable from his view about totalities. He wrote: “A proposition is a truth-function of elementary propositions. (An elementary pro ...
Recovering Play: On the Relationship Between Leisure and
... sense of technē, of craftsmanship that releases beings, letting beings emergeforth on their own terms. The Greek craftsman is one who builds the old wooden bridge that lets ‘the river run its course’.6 The epoch of modern technology, in contrast, builds the hydroelectric dam that forces the river in ...
... sense of technē, of craftsmanship that releases beings, letting beings emergeforth on their own terms. The Greek craftsman is one who builds the old wooden bridge that lets ‘the river run its course’.6 The epoch of modern technology, in contrast, builds the hydroelectric dam that forces the river in ...
Helena Siipi - UTU Research Portal
... entities are divided into natural and unnatural ones, and everything is taken to be either natural or unnatural (or to escape the definition). (Siipi 2008: 77; Varner 1998: 125-6; Attfield 1999: 15-16.) (Un)naturalness is understood as an all-or-nothing affair, for example, when unnaturalness is ass ...
... entities are divided into natural and unnatural ones, and everything is taken to be either natural or unnatural (or to escape the definition). (Siipi 2008: 77; Varner 1998: 125-6; Attfield 1999: 15-16.) (Un)naturalness is understood as an all-or-nothing affair, for example, when unnaturalness is ass ...
HERMENEUTICAL PARADOXES IN THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES A. Ladikos
... the philosopher cannot accept the way of life prescribed by his tradition but on the other hand cannot offer an unquestionable alternative to it (Stone 1988). But as one examines Socrates' conception of the good, the Socratic moral paradoxes gain a new significance from their association with his co ...
... the philosopher cannot accept the way of life prescribed by his tradition but on the other hand cannot offer an unquestionable alternative to it (Stone 1988). But as one examines Socrates' conception of the good, the Socratic moral paradoxes gain a new significance from their association with his co ...
The Significance of "On Denoting"
... in exactly the same sense. Human beings happen to have the additional property of existing at some moments of time and points of space (and not at others), but it is being, not existence, that is Russell's fundamental (and in a sense his only) ontological category. Thus for Russell human beings and ...
... in exactly the same sense. Human beings happen to have the additional property of existing at some moments of time and points of space (and not at others), but it is being, not existence, that is Russell's fundamental (and in a sense his only) ontological category. Thus for Russell human beings and ...
A Modern Worldview from Plato`s Cave
... there all their life and their chains keep their heads immobile so they are unable to look around. Behind the prisoners and before the opening to the cave is a fire. In front of the fire are puppeteers that hold objects up over a screen so that their shadows from the fire are cast on the back wall ...
... there all their life and their chains keep their heads immobile so they are unable to look around. Behind the prisoners and before the opening to the cave is a fire. In front of the fire are puppeteers that hold objects up over a screen so that their shadows from the fire are cast on the back wall ...
SOME MAIN PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY
... general sketch or outline of the whole subject, you point out how the different separate problems are connected with one another and can shall ...
... general sketch or outline of the whole subject, you point out how the different separate problems are connected with one another and can shall ...
Glosses on Porphyry
... of the word necessary? Since it is sometimes used to mean inevitable as, it is necessary that substance is not quality, sometimes to mean useful, as, to go to the forum, sometimes to mean determined, as, that man will die some time. The first two meanings of necessary obviously are of such sort that ...
... of the word necessary? Since it is sometimes used to mean inevitable as, it is necessary that substance is not quality, sometimes to mean useful, as, to go to the forum, sometimes to mean determined, as, that man will die some time. The first two meanings of necessary obviously are of such sort that ...
Hegel and Schopenhauer
... Schopenhauer number among those conceptual artists without whose work our insight into that which is (as Heidegger said) would never have been possible. We must not let it discourage us that day-to-day reality will require decades (if not centuries) before the notion of Homo generator in artificial ...
... Schopenhauer number among those conceptual artists without whose work our insight into that which is (as Heidegger said) would never have been possible. We must not let it discourage us that day-to-day reality will require decades (if not centuries) before the notion of Homo generator in artificial ...
Sidestepping the holes of holism
... trivial formulation of the latter. A good example would be Leibniz’ ontology if understood in a holistic way. According to Leibniz, every individual is specified by a unique set of properties; moreover, all those properties are essential and global – they are sufficient to single out all other indiv ...
... trivial formulation of the latter. A good example would be Leibniz’ ontology if understood in a holistic way. According to Leibniz, every individual is specified by a unique set of properties; moreover, all those properties are essential and global – they are sufficient to single out all other indiv ...
Dialectic and Dialogue in Plato: Revisiting the Image of "Socrates
... drastically from the aforementioned forms of “dialectic,” one in which the method of questioning expresses a sense of ignorance against the backdrop of an “understanding” that allows for questions to be given form, all the while embracing the radical finitude bound up with all human efforts to make ...
... drastically from the aforementioned forms of “dialectic,” one in which the method of questioning expresses a sense of ignorance against the backdrop of an “understanding” that allows for questions to be given form, all the while embracing the radical finitude bound up with all human efforts to make ...
Reinach Negative Jud.. - Buffalo Ontology Site
... continental philosophers influenced by Husserl, but also in much analytic philosophical work on logical semantics and on the ontology of facts. Within Austrian philosophy however, particularly in the work of Brentano, and of philosophers in the Brentano school such as Meinong and Marty, this distinc ...
... continental philosophers influenced by Husserl, but also in much analytic philosophical work on logical semantics and on the ontology of facts. Within Austrian philosophy however, particularly in the work of Brentano, and of philosophers in the Brentano school such as Meinong and Marty, this distinc ...
Reinach Negative Jud.. - Buffalo Ontology Site
... object-correlates of judgments, has since been taken for granted not only by continental philosophers influenced by Husserl, but also in much analytic philosophical work on logical semantics and on the ontology of facts. Within Austrian philosophy however, particularly in the work of Brentano, and o ...
... object-correlates of judgments, has since been taken for granted not only by continental philosophers influenced by Husserl, but also in much analytic philosophical work on logical semantics and on the ontology of facts. Within Austrian philosophy however, particularly in the work of Brentano, and o ...
Three Meanings of Epistemic Rhetoric
... knowledge and experience into contingent and noncontingent areas.24 This bifurcation aligns the contingent/noncontingent with the social/material realms, for Cherwitz also separates the social realm of rhetorical discourse from the material realm of scientific discourse.25 In the realm of the contin ...
... knowledge and experience into contingent and noncontingent areas.24 This bifurcation aligns the contingent/noncontingent with the social/material realms, for Cherwitz also separates the social realm of rhetorical discourse from the material realm of scientific discourse.25 In the realm of the contin ...
The Asymmetric Magnets Problem
... The problem I’ll be focussing on looks rather simple, but it brings out several points that seem to have metaphysical interest. In particular, it highlights the importance of three distinctions that are easy to blur when doing metaphysics. It will make the exposition of the puzzle easier to place th ...
... The problem I’ll be focussing on looks rather simple, but it brings out several points that seem to have metaphysical interest. In particular, it highlights the importance of three distinctions that are easy to blur when doing metaphysics. It will make the exposition of the puzzle easier to place th ...
THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY (London: Oxford University
... believe nothing which he did not see quite clearly and distinctly to be true. Whatever he could bring himself to doubt, he would doubt, until he saw reason for not doubting it. By applying this method he gradually became convinced that the only existence of which he could be quite certain was his ow ...
... believe nothing which he did not see quite clearly and distinctly to be true. Whatever he could bring himself to doubt, he would doubt, until he saw reason for not doubting it. By applying this method he gradually became convinced that the only existence of which he could be quite certain was his ow ...
Freedom and Universality: Hegel`s Republican Conception of
... This paper outlines Hegel’s vision of what we can call a republican understanding of modernity. By this I mean that Hegel stands at the apex of a tradition of thought that saw the modern social world as defined by a kind of reason that allowed the individual to reach a higher conceptual grasp of him ...
... This paper outlines Hegel’s vision of what we can call a republican understanding of modernity. By this I mean that Hegel stands at the apex of a tradition of thought that saw the modern social world as defined by a kind of reason that allowed the individual to reach a higher conceptual grasp of him ...
A Beginner`s Guide to Descartes`s Meditations
... many to be the founding father of modern philosophy. However, just as it has been said that the European philosophical tradition can best be thought of as ‘a series of footnotes to Plato’,’ so it may be argued that the importance of Descartes lies more in the problems he identified and tried to answ ...
... many to be the founding father of modern philosophy. However, just as it has been said that the European philosophical tradition can best be thought of as ‘a series of footnotes to Plato’,’ so it may be argued that the importance of Descartes lies more in the problems he identified and tried to answ ...
A reply on Spinoza`s behalf
... Yet whatever the intrinsic (that is, non-relational!) merits of this argument may be, Spinoza would reject it. While he would certainly agree that relations between distinct substances would be unintelligible, the following of internal properties as consequences from an infinitely powerful essence (v ...
... Yet whatever the intrinsic (that is, non-relational!) merits of this argument may be, Spinoza would reject it. While he would certainly agree that relations between distinct substances would be unintelligible, the following of internal properties as consequences from an infinitely powerful essence (v ...
A Critique of Descartes` Mind-Body Dualism
... substance, (mind), which has thinking as its essence and material substance (body), with extension as its essence. Mind and body are therefore, two kinds of substance, each of which is distinctly different, and can exist independent of each other. With Descartes’ establishment of his soul or mind as ...
... substance, (mind), which has thinking as its essence and material substance (body), with extension as its essence. Mind and body are therefore, two kinds of substance, each of which is distinctly different, and can exist independent of each other. With Descartes’ establishment of his soul or mind as ...
The Tragic Community - Friedrich Nietzsche and Mao Tse Tung
... Penguin, 2012) This quote, not published until 1967, is reminiscent of Bataille's 1929 dispute with the Surrealist Andre Breton, who, also being a Trotskyite Marxist, expelled Bataille from the Surrealist Group in the Second Surrealist Manifesto, advocating what he poetically intimated as an 'Icaria ...
... Penguin, 2012) This quote, not published until 1967, is reminiscent of Bataille's 1929 dispute with the Surrealist Andre Breton, who, also being a Trotskyite Marxist, expelled Bataille from the Surrealist Group in the Second Surrealist Manifesto, advocating what he poetically intimated as an 'Icaria ...
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.