In Defence of Indispensability
... any supra-scientific tribunal, and not in need of any justification beyond observation and the hypotheticc-deductive method. ... The naturalistic philosopher begins his reasoning within the inherited world theory as a going concern. He tentatively believes all of it, but believes also that some unid ...
... any supra-scientific tribunal, and not in need of any justification beyond observation and the hypotheticc-deductive method. ... The naturalistic philosopher begins his reasoning within the inherited world theory as a going concern. He tentatively believes all of it, but believes also that some unid ...
Nietzsche on eternal return
... However, we can question whether the idea of eternal return has the significance Nietzsche gives it. We are being asked to imagine our response to the thought that everything will recur, just as it has. One response is ‘so what?’. If everything happens again identically, then just as we have no kno ...
... However, we can question whether the idea of eternal return has the significance Nietzsche gives it. We are being asked to imagine our response to the thought that everything will recur, just as it has. One response is ‘so what?’. If everything happens again identically, then just as we have no kno ...
The Self
... cannot go about living every day life without viewing the world as a disconnected meaningless ball of matter, and therefore, he suffers from nausea (Sartre, Nausea 38-40). He has lost ability to see the transcendental properties in the world and is trapped in the facticity of the in-Itself. Sartre w ...
... cannot go about living every day life without viewing the world as a disconnected meaningless ball of matter, and therefore, he suffers from nausea (Sartre, Nausea 38-40). He has lost ability to see the transcendental properties in the world and is trapped in the facticity of the in-Itself. Sartre w ...
`Among contemporaries the most exciting thinker, masterful
... knowledge, by concentrating upon states of mind and their objects. Since all human knowledge involves some state of mind, this subject could claim a philosophically basic position. The question, however, is one of the right method for isolating what is essential to states of mind in the first place. ...
... knowledge, by concentrating upon states of mind and their objects. Since all human knowledge involves some state of mind, this subject could claim a philosophically basic position. The question, however, is one of the right method for isolating what is essential to states of mind in the first place. ...
Leibniz and the Spell of the Continuous
... In time this universality of the continuous acquired for him the status of a great overarching principle, one of the supreme and unchallengeable determinants of all his thought. Continuity became not a fact to be verified in each new investigation but an assumption made in advance and hence a source ...
... In time this universality of the continuous acquired for him the status of a great overarching principle, one of the supreme and unchallengeable determinants of all his thought. Continuity became not a fact to be verified in each new investigation but an assumption made in advance and hence a source ...
Mimesis, Eros, and Mania
... if it sets off a search for univocal intelligibility. The communication of “more” than univocity is at play from the origin. From this our initiation in overdetermined astonishment, more determinate forms of thought and articulation come to be shaped, as we seek the intelligibilities of what is ther ...
... if it sets off a search for univocal intelligibility. The communication of “more” than univocity is at play from the origin. From this our initiation in overdetermined astonishment, more determinate forms of thought and articulation come to be shaped, as we seek the intelligibilities of what is ther ...
Speaking of the Ineffable, East and West
... not only the state of the enlightened person after death, but ultimate reality itself. And one can see why that should be ineffable. To describe it would be to deploy concepts; but ultimate reality is exactly what is left, after all concepts have been removed. At any rate, we are back with our famil ...
... not only the state of the enlightened person after death, but ultimate reality itself. And one can see why that should be ineffable. To describe it would be to deploy concepts; but ultimate reality is exactly what is left, after all concepts have been removed. At any rate, we are back with our famil ...
Journal - Vassar Philosophy
... plan communities “where each building is a live thing and a natural extension of others. Together they will make the places where a man can realize what he wishes to be” (Smithson 3). For the architect to tap into the truest form of architecture, she had to reimagine architecture as an organic exten ...
... plan communities “where each building is a live thing and a natural extension of others. Together they will make the places where a man can realize what he wishes to be” (Smithson 3). For the architect to tap into the truest form of architecture, she had to reimagine architecture as an organic exten ...
PowerPoint Slides - IU School of Liberal Arts @ IUPUI
... • The “Apology” of Socrates near the beginning of “antiquity” for which he takes full responsibility • New Testament Readings which are mostly my work and • The Confessions of Augustine at the close of antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages on which he has contributed ...
... • The “Apology” of Socrates near the beginning of “antiquity” for which he takes full responsibility • New Testament Readings which are mostly my work and • The Confessions of Augustine at the close of antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages on which he has contributed ...
Why naturalize consciousness?
... remarks from parties on differing sides of the consciousness debates. Frank Jackson’s muchdiscussed “Mary’s Room” thought-experiment brings this out, unpacking Mary’s “[knowledge of] all the physical facts about us and our environment” in terms of her knowing “everything in completed physics, chemis ...
... remarks from parties on differing sides of the consciousness debates. Frank Jackson’s muchdiscussed “Mary’s Room” thought-experiment brings this out, unpacking Mary’s “[knowledge of] all the physical facts about us and our environment” in terms of her knowing “everything in completed physics, chemis ...
“Turtles All the Way Down”: Mind, Emotion and Nothing
... the emergence, from the centre of Herman’s forehead, of a kind of thought bubble [11]. The trajectory is from inside to out, rather than the introjective penetration of the point of view in Inside Out [5]. There are two basic problems with homuncular decomposition as a way of thinking about the mind ...
... the emergence, from the centre of Herman’s forehead, of a kind of thought bubble [11]. The trajectory is from inside to out, rather than the introjective penetration of the point of view in Inside Out [5]. There are two basic problems with homuncular decomposition as a way of thinking about the mind ...
Why Didnâ•Žt Plato Just Write Arguments? The Role of Image
... possible, from eyes and ears, and, in a word, from his whole body, because he feels that its companionship disturbs the soul and hinders it from attaining truth and wisdom? Is not this the man, Simmias, if anyone, to attain to the knowledge of reality? That is true as true can be, Socrates, said Sim ...
... possible, from eyes and ears, and, in a word, from his whole body, because he feels that its companionship disturbs the soul and hinders it from attaining truth and wisdom? Is not this the man, Simmias, if anyone, to attain to the knowledge of reality? That is true as true can be, Socrates, said Sim ...
Film, Philosophy and the Imagination
... Ontology seeks to answer the question: What is Being? Heidegger concurred with Husserl that neither radical empiricism or rationalism would provide a solid understanding of our experience of the world. For Heidegger however the goal of phenomenology was not to allow an access ‘to the things themselv ...
... Ontology seeks to answer the question: What is Being? Heidegger concurred with Husserl that neither radical empiricism or rationalism would provide a solid understanding of our experience of the world. For Heidegger however the goal of phenomenology was not to allow an access ‘to the things themselv ...
Epistemology Dehumanized
... the evident. But it is understandable and often harmless. We may need to know, not merely believe, that God exists, yet recognize that we do not. So we look for “evidences” of his existence. In the courtroom, a verdict of guilt or innocence may be mandatory, though neither guilt nor innocence is sel ...
... the evident. But it is understandable and often harmless. We may need to know, not merely believe, that God exists, yet recognize that we do not. So we look for “evidences” of his existence. In the courtroom, a verdict of guilt or innocence may be mandatory, though neither guilt nor innocence is sel ...
PHI 110 Lecture 16 1 Hello and welcome to what will be the first of
... Berkeley gives up on the notion that there exists any external world or objective truths at all. For Berkeley, the entire furniture of the universe consists of minds and thoughts. As I said, this is a very consistent position. If you accept the idea that human beings are rational, if you accept the ...
... Berkeley gives up on the notion that there exists any external world or objective truths at all. For Berkeley, the entire furniture of the universe consists of minds and thoughts. As I said, this is a very consistent position. If you accept the idea that human beings are rational, if you accept the ...
Many-Valued Logic
... logic has the possibility to assign several additional values to the cases in question and so it is appropriate for leading the inquiry either to exclusive freedom or again to the exclusive determinism evaluation. But it lacks the possibility to embrace them both at the same time. This would be a co ...
... logic has the possibility to assign several additional values to the cases in question and so it is appropriate for leading the inquiry either to exclusive freedom or again to the exclusive determinism evaluation. But it lacks the possibility to embrace them both at the same time. This would be a co ...
Going beyond good and evil
... Fifth, the attitude of affirming eternal return seems to contradict other attitudes Nietzsche expresses and attributes to new philosophers. Their affirmation of eternal return is countered by their revulsion at almost all life they meet! Are they really only saying ‘yes’ to themselves? The biggest o ...
... Fifth, the attitude of affirming eternal return seems to contradict other attitudes Nietzsche expresses and attributes to new philosophers. Their affirmation of eternal return is countered by their revulsion at almost all life they meet! Are they really only saying ‘yes’ to themselves? The biggest o ...
Problem of Non-existence
... about Pegasus. You might say, for example, that these thoughts represent Pegasus, although they are not about it. I find it more natural to say my words and thoughts are about Pegasus, but they do not refer to Pegasus. Some will not be satisfied, and will insist that properly understood, intentional ...
... about Pegasus. You might say, for example, that these thoughts represent Pegasus, although they are not about it. I find it more natural to say my words and thoughts are about Pegasus, but they do not refer to Pegasus. Some will not be satisfied, and will insist that properly understood, intentional ...
PATOČKA`S CONCEPTION OF THE SUBJECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
... final aspect of Patočka’s interpretation of Aristotle. Taking presence as manifestation, he asserts that for Aristotle “movement is essentially tied not just to the determination of a substrate … but also to its disclosure.” Given that “being is being manifest,” one can say that the movement that re ...
... final aspect of Patočka’s interpretation of Aristotle. Taking presence as manifestation, he asserts that for Aristotle “movement is essentially tied not just to the determination of a substrate … but also to its disclosure.” Given that “being is being manifest,” one can say that the movement that re ...
DIRECT REALISM WITHOUT MATERIALISM
... alleged intermediaries are philosophical inventions, whether they are supposed to be particular objects, such as sense data, or properties, such as ways of being appeared to. Clearly, these two points would be accepted by a materialist who says what she means, i.e. the uncompromising eliminative mat ...
... alleged intermediaries are philosophical inventions, whether they are supposed to be particular objects, such as sense data, or properties, such as ways of being appeared to. Clearly, these two points would be accepted by a materialist who says what she means, i.e. the uncompromising eliminative mat ...
philosophical anthropology: ernst cassirer, max
... metaphysics. Metaphysics in the traditional sense is defined as knowledge of Being and Reality and is shot through with dualism: existence and essence, subject and object, inner and outer, mind and body, phenomenon and noumenon, nature and spirit, transcendent and immanent, beginning with the substa ...
... metaphysics. Metaphysics in the traditional sense is defined as knowledge of Being and Reality and is shot through with dualism: existence and essence, subject and object, inner and outer, mind and body, phenomenon and noumenon, nature and spirit, transcendent and immanent, beginning with the substa ...
1 The Aristotelian Method and Aristotelian Metaphysics
... My conception of metaphysics is what could be called ‘Aristotelian’, as opposed to Kantian. In this paper I will examine what Aristotelian metaphysics amounts to and what is its relationship with contemporary metaphysics. The first thing that should be noted is that we are not so much dealing with t ...
... My conception of metaphysics is what could be called ‘Aristotelian’, as opposed to Kantian. In this paper I will examine what Aristotelian metaphysics amounts to and what is its relationship with contemporary metaphysics. The first thing that should be noted is that we are not so much dealing with t ...
WHAT DO „AFFECTIONS IN THE SOUL” RESEMBLE?2 Aristotle`s
... something, according to which we draw the conclusion of the existence of another thing.6 In a similar way is to be understood the nature of phonemes, which do not have their own semantic value. Only by referring to the various „affections in the soul”, they do become able to mean something. They are ...
... something, according to which we draw the conclusion of the existence of another thing.6 In a similar way is to be understood the nature of phonemes, which do not have their own semantic value. Only by referring to the various „affections in the soul”, they do become able to mean something. They are ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Being, Beings, and Truth
... I manage to leave behind all the paradoxes and perplexities of what has become the “natural”, explicit, and accepted way of thinking about us and the world (Cartesian dualism, skepticism, realism vs. idealism, etc.). So Being and Time actually is simply one extended argument: does my alternative “re ...
... I manage to leave behind all the paradoxes and perplexities of what has become the “natural”, explicit, and accepted way of thinking about us and the world (Cartesian dualism, skepticism, realism vs. idealism, etc.). So Being and Time actually is simply one extended argument: does my alternative “re ...
Classical Western Philosophy BA Philosophy UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT Core Course
... (d) Socrates 120 St. Augustine was very much influenced by the philosophy of-(a) Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Anselm 121. The Milesian philosophers were also known as………….. (a) rationalists (b) empiricists (c) atomists (d) the first materialists 122. .………………is considered as the founder of th ...
... (d) Socrates 120 St. Augustine was very much influenced by the philosophy of-(a) Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Anselm 121. The Milesian philosophers were also known as………….. (a) rationalists (b) empiricists (c) atomists (d) the first materialists 122. .………………is considered as the founder of th ...
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.