Engaging Socrates by Joel Alden Schlosser
... In one set of familiar images of Socrates, he appears indoors, clean, self-possessed, and flanked by a coterie of admiring disciplines.4 In Raphael’s “The School of Athens,” for example, Socrates stands by Plato’s side ensconced in the calm confines of a palace surrounded by loquacious fellow philo ...
... In one set of familiar images of Socrates, he appears indoors, clean, self-possessed, and flanked by a coterie of admiring disciplines.4 In Raphael’s “The School of Athens,” for example, Socrates stands by Plato’s side ensconced in the calm confines of a palace surrounded by loquacious fellow philo ...
aiming at virtue in plato
... In the Cleitophon, a short and strange dialogue attributed to Plato, the character “Socrates” speaks only twice. He accuses the eponymous interlocutor on the one hand of telling people that it is a waste of time to associate with him, while on the other of lauding contact with Thrasymachus, the infa ...
... In the Cleitophon, a short and strange dialogue attributed to Plato, the character “Socrates” speaks only twice. He accuses the eponymous interlocutor on the one hand of telling people that it is a waste of time to associate with him, while on the other of lauding contact with Thrasymachus, the infa ...
Epistemological Vs - Birkbeck, University of London
... makes the posit highly probable, and for justification such high probability, rather than certainty, is all that is required.3 Third, Quine advances a holistic epistemology. He claims that it is complete theories rather than single sentences that face the tribunal of experience. We will have more to ...
... makes the posit highly probable, and for justification such high probability, rather than certainty, is all that is required.3 Third, Quine advances a holistic epistemology. He claims that it is complete theories rather than single sentences that face the tribunal of experience. We will have more to ...
Schopenhauer`s Theory of Justice
... supported with references to the Vedanta of Hindu scripture. One can only imagine the perplexity of the members of the Society. After some delay, they decided not to award the prize at all. The following year, Arthur Schopenhauer, the then obscure scholar whose essay had been rejected by the Society ...
... supported with references to the Vedanta of Hindu scripture. One can only imagine the perplexity of the members of the Society. After some delay, they decided not to award the prize at all. The following year, Arthur Schopenhauer, the then obscure scholar whose essay had been rejected by the Society ...
Metaphysical Dependence and Set Theory
... widely accepted that some concrete objects metaphysically depend on others. But why think the same holds for sets? Sets are mathematical objects. And mathematical objects are said to exist necessarily, if they exist at all. They could not have failed to exist. In what sense, then, could they depend ...
... widely accepted that some concrete objects metaphysically depend on others. But why think the same holds for sets? Sets are mathematical objects. And mathematical objects are said to exist necessarily, if they exist at all. They could not have failed to exist. In what sense, then, could they depend ...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty`s Criticism on Bergson`s Theory of
... strength and excellence of one’s enemy. Beaulieu thus calls phenomenology Deleuze’s “beloved enemy” or “friend-enemy”.1 While I do not deny Deleuze’s antagonistic relation to phenomenology, I would like to examine what “love” or “friendship” there is within this couple and, more particularly between ...
... strength and excellence of one’s enemy. Beaulieu thus calls phenomenology Deleuze’s “beloved enemy” or “friend-enemy”.1 While I do not deny Deleuze’s antagonistic relation to phenomenology, I would like to examine what “love” or “friendship” there is within this couple and, more particularly between ...
Heidegger, Žižek and Revolution
... Consequently, Heidegger and Žižek have to be revolutionary. They see attempts at alleviating the excesses of capitalism as futile or even counterproductive, as such attempts only prop up the system. Neither Heidegger nor Žižek stand for slow, stepwise reformation. This revolutionary extremism is cle ...
... Consequently, Heidegger and Žižek have to be revolutionary. They see attempts at alleviating the excesses of capitalism as futile or even counterproductive, as such attempts only prop up the system. Neither Heidegger nor Žižek stand for slow, stepwise reformation. This revolutionary extremism is cle ...
CLEMENS, JUSTIN Title - Minerva Access
... plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which it makes any sense to say that it is 'true,?,,9 But it is also becau ...
... plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which it makes any sense to say that it is 'true,?,,9 But it is also becau ...
Platonic Meditations: The Work of Alain Badiou
... plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which it makes any sense to say that it is 'true,?,,9 But it is also becau ...
... plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which it makes any sense to say that it is 'true,?,,9 But it is also becau ...
socrates the cosmopolitan
... promising to teach the special skills that lead to preeminent economic and political power. Throughout the rest of the dialogue, Socrates argues for a quite different picture of virtue. Socratic virtue is the sort of expertise which the Athenian assembly rejects; it requires knowledge of what is goo ...
... promising to teach the special skills that lead to preeminent economic and political power. Throughout the rest of the dialogue, Socrates argues for a quite different picture of virtue. Socratic virtue is the sort of expertise which the Athenian assembly rejects; it requires knowledge of what is goo ...
Aristotle`s Account of the Virtue of Courage in
... generate a different, but equally good set of virtues. Aristotle’s second step is to narrow the aspect of each virtue by eliminating objects governed by other virtues. Aristotle is concerned to separate the spheres of the virtues in order to avoid overlap among the virtues. He wants his virtues to h ...
... generate a different, but equally good set of virtues. Aristotle’s second step is to narrow the aspect of each virtue by eliminating objects governed by other virtues. Aristotle is concerned to separate the spheres of the virtues in order to avoid overlap among the virtues. He wants his virtues to h ...
Socrates Misinterpreted and Misapplied
... Some discussions of the Crito, such as Ann Congleton’s, grasp so desperately at an explanation that they argue that Socrates didn’t mean anything he stated in the Crito because he was “dumbing-down” his arguments for Crito’s sake, claiming Crito is not intelligent enough to understand Socrates’ “rea ...
... Some discussions of the Crito, such as Ann Congleton’s, grasp so desperately at an explanation that they argue that Socrates didn’t mean anything he stated in the Crito because he was “dumbing-down” his arguments for Crito’s sake, claiming Crito is not intelligent enough to understand Socrates’ “rea ...
The Theaetetus as a Superior Apology.
... the theories of others to support or counter those put forth by the interlocutors, then test the ideas with reason alone (157c; Giannopoulou 44). He proclaims, “I myself am barren of wisdom… I am in not any sense a wise man; I cannot claim as the child of my own soul any discovery worth the name of ...
... the theories of others to support or counter those put forth by the interlocutors, then test the ideas with reason alone (157c; Giannopoulou 44). He proclaims, “I myself am barren of wisdom… I am in not any sense a wise man; I cannot claim as the child of my own soul any discovery worth the name of ...
TYPOLOGY OF NOTHING: HEIDEGGER, DAOISM AND BUDDHISM
... however, becomes irrelevant if we attempt to match Daoist nothing to my typology of nothing. Both space and the origin of all existents are actual existence with real ...
... however, becomes irrelevant if we attempt to match Daoist nothing to my typology of nothing. Both space and the origin of all existents are actual existence with real ...
2.1.1 Spinoza on the extreme subtlety called “possibility”
... 2.1.1 Spinoza on the extreme subtlety called “possibility” In the context of Spinoza’s argument that possibility (or contingency, which was the same thing in his view) is not a real quality of things but merely a reflexion of our ignorance of reality, he argued that there cannot be any middle catego ...
... 2.1.1 Spinoza on the extreme subtlety called “possibility” In the context of Spinoza’s argument that possibility (or contingency, which was the same thing in his view) is not a real quality of things but merely a reflexion of our ignorance of reality, he argued that there cannot be any middle catego ...
The Problem of Nonexistence: Truthmaking or
... In this way, Crane’s picture is an improvement on these rival views. It seems to be a fact about English that there are true generalizations about nonexistents, and I myself cannot make sense of a picture on which we refer to, as opposed to talk about, the nonexistent, since there are not really any ...
... In this way, Crane’s picture is an improvement on these rival views. It seems to be a fact about English that there are true generalizations about nonexistents, and I myself cannot make sense of a picture on which we refer to, as opposed to talk about, the nonexistent, since there are not really any ...
The Principle of Four-Cornered Negation in Indian Philosophy P.T.
... Buddha himself refused to answer questions about what he called the imponderables, such as " is there an eternal entity like the Self (Atman)?" Indeed, his followers took his silence for denial, and developed their philosophies with that denial as the basis. But his silence was really his refusal to ...
... Buddha himself refused to answer questions about what he called the imponderables, such as " is there an eternal entity like the Self (Atman)?" Indeed, his followers took his silence for denial, and developed their philosophies with that denial as the basis. But his silence was really his refusal to ...
Alfarabi`s Conversion of Plato`s Republic
... every kind of deficiency, whereas there must be in everything else some kind of deficiency... the highest kind of excellence... perfect... without being in need to any other thing...what is perfect in beauty is that apart from which no beauty of its species exist” (Alfarabi, p. 57). These can be eas ...
... every kind of deficiency, whereas there must be in everything else some kind of deficiency... the highest kind of excellence... perfect... without being in need to any other thing...what is perfect in beauty is that apart from which no beauty of its species exist” (Alfarabi, p. 57). These can be eas ...
George Herbert Mead Final
... Hans Joas (1997) argues that Mead’s most central ideas about the social nature of the self were only ever taken up in a rather trivial way by Dewey, while the appropriation of Mead’s thinking by the symbolic interactionist movement is, at best, partial. Herbert Blumer (1969), the founder of symbolic ...
... Hans Joas (1997) argues that Mead’s most central ideas about the social nature of the self were only ever taken up in a rather trivial way by Dewey, while the appropriation of Mead’s thinking by the symbolic interactionist movement is, at best, partial. Herbert Blumer (1969), the founder of symbolic ...
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
... THE SECOND DISCUSSION: The Refutation of their Theory of the Incorruptibility of the World and of Time and Motion THE THIRD DISCUSSION: The demonstration of their confusion in saying that God is the agent and the maker of the world and that the world in His product and act, and the demonstration tha ...
... THE SECOND DISCUSSION: The Refutation of their Theory of the Incorruptibility of the World and of Time and Motion THE THIRD DISCUSSION: The demonstration of their confusion in saying that God is the agent and the maker of the world and that the world in His product and act, and the demonstration tha ...
Modaaliteoria
... being F, then x necessarily has F at t. Because Spinoza is a substance monist what he has to prove is that his only substance God exists necessarily and that God has all its properties necessarily. Spinoza attributes necessary existence to God in 1p11. God exists necessarily because God is a substan ...
... being F, then x necessarily has F at t. Because Spinoza is a substance monist what he has to prove is that his only substance God exists necessarily and that God has all its properties necessarily. Spinoza attributes necessary existence to God in 1p11. God exists necessarily because God is a substan ...
pr.4
... concept of subjectivity,1 which he calls the posited cogito. This I is elevated to a first truth and a principle from where all certainty can be attained. This foundational positing of the I has no mediation, but is immediately available to us. On the other hand, he also rejects the more recent trad ...
... concept of subjectivity,1 which he calls the posited cogito. This I is elevated to a first truth and a principle from where all certainty can be attained. This foundational positing of the I has no mediation, but is immediately available to us. On the other hand, he also rejects the more recent trad ...
Irwin`s Routledge Encyclopedia article on Aristotle
... Not every name corresponds to one nominal and one real definition. Some names correspond to no genuine universal; ‘goatstag’ signifies (in one way) animals that are both goats and stags, but it does not signify a genuine universal, since there is no natural kind of goatstag. Other names correspond t ...
... Not every name corresponds to one nominal and one real definition. Some names correspond to no genuine universal; ‘goatstag’ signifies (in one way) animals that are both goats and stags, but it does not signify a genuine universal, since there is no natural kind of goatstag. Other names correspond t ...
The Idealism of Mary Whiton Calkins
... Many absolute idealists deny that the Absolute is a person, and this distinguishes them from classical theists who view God as a Supreme Person. Calkins is explicit that the Absolute is a person. (Whether the Absolute is appropriately thought of as a God is also up for dispute; we will return to thi ...
... Many absolute idealists deny that the Absolute is a person, and this distinguishes them from classical theists who view God as a Supreme Person. Calkins is explicit that the Absolute is a person. (Whether the Absolute is appropriately thought of as a God is also up for dispute; we will return to thi ...
Island Universes and the Analysis of Modality
... respect to (either or both) of these issues, then Lewis’s conception of logical space is impoverished: some possible worlds are missing. I have argued for my views elsewhere; here I present the requisite definitions, and my analysis of world, without defense. 20 First, I need to introduce some famil ...
... respect to (either or both) of these issues, then Lewis’s conception of logical space is impoverished: some possible worlds are missing. I have argued for my views elsewhere; here I present the requisite definitions, and my analysis of world, without defense. 20 First, I need to introduce some famil ...
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.