Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Man is innately good.
... If we were to look at the things you and I assume are "true", and we were to make a list of the men who thought of those ideas, Rousseau would rank up there with Plato and Aristotle, Newton, Jefferson, and even Paul and Christ. Yet unlike these other seminal figures, Rousseau seems to have invented ...
... If we were to look at the things you and I assume are "true", and we were to make a list of the men who thought of those ideas, Rousseau would rank up there with Plato and Aristotle, Newton, Jefferson, and even Paul and Christ. Yet unlike these other seminal figures, Rousseau seems to have invented ...
On philosophical method and Eastern Philosophy as a pdf file
... various meditation techniques to acquire knowledge about Reality. Indeed for these philosophers ultimate knowledge about Reality can be had only through certain kinds of meditation. The second area of philosophical inquiry has become known as Metaphysics. Metaphysics concerns questions about the nat ...
... various meditation techniques to acquire knowledge about Reality. Indeed for these philosophers ultimate knowledge about Reality can be had only through certain kinds of meditation. The second area of philosophical inquiry has become known as Metaphysics. Metaphysics concerns questions about the nat ...
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE - ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
... of they theory-ladenness of observation has some interesting consequences on the role of observation in the choice of theory. It is an obvious fact, according to this concept, that observations cannot function as objective referees in the choice of theory, when at the same time, the importance and ...
... of they theory-ladenness of observation has some interesting consequences on the role of observation in the choice of theory. It is an obvious fact, according to this concept, that observations cannot function as objective referees in the choice of theory, when at the same time, the importance and ...
Social Studies 9R – Mr. Berman Aim #7: How did early Greek
... The last great philosopher of Athens was Aristotle. He was a student of Plato. Aristotle was a brilliant man who explored all areas of learning. He wrote hundreds of books on science, government, philosophy, and other subjects. He believed a person could gain knowledge by making hypotheses and then ...
... The last great philosopher of Athens was Aristotle. He was a student of Plato. Aristotle was a brilliant man who explored all areas of learning. He wrote hundreds of books on science, government, philosophy, and other subjects. He believed a person could gain knowledge by making hypotheses and then ...
View/Open
... these values always remained the poor man of the intellectual game. However for some philosophers, the Western “either… or…” path, driven to its extremes, became a real straitjacket from which they sought to escape. The few voices of the Ancient world which went into the direction of ambivalence, se ...
... these values always remained the poor man of the intellectual game. However for some philosophers, the Western “either… or…” path, driven to its extremes, became a real straitjacket from which they sought to escape. The few voices of the Ancient world which went into the direction of ambivalence, se ...
Forms.
... claimed to possess a special method, which was variously exhibited in mathematics, natural philosophy, and metaphysics, and which, in the latter part of his life, included, or was supplemented by, a method of doubt. He was still fundamentally too much of a Rationalist in the traditions of Plato. Thi ...
... claimed to possess a special method, which was variously exhibited in mathematics, natural philosophy, and metaphysics, and which, in the latter part of his life, included, or was supplemented by, a method of doubt. He was still fundamentally too much of a Rationalist in the traditions of Plato. Thi ...
Oratory like any other piece of literature is also an art-an art
... people, writing retains this supposed superiority. Early studies of language were based on written texts- it is only recently that linguists have described the patterns and structures, which characterize speech. However, it is called the ‘real’ or original form of the language. For centuries in whic ...
... people, writing retains this supposed superiority. Early studies of language were based on written texts- it is only recently that linguists have described the patterns and structures, which characterize speech. However, it is called the ‘real’ or original form of the language. For centuries in whic ...
Intro to Moral Theories
... Different philosophers answer these questions differently. Some, like Locke, approach them from the standpoint of an optimistic assessment of human nature, while others, like Hobbes, are more pessimistic. Some philosophers, like Rousseau and Rawls, affirm the egalitarian principle that all people ar ...
... Different philosophers answer these questions differently. Some, like Locke, approach them from the standpoint of an optimistic assessment of human nature, while others, like Hobbes, are more pessimistic. Some philosophers, like Rousseau and Rawls, affirm the egalitarian principle that all people ar ...
Aristotle - Start.ca
... Ethics: Aristotle We have seen that Greek philosophy was highly speculative, especially in metaphysics (Remember Thales & the others -- the one substance behind all reality is water? air? fire? earth?), where they tried to discover the true nature of the world by reason alone. This had an immediate ...
... Ethics: Aristotle We have seen that Greek philosophy was highly speculative, especially in metaphysics (Remember Thales & the others -- the one substance behind all reality is water? air? fire? earth?), where they tried to discover the true nature of the world by reason alone. This had an immediate ...
Beauty - CSU, Chico
... inform the other? Who decides what counts as virtue? Are virtues universal and timeless: Are the same virtues shared and respected across different cultures in different eras? Or are virtues culturally distinctive and relative to a particular time and place? Is virtue gender-specific?: Are there vir ...
... inform the other? Who decides what counts as virtue? Are virtues universal and timeless: Are the same virtues shared and respected across different cultures in different eras? Or are virtues culturally distinctive and relative to a particular time and place? Is virtue gender-specific?: Are there vir ...
001-004 INTRO-SUMARIO 2015.indd
... something that philosophers aim to understand. The second reason for thinking that the project of constructing normative philosophical theories about the scientific method makes sense comes from within philosophy itself. In the twentieth century, logic became more and more of a mathematical discipli ...
... something that philosophers aim to understand. The second reason for thinking that the project of constructing normative philosophical theories about the scientific method makes sense comes from within philosophy itself. In the twentieth century, logic became more and more of a mathematical discipli ...
MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Philo 12) - Law, Politics, and Philosophy
... important in the world, such as questions pertaining to reality and human existence. It asks the basis for the rationality of the universe and human life. So who are the philosophers? Can a stereotype tambay be a philosopher? Well, the simple answer is that anyone can be a philosopher as long as he ...
... important in the world, such as questions pertaining to reality and human existence. It asks the basis for the rationality of the universe and human life. So who are the philosophers? Can a stereotype tambay be a philosopher? Well, the simple answer is that anyone can be a philosopher as long as he ...
Review of Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School
... Thus the stage was set for a cross cultural dialogue, mutually informing European as well as Japanese philosophers. Tanabe Hajime, Nishida’s junior and consequent heir to the chair of philosophy at Kyoto University, was much more active in European intellectual circles than his predecessor. He met a ...
... Thus the stage was set for a cross cultural dialogue, mutually informing European as well as Japanese philosophers. Tanabe Hajime, Nishida’s junior and consequent heir to the chair of philosophy at Kyoto University, was much more active in European intellectual circles than his predecessor. He met a ...
Are We Really So Modern - Northampton Community College
... behave in such a way that they seem to be interacting. This “pre-established harmony” is guaranteed by a beneficent God. If philosophy is defiance of common sense, then Leibniz’s ideas are very philosophical indeed—too much so even for most of his fellowphilosophers. (Hegel called them “a metaphysi ...
... behave in such a way that they seem to be interacting. This “pre-established harmony” is guaranteed by a beneficent God. If philosophy is defiance of common sense, then Leibniz’s ideas are very philosophical indeed—too much so even for most of his fellowphilosophers. (Hegel called them “a metaphysi ...
January 30 Reading - Are We Really So Modern
... and a diplomat. And some were literary writers, like David Hume, who was better known in his lifetime for his “History of England” than for his philosophical works. Usually, they overlapped several categories. One of Gottlieb’s central insights is that, as he wrote in his previous volume, “The Dream ...
... and a diplomat. And some were literary writers, like David Hume, who was better known in his lifetime for his “History of England” than for his philosophical works. Usually, they overlapped several categories. One of Gottlieb’s central insights is that, as he wrote in his previous volume, “The Dream ...
Seeking Truth
... The primary tool of the philosopher is reasoning. “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they ...
... The primary tool of the philosopher is reasoning. “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they ...
contents
... Pythagoras, like the other early sages of Greece, was reputed to have traveled widely in Egypt and the East. He is also reported to have studied under Anaximander or even under Thales himself. However the first event in his life that seems reasonably certain is his departure from Samos in 529 B.C. i ...
... Pythagoras, like the other early sages of Greece, was reputed to have traveled widely in Egypt and the East. He is also reported to have studied under Anaximander or even under Thales himself. However the first event in his life that seems reasonably certain is his departure from Samos in 529 B.C. i ...
Classical Chinese Philosophies - Fort Thomas Independent Schools
... is not divisible, since all being is alike, and, [Parmenides says] all is full of being. The assumption of change, or of becoming, is just this, that something changes from non-being to being or from being to being. But for Parmenides this assumption made no sense for the following reason: If one sa ...
... is not divisible, since all being is alike, and, [Parmenides says] all is full of being. The assumption of change, or of becoming, is just this, that something changes from non-being to being or from being to being. But for Parmenides this assumption made no sense for the following reason: If one sa ...
Book Review - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
... problematic and theories of discourse. This does not mean that they conceive the world in the same way, instead their thought forms a new current in French philosophy that does not descend from post-structuralist theory. Considering the majority of the thinkers in this book take the material, body, ...
... problematic and theories of discourse. This does not mean that they conceive the world in the same way, instead their thought forms a new current in French philosophy that does not descend from post-structuralist theory. Considering the majority of the thinkers in this book take the material, body, ...
The Vindication of St. Thomas
... Transcendental Thomism — which, upon later scrutiny, I found to be in some significant ways an inversion of Thomism rather than a version of it. In any case, those were heady days. We who had hardly read a page of St. Thomas himself or of his most important commentators considered ourselves experts ...
... Transcendental Thomism — which, upon later scrutiny, I found to be in some significant ways an inversion of Thomism rather than a version of it. In any case, those were heady days. We who had hardly read a page of St. Thomas himself or of his most important commentators considered ourselves experts ...
from Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
... around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There ...
... around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There ...
Hystory and Systems
... void and combine into different clusters. Since the atoms are separated by void, they cannot fuse, but must rather bounce off one another when they collide. Because all macroscopic objects are in fact combinations of atoms, everything in the macroscopic world is subject to change, as their constitue ...
... void and combine into different clusters. Since the atoms are separated by void, they cannot fuse, but must rather bounce off one another when they collide. Because all macroscopic objects are in fact combinations of atoms, everything in the macroscopic world is subject to change, as their constitue ...
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. ...
this PDF file - Spontaneous Generations
... French historians of philosophy in particular, see a significantly different picture. Just a list of book titles should suffice to show the trend: Paul Veyne’s seminal Did the Greeks Believe in their Myths? (1983–answer to the title’s question: not literally); Marcel Detienne’s The Creation of Mytho ...
... French historians of philosophy in particular, see a significantly different picture. Just a list of book titles should suffice to show the trend: Paul Veyne’s seminal Did the Greeks Believe in their Myths? (1983–answer to the title’s question: not literally); Marcel Detienne’s The Creation of Mytho ...
Natural philosophy
Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) was the philosophical study of nature and the physical universe that was dominant before the development of modern science. It is considered to be the precursor of natural sciences.From the ancient world, starting with Aristotle, to the 19th century, the term ""natural philosophy"" was the common term used to describe the practice of studying nature. It was in the 19th century that the concept of ""science"" received its modern shape with new titles emerging such as ""biology"" and ""biologist"", ""physics"" and ""physicist"" among other technical fields and titles; institutions and communities were founded, and unprecedented applications to and interactions with other aspects of society and culture occurred. Isaac Newton's book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), whose title translates to ""Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"", reflects the then-current use of the words ""natural philosophy"", akin to ""systematic study of nature"". Even in the 19th century, a treatise by Lord Kelvin and Peter Guthrie Tait's, which helped define much of modern physics, was titled Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867).In the German tradition, naturphilosophie or nature philosophy persisted into the 18th and 19th century as an attempt to achieve a speculative unity of nature and spirit. Some of the greatest names in German philosophy are associated with this movement, including Spinoza, Goethe, Hegel and Schelling.