Asian Philosophy (CH. 18 of AP)
... • The positive view of Daoism is that humans and nature are united in a larger whole, the primordial Dao, from which everything originates, and which courses through everything. Human knowledge, at its best, transcends the limits of percepts and concepts and intuits the Dao directly. It is direct an ...
... • The positive view of Daoism is that humans and nature are united in a larger whole, the primordial Dao, from which everything originates, and which courses through everything. Human knowledge, at its best, transcends the limits of percepts and concepts and intuits the Dao directly. It is direct an ...
Markie, Speckles, and Classical Foundationalism
... that this criticism demands too much of their view.” This foundationlist certainly does. I don’t have a causal explanation of why we are (causally) capable of having some thoughts and not others. Nor do I have a causal explanation of why we notice some properties and not others. Markie suggests, how ...
... that this criticism demands too much of their view.” This foundationlist certainly does. I don’t have a causal explanation of why we are (causally) capable of having some thoughts and not others. Nor do I have a causal explanation of why we notice some properties and not others. Markie suggests, how ...
The Paradox of Environmental Ethics.
... Nietzsche argues that each moral engagement with nature requires a conceptual identification of nature which can, in the end, be conceived as a violent exclusion of alternative explanations. According to Nietzsche, interpretation is essentially will-to-power. Nevertheless, ‘nature’ is still a key co ...
... Nietzsche argues that each moral engagement with nature requires a conceptual identification of nature which can, in the end, be conceived as a violent exclusion of alternative explanations. According to Nietzsche, interpretation is essentially will-to-power. Nevertheless, ‘nature’ is still a key co ...
The Importance of Being Earnest: Scepticism and the Limits of
... sought. Finally, even if we could ascertain with absolute certainty and exactness that the ratio of sinful men to all men was as 1 to 1; still among the infinite generations of men there would be room for any finite number of sinless men without violating the proportion. The case is the same with a ...
... sought. Finally, even if we could ascertain with absolute certainty and exactness that the ratio of sinful men to all men was as 1 to 1; still among the infinite generations of men there would be room for any finite number of sinless men without violating the proportion. The case is the same with a ...
Thoreau`s Experiment: “I came here to live”
... merely civil, — to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make a emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization; the minister, and the school-committee, and every one of you will tak ...
... merely civil, — to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make a emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization; the minister, and the school-committee, and every one of you will tak ...
Descartes, Mathematics and Music
... pure concepts. Descartes wanted physics, as well as music, to be free from any relationship with the senses. 17 Music, which is immersed in a sensuous medium, is dependent on matter to a greater extent than is physics. Music as music is not separable from sound. Though it is of an intelligible order ...
... pure concepts. Descartes wanted physics, as well as music, to be free from any relationship with the senses. 17 Music, which is immersed in a sensuous medium, is dependent on matter to a greater extent than is physics. Music as music is not separable from sound. Though it is of an intelligible order ...
Scientific Representation and Empiricist Structuralism: Essay
... Giere. Review of van Fraassen, Scientific Representation. Page 5. measurement outcomes.” (8) Appearances, therefore, are perspectival. Phenomena are not. Appearances are how the phenomena appear from various perspectives: for example, from different locations or with different instruments. There is ...
... Giere. Review of van Fraassen, Scientific Representation. Page 5. measurement outcomes.” (8) Appearances, therefore, are perspectival. Phenomena are not. Appearances are how the phenomena appear from various perspectives: for example, from different locations or with different instruments. There is ...
An Aristotelian View of Marx`s Method Nathaniel Cline William
... “[t]he speculative philosophy of Aristotle simply means the direction of thought on all kinds of objects, thus transforming these into thoughts; hence, in being thoughts, they exist in truth. The meaning of this is not, however, that natural objects have thus themselves the power of thinking, but as ...
... “[t]he speculative philosophy of Aristotle simply means the direction of thought on all kinds of objects, thus transforming these into thoughts; hence, in being thoughts, they exist in truth. The meaning of this is not, however, that natural objects have thus themselves the power of thinking, but as ...
1. Armstrong and Aristotle There are two main reasons for not
... the case of the property of being universal; all universals indeed are of course universal, but we can stop the regress at this second level: the Form of Formhood participates only in itself. Nevertheless, that argument introduces the theme of high‐order universals, wh ...
... the case of the property of being universal; all universals indeed are of course universal, but we can stop the regress at this second level: the Form of Formhood participates only in itself. Nevertheless, that argument introduces the theme of high‐order universals, wh ...
Laruelle, Art, and the Scientific Model
... existence as a theoretical entity with fiction—and science fiction in particular—because its nonphilosophical efficacy is derived from its philosophical insufficieny.20 What is called philo-fiction on the other hand, is technological or technical at its core (6)and is meant to establish hitherto non ...
... existence as a theoretical entity with fiction—and science fiction in particular—because its nonphilosophical efficacy is derived from its philosophical insufficieny.20 What is called philo-fiction on the other hand, is technological or technical at its core (6)and is meant to establish hitherto non ...
Cicero: the philosophical works
... Cicero wrote his dialogues was to teach Greek philosophy to Roman citizens and thereby induce them to engage in philosophy in the Latin tongue. Cicero’s education suited him perfectly to take on this task, for he was well versed in all the philosophies of his day and in the earlier philosophers of t ...
... Cicero wrote his dialogues was to teach Greek philosophy to Roman citizens and thereby induce them to engage in philosophy in the Latin tongue. Cicero’s education suited him perfectly to take on this task, for he was well versed in all the philosophies of his day and in the earlier philosophers of t ...
On Aristotle and Economics
... thought that contains it; and this thought has an ontological existence qua thought: (Metaphysics, VII, 4, 1030a 25-7). In this way Aristotle leaves room for the other two combinations to exist as entities: universal substances and universal accidents. Both are expressions of essences. The essence o ...
... thought that contains it; and this thought has an ontological existence qua thought: (Metaphysics, VII, 4, 1030a 25-7). In this way Aristotle leaves room for the other two combinations to exist as entities: universal substances and universal accidents. Both are expressions of essences. The essence o ...
Subjects, Objects, Data and Values
... situation was that now by coming nearer and nearer to the solution the paradoxes became worse and worse. That was the main experience.... nobody could know an answer to the question, 'Is an electron now a wave or is it a particle, and how does it behave if I do this or that and so on.' Therefore th ...
... situation was that now by coming nearer and nearer to the solution the paradoxes became worse and worse. That was the main experience.... nobody could know an answer to the question, 'Is an electron now a wave or is it a particle, and how does it behave if I do this or that and so on.' Therefore th ...
MADER Whence Intensity? PREPRINT
... references to Medieval European philosophy in Deleuze’s work that do not bear directly upon the question of the ontology of intensity. But what importance should be granted to the problem of intensity, quite apart from its salience to the task of interpreting and assessing the ontology of Gilles De ...
... references to Medieval European philosophy in Deleuze’s work that do not bear directly upon the question of the ontology of intensity. But what importance should be granted to the problem of intensity, quite apart from its salience to the task of interpreting and assessing the ontology of Gilles De ...
Explanations of Meaningful Actions
... According to this approach, the nexus of meaning of an action to be grasped is more complex. The actor avails of many goals that he orders in a ranking according to his preferences, and he chooses the course of action that he expects will improve his position. It has become a quite standard practice ...
... According to this approach, the nexus of meaning of an action to be grasped is more complex. The actor avails of many goals that he orders in a ranking according to his preferences, and he chooses the course of action that he expects will improve his position. It has become a quite standard practice ...
Biology and Ethics: A Case for Aristotle`s Theory of
... to humans only in the sense that human nature has the capacity, through training and habit, to actualize its biologically constituted moral potentials. To this extent, Aristotle would, on the other hand, disagree with some philosophers, such as Thomas Hobbes (1960), who portrayed human nature as ent ...
... to humans only in the sense that human nature has the capacity, through training and habit, to actualize its biologically constituted moral potentials. To this extent, Aristotle would, on the other hand, disagree with some philosophers, such as Thomas Hobbes (1960), who portrayed human nature as ent ...
the tension between aristotle_s theories
... their compatibility with a realistic theory of science. In this regard, Aristotle's work is one of the most interesting case-studies in history from which some light might be thrown on this debate, as there is an unavoidable three-way tension between his methodological claims, rhetorical and literar ...
... their compatibility with a realistic theory of science. In this regard, Aristotle's work is one of the most interesting case-studies in history from which some light might be thrown on this debate, as there is an unavoidable three-way tension between his methodological claims, rhetorical and literar ...
The Man Who Invented Music
... harmonic tuning system was largely the work of this one man and his disciples. This is not so, as the European tuning system that we know today is very complex and was even then still developing. We know that Plato, shortly to come, recommended governmental control over the use and abuse of modular ...
... harmonic tuning system was largely the work of this one man and his disciples. This is not so, as the European tuning system that we know today is very complex and was even then still developing. We know that Plato, shortly to come, recommended governmental control over the use and abuse of modular ...
Peter Winch: Philosophy as the Art of Disagreement
... In Western philosophy, the standard response to this problem has been to mark a more or less clear-cut contrast between two ways in which our thought may engage with reality. On the one hand, there is objective thought which is concerned with truth, is amenable to rational argument, and tends gradua ...
... In Western philosophy, the standard response to this problem has been to mark a more or less clear-cut contrast between two ways in which our thought may engage with reality. On the one hand, there is objective thought which is concerned with truth, is amenable to rational argument, and tends gradua ...
What is Existential-Phenomenology
... question of finding a method which will enable us to think at the same time of the externality which is the principle of the sciences of man and of the internality which is the condition of philosophy, of the contingencies without which there is no situation as well as of the rational certainty wit ...
... question of finding a method which will enable us to think at the same time of the externality which is the principle of the sciences of man and of the internality which is the condition of philosophy, of the contingencies without which there is no situation as well as of the rational certainty wit ...
Irwin`s Routledge Encyclopedia article on Aristotle
... explanatory scheme that Aristotle defends in his more theoretical reflections on the study of nature. These reflections (especially in the Physics and in Generation and Corruption) develop an account of nature, form, matter, cause and change that expresses Aristotle’s views about the understanding a ...
... explanatory scheme that Aristotle defends in his more theoretical reflections on the study of nature. These reflections (especially in the Physics and in Generation and Corruption) develop an account of nature, form, matter, cause and change that expresses Aristotle’s views about the understanding a ...
Newtonian Science, Miracles, and the Laws of Nature
... Christian [religion] does really proceed from God."" But if miracles were to perform this apologetic function, there had to be clear criteria which distinguished them from the merely remarkable-from Aquinas's "relative miracles9'-as well as from the spurious miracles of Catholics and enthusia s t ~ ...
... Christian [religion] does really proceed from God."" But if miracles were to perform this apologetic function, there had to be clear criteria which distinguished them from the merely remarkable-from Aquinas's "relative miracles9'-as well as from the spurious miracles of Catholics and enthusia s t ~ ...
Aristotle`s Syllogistic and Core Logic
... rule that involves discharge of assumptions made ‘for the sake of argument’. 1.2. The different inferential approach of this study We shall state some altogether new rules for Aristotle’s quantifying expressions. Each of those expressions is governed by at least one basic rule that involves discharg ...
... rule that involves discharge of assumptions made ‘for the sake of argument’. 1.2. The different inferential approach of this study We shall state some altogether new rules for Aristotle’s quantifying expressions. Each of those expressions is governed by at least one basic rule that involves discharg ...
On the Ancient Idea that Music Shapes Character
... music can exert a powerful and lasting influence on moral character, for good or ill. (See the epigraphs from Aristotle and Xunzi at the start of the paper.) Plato agrees: “Rhythm and harmony permeate the innermost elements of the soul, affect it more powerfully than anything else” (Plato 2004: 84). ...
... music can exert a powerful and lasting influence on moral character, for good or ill. (See the epigraphs from Aristotle and Xunzi at the start of the paper.) Plato agrees: “Rhythm and harmony permeate the innermost elements of the soul, affect it more powerfully than anything else” (Plato 2004: 84). ...
Why Didnâ•Žt Plato Just Write Arguments? The Role of Image
... is possible to live a life in which body and soul are separate. The philosopher is someone who shuns the socalled pleasures of the body such as eating, drinking, and sex. Moreover, such a man thinks little of personal adornment in clothes, shoes, and the like. In this way, the philosopher lives towa ...
... is possible to live a life in which body and soul are separate. The philosopher is someone who shuns the socalled pleasures of the body such as eating, drinking, and sex. Moreover, such a man thinks little of personal adornment in clothes, shoes, and the like. In this way, the philosopher lives towa ...
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.