Moral sentimentalism - MarieLuisaFrick.net
... Viewed in this light the question what sort of ought follows from the fact that evolutionarily developed moral sentiments and emotions do play an important role in course of the formation of our moral judgements is a totally open one. One could of course – with contemplation of Darwin’s theses – arg ...
... Viewed in this light the question what sort of ought follows from the fact that evolutionarily developed moral sentiments and emotions do play an important role in course of the formation of our moral judgements is a totally open one. One could of course – with contemplation of Darwin’s theses – arg ...
The Moral Philosophy of Bernard Williams
... So it is with moral skepticism, the ethicist might claim. But I think that this analogy is misleading on several fronts. On one hand, moral skeptics raise a number of interesting philosophical issues, so should be willing to explain this error in reasoning that everyone else is supposed to commit wh ...
... So it is with moral skepticism, the ethicist might claim. But I think that this analogy is misleading on several fronts. On one hand, moral skeptics raise a number of interesting philosophical issues, so should be willing to explain this error in reasoning that everyone else is supposed to commit wh ...
Cognitive Illusions and the Welcome Psychologism of Logicist
... However, there’s a reading of Johnson-Laird’s response that provides him with a possible escape, and points the way toward a welcome version of psychologism. To begin, we need to be more precise about what an illusion is. Let E1, E2, … denote declarative sentences in English (actually, any natural l ...
... However, there’s a reading of Johnson-Laird’s response that provides him with a possible escape, and points the way toward a welcome version of psychologism. To begin, we need to be more precise about what an illusion is. Let E1, E2, … denote declarative sentences in English (actually, any natural l ...
Social Theory
... Inductive inferences are based on the frequency by which events occur in a sample and can be assessed by probability logic. At the outset and to a modern reader, it seems un-reasonable to fuse probability equations with the exercise of self-control! It is a statistical fact that cigarette -smoking “ ...
... Inductive inferences are based on the frequency by which events occur in a sample and can be assessed by probability logic. At the outset and to a modern reader, it seems un-reasonable to fuse probability equations with the exercise of self-control! It is a statistical fact that cigarette -smoking “ ...
MORAL POINT OF VIEW THEORIES Moral Point of View Theories
... it yields is worthy of acceptance. But whether it is worthy of acceptance or not will depend on the particular kind of argument, whether moral, scientific, purely prudential, religious, for which it is designed to yield a conclusion. The criteria of valid reasoning (some formal features aside) will ...
... it yields is worthy of acceptance. But whether it is worthy of acceptance or not will depend on the particular kind of argument, whether moral, scientific, purely prudential, religious, for which it is designed to yield a conclusion. The criteria of valid reasoning (some formal features aside) will ...
`Against Hirose`s Argument for Saving the Greater Number`
... fails to ensure that everyone has enough. Pareto is simply indifferent to such considerations of equality, priority and sufficiency. Impartiality may also be questioned by those who disapprove teleological understandings of value. For instance, they may reject that X = Y on the ground that value res ...
... fails to ensure that everyone has enough. Pareto is simply indifferent to such considerations of equality, priority and sufficiency. Impartiality may also be questioned by those who disapprove teleological understandings of value. For instance, they may reject that X = Y on the ground that value res ...
“Ethics Opposes the Biological Struggle for Existence” by T. H. Huxley
... restrained and otherwise modified by law and custom; in surrounding nature, it has been similarly influenced by the art of the shepherd, the agriculturist, the artisan. As civilization has advanced, so has the extent of this interference increased; until the organized and highly developed sciences a ...
... restrained and otherwise modified by law and custom; in surrounding nature, it has been similarly influenced by the art of the shepherd, the agriculturist, the artisan. As civilization has advanced, so has the extent of this interference increased; until the organized and highly developed sciences a ...
KEN 10.4 london
... mitments that grow out of the way people respond to certain situations in light of their particular emotional and affective dispositions–their particular psychological economy. They are also the sort of commitments one can have before one is capable of offering a justification for them. Nevertheless ...
... mitments that grow out of the way people respond to certain situations in light of their particular emotional and affective dispositions–their particular psychological economy. They are also the sort of commitments one can have before one is capable of offering a justification for them. Nevertheless ...
Substantive Syllogisms - Scholarship at UWindsor
... Physics 217b29-218a8, which bears on the reality of time. After asking whether time exists or not and what is its nature, he then goes on to say: "To start, then: the following considerations would make one suspect that it either does not exist at all or barely, and in an obscure way. One part of it ...
... Physics 217b29-218a8, which bears on the reality of time. After asking whether time exists or not and what is its nature, he then goes on to say: "To start, then: the following considerations would make one suspect that it either does not exist at all or barely, and in an obscure way. One part of it ...
Lewis on Possibilia
... • We can explain possibility relative to our world as existence at another possible world. – It is possible that there are blue swans. – There is a possible world W in which swans are blue in W. • The relativizing phrase ‘in W’ is a restriction on the use of a quantifier like the phrase ‘in Australi ...
... • We can explain possibility relative to our world as existence at another possible world. – It is possible that there are blue swans. – There is a possible world W in which swans are blue in W. • The relativizing phrase ‘in W’ is a restriction on the use of a quantifier like the phrase ‘in Australi ...
Syllogism - University of Windsor
... Physics 217b29-218a8, which bears on the reality of time. After asking whether time exists or not and what is its nature, he then goes on to say: "To start, then: the following considerations would make one suspect that it either does not exist at all or barely, and in an obscure way. One part of it ...
... Physics 217b29-218a8, which bears on the reality of time. After asking whether time exists or not and what is its nature, he then goes on to say: "To start, then: the following considerations would make one suspect that it either does not exist at all or barely, and in an obscure way. One part of it ...
The lives of Plato and Socrates - School of Practical Philosophy
... from the Oracle on important matters. When Socrates was thirty-five a friend of his asked the prophetess who was the wisest Athenian. Her answer was that ‘no one was wiser than Socrates’. Socrates was completely astounded by this response, but took it as a message from God sending him on a lifelong ...
... from the Oracle on important matters. When Socrates was thirty-five a friend of his asked the prophetess who was the wisest Athenian. Her answer was that ‘no one was wiser than Socrates’. Socrates was completely astounded by this response, but took it as a message from God sending him on a lifelong ...
Ethics For The Post-Critical Era - Missouri Western State University
... intellectuals, of the critical movement in philosophy initiated by Descartes, the view of the natural world formulated by Newton, and the articulation of these views in the philosophy of Kant. The critical period of Western thought coincided with the rise of modern science. Both the critical movemen ...
... intellectuals, of the critical movement in philosophy initiated by Descartes, the view of the natural world formulated by Newton, and the articulation of these views in the philosophy of Kant. The critical period of Western thought coincided with the rise of modern science. Both the critical movemen ...
modern western philosophy BA PHILOSOPHY VI SEMESTER
... forms that existed. There was more vehement demand for social justice and equal rights. This tendency towards freedom, characteristic of the modern period, is best expressed by the opposition to state interference in the private lives of citizens. The widespread desire for freedom found its expressi ...
... forms that existed. There was more vehement demand for social justice and equal rights. This tendency towards freedom, characteristic of the modern period, is best expressed by the opposition to state interference in the private lives of citizens. The widespread desire for freedom found its expressi ...
The Historical Significance and Contemporary Relevance of the
... these concerns bear significant similarities to certain concerns found in the Western philosophical tradition and are very much with us as live issues within contemporary moral philosophy and psychology. Of course, the form these concerns took in 16th century Korea is unique and bringing out these d ...
... these concerns bear significant similarities to certain concerns found in the Western philosophical tradition and are very much with us as live issues within contemporary moral philosophy and psychology. Of course, the form these concerns took in 16th century Korea is unique and bringing out these d ...
Hegel`s Phenomenology of Spirit Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
... appears as nature given to our understanding, but nature is transitory and therefore thought thinks nature in terms of unity with the infinite. This creative unity of nature and the infinite is not a conceptual abstraction but is God (and must also be defined as Spirit since it is neither an externa ...
... appears as nature given to our understanding, but nature is transitory and therefore thought thinks nature in terms of unity with the infinite. This creative unity of nature and the infinite is not a conceptual abstraction but is God (and must also be defined as Spirit since it is neither an externa ...
Mencius - Steve Watson
... Mencius’s criticism of Mo Di and Yang Chu in that passage is simply that if we adopt the theories of those two philosophers we will fail to observe the proper moral relations that exist between people in a wellorganized society. The reason for this, Mencius believes, is that those philosophers were ...
... Mencius’s criticism of Mo Di and Yang Chu in that passage is simply that if we adopt the theories of those two philosophers we will fail to observe the proper moral relations that exist between people in a wellorganized society. The reason for this, Mencius believes, is that those philosophers were ...
PDF version - Studies in the History of Ethics
... ‘Do good and avoid evil’ is trivial because the concept of a good action is simply that of an action that is to be done, and the concept of an evil action is that of one that is to be omitted. The principle attributed here to Richard Cumberland is actually one that is held, in various forms, by vir ...
... ‘Do good and avoid evil’ is trivial because the concept of a good action is simply that of an action that is to be done, and the concept of an evil action is that of one that is to be omitted. The principle attributed here to Richard Cumberland is actually one that is held, in various forms, by vir ...
saying and showing the good
... Presumably, we also cannot make genuine statements about all the consequences of an action – all those it has had and will have, “till the end of time” – or about all the organic wholes of which it is a part, “till the end” also of space; the world itself may be an organic whole, as theists commonly ...
... Presumably, we also cannot make genuine statements about all the consequences of an action – all those it has had and will have, “till the end of time” – or about all the organic wholes of which it is a part, “till the end” also of space; the world itself may be an organic whole, as theists commonly ...
Scholar`s Session on David Wood - Vanderbilt College of Arts and
... The culmination of the philosophical project, for David, lies in what he calls, following Heidegger, the “step back,” or following Keats, “negative capability.” 6 Heidegger introduces the “step back,” Schnittzurück, as a contrast with the Hegelian Aufhebung (TAH 90). But recalling David’s many refe ...
... The culmination of the philosophical project, for David, lies in what he calls, following Heidegger, the “step back,” or following Keats, “negative capability.” 6 Heidegger introduces the “step back,” Schnittzurück, as a contrast with the Hegelian Aufhebung (TAH 90). But recalling David’s many refe ...
Logos and Forms in Phaedo 96a-102a
... phenomena, turning its attention to a ὑπερουράνιοϚ τόποϚ, a new area somehow ›pure‹, ›immaculate‹ and ›unspoiled‹ by any contact with the world of phenomena? Let us turn to the well-known simile of the sun in eclipse: »Well, then, it seemed to me next, since I’ d wearied of studying beings, that I m ...
... phenomena, turning its attention to a ὑπερουράνιοϚ τόποϚ, a new area somehow ›pure‹, ›immaculate‹ and ›unspoiled‹ by any contact with the world of phenomena? Let us turn to the well-known simile of the sun in eclipse: »Well, then, it seemed to me next, since I’ d wearied of studying beings, that I m ...
3. Hume - CSUN.edu
... that these impressions are actually exist outside of myself. c. Similarly, I light a candle, leave the room and then return sometime later I find that the candle has burned down. There is a coherence in the process of change and this leads me again to conclude that the candle exist and is not merely ...
... that these impressions are actually exist outside of myself. c. Similarly, I light a candle, leave the room and then return sometime later I find that the candle has burned down. There is a coherence in the process of change and this leads me again to conclude that the candle exist and is not merely ...
On the Historical Development of Confucianists
... Confucian school was formed gradually. Just as the Jungian scholar Erich Neumann said, “One must first of all solve his own basic problems of morality and then he could play a responsible role in the collective.” (Neumann 1998, 11). This was a significant change which was realized by Confucius throu ...
... Confucian school was formed gradually. Just as the Jungian scholar Erich Neumann said, “One must first of all solve his own basic problems of morality and then he could play a responsible role in the collective.” (Neumann 1998, 11). This was a significant change which was realized by Confucius throu ...
Walden: Philosophy and Knowledge of Humankind
... Thoreau to be imponderables - things whose weight, that is, significance, cannot be estimated. If this is right, then the signs of their passing would be evidence of imponderables, imponderable evidence. 5. At any rate, Thoreau's trade, the trade that Walden has to teach, is a trade not easily learn ...
... Thoreau to be imponderables - things whose weight, that is, significance, cannot be estimated. If this is right, then the signs of their passing would be evidence of imponderables, imponderable evidence. 5. At any rate, Thoreau's trade, the trade that Walden has to teach, is a trade not easily learn ...
Stoicism
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. The Stoics taught that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and the active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom, and the belief that it is virtuous to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is in accord with nature. Because of this, the Stoics presented their philosophy as a way of life, and they thought that the best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how that person behaved.Later Stoics—such as Seneca and Epictetus—emphasized that, because ""virtue is sufficient for happiness"", a sage was immune to misfortune. This belief is similar to the meaning of the phrase ""stoic calm"", though the phrase does not include the ""radical ethical"" Stoic views that only a sage can be considered truly free, and that all moral corruptions are equally vicious.From its founding, Stoic doctrine was popular with a following in Roman Greece and throughout the Roman Empire — including the Emperor Marcus Aurelius — until the closing of all pagan philosophy schools in 529 AD by order of the Emperor Justinian I, who perceived them as being at odds with Christian faith. Neostoicism was a syncretic philosophical movement, joining Stoicism and Christianity, influenced by Justus Lipsius.