What is Philosophy, Anyway?
... The best place to start in our attempt to define philosophy is with the etymology of the word itself. Most people are aware that the term is derived from two Greek words: philo (love) and sophia (wisdom). Philosophy, then, literally means “the love of wisdom.” We each have a sense of what love means ...
... The best place to start in our attempt to define philosophy is with the etymology of the word itself. Most people are aware that the term is derived from two Greek words: philo (love) and sophia (wisdom). Philosophy, then, literally means “the love of wisdom.” We each have a sense of what love means ...
considerations on knowledge philosophy during the
... experiment exists, its results are presented using a cryptic mystical-religious language. This urges Ioan Petru Culianu to elaborate, in his work called Jocurile Minţii (Culianu, 2002), on the fact that renaissant sciences enjoyed a special yet solid epistemology, which relied on founding principles ...
... experiment exists, its results are presented using a cryptic mystical-religious language. This urges Ioan Petru Culianu to elaborate, in his work called Jocurile Minţii (Culianu, 2002), on the fact that renaissant sciences enjoyed a special yet solid epistemology, which relied on founding principles ...
Metaphysics As Speculative Nonsense
... about the soul and an afterlife. No scientific experiment can establish the existence of the Forms or of a soul that survives death. Claims that they exist can’t be translated into claims about anything we can actually observe. Because these claims are also not analytic, they are, in fact, meaningle ...
... about the soul and an afterlife. No scientific experiment can establish the existence of the Forms or of a soul that survives death. Claims that they exist can’t be translated into claims about anything we can actually observe. Because these claims are also not analytic, they are, in fact, meaningle ...
MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Philo 12) - Law, Politics, and Philosophy
... iii. Aristotle’s Definition Just so we can have a starting point and have a guiding definition, let us adopt Aristotle’s definition of philosophy for reasons of sufficiency and simplicity. According to this great thinker, philosophy is the study of the ultimate principles and causes of things using ...
... iii. Aristotle’s Definition Just so we can have a starting point and have a guiding definition, let us adopt Aristotle’s definition of philosophy for reasons of sufficiency and simplicity. According to this great thinker, philosophy is the study of the ultimate principles and causes of things using ...
Class #3 - 12/18/13
... In The Apology, Socrates defends his way of life. He proclaims that his mission came from a divine commandment to seek wisdom. Thus, he questioned everyone he professed knowledge to find wisdom, only to find that the wisest man is he who knows he does not know. ...
... In The Apology, Socrates defends his way of life. He proclaims that his mission came from a divine commandment to seek wisdom. Thus, he questioned everyone he professed knowledge to find wisdom, only to find that the wisest man is he who knows he does not know. ...
1 Empiricism, Rationalism, and Plato`s Innatism Intro to Philosophy
... think that that sort of equalness is deficient in respect to some ideal equalness, which for him is an abstract, unchanging, and eternal entity, namely, the form of Equalness, which, as perfect equalness, all equal things participate in (without being identical to it!). This is so, he argues, becaus ...
... think that that sort of equalness is deficient in respect to some ideal equalness, which for him is an abstract, unchanging, and eternal entity, namely, the form of Equalness, which, as perfect equalness, all equal things participate in (without being identical to it!). This is so, he argues, becaus ...
Ethics Paper
... Although there is no denying Aristotle’s genius, it is hard not to find his list of ethics presented in book in book IV somewhat dated, from our perspective at least. Although there is no denying ancient Greece’s influence on our concept of virtue, there is also no denying that Christian morals infl ...
... Although there is no denying Aristotle’s genius, it is hard not to find his list of ethics presented in book in book IV somewhat dated, from our perspective at least. Although there is no denying ancient Greece’s influence on our concept of virtue, there is also no denying that Christian morals infl ...
Dec. 9, 2013 One Writer's Beginning s, Part II
... see new things that I had not seen before; I became more attentive to the details. And by appreciating these details, I got a totally different impression from the same object. For example, when I first looked at the junk piano, it just looked disorderly and chaotic, but after observing for a while ...
... see new things that I had not seen before; I became more attentive to the details. And by appreciating these details, I got a totally different impression from the same object. For example, when I first looked at the junk piano, it just looked disorderly and chaotic, but after observing for a while ...
14 pages
... From the Protogoras’s idea of the “good” sought by practical philosophy is personal, but it must not be understood as exclusively “egoistic” as the social good consisting mainly of individual goods in the society is always superior to the good of one individual only. Yet, he suggested the principle ...
... From the Protogoras’s idea of the “good” sought by practical philosophy is personal, but it must not be understood as exclusively “egoistic” as the social good consisting mainly of individual goods in the society is always superior to the good of one individual only. Yet, he suggested the principle ...
Print this article - Wittgenstein Repository, ed. Wittgenstein Archives
... It would be possible to imagine people who as it were thought much more definitely than we, and used different words where we use only one. We ask “What does ‘I am frightened’ really mean, what am I referring to when I say it?” And of course we find no answer, or one that is inadequate. The question ...
... It would be possible to imagine people who as it were thought much more definitely than we, and used different words where we use only one. We ask “What does ‘I am frightened’ really mean, what am I referring to when I say it?” And of course we find no answer, or one that is inadequate. The question ...
What is Logical Form?
... (or rather, in contrast to other areas of study such as biology where biology studies a particular domain, Philosophy does not necessarily have agreed upon assumptions that it can rely on to define any domain of study. Thus, metaphysics is more accurately “a collection of questions that seem to grou ...
... (or rather, in contrast to other areas of study such as biology where biology studies a particular domain, Philosophy does not necessarily have agreed upon assumptions that it can rely on to define any domain of study. Thus, metaphysics is more accurately “a collection of questions that seem to grou ...
Ethan Frome - Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
... concepts as obstacles to our coming to know reality, or Being. However, like Hegel, Heidegger believed that we can get closer to Being than Kant allowed, though not by adopting Hegel’s abstracted third-person pretense of Reason. Setting aside both reason and Reason, Heidegger agreed with Kierkegaard ...
... concepts as obstacles to our coming to know reality, or Being. However, like Hegel, Heidegger believed that we can get closer to Being than Kant allowed, though not by adopting Hegel’s abstracted third-person pretense of Reason. Setting aside both reason and Reason, Heidegger agreed with Kierkegaard ...
Trying to keep philosophy honest
... The marginalization of Wittgenstein often takes the form of regarding philosophers whose work is inspired by his as forming their own enclave. In the leading journals of the field, one would rarely find a work, say, by Quine or Davidson, or a work written in their spirit, reviewed by someone from a ...
... The marginalization of Wittgenstein often takes the form of regarding philosophers whose work is inspired by his as forming their own enclave. In the leading journals of the field, one would rarely find a work, say, by Quine or Davidson, or a work written in their spirit, reviewed by someone from a ...
epistemology - mrsmcfadyensspace
... that knowledge is possible – that we can gain knowledge by various means. • One of the reasons for studying Philosophy is, after all, that you want to have knowledge of Philosophy. But you also want to have knowledge of many other things: whether it will rain today; what books you need for your cour ...
... that knowledge is possible – that we can gain knowledge by various means. • One of the reasons for studying Philosophy is, after all, that you want to have knowledge of Philosophy. But you also want to have knowledge of many other things: whether it will rain today; what books you need for your cour ...
contents
... the no less naive but unscientific world outlook based on mythology which prevailed at that time. The first materialists did not raise the problem of relationship of being and thinking. To them the soul was one of the forms of matter. The Milesian was under the influence of mythological views of the ...
... the no less naive but unscientific world outlook based on mythology which prevailed at that time. The first materialists did not raise the problem of relationship of being and thinking. To them the soul was one of the forms of matter. The Milesian was under the influence of mythological views of the ...
What Does it Mean to Practise Philosophy?
... with accepting on the grounds of faith. It may be that the only true worth of philosophy in a practical sense is that it is something we can ‘go through’, that is ‘go beyond’. Unless we can go through philosophy, we will always be stalked and dogged by philosophical questions - ‘what is the meaning ...
... with accepting on the grounds of faith. It may be that the only true worth of philosophy in a practical sense is that it is something we can ‘go through’, that is ‘go beyond’. Unless we can go through philosophy, we will always be stalked and dogged by philosophical questions - ‘what is the meaning ...
The Death of the Author
... a prerequisite impersonality (not at all to be confused with the castrating objectivity of the realist novelist), to reach that point where only language acts, ‘performs’, and not ‘me’. Mallarme’s entire poetics consists in suppressing the author in the interests of writing (which is, as will be se ...
... a prerequisite impersonality (not at all to be confused with the castrating objectivity of the realist novelist), to reach that point where only language acts, ‘performs’, and not ‘me’. Mallarme’s entire poetics consists in suppressing the author in the interests of writing (which is, as will be se ...
The lives of Plato and Socrates - School of Practical Philosophy
... Here we see the ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, over the entrance of which were inscribed the famous precepts—know thyself and measure is all. The temple had a resident prophetess and, for more than a 1000 years royalty and regular citizens came from all over the ancient world seeking guida ...
... Here we see the ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, over the entrance of which were inscribed the famous precepts—know thyself and measure is all. The temple had a resident prophetess and, for more than a 1000 years royalty and regular citizens came from all over the ancient world seeking guida ...
Why is there Philosophy of Mathematics at all?
... Incidentally, this is one part of the book where I disagree with Hacking. He claims that proof began with Thales and is unique to Western mathematics. This may be true if you limit yourself to Leibnizian proof, but many examples of Cartesian proof can be found in Arabic, Chinese and especially India ...
... Incidentally, this is one part of the book where I disagree with Hacking. He claims that proof began with Thales and is unique to Western mathematics. This may be true if you limit yourself to Leibnizian proof, but many examples of Cartesian proof can be found in Arabic, Chinese and especially India ...
The Poetics of Philosophy [A Reading of Plato]
... melange of word play and exposition that defies categorizing. Its author has tried to say something of philosophical importance, which should not be taken for granted. To cite the words of Alan Bloom when discussing ‘analytic’ philosophy: Professors of these schools simply would not and could not ta ...
... melange of word play and exposition that defies categorizing. Its author has tried to say something of philosophical importance, which should not be taken for granted. To cite the words of Alan Bloom when discussing ‘analytic’ philosophy: Professors of these schools simply would not and could not ta ...
LECTURE 2: APOLOGETICS AND PHILOSOPHY
... based on presuppositions. In order to analyze or dispute claims of knowledge, scientific or otherwise, one must be aware of the presuppositions supposed by those who claim that knowledge. These four schools provide radical differences in presuppositions, and in the resulting conclusions. ...
... based on presuppositions. In order to analyze or dispute claims of knowledge, scientific or otherwise, one must be aware of the presuppositions supposed by those who claim that knowledge. These four schools provide radical differences in presuppositions, and in the resulting conclusions. ...
Word
... freely. Coming to know is achieved through the finite sprit. In other words, Hegel is focused on the fact that human beings, who are material things, can come to know the world in which they live and, more importantly, come to know themselves. The principal achievement of human beings is culture, an ...
... freely. Coming to know is achieved through the finite sprit. In other words, Hegel is focused on the fact that human beings, who are material things, can come to know the world in which they live and, more importantly, come to know themselves. The principal achievement of human beings is culture, an ...
Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is. verseny 07 L
... and Jakob, and not the God philosophers. Not at all suprisingly, he was a philosopher well before making this remark. We could without doubt find more examples of this „laddereffect“ , but at the moment that doesn’t seem necessary. These examples support and at the same time widen our interpretation ...
... and Jakob, and not the God philosophers. Not at all suprisingly, he was a philosopher well before making this remark. We could without doubt find more examples of this „laddereffect“ , but at the moment that doesn’t seem necessary. These examples support and at the same time widen our interpretation ...
Obscurantism
Obscurantism (/ɵbˈskjʊərəntɪsm/) is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known. There are two common historical and intellectual denotations to Obscurantism: (1) deliberately restricting knowledge—opposition to the spread of knowledge, a policy of withholding knowledge from the public; and, (2) deliberate obscurity—an abstruse style (as in literature and art) characterized by deliberate vagueness. The name comes from French: obscurantisme, from the Latin obscurans, ""darkening"".The term obscurantism derives from the title of the 16th-century satire Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum (Letters of Obscure Men), based upon the intellectual dispute between the German humanist Johann Reuchlin and Dominican monks, such as Johannes Pfefferkorn, about whether or not all Jewish books should be burned as un-Christian. Earlier, in 1509, the monk Pfefferkorn had obtained permission from Maximilian I (1486–1519), the Holy Roman Emperor, to incinerate all copies of the Talmud (Jewish law and Jewish ethics) known to be in the Holy Roman Empire (AD 926–1806); the Letters of Obscure Men satirized the Dominican monks' arguments at burning ""un-Christian"" works.In the 18th century, Enlightenment philosophers used the term ""obscurantism"" to denote the enemies of the Enlightenment and its concept of the liberal diffusion of knowledge. Moreover, in the 19th century, in distinguishing the varieties of obscurantism found in metaphysics and theology from the ""more subtle"" obscurantism of the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and of modern philosophical skepticism, Friedrich Nietzsche said: ""The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.""