Martin Heidegger, Off the Beaten Track
... of the later Heidegger’s texts, it is a substantial contribution to Heidegger studies; especially so, given the persistent as well as topical centrality of the question of the politics and poetics of “the later Heidegger” to recent Continental philosophy. The most notable strength of this work is th ...
... of the later Heidegger’s texts, it is a substantial contribution to Heidegger studies; especially so, given the persistent as well as topical centrality of the question of the politics and poetics of “the later Heidegger” to recent Continental philosophy. The most notable strength of this work is th ...
Theme 3
... Sophists - the teachers of wisdom - were not only political and legal technology activities, and at the same time taught and the philosophy. It is important to emphasize that the sophists have focused on social issues, on the person and on the problems of communication, teaching public speaking and ...
... Sophists - the teachers of wisdom - were not only political and legal technology activities, and at the same time taught and the philosophy. It is important to emphasize that the sophists have focused on social issues, on the person and on the problems of communication, teaching public speaking and ...
Philosophers_Search_for_Wisdom_Article
... politics, art, speech, and philosophy. He collected information on over five hundred kinds of living organisms because he believed it is important to have scientific knowledge of the world. He taught and encouraged others to examine, describe and classify as many forms of life as possible. From his ...
... politics, art, speech, and philosophy. He collected information on over five hundred kinds of living organisms because he believed it is important to have scientific knowledge of the world. He taught and encouraged others to examine, describe and classify as many forms of life as possible. From his ...
The Apology and Crito
... morally therapeutic. A corrollary of this is that the unexamined life is not worth living, because it will be a life without knowledge, and so without virtue. (Is the unexamined life really not worth living???) 4. What does Socrates mean when he claims not to have knowledge? Socrates' disavowal of k ...
... morally therapeutic. A corrollary of this is that the unexamined life is not worth living, because it will be a life without knowledge, and so without virtue. (Is the unexamined life really not worth living???) 4. What does Socrates mean when he claims not to have knowledge? Socrates' disavowal of k ...
You can find an example abstract from my own writings attached here.
... recent work of Jacques Laruelle offers a possible solution to this dilemma. His suggestion of nonPhilosophy (or “Vision-in-One”) locates the material at the level of an indeterminate prior to the philosophical (de)scission of thought into unity and difference. As this solution requires a step outsid ...
... recent work of Jacques Laruelle offers a possible solution to this dilemma. His suggestion of nonPhilosophy (or “Vision-in-One”) locates the material at the level of an indeterminate prior to the philosophical (de)scission of thought into unity and difference. As this solution requires a step outsid ...
philosophy as a second order discipline
... resolve puzzles in order to aid our understanding of phenomena so as enable humans deal better with the phenomena in question. It may also be inferred from the way Milesian philosophers practiced philosophy that philosophy is a discipline in which reasons are adduced for any position held. In it, ra ...
... resolve puzzles in order to aid our understanding of phenomena so as enable humans deal better with the phenomena in question. It may also be inferred from the way Milesian philosophers practiced philosophy that philosophy is a discipline in which reasons are adduced for any position held. In it, ra ...
Rationalist Epistemology
... • Plato reasons that there must be Forms for every thing that has being: trees, rocks, stars, circles, etc. Plato is especially interested in Forms of moral and aesthetic characteristics such as Beauty (the thing all beautiful things have), Courage (the thing all courageous people have), and Goodnes ...
... • Plato reasons that there must be Forms for every thing that has being: trees, rocks, stars, circles, etc. Plato is especially interested in Forms of moral and aesthetic characteristics such as Beauty (the thing all beautiful things have), Courage (the thing all courageous people have), and Goodnes ...
Ch. VI. Sociology of Science 1. We mentioned previously that an
... about desirable advances in technology, but they will also favor scientific theories that satisfy moral purposes or, in other words, which can be used to direct human conduct along desirable lines. We have learned from many examples, discussed in this book, that from Plato to Einstein scientific the ...
... about desirable advances in technology, but they will also favor scientific theories that satisfy moral purposes or, in other words, which can be used to direct human conduct along desirable lines. We have learned from many examples, discussed in this book, that from Plato to Einstein scientific the ...
Some Notes on the Philosophy of Science
... arrives at deductive certainty – in ruling out certain proposed theories because of observations. “The aim of empirical science is to set forth theories to stand the test of every possible serious attempt at falsification. Scientific theories are hypotheses or conjectures; they are general statement ...
... arrives at deductive certainty – in ruling out certain proposed theories because of observations. “The aim of empirical science is to set forth theories to stand the test of every possible serious attempt at falsification. Scientific theories are hypotheses or conjectures; they are general statement ...
An Emerson Mood
... relation to the world’s existence is somehow closer than the ideas of believing and knowing are made to convey.” (145) ...
... relation to the world’s existence is somehow closer than the ideas of believing and knowing are made to convey.” (145) ...
Wittgenstein World History Name: E. Napp Date: Biographical
... mystical.’ Of course, this meant that Wittgenstein’s central philosophical message, the insight that he was most concerned to convey in his work, was itself inexpressible. His hope was that precisely in not saying it, nor even in trying to say it, he could somehow make it manifest. ‘If only you do ...
... mystical.’ Of course, this meant that Wittgenstein’s central philosophical message, the insight that he was most concerned to convey in his work, was itself inexpressible. His hope was that precisely in not saying it, nor even in trying to say it, he could somehow make it manifest. ‘If only you do ...
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13
... God and the idea of a higher being is dependent upon the aspect of benevolence. Feuerbach states that, “a God who is not benevolent, not just, not wise, is no God,” and continues to say that qualities are not suddenly denoted as divine because of their godly association. The qualities themselves are ...
... God and the idea of a higher being is dependent upon the aspect of benevolence. Feuerbach states that, “a God who is not benevolent, not just, not wise, is no God,” and continues to say that qualities are not suddenly denoted as divine because of their godly association. The qualities themselves are ...
Sometimes I despair of my philosophical colleagues
... no bearing on the truths of moral philosophy. What other way is there of deciding moral theses, if not by testing them against our basic reactions to particular cases? I agree that the moral realm is different. Moral claims aren’t tested against sensory observations in the same way as factual theori ...
... no bearing on the truths of moral philosophy. What other way is there of deciding moral theses, if not by testing them against our basic reactions to particular cases? I agree that the moral realm is different. Moral claims aren’t tested against sensory observations in the same way as factual theori ...
Foucault on modernity
... situated character of all such truth-claims. (“‘What is Enlightenment?’ Kant According to Foucault”, 168) ...
... situated character of all such truth-claims. (“‘What is Enlightenment?’ Kant According to Foucault”, 168) ...
Emotivism - Pegasus Cc Ucf
... All meaningful statements are analytic (true by definition) or synthetic (deriving meaning from being empirically verifiable) Called the Verification Principle ...
... All meaningful statements are analytic (true by definition) or synthetic (deriving meaning from being empirically verifiable) Called the Verification Principle ...
Class #1
... Monism is the view that all of reality is one kind of thing. If, for example, you believe that all of reality is matter, or that God is the only reality, then you are a monist. The first philosophers (Pre-Socratics) like Thales (c. 600 BCE) Pythagoras (c. 550 BCE) and Heraclitus (c. 500 BCE), were m ...
... Monism is the view that all of reality is one kind of thing. If, for example, you believe that all of reality is matter, or that God is the only reality, then you are a monist. The first philosophers (Pre-Socratics) like Thales (c. 600 BCE) Pythagoras (c. 550 BCE) and Heraclitus (c. 500 BCE), were m ...
Bold hypothesis by Popper
... In Popper's philosophy of science, if a statement cannot even in principle be proved wrong, it cannot be a scientific statement. Thus, in Popper's eyes, the falsifiability criterion clearly demarcates "science" from "non-science". This Popperian idea has been very controversial, however. The reason ...
... In Popper's philosophy of science, if a statement cannot even in principle be proved wrong, it cannot be a scientific statement. Thus, in Popper's eyes, the falsifiability criterion clearly demarcates "science" from "non-science". This Popperian idea has been very controversial, however. The reason ...
1 Philosophy of New Times. Rationalism and empiricism
... German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with romanticism and the revolutionary politics of the Enlightenment. The most wellknown th ...
... German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with romanticism and the revolutionary politics of the Enlightenment. The most wellknown th ...
Deconstruction, Feminism and Discourse Theory
... constructed system of rules. In this sense a discourse represent a system of social relations and practices, which are nevertheless, embedded in various power relations. As mentioned above, the discourse theorists subscribe to the view that our access to reality is always through language. Here they ...
... constructed system of rules. In this sense a discourse represent a system of social relations and practices, which are nevertheless, embedded in various power relations. As mentioned above, the discourse theorists subscribe to the view that our access to reality is always through language. Here they ...
Plato and Aristotle
... thing belongs, and these are less real • He also claimed that forms are real but that they cannot exist independently of the particular substance ...
... thing belongs, and these are less real • He also claimed that forms are real but that they cannot exist independently of the particular substance ...
Class #2
... What is Philosophy? “We can help one another to find out the meaning of life. But in the last analysis , the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ‘finding himself.’ Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something ...
... What is Philosophy? “We can help one another to find out the meaning of life. But in the last analysis , the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ‘finding himself.’ Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something ...
Morality and Practical Reason: Kant
... • Kant begins by saying that what is ultimately good is a good will. And a good will, in turn, is the will that exercises pure practical reason • What we will, that is, what we try to do, is wholly within our control. And reason serves the purpose of instructing our will in our duty. “The notion of ...
... • Kant begins by saying that what is ultimately good is a good will. And a good will, in turn, is the will that exercises pure practical reason • What we will, that is, what we try to do, is wholly within our control. And reason serves the purpose of instructing our will in our duty. “The notion of ...
Review of Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School
... Kyoto University, was much more active in European intellectual circles than his predecessor. He met and corresponded with Edmund Husserl, as well as befriending Martin Heidegger. Heidegger recommended him for an honorary doctorate at the University of Freiburg. In the chapter focusing on Tanabe’s m ...
... Kyoto University, was much more active in European intellectual circles than his predecessor. He met and corresponded with Edmund Husserl, as well as befriending Martin Heidegger. Heidegger recommended him for an honorary doctorate at the University of Freiburg. In the chapter focusing on Tanabe’s m ...
Yvonne Förster - InterCultural Philosophy
... question from the wide range of possible ideas and discourses? These are questions I do not have answers for. I will limit my considerations to one example I found very helpful in understanding certain problems in my field of research. The problem of consciousness is tackled from two different persp ...
... question from the wide range of possible ideas and discourses? These are questions I do not have answers for. I will limit my considerations to one example I found very helpful in understanding certain problems in my field of research. The problem of consciousness is tackled from two different persp ...
What is Philosophy?
... I think it’s thinking fundamentally clearly and well about the nature of reality and our place in it, so as to understand better what goes on around us, and what our contribution is to that reality, and its effect on us.” ~ Barry Smith [Philosophy is] a process of reflection on the deepest concepts, ...
... I think it’s thinking fundamentally clearly and well about the nature of reality and our place in it, so as to understand better what goes on around us, and what our contribution is to that reality, and its effect on us.” ~ Barry Smith [Philosophy is] a process of reflection on the deepest concepts, ...
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.""