Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Rationalism
... how the conflict between the Enlightenment and orthodoxy is a conflict between atheism and orthodoxy and that the debate has not been definitively resolved in favor of the Enlightenment. He avoids the Kantian solution of a religion within the limits of reason alone, permitting Strauss to overturn th ...
... how the conflict between the Enlightenment and orthodoxy is a conflict between atheism and orthodoxy and that the debate has not been definitively resolved in favor of the Enlightenment. He avoids the Kantian solution of a religion within the limits of reason alone, permitting Strauss to overturn th ...
1929 Davos Disputation - The Dallas Philosophers Forum
... I would like to pull back from the fray and elucidate what I see as the most significant underlying issue that all the other treatments I have seen of the debate overlook. We have to go below the surface and compare the respective readings of Kant from Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and fro ...
... I would like to pull back from the fray and elucidate what I see as the most significant underlying issue that all the other treatments I have seen of the debate overlook. We have to go below the surface and compare the respective readings of Kant from Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and fro ...
Kant`s History of Ethics
... never came by way of reflection on their history. He was well acquainted, of course, with the recent tradition of German philosophy: Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten and Crusius, and he seems also to have had knowledge of eighteenth century French philosophy, and of as much of Anglophone philosophy as had ...
... never came by way of reflection on their history. He was well acquainted, of course, with the recent tradition of German philosophy: Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten and Crusius, and he seems also to have had knowledge of eighteenth century French philosophy, and of as much of Anglophone philosophy as had ...
The Undiscovered Wittgenstein
... Wittgenstein and who happen to serve his purpose at a particular point. We don’t mean to suggest here that Cook is deliberately cherry-picking, merely so that he might erect a ‘straw-Wittgenstein’ to replace with his ‘undiscovered’ Wittgenstein. Our point is rather that his failure to seriously enga ...
... Wittgenstein and who happen to serve his purpose at a particular point. We don’t mean to suggest here that Cook is deliberately cherry-picking, merely so that he might erect a ‘straw-Wittgenstein’ to replace with his ‘undiscovered’ Wittgenstein. Our point is rather that his failure to seriously enga ...
Aztec Philosophy - University Press of Colorado
... (in the Kuhnian sense7) history of philosophy routinely examine the internal logic of the metaphysics of Plato, Spinoza, Hegel, or Russell. The project is cut from the same cloth as these projects; it is no more and no less a history of philosophy – or anthropology or intellectual history, for that ...
... (in the Kuhnian sense7) history of philosophy routinely examine the internal logic of the metaphysics of Plato, Spinoza, Hegel, or Russell. The project is cut from the same cloth as these projects; it is no more and no less a history of philosophy – or anthropology or intellectual history, for that ...
The Futility of any Anti-Metaphysical Position
... metaphysics is an expression of an attitude toward life. Metaphysics he says, originated from mythology. The daily fears of the early man he says, gave rise to mythology and from mythology into poetry which in turn transformed into theology. As time went on theology got transformed into metaphysics. ...
... metaphysics is an expression of an attitude toward life. Metaphysics he says, originated from mythology. The daily fears of the early man he says, gave rise to mythology and from mythology into poetry which in turn transformed into theology. As time went on theology got transformed into metaphysics. ...
b. Jr.Sem.Offerings`95
... cience is supposed to tell us the way the world is. But, in a way, religion does too. How do these two institutions and forms of knowledge relate to one another? And to what extent do scientific or religious considerations enter into politics? These three domains have been interconnected with one an ...
... cience is supposed to tell us the way the world is. But, in a way, religion does too. How do these two institutions and forms of knowledge relate to one another? And to what extent do scientific or religious considerations enter into politics? These three domains have been interconnected with one an ...
on the ambiguity of international law
... philosophical problem, and a source of tensions within their respective philosophies. As I will proceed to show, a theory of international law forms a bottleneck of their theories. In the face of international law’s radical ambiguities, normative theories are put to the utmost test of consistency. A ...
... philosophical problem, and a source of tensions within their respective philosophies. As I will proceed to show, a theory of international law forms a bottleneck of their theories. In the face of international law’s radical ambiguities, normative theories are put to the utmost test of consistency. A ...
B.A. PHILOSOPHY PR OGRAMME UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT (CUCBCSS -2014 admn.) (I SEMESTER)
... what it means to be a human being, what is the fundamental nature of reality, what are the limits and sources of our knowledge and what is right and good in our life. In this sense, it deals with metaphysical, epistemological and axiological dimensions of reality and human life. Thus, philosophy has ...
... what it means to be a human being, what is the fundamental nature of reality, what are the limits and sources of our knowledge and what is right and good in our life. In this sense, it deals with metaphysical, epistemological and axiological dimensions of reality and human life. Thus, philosophy has ...
Dialectic and Dialogue in Plato: Revisiting the Image of "Socrates
... questions, by leading discussions, by helping students to raise their minds up from a state of understanding and appreciating less to a state of understanding and appreciating more” (p. 29). The “Socratic method” in education, which presupposes the view of Socrates-as-teacher, “refers to someone who ...
... questions, by leading discussions, by helping students to raise their minds up from a state of understanding and appreciating less to a state of understanding and appreciating more” (p. 29). The “Socratic method” in education, which presupposes the view of Socrates-as-teacher, “refers to someone who ...
Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas
... explored in the history of art,17where it has caused an essentially historicist story which traced the development of illusionist to yield place to a story which is content to trace changing intentions and conventions. More recently an analogous exploration has been made with some plausibility in th ...
... explored in the history of art,17where it has caused an essentially historicist story which traced the development of illusionist to yield place to a story which is content to trace changing intentions and conventions. More recently an analogous exploration has been made with some plausibility in th ...
Hegel on the Meanings of Poetry
... There is a popular cognitive conception of poetry which sees the need for a non-prosaic analysis of poetic meaning. The conception is not only popular among critics and aestheticians, but can make some claim to being the dominant poetics of our time. It is general enough to be found among literary c ...
... There is a popular cognitive conception of poetry which sees the need for a non-prosaic analysis of poetic meaning. The conception is not only popular among critics and aestheticians, but can make some claim to being the dominant poetics of our time. It is general enough to be found among literary c ...
Accounts of the Afterlife
... that sphere called earth which you see in the middle of this celestial place… You must not depart from your human life until you receive the command from him who has given you that soul otherwise you will be judged to have deserted the earthly post assigned to you by god. Instead, Scipio, be like yo ...
... that sphere called earth which you see in the middle of this celestial place… You must not depart from your human life until you receive the command from him who has given you that soul otherwise you will be judged to have deserted the earthly post assigned to you by god. Instead, Scipio, be like yo ...
babel and derrida
... Deconstruction: Theory and Practice (London and New York: Routledge, 1991), Derrida (London: Fontana, 1987), Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1996). 10Derrida, Ear of the Other, 100. 11Derrida misreads the Tower of Babel narrative as a ...
... Deconstruction: Theory and Practice (London and New York: Routledge, 1991), Derrida (London: Fontana, 1987), Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1996). 10Derrida, Ear of the Other, 100. 11Derrida misreads the Tower of Babel narrative as a ...
the critique of positivism
... eliminate the ‘anarchy of opinion’ which characterizes modern political thinking.” 20 Thus the ideal here is the use of science to provide rational solutions to all problems concerning the organization of society. But there is an obvious difficulty for this ideal. For it would seem that scientific k ...
... eliminate the ‘anarchy of opinion’ which characterizes modern political thinking.” 20 Thus the ideal here is the use of science to provide rational solutions to all problems concerning the organization of society. But there is an obvious difficulty for this ideal. For it would seem that scientific k ...
Glendinning , Simon. 'Varieties of Neoliberalism' LEQS Paper No. 89, March 2015
... he thought, “turned away from the questions which are decisive for humanity” (Husserl 1970, p. 6). These are “questions concerning the meaning or meaninglessness of the whole of human existence” (Husserl 1970, p. 6). Blinded by the astonishing success of the n ...
... he thought, “turned away from the questions which are decisive for humanity” (Husserl 1970, p. 6). These are “questions concerning the meaning or meaninglessness of the whole of human existence” (Husserl 1970, p. 6). Blinded by the astonishing success of the n ...
The Philosopher and the Sage: Plato and Lao
... The Philosopher and the Sage: Plato and Lao-Tzu on Following the Way of Nature ...
... The Philosopher and the Sage: Plato and Lao-Tzu on Following the Way of Nature ...
The semantic development of virtue
... investigated throughout history, especially by philosophers trying to encompass the vast ocean of the concept’s significance. That will be a subject for inquiry in chapters two through four of this thesis. But virtue touches other areas of life and in its development to modern English it has kept it ...
... investigated throughout history, especially by philosophers trying to encompass the vast ocean of the concept’s significance. That will be a subject for inquiry in chapters two through four of this thesis. But virtue touches other areas of life and in its development to modern English it has kept it ...
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... ferent means and with different results — sets him apart from both mainstream philosophers of film as well as film theorists engaging with philosophy. So how to make sense of Cavell’s claim that the “marriage” between film and philosophy is grounded in their responses to scepticism? It is not that t ...
... ferent means and with different results — sets him apart from both mainstream philosophers of film as well as film theorists engaging with philosophy. So how to make sense of Cavell’s claim that the “marriage” between film and philosophy is grounded in their responses to scepticism? It is not that t ...
Chapter 23 Immanuel Kant`s Ethical Theory
... affirms that the good will is always unconditionally good, irrespective of the consequences of the action it prompts the agent to perform. One important feature of Kant’s ethical theory in general and his idea of the good will is their affinity with our ordinary moral reasoning. We all are familiar ...
... affirms that the good will is always unconditionally good, irrespective of the consequences of the action it prompts the agent to perform. One important feature of Kant’s ethical theory in general and his idea of the good will is their affinity with our ordinary moral reasoning. We all are familiar ...
philosophical skepticism at the end of the 20th century
... me. I have not written too much, but often have I spoken as a skeptic. I may be a false skeptic, although I take myself as an authentic one. If I consider my temper, I am not, as you see, a true skeptic. A skeptic man is a cold man, who submits all things to a deep analysis. Skepticism has played a ...
... me. I have not written too much, but often have I spoken as a skeptic. I may be a false skeptic, although I take myself as an authentic one. If I consider my temper, I am not, as you see, a true skeptic. A skeptic man is a cold man, who submits all things to a deep analysis. Skepticism has played a ...
Philosophy 110W - That Marcus Family Home
... The core claim of utilitarianism is that the morality of an act depends on its consequences. Consider an act such as going out of your way to help a struggling person cross the street. This is a good act. It remains a good act even if it ends with an unforeseeable bad consequence, as in the case in ...
... The core claim of utilitarianism is that the morality of an act depends on its consequences. Consider an act such as going out of your way to help a struggling person cross the street. This is a good act. It remains a good act even if it ends with an unforeseeable bad consequence, as in the case in ...
Ethics—The Basics by John Mizzoni
... PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS, refers to the systematic reasoned inquiry into the nature of morality (values, choices, principles, theories, traditions, and conduct) WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MORALITY AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY? ...
... PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS, refers to the systematic reasoned inquiry into the nature of morality (values, choices, principles, theories, traditions, and conduct) WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MORALITY AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY? ...
Against the Idols of the Age
... except this one: that it is ours. Everyone really understands, too, that this is the only reason. But since this reason is also generally accepted as a sufficient one, no other is felt to be needed . . . Characteristically, the fact that the ‘Gem’ is now an orthodoxy merely motivates Stove to attack ...
... except this one: that it is ours. Everyone really understands, too, that this is the only reason. But since this reason is also generally accepted as a sufficient one, no other is felt to be needed . . . Characteristically, the fact that the ‘Gem’ is now an orthodoxy merely motivates Stove to attack ...
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.""