The Philosopher and the Sage: Plato and Lao
... ff.). As loving, philosophy is erotic; as learning, it is epistemic; as oriented towards the forms and the Good it is metaphysical; and as applying the Good and the forms to one's own life and that of others it is ethical and political. In fact, philosophy is all these at once, and it is the Good t ...
... ff.). As loving, philosophy is erotic; as learning, it is epistemic; as oriented towards the forms and the Good it is metaphysical; and as applying the Good and the forms to one's own life and that of others it is ethical and political. In fact, philosophy is all these at once, and it is the Good t ...
Dewey`s Concepts of Stability and Precariousness - Purdue e-Pubs
... which objects interact and hence opens up the possibility of finding novel kinds (new stable means) by means of such variation.17 The modern scientific method, unlike Aristotelian scientific method, does not consider an object as fixed in kind but as potentially always more than what it is because of th ...
... which objects interact and hence opens up the possibility of finding novel kinds (new stable means) by means of such variation.17 The modern scientific method, unlike Aristotelian scientific method, does not consider an object as fixed in kind but as potentially always more than what it is because of th ...
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 ...
Business Ethics and Early Modern French Philosophy at the
... immediate experience. In this sense, Bergson seems to announce a program of spirituality as a possible new understanding of life. In Matière et mémoire: Essai sur la relation entre corps et esprit (1896) Bergson continued his work on his theory of consciousness. Henri Bergson wanted to solve the c ...
... immediate experience. In this sense, Bergson seems to announce a program of spirituality as a possible new understanding of life. In Matière et mémoire: Essai sur la relation entre corps et esprit (1896) Bergson continued his work on his theory of consciousness. Henri Bergson wanted to solve the c ...
1 - Open Science Framework
... explanation and understanding of basic terms and their functions. Logic leads us from one truth to another, and the language is used as a tool for expression of these truths.12 As such, the logic was used as a base for all the other sciences including theology, so many scholars of medieval Europe k ...
... explanation and understanding of basic terms and their functions. Logic leads us from one truth to another, and the language is used as a tool for expression of these truths.12 As such, the logic was used as a base for all the other sciences including theology, so many scholars of medieval Europe k ...
The Rights of Animal Persons
... argues that humans can be “highly discriminatory” even when beings do not differ in significant ways,35 and this seems to be true of the former Apartheid regime in South Africa. Also, female infanticide is practiced in China without endangering the general population.36 However, if such fine distinc ...
... argues that humans can be “highly discriminatory” even when beings do not differ in significant ways,35 and this seems to be true of the former Apartheid regime in South Africa. Also, female infanticide is practiced in China without endangering the general population.36 However, if such fine distinc ...
“An Event in Sound”1 Considerations on the Ethical
... acquired through a persevering and sympathetically insightful practice? Our endeavor to understand begins in the world of aesthetics. Things speak of the beautiful The concept of “the beautiful” was once a universal metaphysical concept that had a function in the universal doctrine of being. Even to ...
... acquired through a persevering and sympathetically insightful practice? Our endeavor to understand begins in the world of aesthetics. Things speak of the beautiful The concept of “the beautiful” was once a universal metaphysical concept that had a function in the universal doctrine of being. Even to ...
Race in Hegel: Text and Context
... that embellish or mar them, are the mere product of students’ and editors’ imagination. These judgments, or a subset of them, may well mirror Hegel’s opinions. Yet scholarly criteria would seem to require caution, first, in attributing the merely recorded views to the philosopher himself; second, an ...
... that embellish or mar them, are the mere product of students’ and editors’ imagination. These judgments, or a subset of them, may well mirror Hegel’s opinions. Yet scholarly criteria would seem to require caution, first, in attributing the merely recorded views to the philosopher himself; second, an ...
Thinking Animals and the Reference of
... sense organs, and the same sort of surroundings and history as a thinking being should nonetheless be unable to think. Not that it hasn't been tried. It is sometimes said that thinking is a "maximal" concept: by definition, no thinking thing can be a proper part of another thinking thing. That is wh ...
... sense organs, and the same sort of surroundings and history as a thinking being should nonetheless be unable to think. Not that it hasn't been tried. It is sometimes said that thinking is a "maximal" concept: by definition, no thinking thing can be a proper part of another thinking thing. That is wh ...
Introduction In the frigid air of an East Prussian morning, a young
... mathematical judgments as synthetic a priori. Kant himself writes that these judgments “cannot be found within the concepts” but instead are found “a priori in the intuition corresponding to the concept, and can be connected with it synthetically.”6 This notion of intuition is a vital component of K ...
... mathematical judgments as synthetic a priori. Kant himself writes that these judgments “cannot be found within the concepts” but instead are found “a priori in the intuition corresponding to the concept, and can be connected with it synthetically.”6 This notion of intuition is a vital component of K ...
Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously
... Confucian ethics seriously means that one does not see it simply as something East Asian or Confucian; to take Confucian ethics seriously is to be concerned with the contemporary philosophical relevance of the Confucian tradition. An ethics can be understood simply as a description of the moral outl ...
... Confucian ethics seriously means that one does not see it simply as something East Asian or Confucian; to take Confucian ethics seriously is to be concerned with the contemporary philosophical relevance of the Confucian tradition. An ethics can be understood simply as a description of the moral outl ...
Contemporary Expressions of Various World Views 1
... myself of bad habits. Somehow I've come to associate Skinner with those horrible experiments done on orphaned monkeys, and I probably would have gone on doing so (quite wrongly) if it hadn't been for your bringing him up. The article didn't mention any such research, so I decided to find out who had ...
... myself of bad habits. Somehow I've come to associate Skinner with those horrible experiments done on orphaned monkeys, and I probably would have gone on doing so (quite wrongly) if it hadn't been for your bringing him up. The article didn't mention any such research, so I decided to find out who had ...
Nietzsche on eternal return
... But doesn’t the prospect of everything recurring make you feel, e.g. to think that all the suffering that has happened will happen again? Doesn’t this seem worse than it happening just once? But if eternal return makes things seem worse, then we can’t will it. To someone who can affirm eternal retur ...
... But doesn’t the prospect of everything recurring make you feel, e.g. to think that all the suffering that has happened will happen again? Doesn’t this seem worse than it happening just once? But if eternal return makes things seem worse, then we can’t will it. To someone who can affirm eternal retur ...
LANGUAGE AND TRUTH: A STUDY OF NIETZSCHE`S THEORY OF
... out under the will to truth, merely under a concern for knowledge, under a theoretical concern as opposed to a practical concern. But, for Nietzsche, such a will has not successfully executed or, somehow such a pure will to knowledge has not remained the basic impetus behind the conscious human acti ...
... out under the will to truth, merely under a concern for knowledge, under a theoretical concern as opposed to a practical concern. But, for Nietzsche, such a will has not successfully executed or, somehow such a pure will to knowledge has not remained the basic impetus behind the conscious human acti ...
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 ...
Nowadays when we hear the term “prudence”
... Aquinas appear to have materials to solve this problem. On the one hand, they are confident that cultivating and exercising the virtues is something that belongs to our nature, and thus is in itself a great good, quite apart from the worldly things it gets us. On the other hand, they have special co ...
... Aquinas appear to have materials to solve this problem. On the one hand, they are confident that cultivating and exercising the virtues is something that belongs to our nature, and thus is in itself a great good, quite apart from the worldly things it gets us. On the other hand, they have special co ...
Why Didnâ•Žt Plato Just Write Arguments? The Role of Image
... activity carried out beyond the human realm. The Phaedo offers a conception of philosophy as a human activity carried out within—and because of—our limitations. Our first indication that philosophy might be the remedy for human limitation comes not from Socrates, but from Simmias. Simmias and Cebes ...
... activity carried out beyond the human realm. The Phaedo offers a conception of philosophy as a human activity carried out within—and because of—our limitations. Our first indication that philosophy might be the remedy for human limitation comes not from Socrates, but from Simmias. Simmias and Cebes ...
Deleuze Lecture on Kant 1978 - The Partially Examined Life
... Is there anything else besides the categories that can be a priori, which is to say, universal and necessary? The reply is yes, and this other thing is space and time. Because every object is in space and in time, or at least in time. But you will say to me straight away, very well then, why not mak ...
... Is there anything else besides the categories that can be a priori, which is to say, universal and necessary? The reply is yes, and this other thing is space and time. Because every object is in space and in time, or at least in time. But you will say to me straight away, very well then, why not mak ...
LANGUAGE AND TRUTH: A STUDY OF NIETZSCHE`S THEORY OF
... out under the will to truth, merely under a concern for knowledge, under a theoretical concern as opposed to a practical concern. But, for Nietzsche, such a will has not successfully executed or, somehow such a pure will to knowledge has not remained the basic impetus behind the conscious human acti ...
... out under the will to truth, merely under a concern for knowledge, under a theoretical concern as opposed to a practical concern. But, for Nietzsche, such a will has not successfully executed or, somehow such a pure will to knowledge has not remained the basic impetus behind the conscious human acti ...
kinds (natural kinds vs. human kinds)
... judge all human or social kinds to be non-real. Even though they may not be intentionally and consciously produced by human beings, all human or social kinds are influenced in some way by human action and social forces and cannot be regarded as independent of human beings and their minds. This seems ...
... judge all human or social kinds to be non-real. Even though they may not be intentionally and consciously produced by human beings, all human or social kinds are influenced in some way by human action and social forces and cannot be regarded as independent of human beings and their minds. This seems ...
Asian Philosophy (CH. 18 of AP)
... 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 and immediate, not being dependent upon a false duality between the k ...
... 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 and immediate, not being dependent upon a false duality between the k ...
Chapter 5, Meaning
... analytic as the disposition to suckle their young is part of the definition of mammal. On the other hand ‘Jacques Chirac is President of France’ is synthetic, true when I first wrote this chapter, but false when I revise in in August 2011. Kant thought that only synthetic propositions convey genuine ...
... analytic as the disposition to suckle their young is part of the definition of mammal. On the other hand ‘Jacques Chirac is President of France’ is synthetic, true when I first wrote this chapter, but false when I revise in in August 2011. Kant thought that only synthetic propositions convey genuine ...
Spencerism and the Causal Theory of Reference
... Hauser 2004). Young human children have no such limitation, while presumably having others. Viewed in this way, having some species-typical conceptual capacity, hence having certain concepts rather than others, is just to have another organismic trait. Concepts are structures in the organism, part o ...
... Hauser 2004). Young human children have no such limitation, while presumably having others. Viewed in this way, having some species-typical conceptual capacity, hence having certain concepts rather than others, is just to have another organismic trait. Concepts are structures in the organism, part o ...
REVIEW David Couzens Hoy, The Time of Our Lives: A Critical
... presentation of each philosopher’s position on temporality unnecessarily complicated. To examine understandings of the future among phenomenologists, one would also need to include understandings of the past. Gadamer’s ideas on time horizons, or Nietzsche’s ideas on the Eternal return are but two ex ...
... presentation of each philosopher’s position on temporality unnecessarily complicated. To examine understandings of the future among phenomenologists, one would also need to include understandings of the past. Gadamer’s ideas on time horizons, or Nietzsche’s ideas on the Eternal return are but two ex ...
Zaid Orudzhev
Zaid Melikovich Orudzhev (Russian: Заи́д Ме́ликович Ору́джев; born on April 4, 1932) is an Azerbaijani-born Russian academic specialising in the history of philosophy, dialectical logic and sociological methodology. He is a doctor of philosophy and currently a professor at the Moscow State Academy for Business Administration.