The Human Intellect: Aristotle`s Conception of Νοῦς
... not. Aristotle claims that our understanding applies to all instances of the thing understood wherever and whenever they exist. Given the characteristics of understanding, it cannot have a bodily organ. Aristotle’s own account allows him to avoid these difficulties. The intellect in its nature is on ...
... not. Aristotle claims that our understanding applies to all instances of the thing understood wherever and whenever they exist. Given the characteristics of understanding, it cannot have a bodily organ. Aristotle’s own account allows him to avoid these difficulties. The intellect in its nature is on ...
Evolution and Logic
... as an adaptive response we tend to make something of the regularities. But, as philosophers, we should not try to make more of the regularities than what they are. Causes are projected into the world by us . . . The human who believes in real connections has the biological edge over the human who on ...
... as an adaptive response we tend to make something of the regularities. But, as philosophers, we should not try to make more of the regularities than what they are. Causes are projected into the world by us . . . The human who believes in real connections has the biological edge over the human who on ...
PHI 110 Lecture 1 1 Welcome to Philosophy 110, Introduction to
... behavior ultimately stems from a non-physical source, namely from the human mind or from the human soul, if you will. That is, a lot of philosophers have tried to say that there’s an aspect of human nature, this non-physical, non-corporeal soul or mind, which is free from the laws of nature and thus ...
... behavior ultimately stems from a non-physical source, namely from the human mind or from the human soul, if you will. That is, a lot of philosophers have tried to say that there’s an aspect of human nature, this non-physical, non-corporeal soul or mind, which is free from the laws of nature and thus ...
Ethics in Medieval Western Philosophy
... Augustine also devoted two treatises to the topic of lying. In the first of these, De mendacio (On Lying), he first suggests that a person S lies in saying p if, and only if (1) p is false, (2) S believes that p is false and (3) S says p with the intention of deceiving someone. He then considers thr ...
... Augustine also devoted two treatises to the topic of lying. In the first of these, De mendacio (On Lying), he first suggests that a person S lies in saying p if, and only if (1) p is false, (2) S believes that p is false and (3) S says p with the intention of deceiving someone. He then considers thr ...
FORMAL METHODS AND SCIENCE IN PHILOSOPHY
... Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy Matter is one of the crucial, classical categories that have been used in various philosophical attempts at rational explanation of the world. Despite its long history (or, possibly, because of this rich tradition) an answer to t ...
... Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy Matter is one of the crucial, classical categories that have been used in various philosophical attempts at rational explanation of the world. Despite its long history (or, possibly, because of this rich tradition) an answer to t ...
Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Introduction
... give rise to differences in content. The cultured and the uncultured Christian appear completely identical in one respect, but their needs are nevertheless completely different. And it is precisely the same with property relations. Even the serf has property, but it is coupled with obligations which ...
... give rise to differences in content. The cultured and the uncultured Christian appear completely identical in one respect, but their needs are nevertheless completely different. And it is precisely the same with property relations. Even the serf has property, but it is coupled with obligations which ...
PHIL 5973: Mental Causation Seminar
... 1. The principles of comprehensiveness, consistency, and simplicity, by which we evaluate theories, must at least be granted some special status that rests on intuitions. 2. Logic should also cover non-empirical domains, concerned with not only “what is in fact the case but what ought to be.” (318) ...
... 1. The principles of comprehensiveness, consistency, and simplicity, by which we evaluate theories, must at least be granted some special status that rests on intuitions. 2. Logic should also cover non-empirical domains, concerned with not only “what is in fact the case but what ought to be.” (318) ...
Against Fantology - Buffalo Ontology Site
... necessity with logical necessity and law with logical law). When philosophers have turned their methods to the necessary relations in other, non-mathematical domains, then fantological reductions have remained beyond their grasp. The logical positivists’ expectation that it would be possible to demo ...
... necessity with logical necessity and law with logical law). When philosophers have turned their methods to the necessary relations in other, non-mathematical domains, then fantological reductions have remained beyond their grasp. The logical positivists’ expectation that it would be possible to demo ...
SievertHumanism
... should be readily available. In any case, illegitimate children should not suffer for their parents’ actions. Euthanasia, abortion, family planning, and suicide are other matters that should be left to the individual conscience.” By now the flavor of Humanism should be coming through quite strong, a ...
... should be readily available. In any case, illegitimate children should not suffer for their parents’ actions. Euthanasia, abortion, family planning, and suicide are other matters that should be left to the individual conscience.” By now the flavor of Humanism should be coming through quite strong, a ...
CHAPTER 1 * A Process-Relational World/ A Relational Organic
... • Deeper down, even islands, like waves, are merely faces of a deeper unity. If we cannot see that unity, we imperil the web in which we live. • Process thinkers, along with modern physicists, emphasize that relatedness and process go all the way down and all the way up. • It will be my task in this ...
... • Deeper down, even islands, like waves, are merely faces of a deeper unity. If we cannot see that unity, we imperil the web in which we live. • Process thinkers, along with modern physicists, emphasize that relatedness and process go all the way down and all the way up. • It will be my task in this ...
introduction: the task of thinking reality
... However, knowledge is not of oneself, but of an object, a determinate something that can be apprehended by the intellect. It is this object that is taken up into the human mind with respect to its intelligible nature. For Maritain, following Aristotle and Thomas, the knower becomes the object in the ...
... However, knowledge is not of oneself, but of an object, a determinate something that can be apprehended by the intellect. It is this object that is taken up into the human mind with respect to its intelligible nature. For Maritain, following Aristotle and Thomas, the knower becomes the object in the ...
What are computers (if they`re not thinking things)?
... bodies to do it. Our reasons for not using only our bodies can be various: not wanting to get hurt, not being able to fit into or reach a particular space, not wanting to get dirty, performing some task (like driving in a screw, or cutting a piece of wood) for which no part of the human body will d ...
... bodies to do it. Our reasons for not using only our bodies can be various: not wanting to get hurt, not being able to fit into or reach a particular space, not wanting to get dirty, performing some task (like driving in a screw, or cutting a piece of wood) for which no part of the human body will d ...
Creating the Human Past - Paleoanthropology Society
... sites.) Creating the Human Past, however, dwells on a somewhat convenient reading of epistemological history—there is an air of inevitability about “mistakes” in archaeology due to faulty theoretical or practical premises of archaeologists. History, in Creating the Human Past, reads more like a hyst ...
... sites.) Creating the Human Past, however, dwells on a somewhat convenient reading of epistemological history—there is an air of inevitability about “mistakes” in archaeology due to faulty theoretical or practical premises of archaeologists. History, in Creating the Human Past, reads more like a hyst ...
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
... mouth; that one has very poor vision, and perceives the surrounding world by a system of reflectedhigh-frequencysound signals; and that one spends the day hanging upside down by one's feetin an attic. In so far as I can imagine this (which is not very far), it tells me only what it would be like for ...
... mouth; that one has very poor vision, and perceives the surrounding world by a system of reflectedhigh-frequencysound signals; and that one spends the day hanging upside down by one's feetin an attic. In so far as I can imagine this (which is not very far), it tells me only what it would be like for ...
Prelude
... modern dress—in another philosophical tale that is strikingly reminiscent of The Matrix. Imagine that a human being has been subjected to an operation by an evil scientist. The person’s brain has been removed from the body and placed in a vat of nutrients which keeps the brain alive. The nerve endin ...
... modern dress—in another philosophical tale that is strikingly reminiscent of The Matrix. Imagine that a human being has been subjected to an operation by an evil scientist. The person’s brain has been removed from the body and placed in a vat of nutrients which keeps the brain alive. The nerve endin ...
Dewey`s Aesthetic Experience in the Nature
... sphere of this which is human. And the “non-human” sphere does not signify the divine sphere or even the angelic one. Just the opposite – it is directed at biology and the theory of evolution. It is not above, but rather below everything that is human. Dewey’s aesthetics and his conception of aesthe ...
... sphere of this which is human. And the “non-human” sphere does not signify the divine sphere or even the angelic one. Just the opposite – it is directed at biology and the theory of evolution. It is not above, but rather below everything that is human. Dewey’s aesthetics and his conception of aesthe ...
Contemporary Existentialism and the Concept of Naturalness in
... seemingly illogical koan or mondo (question and answer) is primarily designed to jolt people out of the rut of conventional logic and faulty dualistic thinking pattern. As Alan Watts points out: "Zen (Ch'an) is above all a process of unlearning, of abandonment ot ideology, of all fixed forms of thou ...
... seemingly illogical koan or mondo (question and answer) is primarily designed to jolt people out of the rut of conventional logic and faulty dualistic thinking pattern. As Alan Watts points out: "Zen (Ch'an) is above all a process of unlearning, of abandonment ot ideology, of all fixed forms of thou ...
The tension between self governance and absolute inner worth in
... According to the traditional version of this view,28 29 only a limited number of people actually possess this ability. Since, however, these privileged individuals can share their knowledge with other people, everybody can, in theory at least, find out what God expects of his creatures. This common ...
... According to the traditional version of this view,28 29 only a limited number of people actually possess this ability. Since, however, these privileged individuals can share their knowledge with other people, everybody can, in theory at least, find out what God expects of his creatures. This common ...
"Everything Flows": The Poetics of Transformation
... experience; secondly, as an emergent form of understanding in which the truth and beauty of reality is disclosed. In its most crude expression, we will be concerned with art as a mode of existence. So conceived, art is a metaphysical activity essential to human understanding. It is constructive firs ...
... experience; secondly, as an emergent form of understanding in which the truth and beauty of reality is disclosed. In its most crude expression, we will be concerned with art as a mode of existence. So conceived, art is a metaphysical activity essential to human understanding. It is constructive firs ...
Nietzsche study guide a) What is significant about the title On the
... claim that the English Psychologists are bad historians? Why does Nz claim that the English Psychologists are bad psychologists? Does Nz believe that the idea of the good has a univocal, constant, trans-historical meaning? How does Nz challenge the assumption made by the English psychologists that t ...
... claim that the English Psychologists are bad historians? Why does Nz claim that the English Psychologists are bad psychologists? Does Nz believe that the idea of the good has a univocal, constant, trans-historical meaning? How does Nz challenge the assumption made by the English psychologists that t ...
On Moral Progress: A Response to Richard Rorty
... the sheer naming of it as oppression, and the existence of widespread public argument about it, changes things for good, and is, as Kant said, “already a form of improvement in itself.” In today’s world, such male behavior has to be a conscious, malicious, disdainful choice. It cannot be just routin ...
... the sheer naming of it as oppression, and the existence of widespread public argument about it, changes things for good, and is, as Kant said, “already a form of improvement in itself.” In today’s world, such male behavior has to be a conscious, malicious, disdainful choice. It cannot be just routin ...
Aristotle on What It Means To Be Happy
... attainment of the degree would not satisfy his or her desires because the desire would then be for something else, such as to make money to pay off the university fees. Consequently, there must be some ultimate Good at the end of this, otherwise we are faced with an infinite regress of desires until ...
... attainment of the degree would not satisfy his or her desires because the desire would then be for something else, such as to make money to pay off the university fees. Consequently, there must be some ultimate Good at the end of this, otherwise we are faced with an infinite regress of desires until ...
The Vindication of St. Thomas
... institutions; radical changes in the composition and interests of graduate student populations, etc. After decades of inhabiting a philosophical ‘ghetto’, as they termed it, we were finally to come of age and to join the ‘real’ philosophical world, even though, truth be told, we did not have any ver ...
... institutions; radical changes in the composition and interests of graduate student populations, etc. After decades of inhabiting a philosophical ‘ghetto’, as they termed it, we were finally to come of age and to join the ‘real’ philosophical world, even though, truth be told, we did not have any ver ...
Slides - Faculty of Philosophy
... one can appropriately ask: how are they possible; for that they must be possible is demonstrated by their actuality.* *Some may still have doubts concerning the latter. But one need merely consider the various propositions that come forth at the outset of proper (empirical) physics, such as those of ...
... one can appropriately ask: how are they possible; for that they must be possible is demonstrated by their actuality.* *Some may still have doubts concerning the latter. But one need merely consider the various propositions that come forth at the outset of proper (empirical) physics, such as those of ...
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.