Kant on Irresistible Inclinations: Moral Worth, Happiness
... that the Epicurean was correct to champion what was most in our control, but not anything empirical. What is rational and a priori is in our control. As it turns out, happiness is not in our control.8 Kant comments: The principle of one’s own happiness, however much understanding and reason may be u ...
... that the Epicurean was correct to champion what was most in our control, but not anything empirical. What is rational and a priori is in our control. As it turns out, happiness is not in our control.8 Kant comments: The principle of one’s own happiness, however much understanding and reason may be u ...
Specious Present - Philsci
... advocate a strict notion of the present in experience, one would need to then explain why our experience of it is illusory, since it phenomenologically seems to encompass at least some short duration (see theme 3 below for an example of such an explanation). The ‘vulgar’ conception of the present ...
... advocate a strict notion of the present in experience, one would need to then explain why our experience of it is illusory, since it phenomenologically seems to encompass at least some short duration (see theme 3 below for an example of such an explanation). The ‘vulgar’ conception of the present ...
HERE - BasicIncome.com
... spoken of as psychologically unreliable; and generally there is a vague association between wreathing laurels in your hair and sticking straws in it. Facts and history utterly contradict this view. Most of the very great poets have been not only sane, but extremely business-like; and if Shakespeare ...
... spoken of as psychologically unreliable; and generally there is a vague association between wreathing laurels in your hair and sticking straws in it. Facts and history utterly contradict this view. Most of the very great poets have been not only sane, but extremely business-like; and if Shakespeare ...
“Hillary Clinton is the only man in the Obama administration”: Dual
... murder king Duncan, and Lady Macbeth calls him a coward. Macbeth responds: “Prithee, peace: / I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more is none.” Lady Macbeth rebuts him: "What beast was't, then, / That made you break this enterprise to me? / When you durst do it, then you were a man ...
... murder king Duncan, and Lady Macbeth calls him a coward. Macbeth responds: “Prithee, peace: / I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more is none.” Lady Macbeth rebuts him: "What beast was't, then, / That made you break this enterprise to me? / When you durst do it, then you were a man ...
Linking Ways of Knowing with Ways of Being Practical Author(s
... affect desiderata. It must then weigh alternatives and their costs and consequences against one another, and choose, not the right alternative, for there is no such thing, but the best one" (1969, p. 36). The most significant problem associated with Schwab's recommendations for viewing curriculum in ...
... affect desiderata. It must then weigh alternatives and their costs and consequences against one another, and choose, not the right alternative, for there is no such thing, but the best one" (1969, p. 36). The most significant problem associated with Schwab's recommendations for viewing curriculum in ...
Kant`s Analysis of Obligation
... second-rate moral motive; action from spontaneous natural affection is more authentically virtuous.xxii This is contrary to the widely-shared idea that obligation is central to moral experience, and that there are at least some actions which ought to be performed from the sense that they are obligat ...
... second-rate moral motive; action from spontaneous natural affection is more authentically virtuous.xxii This is contrary to the widely-shared idea that obligation is central to moral experience, and that there are at least some actions which ought to be performed from the sense that they are obligat ...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
... Aristotle's, result in the collapse of the very notion of well-being. On Aristotle's view, if you are my friend, then my well-being is closely bound up with yours. It might be tempting, then, to say that ‘your’ well-being is ‘part’ of mine, in which case the distinction between what is good for me a ...
... Aristotle's, result in the collapse of the very notion of well-being. On Aristotle's view, if you are my friend, then my well-being is closely bound up with yours. It might be tempting, then, to say that ‘your’ well-being is ‘part’ of mine, in which case the distinction between what is good for me a ...
William James - Pragmatism - Collin College Faculty Website Directory
... mixtures which I have written down are each inwardly coherent and selfconsistent or not- I shall very soon have a good deal to say on that point. It suffices for our immediate purpose that tender-minded and tough-minded people, characterized as I have written them down, do both exist. Each of you pr ...
... mixtures which I have written down are each inwardly coherent and selfconsistent or not- I shall very soon have a good deal to say on that point. It suffices for our immediate purpose that tender-minded and tough-minded people, characterized as I have written them down, do both exist. Each of you pr ...
Intentional psychologism - California State University, Los Angeles
... qualitative content is impossible—or even especially difficult. It only follows that it cannot be direct. But this is no more a problem for psychologism than it is for any representationalist theory of content—at least as far as our commonsense knowledge of each other’s mental lives is concerned. Th ...
... qualitative content is impossible—or even especially difficult. It only follows that it cannot be direct. But this is no more a problem for psychologism than it is for any representationalist theory of content—at least as far as our commonsense knowledge of each other’s mental lives is concerned. Th ...
Hume on Monkish Virtue
... seemingly trivial habit. Anybody who wants to quit smoking cigarettes would do well to remove himself, for a time, from the familiar social environment with its host of cues to smoke, the worst of which are probably other smokers. Many people find that solitude promotes insight as well as affording ...
... seemingly trivial habit. Anybody who wants to quit smoking cigarettes would do well to remove himself, for a time, from the familiar social environment with its host of cues to smoke, the worst of which are probably other smokers. Many people find that solitude promotes insight as well as affording ...
Epistemic Line of Explanation for Experimental
... the sciences is in a central way law-seeking or nomothetic. Where it went wrong was in interpreting this fact as grounds for saying that any successful explanation must succeed either in virtue of explicitly invoking covering laws or by implicitly asserting the existence of such laws” (Railton, 1981 ...
... the sciences is in a central way law-seeking or nomothetic. Where it went wrong was in interpreting this fact as grounds for saying that any successful explanation must succeed either in virtue of explicitly invoking covering laws or by implicitly asserting the existence of such laws” (Railton, 1981 ...
Pierre Duhem`s Virtue Epistemology
... Beginning in about 1980, several philosophers started to advance theories of knowledge described as "virtue epistemology". “Just as virtue theories in ethics try to understand the normative properties of actions in terms of the normative properties of moral agents, virtue epistemology tries to under ...
... Beginning in about 1980, several philosophers started to advance theories of knowledge described as "virtue epistemology". “Just as virtue theories in ethics try to understand the normative properties of actions in terms of the normative properties of moral agents, virtue epistemology tries to under ...
The Coleridge Circle: Virtue Ethics, Sympathy, and Outrage
... agent. Such ethicists frequently note that we face the existential crunch of decision-making from time to time only, but how we lead our daily lives and what kind of human beings we become are questions always with us. Our virtues are deepseated predispositions that manifest themselves everyday over ...
... agent. Such ethicists frequently note that we face the existential crunch of decision-making from time to time only, but how we lead our daily lives and what kind of human beings we become are questions always with us. Our virtues are deepseated predispositions that manifest themselves everyday over ...
Attitudinal Objects and the Distinction between Actions and Products
... could play the traditional roles of propositions. An answer pursued both by Soames and Hanks is to identify propositions with types of cognitive acts. There is something fundamentally unsatisfactory about such an identification, however, and that is that cognitive acts do not have the right properti ...
... could play the traditional roles of propositions. An answer pursued both by Soames and Hanks is to identify propositions with types of cognitive acts. There is something fundamentally unsatisfactory about such an identification, however, and that is that cognitive acts do not have the right properti ...
paper
... (i) the conception must offer some account of the instances of instantiates , where ‘’ and ‘’ are place-holders for names of particulars and properties (this involves saying something helpful about the nature of the referents and, to some extent, about the predicate ‘… instantiates …’); (ii) ...
... (i) the conception must offer some account of the instances of instantiates , where ‘’ and ‘’ are place-holders for names of particulars and properties (this involves saying something helpful about the nature of the referents and, to some extent, about the predicate ‘… instantiates …’); (ii) ...
Beauty as harmony of the soul: the aesthetic of the Stoics
... In order to extirpate passion from the soul one would develop a certain orientation to the world. This might be achieved by either of two ways, only one of which the Stoics endorsed. According to the first alternative, one might develop the appropriate orientation through habit and training. For exa ...
... In order to extirpate passion from the soul one would develop a certain orientation to the world. This might be achieved by either of two ways, only one of which the Stoics endorsed. According to the first alternative, one might develop the appropriate orientation through habit and training. For exa ...
1 Adaptation - Assets - Cambridge University Press
... augment fitness in some way or another – we might also use Mayr’s (1986) term and say that they have the property of adaptedness. The adaptedness of a trait is not sufficient for the trait to be an adaptation, because the trait, like the screwdriver, may not have the right kind of history. Richard Daw ...
... augment fitness in some way or another – we might also use Mayr’s (1986) term and say that they have the property of adaptedness. The adaptedness of a trait is not sufficient for the trait to be an adaptation, because the trait, like the screwdriver, may not have the right kind of history. Richard Daw ...
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Name: Bene Colenbrander Academic Writing, group: [C] Essay: [3
... audience is unpredictable and will never sound exactly the same. There is an indefinable relationship between the composition and the audience that determines the way the composition sounds to the listener. The audience member now is an active contributor to the sound of the composition, which remov ...
... audience is unpredictable and will never sound exactly the same. There is an indefinable relationship between the composition and the audience that determines the way the composition sounds to the listener. The audience member now is an active contributor to the sound of the composition, which remov ...
on the logic of perception sentences
... (9) John saw a dance performance take place (10) John saw that a dance performance took place. The two crucial differences between the semantics of (9) and (10) are: (i) whether or not the relevant event (a dance performance) takes place in each world compatible with everything John saw; (ii) whethe ...
... (9) John saw a dance performance take place (10) John saw that a dance performance took place. The two crucial differences between the semantics of (9) and (10) are: (i) whether or not the relevant event (a dance performance) takes place in each world compatible with everything John saw; (ii) whethe ...
Nietzsche and Equality
... denominates as ‘higher’ really are better in some objective sense than those he denominates as ‘lower’, or does he merely think of himself as expressing his own perspective – one which others (particularly those whom he has denominated as ‘lower’) may disagree with if they wish? But this dispute is ...
... denominates as ‘higher’ really are better in some objective sense than those he denominates as ‘lower’, or does he merely think of himself as expressing his own perspective – one which others (particularly those whom he has denominated as ‘lower’) may disagree with if they wish? But this dispute is ...
KANT S THEORY OF MORAL MOTIVATION
... internal sensibility of the subject and not to the external properties of objects. What all feelings also have in common is that they can have different degrees of strength. According to Kant, there is just one kind of feeling of pleasure, whose differences are just matter of degree. Similarly, Kant ...
... internal sensibility of the subject and not to the external properties of objects. What all feelings also have in common is that they can have different degrees of strength. According to Kant, there is just one kind of feeling of pleasure, whose differences are just matter of degree. Similarly, Kant ...
Cicero: the philosophical works
... philosophical project, he tells us, because he found himself with “nothing to do, for the political situation demanded that the state be governed by the strategy and supervision of a single man.” The single man to whom Cicero is referring here is, of course, Julius Caesar. A second reason that Cice ...
... philosophical project, he tells us, because he found himself with “nothing to do, for the political situation demanded that the state be governed by the strategy and supervision of a single man.” The single man to whom Cicero is referring here is, of course, Julius Caesar. A second reason that Cice ...
From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at
... environmental action would seem decisively to refute. Heidegger's defenders point out that his critique of technology is not concerned merely with human attitudes but also with the way being reveals itself. Again roughly translated out of Heidegger's language, this means that the modern world has a ...
... environmental action would seem decisively to refute. Heidegger's defenders point out that his critique of technology is not concerned merely with human attitudes but also with the way being reveals itself. Again roughly translated out of Heidegger's language, this means that the modern world has a ...
Fiction Paper
... of properties, for example internal properties or external properties. The second approach holds that there is only one kind of property, but an object can have its properties in different ways, for example by either encoding or exemplification. In the end, it doesn’t make a difference whether one a ...
... of properties, for example internal properties or external properties. The second approach holds that there is only one kind of property, but an object can have its properties in different ways, for example by either encoding or exemplification. In the end, it doesn’t make a difference whether one a ...
Dewey`s Aesthetic Experience in the Nature
... Somaesthetics, together with the conception of „body consciousness” brought about an important change in the understanding of the subject, including the subject as the author and the recipient of art. In particular the theory of aesthetic experience into which a corporeal and multi-sensual subject ...
... Somaesthetics, together with the conception of „body consciousness” brought about an important change in the understanding of the subject, including the subject as the author and the recipient of art. In particular the theory of aesthetic experience into which a corporeal and multi-sensual subject ...