Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism Author(s)
... Utilitarianism is the doctrine that the rightness of actions is to be judged by their consequences. What do we mean by 'actions ' here ? Do we mean particular actions or do we mean classes of actions ? According to which way we interpret the word 'actions ' we get two different theories, both of whi ...
... Utilitarianism is the doctrine that the rightness of actions is to be judged by their consequences. What do we mean by 'actions ' here ? Do we mean particular actions or do we mean classes of actions ? According to which way we interpret the word 'actions ' we get two different theories, both of whi ...
Knowledge and Reality in the Vedanta School with emphasis on
... duality set up between self and the world, between spirit and matter, is the result of illusion (maya), or of ignorance (avidya). It is important to note the negative form of this philosophical term. It would have been easy to find a positive term if it has been tried to assert dogmatically the onen ...
... duality set up between self and the world, between spirit and matter, is the result of illusion (maya), or of ignorance (avidya). It is important to note the negative form of this philosophical term. It would have been easy to find a positive term if it has been tried to assert dogmatically the onen ...
REVIEW David Couzens Hoy, The Time of Our Lives: A Critical
... understandings of the past. Gadamer’s ideas on time horizons, or Nietzsche’s ideas on the Eternal return are but two examples that do not fit very well into Hoy’s thematization. If this results from their non-linear understanding of time is an open question, however. Having said this, Hoy is not lim ...
... understandings of the past. Gadamer’s ideas on time horizons, or Nietzsche’s ideas on the Eternal return are but two examples that do not fit very well into Hoy’s thematization. If this results from their non-linear understanding of time is an open question, however. Having said this, Hoy is not lim ...
ON PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY
... The works of Tiryakian, Bruyn and Douglas are examined as representative of "phenomenological sociology." Radical problems are discovered in their use of key concepts in phenomenology: intention, reduction, phenomenon and essence. These problems are shown to arise out of a failure to grasp the natur ...
... The works of Tiryakian, Bruyn and Douglas are examined as representative of "phenomenological sociology." Radical problems are discovered in their use of key concepts in phenomenology: intention, reduction, phenomenon and essence. These problems are shown to arise out of a failure to grasp the natur ...
Traces of Consequentialism and Non
... are different, for example the Pure Land approach with its tradition of Amitabha worship. The latter tradition refers to bodhisattva vows, but tends to see them as faits accomplis, existing in the past — particularly in Amitabha’s own past — rather than as obligations that people are still called ...
... are different, for example the Pure Land approach with its tradition of Amitabha worship. The latter tradition refers to bodhisattva vows, but tends to see them as faits accomplis, existing in the past — particularly in Amitabha’s own past — rather than as obligations that people are still called ...
Tiffany Price Intro to Philosophy Mr. Izrailevsky http://tiffanyprice
... researching and finding out new things about him. It was a really hard decision deciding which philosopher is my favorite and who to write my paper on because there are so many amazingly great philosophers. I didn’t even know what philosophy was and all about until taking this class. I am so gratefu ...
... researching and finding out new things about him. It was a really hard decision deciding which philosopher is my favorite and who to write my paper on because there are so many amazingly great philosophers. I didn’t even know what philosophy was and all about until taking this class. I am so gratefu ...
How cognition meets emotion - Computational Epistemology
... evolution by natural selection, that are not deductions. That deduction is not sufficient for explanation is shown by myriad examples where deduction is not explanatory, for example when one explains a man’s non-pregnancy by deducing it from the facts that he took his wife’s birth-control pills and ...
... evolution by natural selection, that are not deductions. That deduction is not sufficient for explanation is shown by myriad examples where deduction is not explanatory, for example when one explains a man’s non-pregnancy by deducing it from the facts that he took his wife’s birth-control pills and ...
Hegel and Schopenhauer
... harbored toward his contemporary Hegel. This sentiment was fed by a number of sources: envy of the highly successful elder philosopher, whom Schopenhauer, lacking in this regard, viewed as a usurper; the gnawing disappointment, manifesting itself in high-handed pretensions, at his own lack of succes ...
... harbored toward his contemporary Hegel. This sentiment was fed by a number of sources: envy of the highly successful elder philosopher, whom Schopenhauer, lacking in this regard, viewed as a usurper; the gnawing disappointment, manifesting itself in high-handed pretensions, at his own lack of succes ...
A Modern Worldview from Plato`s Cave
... An example might clarify this concept. Consider a table. Tables come in many shapes, sizes, colors, and structures, but we all recognize each variation as a table. Plato would say that any representation of a table has “tableness.” That is, each representation contains the qualities of the true Form ...
... An example might clarify this concept. Consider a table. Tables come in many shapes, sizes, colors, and structures, but we all recognize each variation as a table. Plato would say that any representation of a table has “tableness.” That is, each representation contains the qualities of the true Form ...
Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals
... of men’s doings, we meet frequent and—I admit—justified complaints that we can’t cite a single sure example of someone’s being disposed to act from pure duty—not one!— so that although much is done that accords with what duty commands, it always remains doubtful whether it is done from duty and thus ...
... of men’s doings, we meet frequent and—I admit—justified complaints that we can’t cite a single sure example of someone’s being disposed to act from pure duty—not one!— so that although much is done that accords with what duty commands, it always remains doubtful whether it is done from duty and thus ...
Desire-Fulfillment Theory (Nov 2014).pages
... theory, according to which all desire fulfillments benefit a person. The restriction to intrinsic desires, while it will exclude some ill-informed desires (e.g., those based on false beliefs about what means might bring about a desired end), appears not to help here, since my desire to eat the pie ...
... theory, according to which all desire fulfillments benefit a person. The restriction to intrinsic desires, while it will exclude some ill-informed desires (e.g., those based on false beliefs about what means might bring about a desired end), appears not to help here, since my desire to eat the pie ...
Introduction - davidhume.org
... particularly with Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton. By the end of the seventeenth century, scholasticism was in terminal decline, but intense debate continued as philosophers sought to make sense of the world and man’s place in it, accommodating the new discoveries. Some of the points in dispute were e ...
... particularly with Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton. By the end of the seventeenth century, scholasticism was in terminal decline, but intense debate continued as philosophers sought to make sense of the world and man’s place in it, accommodating the new discoveries. Some of the points in dispute were e ...
Philosophy as Dependable Analysis:
... principle - and if such ascription is not to the Creator then it will be to something of the creation. And so, a Christian will also recognise the religious possibility of idolatrous belief. That possibility is not just about what the "other guys" believe; it is a religious tendency that the Christi ...
... principle - and if such ascription is not to the Creator then it will be to something of the creation. And so, a Christian will also recognise the religious possibility of idolatrous belief. That possibility is not just about what the "other guys" believe; it is a religious tendency that the Christi ...
Indexical Predicates, Speaker`s Meaning and Truth
... judgments concerning the truth-conditions of utterances bear directly on the truthconditions of the sentences uttered. 2 Minimalism thus responds to under-determination arguments by maintaining that the truth-value of the sentence uttered in two contexts does not vary, rather what varies is only th ...
... judgments concerning the truth-conditions of utterances bear directly on the truthconditions of the sentences uttered. 2 Minimalism thus responds to under-determination arguments by maintaining that the truth-value of the sentence uttered in two contexts does not vary, rather what varies is only th ...
Was Berkeley an Ethical Egoist
... Happiness for the agent. Nor has this doctrine been held only by persons of a cold and calculating turn of mind: we find it urged with emphasis by so chivalrous and high-minded a preacher as Bishop Berkeley. Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics In this essay1 I argue that the “Mo” sections in Berke ...
... Happiness for the agent. Nor has this doctrine been held only by persons of a cold and calculating turn of mind: we find it urged with emphasis by so chivalrous and high-minded a preacher as Bishop Berkeley. Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics In this essay1 I argue that the “Mo” sections in Berke ...
A Conceptual Framework for Postmodernism
... response to a condition of the postmodern. Postmodernism means the philosophical criticism of “great narratives” (Turner 1999, 51). Thus, if the postmodern condition testifies to the general condition that has arisen in connection with social, economic, and political orderings appearing after the Sec ...
... response to a condition of the postmodern. Postmodernism means the philosophical criticism of “great narratives” (Turner 1999, 51). Thus, if the postmodern condition testifies to the general condition that has arisen in connection with social, economic, and political orderings appearing after the Sec ...
Logic Notes 2006
... 6. The basic premises or assumptions of the argument, that is, the premises that are not supported within the argument, are statements 2, 3, and 5. Statement 4 is an intermediary conclusion, which is claimed to follow from 2 and 3. Let us say that an argument is in explicit form when each statement ...
... 6. The basic premises or assumptions of the argument, that is, the premises that are not supported within the argument, are statements 2, 3, and 5. Statement 4 is an intermediary conclusion, which is claimed to follow from 2 and 3. Let us say that an argument is in explicit form when each statement ...
Proofs and Pictures
... it is not some sort of encoded argument. However, the boundary between these two ways of understanding the pictures may not be very sharp. Even in fairly simple direct perceptions some 'interpreting' goes on. Ultimately, it may not matter which way we construe the picture, so long as the encoded arg ...
... it is not some sort of encoded argument. However, the boundary between these two ways of understanding the pictures may not be very sharp. Even in fairly simple direct perceptions some 'interpreting' goes on. Ultimately, it may not matter which way we construe the picture, so long as the encoded arg ...
Herbert Marcuse`s critique of consumer society
... behave more environmentally friendly?” He asks more fundamental questions, like: “Do we want to live in the kind of society we live in?” “What is really important in life?” “Does the paradigm of economic growth lead to the kind of society that promotes happiness?” “What is freedom, and are we really ...
... behave more environmentally friendly?” He asks more fundamental questions, like: “Do we want to live in the kind of society we live in?” “What is really important in life?” “Does the paradigm of economic growth lead to the kind of society that promotes happiness?” “What is freedom, and are we really ...
Lecture notes on Immanuel Kant
... our reach because we cannot step out of our perspective on the world. A consequence of Kant's theory of phenomena and noumena is that the world we know and live in is the phenomenal world that our own minds organize and synthesize from the multiplicity of data. If I see a tree, then that tree exists ...
... our reach because we cannot step out of our perspective on the world. A consequence of Kant's theory of phenomena and noumena is that the world we know and live in is the phenomenal world that our own minds organize and synthesize from the multiplicity of data. If I see a tree, then that tree exists ...
`I` am a Fiction: An Analysis of the No-Person Theories
... and he knows neither how to correct his former opinions nor how to render them consistent. It might also be noted that there is no discussion on personal identity in Hume’s other work: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. However, let us first explicate Hume’s theory about personal identity. In o ...
... and he knows neither how to correct his former opinions nor how to render them consistent. It might also be noted that there is no discussion on personal identity in Hume’s other work: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. However, let us first explicate Hume’s theory about personal identity. In o ...
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... equally neutral and equally adequate for describing all the facts” (Wasserman, 2013). Now, this thesis isn’t logically precise — and so we shouldn’t expect it to be easily refutable by means of formal logic. And yet, several prominent philosophers have claimed just that, namely, that quantifier vari ...
... equally neutral and equally adequate for describing all the facts” (Wasserman, 2013). Now, this thesis isn’t logically precise — and so we shouldn’t expect it to be easily refutable by means of formal logic. And yet, several prominent philosophers have claimed just that, namely, that quantifier vari ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... one of the disunified rivals to T, T1 say, and modify it further so that the new theory, T1*, differs further from T in predicting, in an entirely ad hoc way, that phenomena A, B and C occur in accordance with empirically established laws LA, LB and LC. T1* successfully predicts all that T has succ ...
... one of the disunified rivals to T, T1 say, and modify it further so that the new theory, T1*, differs further from T in predicting, in an entirely ad hoc way, that phenomena A, B and C occur in accordance with empirically established laws LA, LB and LC. T1* successfully predicts all that T has succ ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... Here, I will give as succinct a resumé as I can of the argument against SE and for AOE. I will then consider what the implications are of rejecting SE and accepting AOE in its stead for cosmology, for physics, for science more generally, for philosophy of science, and for the nature of rationality. ...
... Here, I will give as succinct a resumé as I can of the argument against SE and for AOE. I will then consider what the implications are of rejecting SE and accepting AOE in its stead for cosmology, for physics, for science more generally, for philosophy of science, and for the nature of rationality. ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... Here, I will give as succinct a resumé as I can of the argument against SE and for AOE. I will then consider what the implications are of rejecting SE and accepting AOE in its stead for cosmology, for physics, for science more generally, for philosophy of science, and for the nature of rationality. ...
... Here, I will give as succinct a resumé as I can of the argument against SE and for AOE. I will then consider what the implications are of rejecting SE and accepting AOE in its stead for cosmology, for physics, for science more generally, for philosophy of science, and for the nature of rationality. ...