Marx – greatness without illusions By Eric Rahim We have another
... According to Stedman Jones ‘This was a truly misleading account.’ And he adds: ‘According to Engels, Karl developed his new ‘materialist conception of history’ between the completion of The Holy Family in the autumn of 1844 and his reunion with Engels in Brussels in the spring of 1845.’ And then he ...
... According to Stedman Jones ‘This was a truly misleading account.’ And he adds: ‘According to Engels, Karl developed his new ‘materialist conception of history’ between the completion of The Holy Family in the autumn of 1844 and his reunion with Engels in Brussels in the spring of 1845.’ And then he ...
Aztec Philosophy - University Press of Colorado
... How then does it differ from existing scholarship? I come to Aztec metaphysics as someone trained in contemporary academic Anglo-American analytic philosophy, history of Western philosophy, and comparative world philosophy. What makes mine a philosophical rather than a historical, religionist, or an ...
... How then does it differ from existing scholarship? I come to Aztec metaphysics as someone trained in contemporary academic Anglo-American analytic philosophy, history of Western philosophy, and comparative world philosophy. What makes mine a philosophical rather than a historical, religionist, or an ...
A Triune Philosophy of Mathematics
... synthesize the field. The three broad views are as follows. Foundational philosophies: Mathematics is developed from axioms and definitions using logic Humanistic philosophies of mathematics: Mathematics is invented by humans who are the source of math Mathematical Platonism Also called ’mathematica ...
... synthesize the field. The three broad views are as follows. Foundational philosophies: Mathematics is developed from axioms and definitions using logic Humanistic philosophies of mathematics: Mathematics is invented by humans who are the source of math Mathematical Platonism Also called ’mathematica ...
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 ...
- ANU Repository
... manifest in use. I call this the manifestation argument. In the first Chapter, I apply the manifestation argument not only to theories of meaning which yield specifications of the content of sentences of a language (1.2), but also to theories which aim primarily to define linguistic behaviour as a s ...
... manifest in use. I call this the manifestation argument. In the first Chapter, I apply the manifestation argument not only to theories of meaning which yield specifications of the content of sentences of a language (1.2), but also to theories which aim primarily to define linguistic behaviour as a s ...
A Philosophical Conception of Propositional Modal Logic
... worlds. In circumstances such as (b), the world would have been different, since if the proposition Snow is white had been false, the substance snow would not be in the extension of the property of being white. We want our models of modal logic to reflect that circumstances such as (b) make the senten ...
... worlds. In circumstances such as (b), the world would have been different, since if the proposition Snow is white had been false, the substance snow would not be in the extension of the property of being white. We want our models of modal logic to reflect that circumstances such as (b) make the senten ...
Reasons and Beliefs
... elaborated upon Brentano’s insights, claiming that the essential property of being directed onto something does depend on the existence of some physical 'target', but only in virtue of the relevant intentional act.9 The content/object distinction also has its authoritative defenders nowadays. Accord ...
... elaborated upon Brentano’s insights, claiming that the essential property of being directed onto something does depend on the existence of some physical 'target', but only in virtue of the relevant intentional act.9 The content/object distinction also has its authoritative defenders nowadays. Accord ...
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... the empirical to the transcendental, from the noesis-noema dichotomy to the ego-cogito-cogitatum schemata, and from individual to collective consciousness. Not only does intentionality open subjective consciousness(es) to its(their) objects, it further explains the way which we correlate ourselves w ...
... the empirical to the transcendental, from the noesis-noema dichotomy to the ego-cogito-cogitatum schemata, and from individual to collective consciousness. Not only does intentionality open subjective consciousness(es) to its(their) objects, it further explains the way which we correlate ourselves w ...
Ph 205 Historical Introduction to Philosophy
... the beholder or is there an objective standard? Aquinas & Existence of God: Should nonCatholic sources of knowledge be used in theology? ...
... the beholder or is there an objective standard? Aquinas & Existence of God: Should nonCatholic sources of knowledge be used in theology? ...
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... command, by a legislating will. In taking this view, Locke consciously positions himself against others, from the classical philosophers, to Hugo Grotius, to his own contemporaries the “Cambridge Platonists,” who understood the moral law to be intrinsic to nature.12 This philosophical choice may hav ...
... command, by a legislating will. In taking this view, Locke consciously positions himself against others, from the classical philosophers, to Hugo Grotius, to his own contemporaries the “Cambridge Platonists,” who understood the moral law to be intrinsic to nature.12 This philosophical choice may hav ...
Kant`s History of Ethics
... misunderstood. Epicurus’ ideal, he says, was that of “an inner contentment and a cheerful heart. One must be secure against all reproaches from oneself or others – but that is no philosophy of pleasure, and he has been poorly understood. We still have a letter from him, in which he invites someone ...
... misunderstood. Epicurus’ ideal, he says, was that of “an inner contentment and a cheerful heart. One must be secure against all reproaches from oneself or others – but that is no philosophy of pleasure, and he has been poorly understood. We still have a letter from him, in which he invites someone ...
The Man Who Invented Music
... As a result, then, the placement of frets on a stringed instrument found a basis in mathematical formulae, rather than mere perception. It might now be easy to jump ahead and conclude that the tempered natural harmonic tuning system was largely the work of this one man and his disciples. This is not ...
... As a result, then, the placement of frets on a stringed instrument found a basis in mathematical formulae, rather than mere perception. It might now be easy to jump ahead and conclude that the tempered natural harmonic tuning system was largely the work of this one man and his disciples. This is not ...
Lesson 6
... world has had an incalculable influence on the whole of Western Culture not least Christianity. N.B. However, it is important to be careful of using such phrases like the ‘World of Forms’ or ‘another ...
... world has had an incalculable influence on the whole of Western Culture not least Christianity. N.B. However, it is important to be careful of using such phrases like the ‘World of Forms’ or ‘another ...
Metaphysics as the First Philosophy
... in the Posterior Analytics that suggest the issue to be more complicated. In particular, Aristotle says that in grasping that a thing is, we also have “some hold on what it is” (93a25–28). Demoss and Deveraux (1988, 150) take this passage to be evidence to the effect that nominal definitions refer t ...
... in the Posterior Analytics that suggest the issue to be more complicated. In particular, Aristotle says that in grasping that a thing is, we also have “some hold on what it is” (93a25–28). Demoss and Deveraux (1988, 150) take this passage to be evidence to the effect that nominal definitions refer t ...
Social Theory
... deduction, where the result must be true if the major and minor premises are true. The act of insight that “the beans are from this bag” may not be true at all, as someone else outside our purview might have put them there. Nevertheless an abductive inference strikes us often as a reasonable (workin ...
... deduction, where the result must be true if the major and minor premises are true. The act of insight that “the beans are from this bag” may not be true at all, as someone else outside our purview might have put them there. Nevertheless an abductive inference strikes us often as a reasonable (workin ...
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... the constitutive goal of belief can be understood as the claim that truth is a good at which beliefs necessarily aim. So, having a true belief would amount to having a belief that meets the requirements set by the constitutive goal of that kind of state. It is a belief that has met its success condi ...
... the constitutive goal of belief can be understood as the claim that truth is a good at which beliefs necessarily aim. So, having a true belief would amount to having a belief that meets the requirements set by the constitutive goal of that kind of state. It is a belief that has met its success condi ...
Being and MacGuffin - Crisis and Critique
... the beginning if there ever was one where one must justify the beginning, but which at the same time supposed to be a beginning without any presuppositions, in no need of justification, a pure immersion into the indeterminate immediacy, which is for Hegel another name for being. We have four pieces ...
... the beginning if there ever was one where one must justify the beginning, but which at the same time supposed to be a beginning without any presuppositions, in no need of justification, a pure immersion into the indeterminate immediacy, which is for Hegel another name for being. We have four pieces ...
A Theory of Properties
... nevertheless, a contingently existing artifact (like some of the items in the first). Nicholas Wolterstorff would say that our classification scheme was unobjectionable, and that ‘War and Peace’ clearly belonged right where we had put it, since it denoted something that was much more like a proposit ...
... nevertheless, a contingently existing artifact (like some of the items in the first). Nicholas Wolterstorff would say that our classification scheme was unobjectionable, and that ‘War and Peace’ clearly belonged right where we had put it, since it denoted something that was much more like a proposit ...
No Self?: Some Reflections on Buddhist Theories of Personal Identity
... me, a bundle theorist cannot start by saying: well, we all agree there are thoughts, but why suppose there are thinkers? For there is no such agreed starting point between bundle theorists and their opponents. It begs the question to start from the (to me unintelligible) notion of a thought without ...
... me, a bundle theorist cannot start by saying: well, we all agree there are thoughts, but why suppose there are thinkers? For there is no such agreed starting point between bundle theorists and their opponents. It begs the question to start from the (to me unintelligible) notion of a thought without ...
quine - University of St Andrews
... tool-kit of the logician. So it seems wise to bring them into the picture. Also, the definition of logical truth might become more perspicuous this way. ...
... tool-kit of the logician. So it seems wise to bring them into the picture. Also, the definition of logical truth might become more perspicuous this way. ...
Glory as an Ethical Idea
... The notion of glory may, perhaps, be a neglected one in philosophy partly because of the notion’s apparent religious overtones. Be that as it may, to say a little about what glory is is not to introduce a concept that we do not have, but to clarify the content and significance of a concept that we a ...
... The notion of glory may, perhaps, be a neglected one in philosophy partly because of the notion’s apparent religious overtones. Be that as it may, to say a little about what glory is is not to introduce a concept that we do not have, but to clarify the content and significance of a concept that we a ...
Introduction: Varieties of Disjunctivism
... Inspired by the writings of J. M. Hinton (1967a, 1967b, 1973), but ushered into the mainstream by Paul Snowdon (1980–1, 1990–1), John McDowell (1982, 1986), and M. G. F. Martin (2002, 2004, 2006), disjunctivism is currently discussed, advocated, and opposed in the philosophy of perception, the theor ...
... Inspired by the writings of J. M. Hinton (1967a, 1967b, 1973), but ushered into the mainstream by Paul Snowdon (1980–1, 1990–1), John McDowell (1982, 1986), and M. G. F. Martin (2002, 2004, 2006), disjunctivism is currently discussed, advocated, and opposed in the philosophy of perception, the theor ...
Hart, Fuller, Dworkin, and Fragile Norms
... reasoned choice between these concepts, it must be because one is superior to the other in the way in which it will assist our theoretical inquiries, or advance and clarify our moral deliberations, or both.22 Theoretical superiority is of course an apparently non-moral issue. So it is worth treating ...
... reasoned choice between these concepts, it must be because one is superior to the other in the way in which it will assist our theoretical inquiries, or advance and clarify our moral deliberations, or both.22 Theoretical superiority is of course an apparently non-moral issue. So it is worth treating ...
Phenomenal consciousness so-called
... towards which the pilot might mistakenly steer? And, once you had disembarked, do you know how you would set about determining whether or not you had actually landed on your target? ...
... towards which the pilot might mistakenly steer? And, once you had disembarked, do you know how you would set about determining whether or not you had actually landed on your target? ...
The objective-subjective dichotomy and its use in - Philsci
... This article deals with the nature of the objective-subjective dichotomy, first from a general historical point of view, and then with regard to the use of these terms over time to describe theories of probability. The different (metaphysical and epistemological) meanings of “objective” and “subject ...
... This article deals with the nature of the objective-subjective dichotomy, first from a general historical point of view, and then with regard to the use of these terms over time to describe theories of probability. The different (metaphysical and epistemological) meanings of “objective” and “subject ...