The Double-Edged Sword of Reason The Scholar`s Predicament
... excludes the taking of such a point of view.4 This double-edgedness is amply illustrated in and by the papers that compose this symposium. From these varied contributions, it emerges that Méditations pascaliennes is not one but three books contained within each other in the manner of Russian dolls. ...
... excludes the taking of such a point of view.4 This double-edgedness is amply illustrated in and by the papers that compose this symposium. From these varied contributions, it emerges that Méditations pascaliennes is not one but three books contained within each other in the manner of Russian dolls. ...
Lone Pine, CA (1965), Edited by Ron Leonard Is Theosophy
... Today the idea that matter and electricity are of one sameness is virtually a commonplace, and the idea that electricity and life are essentially the same is not strange. The point in this discussion probably has become clear. A view of matter advanced in Theosophical literature as early as 1882 has ...
... Today the idea that matter and electricity are of one sameness is virtually a commonplace, and the idea that electricity and life are essentially the same is not strange. The point in this discussion probably has become clear. A view of matter advanced in Theosophical literature as early as 1882 has ...
The Harmful, Nontherapeutic Use of Animals in Research Is Morally
... are wrong” or they might be empirical claims, evaluated by science or observation. A fourth concept is that of a counterexample. Many common moral arguments, when put in logically valid form, have moral principles that can be shown false by counterexample, ie, an exception to the proposed principle. ...
... are wrong” or they might be empirical claims, evaluated by science or observation. A fourth concept is that of a counterexample. Many common moral arguments, when put in logically valid form, have moral principles that can be shown false by counterexample, ie, an exception to the proposed principle. ...
Contemporary Ethical Theories and Jurisprudence
... theories that we shall describe presently accepts or rejects one or both of these closely related themes of natural law theories. Naturalism accepts both. It takes the passage from the factual to the ethical to be deductive, provided certain naturalistic definitions (what these are will be explained ...
... theories that we shall describe presently accepts or rejects one or both of these closely related themes of natural law theories. Naturalism accepts both. It takes the passage from the factual to the ethical to be deductive, provided certain naturalistic definitions (what these are will be explained ...
Levine, Michael P., "Pantheism, Ethics and Ecology." Environmental
... Nonnaturalism is the position most congenial to pantheism, but a pantheist could make a case for being an ethical naturalist – just as Swinburne makes a case for a naturalistic theistic ethics.12 Pantheism leaves the option between ethical naturalism and ethical nonnaturalism open. For the pantheist ...
... Nonnaturalism is the position most congenial to pantheism, but a pantheist could make a case for being an ethical naturalist – just as Swinburne makes a case for a naturalistic theistic ethics.12 Pantheism leaves the option between ethical naturalism and ethical nonnaturalism open. For the pantheist ...
Redefining Philosophy through Assimilation
... Since originality cannot mean creative-ness ex nihilo, formative influences are sought, and then the original and the merely influential are defined in difference from one another.17 ...
... Since originality cannot mean creative-ness ex nihilo, formative influences are sought, and then the original and the merely influential are defined in difference from one another.17 ...
Advances in Environmental Biology
... theorems do not need experience and they have often final results. The metaphysical, philosophical and rational issues revolve around the initial rational principles. For example, for the question of the first cause of universe subject, the wisdom analyses that with its necessary issues and positive ...
... theorems do not need experience and they have often final results. The metaphysical, philosophical and rational issues revolve around the initial rational principles. For example, for the question of the first cause of universe subject, the wisdom analyses that with its necessary issues and positive ...
Bullshit - dharmafarer.org
... the sons to conceal their father’s fault. It is said in the Analects that Duke of Shè 葉 (whom Confucius criticizes), however, proudly states that his people were honest because they testified even against their own father who had stolen sheep. (Lunyu §13.18)3 Do such Confucian ideologies then justif ...
... the sons to conceal their father’s fault. It is said in the Analects that Duke of Shè 葉 (whom Confucius criticizes), however, proudly states that his people were honest because they testified even against their own father who had stolen sheep. (Lunyu §13.18)3 Do such Confucian ideologies then justif ...
In Defence of Indispensability
... For example, in order to settle the question of the Lebesgue measurability of the Ej sets, two new axioms have been proposed as supplements to the standard ZFC axioms. The two- competing axiom candidates are Godel's axiom of constructibility, V = L, and some large cardinal axiom, such as MC (there e ...
... For example, in order to settle the question of the Lebesgue measurability of the Ej sets, two new axioms have been proposed as supplements to the standard ZFC axioms. The two- competing axiom candidates are Godel's axiom of constructibility, V = L, and some large cardinal axiom, such as MC (there e ...
PRAGMATISM, REALISM, AND RELIGION
... respectively as James’s realism and humanism about truth.3 While many other questions surrounding James’s pragmatism remain, of course, focusing on this issue should help us to rule out one-sided ways of interpreting James’s theory of truth. It will also enable us to see, in the next section, how Ja ...
... respectively as James’s realism and humanism about truth.3 While many other questions surrounding James’s pragmatism remain, of course, focusing on this issue should help us to rule out one-sided ways of interpreting James’s theory of truth. It will also enable us to see, in the next section, how Ja ...
Integral Love - The Integral Ego
... absence of separation means the cookies are in some sense touching one another. Yet, obviously, the cookies do not all touch one another, or at least not necessarily. However, the cookie tray does. It is in this sense that no separation exists: a reality beyond that of monism exists, a reality withi ...
... absence of separation means the cookies are in some sense touching one another. Yet, obviously, the cookies do not all touch one another, or at least not necessarily. However, the cookie tray does. It is in this sense that no separation exists: a reality beyond that of monism exists, a reality withi ...
sophisms and insolubles
... These contributed substantially to the development of mathematics and physics, and had a considerable influence on work by early modern natural philosophers like Galileo Galilei (Duhem, 1913) (Glagett, 1959). Sophisms also dealt with questions related to knowledge and belief, including when exactly ...
... These contributed substantially to the development of mathematics and physics, and had a considerable influence on work by early modern natural philosophers like Galileo Galilei (Duhem, 1913) (Glagett, 1959). Sophisms also dealt with questions related to knowledge and belief, including when exactly ...
A Statistical Scientist Meets a Philosopher of Science: A
... One is free to call any inference a kind of decision, of course, but the ‘utilities’ would have to reflect the goal of finding things out correctly; but then embedding it in a decision framework doesn’t help, but it hides a lot. COX: I have often been connected with government decision-making. The i ...
... One is free to call any inference a kind of decision, of course, but the ‘utilities’ would have to reflect the goal of finding things out correctly; but then embedding it in a decision framework doesn’t help, but it hides a lot. COX: I have often been connected with government decision-making. The i ...
Socrates` Question
... like the best-shaped life, some of them, Socrates one of the first, sought a rational design of life which would reduce the power of fortune and would be to the greatest possible extent luck-free. 3 This has been, in different forms, an aim of later thought as well. The idea that one must think, at ...
... like the best-shaped life, some of them, Socrates one of the first, sought a rational design of life which would reduce the power of fortune and would be to the greatest possible extent luck-free. 3 This has been, in different forms, an aim of later thought as well. The idea that one must think, at ...
The Influence of Classification on World View and Epistemology
... As scientific classification usually comes after the formation of concept of universal in the mind, so it is suitable to reconsider the process of perception and epistemology. It is obvious that the basis of our knowledge is one’s self knowledge. And the real perception is the presence of one near h ...
... As scientific classification usually comes after the formation of concept of universal in the mind, so it is suitable to reconsider the process of perception and epistemology. It is obvious that the basis of our knowledge is one’s self knowledge. And the real perception is the presence of one near h ...
Motivating Wittgenstein`s Perspective on Mathematical Sentences as
... differs crucially from Euclid’s. The defining characteristic of the Hilbertian axiomatic method, something that distinguishes this approach to axiomatic systems from earlier ones, is that the axioms are no longer interpreted as fundamental truths about mathematical (in this case geometrical) objects ...
... differs crucially from Euclid’s. The defining characteristic of the Hilbertian axiomatic method, something that distinguishes this approach to axiomatic systems from earlier ones, is that the axioms are no longer interpreted as fundamental truths about mathematical (in this case geometrical) objects ...
The Impartial Spectator and Moral Judgment · Econ Journal Watch
... to be attended to, to be taken notice of…” (TMS, I.iii.2.1).3 Those at the other end of the social spectrum, by contrast, attract disapproving looks or are shunned entirely, cut off from the spectatorial attention of others.4 Three aspects of this spectatorial model are crucial for TMS. The first is ...
... to be attended to, to be taken notice of…” (TMS, I.iii.2.1).3 Those at the other end of the social spectrum, by contrast, attract disapproving looks or are shunned entirely, cut off from the spectatorial attention of others.4 Three aspects of this spectatorial model are crucial for TMS. The first is ...
LANGUAGE AND TRUTH: A STUDY OF NIETZSCHE`S THEORY OF
... Nietzsche contrasts the survival will with another will which he termed as the will to truth. According to the belief of metaphysicians, an experience and the concepts resulting from that experience can represent the thing itself or being, in case the experience is carried out under the will to trut ...
... Nietzsche contrasts the survival will with another will which he termed as the will to truth. According to the belief of metaphysicians, an experience and the concepts resulting from that experience can represent the thing itself or being, in case the experience is carried out under the will to trut ...
Martin Heidegger, Off the Beaten Track
... ontology à la Nietzsche, which could be either, as some argue, a logical pushing-forward of his earlier thoughts on “Being grounded in time” or, as some others claim, a more decisively anti-metaphysical, defeatist break from Being that might have already fled the world of Dasein, of eschatological d ...
... ontology à la Nietzsche, which could be either, as some argue, a logical pushing-forward of his earlier thoughts on “Being grounded in time” or, as some others claim, a more decisively anti-metaphysical, defeatist break from Being that might have already fled the world of Dasein, of eschatological d ...
The Moral Value of Literature: Defending a Diamondian
... an awareness of Blackburn's position,4 a great deal of her argumentation only deals with Blackburn's position in an indirect manner (and, as I mentioned above, Blackburn's arguments about language directly undercut any attempt by the Diamondian realist to secure her position). Indeed this point can ...
... an awareness of Blackburn's position,4 a great deal of her argumentation only deals with Blackburn's position in an indirect manner (and, as I mentioned above, Blackburn's arguments about language directly undercut any attempt by the Diamondian realist to secure her position). Indeed this point can ...
Moral Demands and Ethical Theory: The Case of
... Indians himself. If Jim accepts, then as a special mark of the occasion, the other Indians will be let off. Of course, if Jim refuses, then there is no special occasion, and Pedro here will do what he was about to do when Jim arrived, and kill them all. Jim, with some desperate recollection of school ...
... Indians himself. If Jim accepts, then as a special mark of the occasion, the other Indians will be let off. Of course, if Jim refuses, then there is no special occasion, and Pedro here will do what he was about to do when Jim arrived, and kill them all. Jim, with some desperate recollection of school ...
18th-20th century views
... mind is active in the process. Thus Kant seems to agree with Descartes that we are always thinking. In Kant’s critical philosophy, dreams are not fully determined by the categories, but they are connected to the understanding: to dream or to hallucinate is necessarily to have experience expressibl ...
... mind is active in the process. Thus Kant seems to agree with Descartes that we are always thinking. In Kant’s critical philosophy, dreams are not fully determined by the categories, but they are connected to the understanding: to dream or to hallucinate is necessarily to have experience expressibl ...
naturalistic theory
... with evolution. One of the main things they [intelligent design creationists] have learned is what not to say. A major element of their strategy is to advance a form of creation that not only omits any explicit mention of Genesis but is also usually vague, if not mute, about any of the specific clai ...
... with evolution. One of the main things they [intelligent design creationists] have learned is what not to say. A major element of their strategy is to advance a form of creation that not only omits any explicit mention of Genesis but is also usually vague, if not mute, about any of the specific clai ...
just what is vagueness?
... phenomenon we are trying to accommodate. There is, however, another, more serious problem with definition 2: as a definition of vagueness it both captures too much and it doesn’t capture enough. The first difficulty is that if we define a predicate to be vague just in case it is one for which mathem ...
... phenomenon we are trying to accommodate. There is, however, another, more serious problem with definition 2: as a definition of vagueness it both captures too much and it doesn’t capture enough. The first difficulty is that if we define a predicate to be vague just in case it is one for which mathem ...