Merleau-Ponty`s transcendental theory of perception - SAS
... sophisticated kind than the ones considered there; and, in some of these, 'phenomenological' descriptions of what it is like to live with certain kinds of bodily pathology have been provided by writers who are nonetheless committed to the kind of scientific-explanatory project that Merleau-Ponty reg ...
... sophisticated kind than the ones considered there; and, in some of these, 'phenomenological' descriptions of what it is like to live with certain kinds of bodily pathology have been provided by writers who are nonetheless committed to the kind of scientific-explanatory project that Merleau-Ponty reg ...
Joseph Conrad and the Aesthetics of Music - DigiNole!
... the fact that Conrad did not simply theorize about aesthetics in the abstract but also wrote purportedly “musical” novels, like Heart of Darkness, means that it is possible to analyze his prose style to get a better idea of how he understood music, language, and the relationship between them. Final ...
... the fact that Conrad did not simply theorize about aesthetics in the abstract but also wrote purportedly “musical” novels, like Heart of Darkness, means that it is possible to analyze his prose style to get a better idea of how he understood music, language, and the relationship between them. Final ...
liberty university school of divinity a non-voluntarist theory
... This dissertation presents an alternative response to the Euthyphro dilemma that will be referred to as the Non-Voluntarist Theory. It offers a critical evaluation of contemporary evangelical divine command theories to demonstrate the inherent ambiguity as they relate to Divine Command Theory, and t ...
... This dissertation presents an alternative response to the Euthyphro dilemma that will be referred to as the Non-Voluntarist Theory. It offers a critical evaluation of contemporary evangelical divine command theories to demonstrate the inherent ambiguity as they relate to Divine Command Theory, and t ...
Rhetoric and the Incommensurability
... It is not clear what contact, if any, Lamprecht and Stuart had with each other. They surely knew each other on some level; both were active professional philosophers in an overlapping period, at established U.S. schools, at a time when the philosophical community was not large.5 Nor is it clear how ...
... It is not clear what contact, if any, Lamprecht and Stuart had with each other. They surely knew each other on some level; both were active professional philosophers in an overlapping period, at established U.S. schools, at a time when the philosophical community was not large.5 Nor is it clear how ...
PETER KREEFT - Portal Conservador
... William James, one of your most sensible philosophers, thought that most of the questions philosophers fool around with weren't worth the time because they made no difference. That's his criterion: Does it make a difference to our experience whether a given idea is believed to be true or false? If n ...
... William James, one of your most sensible philosophers, thought that most of the questions philosophers fool around with weren't worth the time because they made no difference. That's his criterion: Does it make a difference to our experience whether a given idea is believed to be true or false? If n ...
Summer 2007 - Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy
... plays, seeing what their author intends to show us, and through this to philosophize. We seem just now, in the present and past generation, to notice that Shakespeare is a philosopher as well as a poet, and somehow wise. His works transcend the boundary of the English department, becoming a guide in ...
... plays, seeing what their author intends to show us, and through this to philosophize. We seem just now, in the present and past generation, to notice that Shakespeare is a philosopher as well as a poet, and somehow wise. His works transcend the boundary of the English department, becoming a guide in ...
Heidegger, Žižek and Revolution
... Only from this vulnerable experience may truth grow. For Heidegger, experience does not mean an accumulation of aesthetic and atmospheric snippets. Rather, experience contains an overwhelming force that the experiencing subject may very well feel as threatening: To experience something, be it a thin ...
... Only from this vulnerable experience may truth grow. For Heidegger, experience does not mean an accumulation of aesthetic and atmospheric snippets. Rather, experience contains an overwhelming force that the experiencing subject may very well feel as threatening: To experience something, be it a thin ...
Taking reincarnation seriously
... chain of reincarnations is undermined.18 It is undermined because there is no principled reason for considering them alone to be linked by reincarnation when there are so many other equally viable candidates. Thus it would seem that all three of the criteria of personal identity countenanced by Hick ...
... chain of reincarnations is undermined.18 It is undermined because there is no principled reason for considering them alone to be linked by reincarnation when there are so many other equally viable candidates. Thus it would seem that all three of the criteria of personal identity countenanced by Hick ...
Conflicting Desires and Unstable Identities: Tensions in the Greek
... raucous one, or if a more serious topic would be up for discussion. As the participants continued to consume wine, they might enjoy drinking games such as kottabos or musical performances by hired entertainers playing instruments such as the aulos.6 Finally, after the party came to an end, the guest ...
... raucous one, or if a more serious topic would be up for discussion. As the participants continued to consume wine, they might enjoy drinking games such as kottabos or musical performances by hired entertainers playing instruments such as the aulos.6 Finally, after the party came to an end, the guest ...
Conflicting Desires and Unstable Identities: Tensions in the Greek
... raucous one, or if a more serious topic would be up for discussion. As the participants continued to consume wine, they might enjoy drinking games such as kottabos or musical performances by hired entertainers playing instruments such as the aulos.6 Finally, after the party came to an end, the guest ...
... raucous one, or if a more serious topic would be up for discussion. As the participants continued to consume wine, they might enjoy drinking games such as kottabos or musical performances by hired entertainers playing instruments such as the aulos.6 Finally, after the party came to an end, the guest ...
The Role of Happiness in Kant`s Ethics - Aporia
... Kant writes, “When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his often bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could well be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of soul in which virtue is its own reward.”47 This happiness is not, as the ...
... Kant writes, “When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his often bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could well be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of soul in which virtue is its own reward.”47 This happiness is not, as the ...
A Theory of Sentience - sikkim university library
... may postpone the disturbing discovery that you have lost your sense of sight. Similarly the absence of auditory stimulation might actually improve the clarity of your thoughts. Taste and smell next vanish without a trace. No more alluring odours or tart tastes, but you try to keep the distractions o ...
... may postpone the disturbing discovery that you have lost your sense of sight. Similarly the absence of auditory stimulation might actually improve the clarity of your thoughts. Taste and smell next vanish without a trace. No more alluring odours or tart tastes, but you try to keep the distractions o ...
Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason
... a dissertation that explored both the initial theories of the Buddha’s omniscience and the developments of these theories throughout the many literary and philosophical streams of Buddhism in South Asia. Early on in my project, I discovered the Tattvasaṃgraha and its commentary, the Pañjikā, the mon ...
... a dissertation that explored both the initial theories of the Buddha’s omniscience and the developments of these theories throughout the many literary and philosophical streams of Buddhism in South Asia. Early on in my project, I discovered the Tattvasaṃgraha and its commentary, the Pañjikā, the mon ...
Metaphysical Dependence and Set Theory
... is a plausible one, and that it is the conception that captures the dependence that holds between sets and their members. One immediate question is: Why do this? Why go to great lengths to articulate a notion of metaphysical dependence that holds between sets and their members? I offer three reasons ...
... is a plausible one, and that it is the conception that captures the dependence that holds between sets and their members. One immediate question is: Why do this? Why go to great lengths to articulate a notion of metaphysical dependence that holds between sets and their members? I offer three reasons ...
Frege and Hilbert on Consistency
... Say that the complex property defined in this way by a set of partiallyinterpreted sentences is consistent just in case it is not self-contradictory, i.e. just in case some series of concepts or sets could have that property.9 (P1) is clearly consistent in this sense, while (P2) is not. Though Hilbe ...
... Say that the complex property defined in this way by a set of partiallyinterpreted sentences is consistent just in case it is not self-contradictory, i.e. just in case some series of concepts or sets could have that property.9 (P1) is clearly consistent in this sense, while (P2) is not. Though Hilbe ...
A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages
... courses in medieval philosophy, and their faculty seldom did research in the field. The medieval period was mentioned in two kinds of courses: in history of philosophy sequences, the Middle Ages was usually appended to the ancient period, as an afterthought, and was generally given little emphasis; i ...
... courses in medieval philosophy, and their faculty seldom did research in the field. The medieval period was mentioned in two kinds of courses: in history of philosophy sequences, the Middle Ages was usually appended to the ancient period, as an afterthought, and was generally given little emphasis; i ...
Fichte`s - Stanford University
... lectures in 1812, which appeared among his Nachlass: The System of the Doctrine of Right (SW 10:493-652) and The System of Ethics (SW 11:1-144). They display a basic change in the foundations of Fichte's moral theory, and a few significant revisions in the contents of the theories. It is customary ...
... lectures in 1812, which appeared among his Nachlass: The System of the Doctrine of Right (SW 10:493-652) and The System of Ethics (SW 11:1-144). They display a basic change in the foundations of Fichte's moral theory, and a few significant revisions in the contents of the theories. It is customary ...
is discontinuous bergsonism possible?
... evolution of life” (Bergson 1944, 203). It was from the study of evolution that one can recognize that the two lines of thought provided by the intellect and intuition truly led to one another (Bergson 1944, 196). Also, in Durée et simultanéité Bergson tried to demonstrate the empirical validity of ...
... evolution of life” (Bergson 1944, 203). It was from the study of evolution that one can recognize that the two lines of thought provided by the intellect and intuition truly led to one another (Bergson 1944, 196). Also, in Durée et simultanéité Bergson tried to demonstrate the empirical validity of ...
The Rosewood Report on Practical Wisdom
... At end the of July, 2010, a small group of philosophers and psychologists (see participant list at the end of this report) met at the Rosewood Inn in Hastings, Minnesota to talk about wisdom.1 The workshop included five sessions. The first four were organized around presentations by a philosopher an ...
... At end the of July, 2010, a small group of philosophers and psychologists (see participant list at the end of this report) met at the Rosewood Inn in Hastings, Minnesota to talk about wisdom.1 The workshop included five sessions. The first four were organized around presentations by a philosopher an ...
Plato, Thucydides, and Alcibiades
... has never considered himself primarily a lover of the young Athenian’s bodily beauty (which would fade away anyway), but of his soul, making Socrates a much more stable and lasting lover than the rest of Alcibiades’s admirers. Seeing Alcibiades’s turbulent life story, we are made to wonder why Plato ...
... has never considered himself primarily a lover of the young Athenian’s bodily beauty (which would fade away anyway), but of his soul, making Socrates a much more stable and lasting lover than the rest of Alcibiades’s admirers. Seeing Alcibiades’s turbulent life story, we are made to wonder why Plato ...
- James Tartaglia
... Other philosophers, however, regard relativism not as a straw man, but as a real and worrying social phenomenon that has been encouraged by arguments against epistemological foundationalism; it is the felt need to counteract this influence which motivates Paul Boghossian’s Fear of Knowledge: Agains ...
... Other philosophers, however, regard relativism not as a straw man, but as a real and worrying social phenomenon that has been encouraged by arguments against epistemological foundationalism; it is the felt need to counteract this influence which motivates Paul Boghossian’s Fear of Knowledge: Agains ...
Stopping, Suspending, and Resuming Java Threads
... But if they are not released, then other threads cannot acquire them And the thread is suspended, so it won’t release them, so these other threads won’t be able to do anything Therefore, we may have deadlocks Here again, Thread.suspend() and Thread.resume() have simply been removed ...
... But if they are not released, then other threads cannot acquire them And the thread is suspended, so it won’t release them, so these other threads won’t be able to do anything Therefore, we may have deadlocks Here again, Thread.suspend() and Thread.resume() have simply been removed ...
The New Organon
... Here, clearly, was a device with a whole range of possible applications. Kepler’s ‘little black tent’ was a refined version of a favourite piece of seventeenth-century European new technology, the camera obscura. It would, Wotton pointed out, be a particularly useful technical tool for covertly draw ...
... Here, clearly, was a device with a whole range of possible applications. Kepler’s ‘little black tent’ was a refined version of a favourite piece of seventeenth-century European new technology, the camera obscura. It would, Wotton pointed out, be a particularly useful technical tool for covertly draw ...
Writing Duty: Religion, Obligation and Autonomy in George Eliot and
... neglected. However, we have good reason to believe that Eliot not only read Kant (as well as many who were directly influenced by Kant), but substantially agreed with him on critical and moral issues. This thesis investigates one of the issues on which Kant and Eliot were most closely aligned, the n ...
... neglected. However, we have good reason to believe that Eliot not only read Kant (as well as many who were directly influenced by Kant), but substantially agreed with him on critical and moral issues. This thesis investigates one of the issues on which Kant and Eliot were most closely aligned, the n ...