Blaise Pascal. (1623-1662). His Religious Philosophy
... "Our soul is cast into our body, where it finds number, time, dimension; it calls these nature or necessity, and can believe nothing else." Seldom was Pascal more profound than in these few words. He touches here upon the idea of the relativity of knowledge. He intimates that the necessity of natura ...
... "Our soul is cast into our body, where it finds number, time, dimension; it calls these nature or necessity, and can believe nothing else." Seldom was Pascal more profound than in these few words. He touches here upon the idea of the relativity of knowledge. He intimates that the necessity of natura ...
Normative Ethics Introduction Objectives
... family however a moral theory might tell us that we ought to be altruistic beyond a limited group of friends and family. Another way this distinction between normative and descriptive theories is discussed as is the fact-value distinction. When doing ethics there are certain facts that we work with, ...
... family however a moral theory might tell us that we ought to be altruistic beyond a limited group of friends and family. Another way this distinction between normative and descriptive theories is discussed as is the fact-value distinction. When doing ethics there are certain facts that we work with, ...
Moral Supervenience - University of Hull
... web of belief by the apparently extraneous fact that some other thing is G*and F. We could understand how it could be that x’s being Fif it is G*would be catapulted into the centre of the web of belief by the additional fact that Q, say, if Q somehow logically entailed that a G* thing is F. That wou ...
... web of belief by the apparently extraneous fact that some other thing is G*and F. We could understand how it could be that x’s being Fif it is G*would be catapulted into the centre of the web of belief by the additional fact that Q, say, if Q somehow logically entailed that a G* thing is F. That wou ...
Optical Illusions
... 1. a. An erroneous perception of reality. b. An erroneous concept or belief. 2. The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief. 3. Something, such as a fantastic plan or desire, that causes an erroneous belief or perception. 4. Illusionism in art. ...
... 1. a. An erroneous perception of reality. b. An erroneous concept or belief. 2. The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief. 3. Something, such as a fantastic plan or desire, that causes an erroneous belief or perception. 4. Illusionism in art. ...
Extract from Chapter 1: What is Ethics?
... In all these cases we are making moral or ethical judgements. In these judgements we decide that this action is right or wrong or that person is good or bad. Ethics is, therefore, usually confined to the area of human character or conduct, the word ethics deriving from the Greek ethikos (that which ...
... In all these cases we are making moral or ethical judgements. In these judgements we decide that this action is right or wrong or that person is good or bad. Ethics is, therefore, usually confined to the area of human character or conduct, the word ethics deriving from the Greek ethikos (that which ...
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... geometry knows that proofs or arguments are sometimes constructed backwards, from the conclusion through intermediate steps in reverse order to the premises. More often, you start in the middle and move both backwards and forwards in constructing an argument. Furthermore, when reasoning involves th ...
... geometry knows that proofs or arguments are sometimes constructed backwards, from the conclusion through intermediate steps in reverse order to the premises. More often, you start in the middle and move both backwards and forwards in constructing an argument. Furthermore, when reasoning involves th ...
DEVENDRA NATH TIWARI/ The Meaning of Moral Language
... reveals itself its own nature of awareness from which its meaning is revealed nondifferently. According to our scheme, cognition is not only based on but is confined to the language and meaning that is to intelligible beings only. I have concluded that if language is reference/representation and mea ...
... reveals itself its own nature of awareness from which its meaning is revealed nondifferently. According to our scheme, cognition is not only based on but is confined to the language and meaning that is to intelligible beings only. I have concluded that if language is reference/representation and mea ...
Some Aspects of Human Nature As Viewed by Cardinal
... respects to previously unknown similarities in other respects. Analogical thinking is employed, for example, in the translation of meaning from one language to another, or in the transposition from one tonal scale to a similarly structured scale in a different key, or to an understanding of the lesso ...
... respects to previously unknown similarities in other respects. Analogical thinking is employed, for example, in the translation of meaning from one language to another, or in the transposition from one tonal scale to a similarly structured scale in a different key, or to an understanding of the lesso ...
hellenic philosophy
... follow. The question is this: Did Christian Europe, seen as an entity separate from Ancient Hellas, and narrowly defined as the barbarized part of the divided Roman Empire, produce any philosophers or philosophical schools, comparable to schools of Hellenic philosophy or to ancient Indian and to Chi ...
... follow. The question is this: Did Christian Europe, seen as an entity separate from Ancient Hellas, and narrowly defined as the barbarized part of the divided Roman Empire, produce any philosophers or philosophical schools, comparable to schools of Hellenic philosophy or to ancient Indian and to Chi ...
The heritage of german idealism in Kierkeggard`s Either/Or
... necessary imperatives laid upon by practical reason. Following this line of argument, Wilhelm’s choice does not primarily oppose the Kantian conception of autonomy. Instead, it attacks the Hegelian notion of »Sittlichkeit«, the metaphysical radicalism of which by far outbids that of Kantian morality ...
... necessary imperatives laid upon by practical reason. Following this line of argument, Wilhelm’s choice does not primarily oppose the Kantian conception of autonomy. Instead, it attacks the Hegelian notion of »Sittlichkeit«, the metaphysical radicalism of which by far outbids that of Kantian morality ...
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY LECTURE THALES, HERACLITUS
... From roughly 600 BC to 400 BC, Western civilization underwent a novel way of thinking about the world and human beings. Prior to the emergence of the Pre-Socratics, thinkers mainly followed the religious tradition of their day to explain why things happen. There is a clear example of this style of e ...
... From roughly 600 BC to 400 BC, Western civilization underwent a novel way of thinking about the world and human beings. Prior to the emergence of the Pre-Socratics, thinkers mainly followed the religious tradition of their day to explain why things happen. There is a clear example of this style of e ...
Why a philosophy of social science File
... latest particle accelerators came on-line. There are also questions that scientists have faced for millennia but only at present think themselves able to answer. For example, most biologists now believe they can answer questions about human nature, the origins of man, and the nature of life that hav ...
... latest particle accelerators came on-line. There are also questions that scientists have faced for millennia but only at present think themselves able to answer. For example, most biologists now believe they can answer questions about human nature, the origins of man, and the nature of life that hav ...
Review Article Reasons Consequentialism Benjamin Sachs Journal of Moral Philosophy 10 (2013) 671–682
... might otherwise have thought. Commonsense Consequentialism also seeks to show that the maximize-the-good dictum might have surprising implications. However, its strategy is to put forward an unconventional theory about what goodness is.5 In fact, Commonsense Consequentialism puts forward no theory a ...
... might otherwise have thought. Commonsense Consequentialism also seeks to show that the maximize-the-good dictum might have surprising implications. However, its strategy is to put forward an unconventional theory about what goodness is.5 In fact, Commonsense Consequentialism puts forward no theory a ...
Intuitive Methods of Moral Decision Making, A
... putting in action what is already acknowledged as the right thing to do. Though the argument that ethical theory should supervise this practice can be made, it is not necessary to start with ethical theory. Philosophers do share this reasonable picture.17 For Kant a philosophical investigation shoul ...
... putting in action what is already acknowledged as the right thing to do. Though the argument that ethical theory should supervise this practice can be made, it is not necessary to start with ethical theory. Philosophers do share this reasonable picture.17 For Kant a philosophical investigation shoul ...
PHIL105 2011-The Good Life
... knowledge, play, aesthetic experience, friendship, practical reasonableness, Religion* ...
... knowledge, play, aesthetic experience, friendship, practical reasonableness, Religion* ...
... many others feel, and foremost among these, perhaps, the philosophers. If my friend is so interested in physics, it is because he believes that its laws are, in some sense, the closest to the essence of things (and no one mentions any possible reduction to another science). What is then his problem? ...
A hundred years of pincipia ethica
... Moore’s criticisms of ethical naturalism and metaphysical ethics were taken to show the flaws in the old philosophies that people were now ready to discard, and his alternative, purified, conception of an ethics based on a personal appreciation of a plurality of intrinsic values appealed to an audie ...
... Moore’s criticisms of ethical naturalism and metaphysical ethics were taken to show the flaws in the old philosophies that people were now ready to discard, and his alternative, purified, conception of an ethics based on a personal appreciation of a plurality of intrinsic values appealed to an audie ...
"Wittgenstein, Ludwig" In: The International Encyclopedia of Ethics
... Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – like its other philosophical sentences, about the existence of objects, for example – express what would be true if, per impossibile, they could be said. On an alternative view, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus does its dialectical work by curing us of illusions of und ...
... Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – like its other philosophical sentences, about the existence of objects, for example – express what would be true if, per impossibile, they could be said. On an alternative view, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus does its dialectical work by curing us of illusions of und ...
Popper`s Paradoxical Pursuit of Natural Philosophy - Philsci
... In Praise of Natural Philosophy Most 20th century philosophers of science assume without question that they pursue a meta-discipline – one that takes science as its subject matter, and seeks to acquire knowledge and understanding about science without in any way affecting, or contributing to, scienc ...
... In Praise of Natural Philosophy Most 20th century philosophers of science assume without question that they pursue a meta-discipline – one that takes science as its subject matter, and seeks to acquire knowledge and understanding about science without in any way affecting, or contributing to, scienc ...
Science and Spirituality - Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc.
... and the scarcity of knowledgeable people who can serve as guides. However, pursuing the analysis based on our new experience, we suddenly see some light for the resolution of our dilemma because of the conviction that if Hindu philosophy has an intrinsic universal appeal, as it professes to have, th ...
... and the scarcity of knowledgeable people who can serve as guides. However, pursuing the analysis based on our new experience, we suddenly see some light for the resolution of our dilemma because of the conviction that if Hindu philosophy has an intrinsic universal appeal, as it professes to have, th ...
The Value Question in Metaphysics
... What is true is one thing, what we want, or take to be bad, another. If our preferences or value beliefs do influence our beliefs, this is an epistemic vice, something to resist. Wishful thinking is a constant danger, disinterested belief often an achievement. There might, however, be ways in which v ...
... What is true is one thing, what we want, or take to be bad, another. If our preferences or value beliefs do influence our beliefs, this is an epistemic vice, something to resist. Wishful thinking is a constant danger, disinterested belief often an achievement. There might, however, be ways in which v ...
Mark and Lack: On Zero
... We will abstain from any attempt to decipher the status of the hiatus between intuitionism and formalism in Gödel's theorem. On this point, see our appendix on Smullyan's demonstration, and our critique of the concept of limitation. ...
... We will abstain from any attempt to decipher the status of the hiatus between intuitionism and formalism in Gödel's theorem. On this point, see our appendix on Smullyan's demonstration, and our critique of the concept of limitation. ...
Cognitum hypothesis and cognitum consciousness
... Since past, philosophers, mostly those identified as idealistic, thinking about relationship between mind and objective world in sense what to put first, mind or objectivity, gave preference to the first. And ever since an idea have been present and procured by some of them that they shouldn't be di ...
... Since past, philosophers, mostly those identified as idealistic, thinking about relationship between mind and objective world in sense what to put first, mind or objectivity, gave preference to the first. And ever since an idea have been present and procured by some of them that they shouldn't be di ...
Nagarjuna and Buddhist Emptiness Teaching∗ M
... F. Salvation is not realizing some unchanging transcendent reality outside the experience of becoming or change but by deconstructing the process of seeking permanence and embracing “becoming.” G. Prajn ...
... F. Salvation is not realizing some unchanging transcendent reality outside the experience of becoming or change but by deconstructing the process of seeking permanence and embracing “becoming.” G. Prajn ...
Richard Bernstein, “Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: An Overview.”
... fundamental attitudes of philosophers toward opposing positions. Consider, for example, Karl Popper's horror at what he takes to be the rampant growth of subjectivism and relativism today. According to Popper, this is not simply an innocent epistemological deviation but an error that opens the flood ...
... fundamental attitudes of philosophers toward opposing positions. Consider, for example, Karl Popper's horror at what he takes to be the rampant growth of subjectivism and relativism today. According to Popper, this is not simply an innocent epistemological deviation but an error that opens the flood ...