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... male/female (p. 137). These pairs do not represent opposing forces but rather ends of a spectrum or dual aspects of a single force. This cyclical struggle is necessary for balance, which itself is not a state but a process much like walking: a series of temporary imbalances that work together and re ...
... male/female (p. 137). These pairs do not represent opposing forces but rather ends of a spectrum or dual aspects of a single force. This cyclical struggle is necessary for balance, which itself is not a state but a process much like walking: a series of temporary imbalances that work together and re ...
Roman Ingarden: Ontological Foundations for Literary Theory
... well-founded extension of the more primitive physical modes of access. I want to argue that one of the underlying justifications for the conception of fictional characters as individual objects forming a well-demarcated ″field″ associated with each particular novel is a further, analogous extension ...
... well-founded extension of the more primitive physical modes of access. I want to argue that one of the underlying justifications for the conception of fictional characters as individual objects forming a well-demarcated ″field″ associated with each particular novel is a further, analogous extension ...
Communitarianism and Confucianism – In Search of
... life. But virtues - they are practical wisdom (phronesis), justice, courage, and prudence - are not just means to an end, the good life itself is nothing but the practice of virtues. ...
... life. But virtues - they are practical wisdom (phronesis), justice, courage, and prudence - are not just means to an end, the good life itself is nothing but the practice of virtues. ...
1 HUMAN ATOMS Eric T. Olson, University of Cambridge I
... part of my body. Now if every part of me were a part of my body, but my body also had a part that wasn't a part of me, then by the Weak Principle I should be identical with some part of my body, contrary to another of our assumptions. Thus, if I have any parts, I must have a part that is not a part ...
... part of my body. Now if every part of me were a part of my body, but my body also had a part that wasn't a part of me, then by the Weak Principle I should be identical with some part of my body, contrary to another of our assumptions. Thus, if I have any parts, I must have a part that is not a part ...
3. The Union of Energy and Consciousness - Serena Roney
... of mind and consciousness and what follows is where I’ve got to so far, aware that I am still in primary school as far as these ideas are concerned, but feeling that my simple understanding of these complex concepts just might be helpful to others in the West who may be interested in learning about ...
... of mind and consciousness and what follows is where I’ve got to so far, aware that I am still in primary school as far as these ideas are concerned, but feeling that my simple understanding of these complex concepts just might be helpful to others in the West who may be interested in learning about ...
Natural Law NC TOC
... instantiated through actions chosen for these reasons. Thus, playing and knowing always have their basic appeal, insofar as they are goods, but like other goods they can be realized only in limited ways through particular actions. Some goods are reasons for acting which need a further reason to expl ...
... instantiated through actions chosen for these reasons. Thus, playing and knowing always have their basic appeal, insofar as they are goods, but like other goods they can be realized only in limited ways through particular actions. Some goods are reasons for acting which need a further reason to expl ...
MORAL INTUITION, MORAL THEORY, AND PRACTICAL ETHICS
... to considerations that would not constitute even the beginning of a justification for killing a person. With these beliefs as our starting point, we could work our way toward a better understanding of abortion. We could proceed by trying to understand why killing people is generally wrong and why i ...
... to considerations that would not constitute even the beginning of a justification for killing a person. With these beliefs as our starting point, we could work our way toward a better understanding of abortion. We could proceed by trying to understand why killing people is generally wrong and why i ...
PHIL 5973: Mental Causation Seminar
... cognitive competence: the reasoning that a person is capable of performing cognitive performance: the reasoning that a person actually performs “Just as passion or self-interest may warp our moral discernment, or memory limitations may restrict the length of the sentences we utter, so too a variety ...
... cognitive competence: the reasoning that a person is capable of performing cognitive performance: the reasoning that a person actually performs “Just as passion or self-interest may warp our moral discernment, or memory limitations may restrict the length of the sentences we utter, so too a variety ...
Why Hume and Kant were mistaken in rejecting natural theology
... and only to persons (i.e. any rational beings, including for example Martians). This problem is – how general are the ideas which we can form from our experience of the world? The other problem is: in what ways is it permissible to combine ideas so as to form other ideas? Can we combine the idea of ...
... and only to persons (i.e. any rational beings, including for example Martians). This problem is – how general are the ideas which we can form from our experience of the world? The other problem is: in what ways is it permissible to combine ideas so as to form other ideas? Can we combine the idea of ...
The Demise of Ethical Monism By Philip A.D. Schneider, Coastal
... subject for a different paper.) The intellectual content of our moral recognition and, most importantly, our moral decision-making is provided by normative ethical theory. To justify our moral claims we must (among other things) refer to an overarching ethical principle or theory to justify our clai ...
... subject for a different paper.) The intellectual content of our moral recognition and, most importantly, our moral decision-making is provided by normative ethical theory. To justify our moral claims we must (among other things) refer to an overarching ethical principle or theory to justify our clai ...
1 - PhilPapers
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...
Aggregate Theory Versus Set Theory
... Harry Bunt has studied mass terms more than most, and he has formulated a general theory of ‘ensembles’, which therefore includes sets merely as a special case. He proves [Bunt 1985, 262] ‘A continuous ensemble has no atomic parts . . . [it] has no members’, adding ‘this last result emphasises once ...
... Harry Bunt has studied mass terms more than most, and he has formulated a general theory of ‘ensembles’, which therefore includes sets merely as a special case. He proves [Bunt 1985, 262] ‘A continuous ensemble has no atomic parts . . . [it] has no members’, adding ‘this last result emphasises once ...
Confucian Worries about the Aristotelian Sophos
... suggested in various ways that the Aristotelian sophos overvalues theoretically wise understanding at the expense of other, less-narrowly intellectual goods; that the theoretically wise understanding the sophos pursues is useless and of questionable value; and that the 1sophos’s way of life requires ...
... suggested in various ways that the Aristotelian sophos overvalues theoretically wise understanding at the expense of other, less-narrowly intellectual goods; that the theoretically wise understanding the sophos pursues is useless and of questionable value; and that the 1sophos’s way of life requires ...
"Meat Thinks" Talk Notes
... I say about them has to be mere belief or opinion. P4: P1 and P3 are true of everyone! C: Nobody can be objective about res extensa. Anything anyone says is “just their opinion”. ...
... I say about them has to be mere belief or opinion. P4: P1 and P3 are true of everyone! C: Nobody can be objective about res extensa. Anything anyone says is “just their opinion”. ...
the hebrew bible and metaethics: a philosophical
... he first started writing on the subject and which he ascribes to the influence of the Biblical Theology Movement and the residues of their dislike of anything that seemed too Hellenistic (cf Knierim 1995:492; Barr 1999:146-171) Indeed, to my knowledge, no-one has ever written a metaethics of the Heb ...
... he first started writing on the subject and which he ascribes to the influence of the Biblical Theology Movement and the residues of their dislike of anything that seemed too Hellenistic (cf Knierim 1995:492; Barr 1999:146-171) Indeed, to my knowledge, no-one has ever written a metaethics of the Heb ...
John Francis Nieto - Thomas Aquinas College
... the object known. The object known through the sensessight, hearing, touch and so on-is subject to change and its conditions. The sensible being is distincdy here and now. Even imagination, which can represent what is absent, does so under these conditions of place and time. I can only imagine a par ...
... the object known. The object known through the sensessight, hearing, touch and so on-is subject to change and its conditions. The sensible being is distincdy here and now. Even imagination, which can represent what is absent, does so under these conditions of place and time. I can only imagine a par ...
Carving a Niche for Immoderate Moral Realism
... scientific theorizing, but not with the call to abolish moral theorizing altogether. There's good reason to think there's some true moral theory that explains the lower-tier moral truths. If there weren't a true moral theory there would be no explanation of why murder and lying share the property of ...
... scientific theorizing, but not with the call to abolish moral theorizing altogether. There's good reason to think there's some true moral theory that explains the lower-tier moral truths. If there weren't a true moral theory there would be no explanation of why murder and lying share the property of ...
Natural Rights and Two Conceptions of Promising
... obligation applies. The two main possibilities of interest here are morality and the law. The moralized version holds that promising is validly offering to undertake a moral obligation to the promisee to perform some act, which the promisee validly accepts. The legalized version holds that promising ...
... obligation applies. The two main possibilities of interest here are morality and the law. The moralized version holds that promising is validly offering to undertake a moral obligation to the promisee to perform some act, which the promisee validly accepts. The legalized version holds that promising ...
How can physics account for mathematical truth? - Philsci
... At this stage, however, this is only about the physical representation of the formal system; and Σ ` φ is no doubt a contingent fact of the physical world inside of the dotted line; not necessary, not certain, not a priori. It can be known only by a posteriori means, just like a chemical reaction. ( ...
... At this stage, however, this is only about the physical representation of the formal system; and Σ ` φ is no doubt a contingent fact of the physical world inside of the dotted line; not necessary, not certain, not a priori. It can be known only by a posteriori means, just like a chemical reaction. ( ...
A DEFENCE OF COMMON SENSE
... each case, the time at which he knew it), just what the corresponding proposition in (1) asserts with regard to me or my body and the time at which I wrote that proposition down. In other words what (2) asserts is only (what seems an obvious enough truism) that each of us (meaning by 'us', very many ...
... each case, the time at which he knew it), just what the corresponding proposition in (1) asserts with regard to me or my body and the time at which I wrote that proposition down. In other words what (2) asserts is only (what seems an obvious enough truism) that each of us (meaning by 'us', very many ...
Alienation, Consequentialism, and the
... Perhaps the lives of John and Anne or Helen and Lisa would be happier or fuller if none of the alienation mentioned were present. But is this a problem for morality? If, as some have contended, to have a morality is to make normative judgments from a moral point of view and be guided by them, and if ...
... Perhaps the lives of John and Anne or Helen and Lisa would be happier or fuller if none of the alienation mentioned were present. But is this a problem for morality? If, as some have contended, to have a morality is to make normative judgments from a moral point of view and be guided by them, and if ...
Animal Rights, a Non-Consequentialist Approach
... investment, or that causing them the internal states corresponding to our pain experiences would be worth the effort of avoiding. If the zombies do not experience their pleasures and pains, but simply h ...
... investment, or that causing them the internal states corresponding to our pain experiences would be worth the effort of avoiding. If the zombies do not experience their pleasures and pains, but simply h ...
Essence and Modality
... philosophers have been in a better position to formulate essentialist claims; and with clarification of the underlying modal notions, they have been better able to ascertain their truth. These developments have also had a significant impact on our understanding of metaphysics. For there would appear ...
... philosophers have been in a better position to formulate essentialist claims; and with clarification of the underlying modal notions, they have been better able to ascertain their truth. These developments have also had a significant impact on our understanding of metaphysics. For there would appear ...
different sections Aula lucis, or, The House of Light. Thomas
... there is not in all Nature any liquor like unto itself. In plain terms, it is the middle substance of the wise men's Mercury, a water that is coagulable and which may be hardened by a proper heat into stones and metals. Hence it was that the philosophers called it their Stone, or if it be lawful for ...
... there is not in all Nature any liquor like unto itself. In plain terms, it is the middle substance of the wise men's Mercury, a water that is coagulable and which may be hardened by a proper heat into stones and metals. Hence it was that the philosophers called it their Stone, or if it be lawful for ...
20-Page Epilogue to What Is Death?
... human life: there are more life forms on our planet than we can count or even name. there is good evidence that there might be some form of life (microbial or otherwise) on other planets or moons in our very own solar system. The chances of life happening may seem extremely rare. We can’t even make ...
... human life: there are more life forms on our planet than we can count or even name. there is good evidence that there might be some form of life (microbial or otherwise) on other planets or moons in our very own solar system. The chances of life happening may seem extremely rare. We can’t even make ...