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 ...
The Hollow of Being. What can we learn from Maurice Merleau
... of the body is to be considered as “a way of expressing and noting an event of the order of brute or wild Being which, ontologically, is primary” (); consciousness and body are just abstractions cut out of the unity of Being. Put under the perspective of the difference of subject and object this p ...
... of the body is to be considered as “a way of expressing and noting an event of the order of brute or wild Being which, ontologically, is primary” (); consciousness and body are just abstractions cut out of the unity of Being. Put under the perspective of the difference of subject and object this p ...
PSY 370 - Chapter 13
... mechanisms and the veneer of culture, and peer into the void of mortality and meaninglessness. • When Nietszche did this, he decided the most honorable response was to rise above it all and become a superman. His ideal person sought to triumph over the apparent meaninglessness of life by coming to ...
... mechanisms and the veneer of culture, and peer into the void of mortality and meaninglessness. • When Nietszche did this, he decided the most honorable response was to rise above it all and become a superman. His ideal person sought to triumph over the apparent meaninglessness of life by coming to ...
mathematical facts in a physicalist ontology - Philsci
... [A]lthough a formal system may be represented in various ways, yet the theorems derived according to the specifications of the primitive frame remain true without regard to changes in representation. There is, therefore, a sense in which the primitive frame defines a formal system as a unique object ...
... [A]lthough a formal system may be represented in various ways, yet the theorems derived according to the specifications of the primitive frame remain true without regard to changes in representation. There is, therefore, a sense in which the primitive frame defines a formal system as a unique object ...
18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics
... people and take 20 years. I do not know anyone who thinks either that this project can be completed, or that even if claimed to be complete it would be universally accepted as a convincing proof of Kepler’s conjecture. Donald Mackenzie’s article in this volume sheds some light on these issues. Such ...
... people and take 20 years. I do not know anyone who thinks either that this project can be completed, or that even if claimed to be complete it would be universally accepted as a convincing proof of Kepler’s conjecture. Donald Mackenzie’s article in this volume sheds some light on these issues. Such ...
Philosophy 224
... For Nietzsche, nihilism is an ineradicable human tendency to forswear one’s creative possibilities (what he also calls “power”) and capitulate to an other-determined vision. Morality, in its traditional forms is just such a self (and life) denying structure. 1. One form of this nihilistic or decaden ...
... For Nietzsche, nihilism is an ineradicable human tendency to forswear one’s creative possibilities (what he also calls “power”) and capitulate to an other-determined vision. Morality, in its traditional forms is just such a self (and life) denying structure. 1. One form of this nihilistic or decaden ...
THE IDEOLOGIES OF DIFFERENT GROUPS
... TASK: In pairs read through the ideology of Hitler then answer the following: It is evident that we can be controlled through the use of power. An authority figure will tell us what to do and we obey. Why do you think this is? ...
... TASK: In pairs read through the ideology of Hitler then answer the following: It is evident that we can be controlled through the use of power. An authority figure will tell us what to do and we obey. Why do you think this is? ...
Epistemic Error and Experiential Evidence
... spherical, not flat,” or “triangles have 3 sides,” or claims about names that have been given to various things, persons or events, or dates or times when events occurred, and so on. We can be said to have a true belief that plants need water to grow and survive just in case there are such things wi ...
... spherical, not flat,” or “triangles have 3 sides,” or claims about names that have been given to various things, persons or events, or dates or times when events occurred, and so on. We can be said to have a true belief that plants need water to grow and survive just in case there are such things wi ...
The Concept Of Soul Or Self In Vedanta
... Atman manifests in our conscious mind in the wake of strenuous spiritual struggle. The supreme object, according to Vedanta, is to know the Reality through direct intuitive knowledge, which is superior to discursive reasoning. This immediate knowledge unites the knower with that which is known. The ...
... Atman manifests in our conscious mind in the wake of strenuous spiritual struggle. The supreme object, according to Vedanta, is to know the Reality through direct intuitive knowledge, which is superior to discursive reasoning. This immediate knowledge unites the knower with that which is known. The ...
Artikel voor `de HTV` "Man is actually chaos"
... reason, he declared that man is free to live a responsible life. Of course, this paradoxical account of human subjectivity was not quite satisfying to either Kant or his admirers. At this point, Fichte wanted to improve on Kantian philosophy. Philosophical rationalism has to presuppose a subject tha ...
... reason, he declared that man is free to live a responsible life. Of course, this paradoxical account of human subjectivity was not quite satisfying to either Kant or his admirers. At this point, Fichte wanted to improve on Kantian philosophy. Philosophical rationalism has to presuppose a subject tha ...
Phil 104, February 1, 2007 Kant: Acting from Duty Preface: What is
... The aim of the book is to identify and to justify “the supreme principle of morality.” Kant thinks that this principle is implicit in our common ideas. We just need to make it explicit. The first two sections aim to do this. Section I: Good will the only thing good without limitation “It is impossib ...
... The aim of the book is to identify and to justify “the supreme principle of morality.” Kant thinks that this principle is implicit in our common ideas. We just need to make it explicit. The first two sections aim to do this. Section I: Good will the only thing good without limitation “It is impossib ...
The different meanings of `being` according to Aristotle and
... Metaphysics is tronscenclental science. As a transcendental branch of knowledge its object surpasses us, in such a way that its unity does not exclude an internal tension towards plurality. But as a form of knowledge that seeks after itself as a science, it has to articulate its expressions with pre ...
... Metaphysics is tronscenclental science. As a transcendental branch of knowledge its object surpasses us, in such a way that its unity does not exclude an internal tension towards plurality. But as a form of knowledge that seeks after itself as a science, it has to articulate its expressions with pre ...
reply to Tracy Llanera - Keele Research Repository
... Now as Llanera says, for philosophers from Nietzsche to the French Existentialists, as well as for the likes of Dreyfus, Kelly and Taylor in the present day, ‘Nihilism is usually understood to have practical consequences for human beings that are bad’ (p. 4). She thinks that this contrasts with my ‘ ...
... Now as Llanera says, for philosophers from Nietzsche to the French Existentialists, as well as for the likes of Dreyfus, Kelly and Taylor in the present day, ‘Nihilism is usually understood to have practical consequences for human beings that are bad’ (p. 4). She thinks that this contrasts with my ‘ ...
6 Minute English
... Well, of course! Yes. Many people say that he’s a genius – in other words, he is very, very intelligent. Professor Hawking is one of the most famous scientists in the world and people remember him for his brilliance and also because he communicates using a synthetic voice generated by a computer – s ...
... Well, of course! Yes. Many people say that he’s a genius – in other words, he is very, very intelligent. Professor Hawking is one of the most famous scientists in the world and people remember him for his brilliance and also because he communicates using a synthetic voice generated by a computer – s ...
Confidential Confessions: How Lawyers, Clergy, and Psychologists Counsel the Guilty
... you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”4 Assuming Steven has a fundamental understanding of the Gospel, I would be ready to remind him of the great paradox at the center of Jesus’ teaching—that the fullness of life is found in dying to our own self-interest ...
... you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”4 Assuming Steven has a fundamental understanding of the Gospel, I would be ready to remind him of the great paradox at the center of Jesus’ teaching—that the fullness of life is found in dying to our own self-interest ...
The Beginnings of the Modern World
... Yet, Bishop Berkeley challenged belief in the self-evident, plain indubitability of so-called common sense by showing: 1. Along with superstition, belief in the existence of matter exceeds the evidence for it and 2. When taken together, so-called common sense beliefs are inconsistent and incoherent. ...
... Yet, Bishop Berkeley challenged belief in the self-evident, plain indubitability of so-called common sense by showing: 1. Along with superstition, belief in the existence of matter exceeds the evidence for it and 2. When taken together, so-called common sense beliefs are inconsistent and incoherent. ...
References - University of Leeds
... The first step involves more that the usual stipulative definition of key terms; when it comes to the word “empathy” the waters of terminological confusion run deep. First of all, different commentators in diverse fields use “empathy” to designate two analytically distinct psychological phenomena. T ...
... The first step involves more that the usual stipulative definition of key terms; when it comes to the word “empathy” the waters of terminological confusion run deep. First of all, different commentators in diverse fields use “empathy” to designate two analytically distinct psychological phenomena. T ...
Subjectivism in Ethics
... someone says "I like coffee," she does not need to have a reason; she may be making a statement about her personal taste and nothing more. But moral judgments require backing by reasons, and in the absence of such reasons, they are merely arbitrary. Any adequate theory of the nature of moral judgmen ...
... someone says "I like coffee," she does not need to have a reason; she may be making a statement about her personal taste and nothing more. But moral judgments require backing by reasons, and in the absence of such reasons, they are merely arbitrary. Any adequate theory of the nature of moral judgmen ...
Ethan Frome - Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
... willing to give up the noumenal object, he held onto the belief in an underlying, noumenal self with a specific nature available to us for our investigation. But a noumenal self underlying the flow of phenomena is just as problematic a notion as the notion of noumenal objects underlying the flow. Re ...
... willing to give up the noumenal object, he held onto the belief in an underlying, noumenal self with a specific nature available to us for our investigation. But a noumenal self underlying the flow of phenomena is just as problematic a notion as the notion of noumenal objects underlying the flow. Re ...
Free-Will versus Predetermination
... pre-crime automatically poses the question of whether or not the person would have actually committed the crime had they not been stopped. In the film, the pre-crime division proclaims itself flawless—a perfect system. Yet this “perfect” system implies that humans lack the freewill to change their f ...
... pre-crime automatically poses the question of whether or not the person would have actually committed the crime had they not been stopped. In the film, the pre-crime division proclaims itself flawless—a perfect system. Yet this “perfect” system implies that humans lack the freewill to change their f ...
Universal Ethical Egoism
... capable of taking care of themselves causes people to feel resentful rather than appreciative. Therefore, in an egoist’s mind, people should only look out for themselves because to do otherwise ultimately hurts other people. Another argument put forth by philosophers in an effort to defend egoism is ...
... capable of taking care of themselves causes people to feel resentful rather than appreciative. Therefore, in an egoist’s mind, people should only look out for themselves because to do otherwise ultimately hurts other people. Another argument put forth by philosophers in an effort to defend egoism is ...
Preface to Lying, Misleading and What is Said
... Another way in which this book differs from most in philosophy of language is that it is concerned with a distinction of at least apparent normative moral significance. Indeed, although Chapter 4 draws on material in philosophy of language, it is not itself philosophy of language, but ethics; and C ...
... Another way in which this book differs from most in philosophy of language is that it is concerned with a distinction of at least apparent normative moral significance. Indeed, although Chapter 4 draws on material in philosophy of language, it is not itself philosophy of language, but ethics; and C ...
ESSENTIALISM IN PARMENIDES OF ELEA
... The other [path], that it is-not and needs must not-be, that I tell thee is a path altogether unthinkable. For thou couldst not know that which is-not nor utter it. And further (Kirk and Raven 1960: 277): What can be thought is only the thought that it is. For you will not find thought without what ...
... The other [path], that it is-not and needs must not-be, that I tell thee is a path altogether unthinkable. For thou couldst not know that which is-not nor utter it. And further (Kirk and Raven 1960: 277): What can be thought is only the thought that it is. For you will not find thought without what ...
Greater Reality Achieved Through Consciousness
... postulation of “innerness” or mentality in everything has the air of an arbitrary assertion, motivated by theoretical needs rather than by what we observe in less complex entities like atoms and rocks. And the second weakness (Skrbina calls it the “combination” problem) is that panpsychism has troub ...
... postulation of “innerness” or mentality in everything has the air of an arbitrary assertion, motivated by theoretical needs rather than by what we observe in less complex entities like atoms and rocks. And the second weakness (Skrbina calls it the “combination” problem) is that panpsychism has troub ...
Nietzsche on eternal return
... However, we can question whether the idea of eternal return has the significance Nietzsche gives it. We are being asked to imagine our response to the thought that everything will recur, just as it has. One response is ‘so what?’. If everything happens again identically, then just as we have no kno ...
... However, we can question whether the idea of eternal return has the significance Nietzsche gives it. We are being asked to imagine our response to the thought that everything will recur, just as it has. One response is ‘so what?’. If everything happens again identically, then just as we have no kno ...