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... longer think in terms of a self, as owner of experiences, and the separate and independent things around the self in space and time. We need to recover a lost primordial unity in which such divisions did not exist. We are to do this, in phenomenology, by “out-staring” the phenomena, until in a momen ...
... longer think in terms of a self, as owner of experiences, and the separate and independent things around the self in space and time. We need to recover a lost primordial unity in which such divisions did not exist. We are to do this, in phenomenology, by “out-staring” the phenomena, until in a momen ...
The Epistemological Objection to Divine Command
... claim that if morality had its basis in God, then people who do not believe in God would not know right from wrong. But surely there are plenty of non-believers who do know right from wrong (even if, like believers, they 1 Contrary to rare allegations in the literature, no current version of divine ...
... claim that if morality had its basis in God, then people who do not believe in God would not know right from wrong. But surely there are plenty of non-believers who do know right from wrong (even if, like believers, they 1 Contrary to rare allegations in the literature, no current version of divine ...
My Slides - Thatmarcusfamily.org
... P For Berkeley, only God can be taken as the true cause of my ideas. P An all-powerful God could have no use for an intermediate instrument. P “Though we do the utmost we can to secure the belief of matter, though, when reason forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility o ...
... P For Berkeley, only God can be taken as the true cause of my ideas. P An all-powerful God could have no use for an intermediate instrument. P “Though we do the utmost we can to secure the belief of matter, though, when reason forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility o ...
Praxis, theory, and the unmakeable: An interview with Robert Hullot
... can only do with glass what can be done with glass, with plastic what can be done with plastic; one can only do with each and every word and with each and every note, as well, what can be done with each of them, and so on. It takes imagination to recognize that reality is not raw material, as someth ...
... can only do with glass what can be done with glass, with plastic what can be done with plastic; one can only do with each and every word and with each and every note, as well, what can be done with each of them, and so on. It takes imagination to recognize that reality is not raw material, as someth ...
THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY (London: Oxford University
... Berkeley, that matter is really nothing but a collection of ideas, or they say, like Leibniz (1646-1716), that what appears as matter is really a collection of more or less rudimentary minds. But these philosophers, though they deny matter as opposed to mind, nevertheless, in another sense, admit ma ...
... Berkeley, that matter is really nothing but a collection of ideas, or they say, like Leibniz (1646-1716), that what appears as matter is really a collection of more or less rudimentary minds. But these philosophers, though they deny matter as opposed to mind, nevertheless, in another sense, admit ma ...
Phil Rees: Scientific Anti
... I must first point out that, whilst quite a lot of modern anti-realism is motivated from an anti scientific stance, this was not true prior to about 1950, and most of the earlier forms of anti-realism were located very much within the scientific community itself. In the 19th century, there was the a ...
... I must first point out that, whilst quite a lot of modern anti-realism is motivated from an anti scientific stance, this was not true prior to about 1950, and most of the earlier forms of anti-realism were located very much within the scientific community itself. In the 19th century, there was the a ...
Socratic Knowledge, Christian Love, Confucian Virtue
... Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Avicenna are examples. Most of these individuals are shrouded in historical uncertainty. What we know about them and their teachings has been largely reported after their death by those who knew them. Therefore, we can have little certainty of what they actually did or ...
... Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Avicenna are examples. Most of these individuals are shrouded in historical uncertainty. What we know about them and their teachings has been largely reported after their death by those who knew them. Therefore, we can have little certainty of what they actually did or ...
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... artworks from other things. This is by no means an absurd idea: After all, it cannot be denied that, in practice, we constantly make distinctions between artworks and other things, and that we employ certain criteria in doing so. Thus it must initially seem only reasonable to assume that there are ...
... artworks from other things. This is by no means an absurd idea: After all, it cannot be denied that, in practice, we constantly make distinctions between artworks and other things, and that we employ certain criteria in doing so. Thus it must initially seem only reasonable to assume that there are ...
Direct and representative realism
... For Locke, primary qualities are those properties of an object that are not related by definition to perceivers. Examples include size, mass, and shape. We might say that the object has these properties ‘in and of itself’. By contrast, secondary qualities, such as colour and smell, are related to pe ...
... For Locke, primary qualities are those properties of an object that are not related by definition to perceivers. Examples include size, mass, and shape. We might say that the object has these properties ‘in and of itself’. By contrast, secondary qualities, such as colour and smell, are related to pe ...
Peter Winch: Philosophy as the Art of Disagreement
... in sentence construction; it will then no longer be something the truth of which could be an intelligible object of concern. We can see then that the phrase ‘concern with the truth’ does not identify a specific type of human striving, but rather indicates a general form that various types of human e ...
... in sentence construction; it will then no longer be something the truth of which could be an intelligible object of concern. We can see then that the phrase ‘concern with the truth’ does not identify a specific type of human striving, but rather indicates a general form that various types of human e ...
When Rights Conflict
... One party model is wrong not only from the prospective of an agent who usurps rights of the other and therefore becomes more and more corrupt! Harming persons who are discriminated against, wrongs them, which is morally unacceptable! That is, moral action involves two sides, the agent and the victim ...
... One party model is wrong not only from the prospective of an agent who usurps rights of the other and therefore becomes more and more corrupt! Harming persons who are discriminated against, wrongs them, which is morally unacceptable! That is, moral action involves two sides, the agent and the victim ...
Supplemental Notes on Aristotle Philosophy 2
... Happiness is not virtue itself, but activity in accord with virtue (virtues being both intellectual and moral types) Must be over a lifetime and not just over brief periods. (EN 1100a4, 1101 a 14-20) Happiness via virtue includes the more common forms of happiness—i.e. pleasure, since any free and u ...
... Happiness is not virtue itself, but activity in accord with virtue (virtues being both intellectual and moral types) Must be over a lifetime and not just over brief periods. (EN 1100a4, 1101 a 14-20) Happiness via virtue includes the more common forms of happiness—i.e. pleasure, since any free and u ...
the question is not, "can they talk?
... By using the current technology of gene manipulation, we can imagine that those genes that prevent a vital part of speech development could first be added to a segregated population of humans. The genes might be of a type that inhibit certain brain area from developing; or perhaps they would effecti ...
... By using the current technology of gene manipulation, we can imagine that those genes that prevent a vital part of speech development could first be added to a segregated population of humans. The genes might be of a type that inhibit certain brain area from developing; or perhaps they would effecti ...
from Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
... Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry ...
... Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry ...
PDF, 120kb - Early Modern Texts
... followed by such an effect! In the same way it would also follow that any event that is singular in its nature, or the first thing of its kind, cannot have a cause. Several of these consequences were fondly embraced by Hume as necessarily following from his definition of ‘cause’ and as favourable to ...
... followed by such an effect! In the same way it would also follow that any event that is singular in its nature, or the first thing of its kind, cannot have a cause. Several of these consequences were fondly embraced by Hume as necessarily following from his definition of ‘cause’ and as favourable to ...
The Relationship between Sensory Consciousness and Mind
... Mind and Life conferences, His Holiness said that if we investigate on the Buddhist idea of the subtle mind, which is common to all the Buddhist schools. I think this could even be a very good approach for studying life after death and the continuation of the consciousness, need to go very deep down ...
... Mind and Life conferences, His Holiness said that if we investigate on the Buddhist idea of the subtle mind, which is common to all the Buddhist schools. I think this could even be a very good approach for studying life after death and the continuation of the consciousness, need to go very deep down ...
Berkeley Reading
... have of these they acknowledge not to be the resemblances of anything existing without the mind, or unperceived, but they will have our ideas of the primary qualities to be patterns or images of things which exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance which they call Matter. By Matter, theref ...
... have of these they acknowledge not to be the resemblances of anything existing without the mind, or unperceived, but they will have our ideas of the primary qualities to be patterns or images of things which exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance which they call Matter. By Matter, theref ...
1st Prize: Cherry Dicko
... In relation to Brexit, O’Neill says campaigners ‘did not provide the basic means for voters to judge…’5. Judging is an ability, so here O’Neill implies that the public needed a sort of informed ability knowledge in order to give informed consent – a sort of propositional knowledge from which to exer ...
... In relation to Brexit, O’Neill says campaigners ‘did not provide the basic means for voters to judge…’5. Judging is an ability, so here O’Neill implies that the public needed a sort of informed ability knowledge in order to give informed consent – a sort of propositional knowledge from which to exer ...
From The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, edited by
... negative importance as archaic forms of understanding. The hypostatic and poetic tinge of language which makes it so often recalcitrant to scientific purposes is a record not only of a different way of thinking, but of seeing, feeling, conceiving experience—a way that was probably paramount in the a ...
... negative importance as archaic forms of understanding. The hypostatic and poetic tinge of language which makes it so often recalcitrant to scientific purposes is a record not only of a different way of thinking, but of seeing, feeling, conceiving experience—a way that was probably paramount in the a ...
Does Comparative Philosophy have a Fusion Future? Responses
... the Buddhists' ultimate concern, could not be) a philosophical conception about which we may calmly converse in sovereign detachment will indicate that we are at the gateway to an understanding of it." 14 Modern philosophy is decidedly text-centered, but Buddhist texts are not primarily philosophica ...
... the Buddhists' ultimate concern, could not be) a philosophical conception about which we may calmly converse in sovereign detachment will indicate that we are at the gateway to an understanding of it." 14 Modern philosophy is decidedly text-centered, but Buddhist texts are not primarily philosophica ...
Does Moral Theory Corrupt Youth?
... attempts to find unity, however, the work classified as “anti-theoretical” is exceptionally diverse, and its targets rarely well defined. What common cause joins The Sovereignty of Good, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, and After Virtue?1 There are dangers in trying to define moral theory agains ...
... attempts to find unity, however, the work classified as “anti-theoretical” is exceptionally diverse, and its targets rarely well defined. What common cause joins The Sovereignty of Good, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, and After Virtue?1 There are dangers in trying to define moral theory agains ...
Donald Davidson, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
... to evidence, at an intermediate stage, in the form of hold true attitudes (beliefs that sentences are true). Correlations of hold true attitudes with conditions in the environment provide tentative assignments of truth conditions which interpret the sentences held true (this is the operation of the ...
... to evidence, at an intermediate stage, in the form of hold true attitudes (beliefs that sentences are true). Correlations of hold true attitudes with conditions in the environment provide tentative assignments of truth conditions which interpret the sentences held true (this is the operation of the ...
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
... that human beings will undergo when specific parts of their brains are damaged. So the question for the dualist to try to confront is how can all of this be explained if the mind is a separate and immaterial substance from, or if its properties are ontologically independent of, the brain. ...
... that human beings will undergo when specific parts of their brains are damaged. So the question for the dualist to try to confront is how can all of this be explained if the mind is a separate and immaterial substance from, or if its properties are ontologically independent of, the brain. ...
Philosophy as Therapy for Recovering (Unrestrained) Omnivores
... what they learn from philosophical arguments. We then propose that other modes of philosophical inquiry can serve as therapy for these malaises. In part II, we argue that philosophical hermeneutics (exemplified by Hans-Georg Gadamer) can treat the malaise of imagination by helping us to excavate an ...
... what they learn from philosophical arguments. We then propose that other modes of philosophical inquiry can serve as therapy for these malaises. In part II, we argue that philosophical hermeneutics (exemplified by Hans-Georg Gadamer) can treat the malaise of imagination by helping us to excavate an ...
Moore`s Paradox and the Context Principle
... principle in circulation is that the meaning of a sentence (or any linguistic sign) is given by its context. Frege’s context principle is often taken to suggest a fact: that the smallest meaning-bearing element of language is ‘the proposition’ (or sentence, Satz). From this fact, it would follow tha ...
... principle in circulation is that the meaning of a sentence (or any linguistic sign) is given by its context. Frege’s context principle is often taken to suggest a fact: that the smallest meaning-bearing element of language is ‘the proposition’ (or sentence, Satz). From this fact, it would follow tha ...