a critique of marxism
... to conflict, hence conflict is not the source of its motion. First mover of St Thomas. The mere presence of motion of matter cannot, of itself, account for the fact that motion tends towards the development of the being. Hence there is a need of a transcendent Intelligence which directs the progress ...
... to conflict, hence conflict is not the source of its motion. First mover of St Thomas. The mere presence of motion of matter cannot, of itself, account for the fact that motion tends towards the development of the being. Hence there is a need of a transcendent Intelligence which directs the progress ...
IMPROVISATION AND ETHICS - The University of Chicago Divinity School
... Of course, we also do not think that what the musicians are going to play is wildly undetermined. We often have a fairly good idea what kinds of general things are going to happen, perhaps because we know a lot about the musicians and, as such, know that they rarely, if ever, abandon the chord struc ...
... Of course, we also do not think that what the musicians are going to play is wildly undetermined. We often have a fairly good idea what kinds of general things are going to happen, perhaps because we know a lot about the musicians and, as such, know that they rarely, if ever, abandon the chord struc ...
The semantic development of virtue
... What constitutes high moral standards and good or useful qualities has been investigated throughout history, especially by philosophers trying to encompass the vast ocean of the concept’s significance. That will be a subject for inquiry in chapters two through four of this thesis. But virtue touches ...
... What constitutes high moral standards and good or useful qualities has been investigated throughout history, especially by philosophers trying to encompass the vast ocean of the concept’s significance. That will be a subject for inquiry in chapters two through four of this thesis. But virtue touches ...
Chris Krause
... concept of independently existing self. Page 44, Paragraphs 1-2: This brings up the concept of linear incarnations of the persona and the identity of the self as an indistinguishable, remote duplex of the perceiver and perceived. For example when one says “I hate myself” he is speaking of a remote s ...
... concept of independently existing self. Page 44, Paragraphs 1-2: This brings up the concept of linear incarnations of the persona and the identity of the self as an indistinguishable, remote duplex of the perceiver and perceived. For example when one says “I hate myself” he is speaking of a remote s ...
Religion-Jaina philosophy
... exactly constitutes cognition, the means of cognition, and the validity of cognition. The problems dealt with in epistemology broadly served two functions. They represented an attempt to provide the basis for an intelligible discourse on matters of common, everyday experience and, albeit indirectly, ...
... exactly constitutes cognition, the means of cognition, and the validity of cognition. The problems dealt with in epistemology broadly served two functions. They represented an attempt to provide the basis for an intelligible discourse on matters of common, everyday experience and, albeit indirectly, ...
religious language
... Logical positivists are cognitivists who argue that language is only meaningful when it discusses what falls within human experience. Once our language steps beyond the realms of what we can experience then it easily ventures into nonsense. In his book Language, Truth and Logic the logical positivis ...
... Logical positivists are cognitivists who argue that language is only meaningful when it discusses what falls within human experience. Once our language steps beyond the realms of what we can experience then it easily ventures into nonsense. In his book Language, Truth and Logic the logical positivis ...
ume and the Modern View of Human Nature
... Both impressions and ideas can be further distinguished into simple and complex. ◦ Simple impressions or ideas are those that cannot be decomposed (red, color), while complex instances of either can ...
... Both impressions and ideas can be further distinguished into simple and complex. ◦ Simple impressions or ideas are those that cannot be decomposed (red, color), while complex instances of either can ...
Treatise of Human Nature Book III: Morals
... be reasonable or unreasonable; so ‘praiseworthy’ and ‘blameworthy’ are not the same as ‘reasonable’ and ‘unreasonable’. The merit and demerit of actions frequently contradict and sometimes control our natural patterns behaviour; but reason has no such influence. So moral distinctions are not the off ...
... be reasonable or unreasonable; so ‘praiseworthy’ and ‘blameworthy’ are not the same as ‘reasonable’ and ‘unreasonable’. The merit and demerit of actions frequently contradict and sometimes control our natural patterns behaviour; but reason has no such influence. So moral distinctions are not the off ...
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
... of course, I admit that there is a psychological difference between the cases; one feels less guilty about doing nothing if one can point to others, similarly placed, who have also done nothing. Yet this can make no real difference to our moral obligations. [2] Should I consider that I am less oblig ...
... of course, I admit that there is a psychological difference between the cases; one feels less guilty about doing nothing if one can point to others, similarly placed, who have also done nothing. Yet this can make no real difference to our moral obligations. [2] Should I consider that I am less oblig ...
Hume
... • Taste concerns our sentiments, not the intrinsic nature of the object • No one can be wrong in matters of taste • Yet some people are better judges in matters of art than others and some works more recognised than others • There is a standard of taste (authority) ...
... • Taste concerns our sentiments, not the intrinsic nature of the object • No one can be wrong in matters of taste • Yet some people are better judges in matters of art than others and some works more recognised than others • There is a standard of taste (authority) ...
actions. Virtue ethics
... we would have to ask what sort of human actions and social policies or laws would contribute to this goal. And we would have to look at what qualities of human character would also contribute to the goal of creating and maintaining a state of human welfare. If both human actions and human charac ...
... we would have to ask what sort of human actions and social policies or laws would contribute to this goal. And we would have to look at what qualities of human character would also contribute to the goal of creating and maintaining a state of human welfare. If both human actions and human charac ...
The “Idyllic Sublime”: Point/Counterpoint A Dialog between Michael
... devil’s advocate, and I am a little skeptical of Michael’s implied claim that the traditional “pastoral vocabulary” has been, or must be, circumscribed to scenes of pastures (and their environs) in order to seem “natural” or somehow appropriate to country life, as perhaps a kind of implicit allusion ...
... devil’s advocate, and I am a little skeptical of Michael’s implied claim that the traditional “pastoral vocabulary” has been, or must be, circumscribed to scenes of pastures (and their environs) in order to seem “natural” or somehow appropriate to country life, as perhaps a kind of implicit allusion ...
Monism and Dualism
... represented in the material world by certain material processes of the brain, which as such are subject to the law of the persistence of energy, although this law cannot be applied to the relation between cerebral and conscious processes. It is as though the same thing were said in two languages.” S ...
... represented in the material world by certain material processes of the brain, which as such are subject to the law of the persistence of energy, although this law cannot be applied to the relation between cerebral and conscious processes. It is as though the same thing were said in two languages.” S ...
Book Review - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
... position. In phenomenological manner, Marion understands sense not as what a subject hides about itself, but as what is accessible to us and constituted in our consciousness. Nancy understands sense as material, phenomenal and changeable. Rancière writes about the distribution of the sensible, indic ...
... position. In phenomenological manner, Marion understands sense not as what a subject hides about itself, but as what is accessible to us and constituted in our consciousness. Nancy understands sense as material, phenomenal and changeable. Rancière writes about the distribution of the sensible, indic ...
Evolution and Logic
... existence. This is commonly taken for granted in all reasoning, without any proof given or demanded. It is supposed to be founded on intuition, and to be one of those maxims, which though they may be denied with the lips, it is impossible for men in their hearts really to doubt of. But if we examine ...
... existence. This is commonly taken for granted in all reasoning, without any proof given or demanded. It is supposed to be founded on intuition, and to be one of those maxims, which though they may be denied with the lips, it is impossible for men in their hearts really to doubt of. But if we examine ...
Friendship - The University of Sydney
... in De Anima 415 b 13 —“In the case of living things, their being is to live.”4) 4) Inherent in this perception of existing is another perception, specifically human, which takes the form of a concurrent perception (synaisthanesthai) of the friendʼs existence. Friendship is the instance of this concu ...
... in De Anima 415 b 13 —“In the case of living things, their being is to live.”4) 4) Inherent in this perception of existing is another perception, specifically human, which takes the form of a concurrent perception (synaisthanesthai) of the friendʼs existence. Friendship is the instance of this concu ...
Early Greek Thought and Perspectives for the - Philsci
... what this means, try to deny by yourself you are experiencing yourself as existing at this moment)11 . This has nothing to do with the intellectual question what it means to exist, or whether our existence is “real” or not. These questions concern things “as such”, objects, and their identity in pas ...
... what this means, try to deny by yourself you are experiencing yourself as existing at this moment)11 . This has nothing to do with the intellectual question what it means to exist, or whether our existence is “real” or not. These questions concern things “as such”, objects, and their identity in pas ...
The Dominant Islamic Philosophy of Knowledge
... useless. This is why it seems to be impossible to change most of the beliefs of the Arabs and Muslims. But, in the West, beliefs don’t possess the status of being absolute certainties. Most Westerners consider their beliefs to be possibly true or probably true, and hence their beliefs are constantly ...
... useless. This is why it seems to be impossible to change most of the beliefs of the Arabs and Muslims. But, in the West, beliefs don’t possess the status of being absolute certainties. Most Westerners consider their beliefs to be possibly true or probably true, and hence their beliefs are constantly ...
The Argument from Pascal`s Wager
... of being mistaken in believing it to be true." If you believe too much, you neither win nor lose eternal happiness. But if you believe too little, you risk losing everything. But is it worth the price? What must be given up to wager that God exists? Whatever it is, it is only finite, and it is most ...
... of being mistaken in believing it to be true." If you believe too much, you neither win nor lose eternal happiness. But if you believe too little, you risk losing everything. But is it worth the price? What must be given up to wager that God exists? Whatever it is, it is only finite, and it is most ...
IV. The Verbal Form
... (3) Having brought the terms Ego, Self, and External World under logical control by defining them, we can now revert to the “Be” term and the Berkeleyan formula. The accuracy of this latter when put into the shape of an equation seems to us irrefutable, and the question which rises in reference to i ...
... (3) Having brought the terms Ego, Self, and External World under logical control by defining them, we can now revert to the “Be” term and the Berkeleyan formula. The accuracy of this latter when put into the shape of an equation seems to us irrefutable, and the question which rises in reference to i ...
Document
... The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct. The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one's ac ...
... The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct. The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one's ac ...
A Buddhist Interpretation of Taoism
... administration, speech and language, and financial enterprises, etc., are in accordance with the right dharma. Since nothing exists apart from the Mind, all dharmas are real. The unenlightened people attach themselves to the dharmas without realizing their subtlety (miao)i. If we enlighten the Mind ...
... administration, speech and language, and financial enterprises, etc., are in accordance with the right dharma. Since nothing exists apart from the Mind, all dharmas are real. The unenlightened people attach themselves to the dharmas without realizing their subtlety (miao)i. If we enlighten the Mind ...
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... Because it will make living together easier (Hobbes and Locke and social contract theory) ...
... Because it will make living together easier (Hobbes and Locke and social contract theory) ...
The Self
... “to explain is to strip reality of the appearances covering it like a veil, in order to see the bare reality itself.” This clearly is neither Sellars’ nor Quine’s conception of philosophy, and you can see why. They understand philosophy to be governed by the same rules as science. There is no metho ...
... “to explain is to strip reality of the appearances covering it like a veil, in order to see the bare reality itself.” This clearly is neither Sellars’ nor Quine’s conception of philosophy, and you can see why. They understand philosophy to be governed by the same rules as science. There is no metho ...
What`s So Queer About Morality? One of the currently available
... seems to be simply that nothing in the world (besides morality, if it exists) is both objective and prescriptive. That said, it seems that the naturalist moral realist can appeal to things like biological or proper functions and biological or proper function statements as a way of deflecting the for ...
... seems to be simply that nothing in the world (besides morality, if it exists) is both objective and prescriptive. That said, it seems that the naturalist moral realist can appeal to things like biological or proper functions and biological or proper function statements as a way of deflecting the for ...