Diapositive 1
... truth in things (ontological truth). Following this, he wrote an elegant re-statement of Aristotle's view in his Summa Teologicae : Veritas est adæquatio intellectus et rei. Truth is the conformity of the intellect to the things. Aquinas also said that real things participate in the act of being of ...
... truth in things (ontological truth). Following this, he wrote an elegant re-statement of Aristotle's view in his Summa Teologicae : Veritas est adæquatio intellectus et rei. Truth is the conformity of the intellect to the things. Aquinas also said that real things participate in the act of being of ...
Ethics Background on useful readings Asterisks below mark works
... the distinction between “act utilitarianism” and “rule utilitarianism”? Does rule utilitarianism collapse into act utilitarianism? Insofar as it doesn’t, is rule-utilitarianism at all plausible? What roles do moral rules (such as “don’t lie”) play in act utilitarianism? Should a utilitarian advocate ...
... the distinction between “act utilitarianism” and “rule utilitarianism”? Does rule utilitarianism collapse into act utilitarianism? Insofar as it doesn’t, is rule-utilitarianism at all plausible? What roles do moral rules (such as “don’t lie”) play in act utilitarianism? Should a utilitarian advocate ...
"Everything Flows": The Poetics of Transformation
... human beings seek the essentially human in its expression; how in its practice does it find resonance with being itself? The long history of dispute about the relation, if any, of art and reality, more often than not, grounded in a complaint that art is a digression from a search for the truth about ...
... human beings seek the essentially human in its expression; how in its practice does it find resonance with being itself? The long history of dispute about the relation, if any, of art and reality, more often than not, grounded in a complaint that art is a digression from a search for the truth about ...
What is Hindu Spirituality
... is the regnant philosophy of our times. The Hindu texts provide a more homespun example, that of chewing the betel. The betel nut is gray in color; it is usually placed on a green leaf with a slight touch of white lime and then consumed as a post-prandial refreshment. Once in the mouth, however, it ...
... is the regnant philosophy of our times. The Hindu texts provide a more homespun example, that of chewing the betel. The betel nut is gray in color; it is usually placed on a green leaf with a slight touch of white lime and then consumed as a post-prandial refreshment. Once in the mouth, however, it ...
1: Power and the State 1
... in this country, however far it may be convenient to travel away from it, in hope of seeing its ideas more clearly on return. I daresay that it is fated to pass, is even now passing, into other forms; if you will, into the new managerial society, to use a current phrase. If so, it will have a new ty ...
... in this country, however far it may be convenient to travel away from it, in hope of seeing its ideas more clearly on return. I daresay that it is fated to pass, is even now passing, into other forms; if you will, into the new managerial society, to use a current phrase. If so, it will have a new ty ...
Topic 1: introduction to Ethics
... Meta-ethics is a more abstract conceptual take on morality. Rather than assert moral standards, it investigates moral terms themselves and looks at what moral concepts mean. Most of moral philosophy before the 20th century was essentially normative, that is it investigates the kind of moral standard ...
... Meta-ethics is a more abstract conceptual take on morality. Rather than assert moral standards, it investigates moral terms themselves and looks at what moral concepts mean. Most of moral philosophy before the 20th century was essentially normative, that is it investigates the kind of moral standard ...
- Philsci
... "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in view of that constitution, of what the mind can and cannot know. The psychological reading seems the more charitable to Kant, since a psychological theory ...
... "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in view of that constitution, of what the mind can and cannot know. The psychological reading seems the more charitable to Kant, since a psychological theory ...
Ethics or Morality
... inevitably does harm to members of other species. And trying one’s best to do good for some ...
... inevitably does harm to members of other species. And trying one’s best to do good for some ...
Oct. 12 - WordPress.com
... how to revise/improve the post. You will then switch. Time permitting, we will go through this exercise twice. 1. What is the main focus/argument of the blog post? When is the main idea instroduced? Is it sufficiently narrow for a 500-word post? If not, how could you suggest it be narrowed (one poss ...
... how to revise/improve the post. You will then switch. Time permitting, we will go through this exercise twice. 1. What is the main focus/argument of the blog post? When is the main idea instroduced? Is it sufficiently narrow for a 500-word post? If not, how could you suggest it be narrowed (one poss ...
MCDOWELL`S MORAL REALISM AND THE SECONDARY
... possessed by the robber from a practical perspective in which certain ends are valued, in this case, the end of successful thieving. From the standpoint of one interested in theft, or at least hypothetically contemplating it, what might appear otherwise to be a deficiency in an agent’s function — sh ...
... possessed by the robber from a practical perspective in which certain ends are valued, in this case, the end of successful thieving. From the standpoint of one interested in theft, or at least hypothetically contemplating it, what might appear otherwise to be a deficiency in an agent’s function — sh ...
Averroes - The Incoherence of the Incoherence
... often regarded as a feature of the Oriental soul. In the Qur’an, however, there is no definite theory about free will. Muhammad was not a philosopher. The definition of will in man given by the Ash‘arites, as the instrument of unalterable fate and the unalterable law of God, is Stoic both in idea an ...
... often regarded as a feature of the Oriental soul. In the Qur’an, however, there is no definite theory about free will. Muhammad was not a philosopher. The definition of will in man given by the Ash‘arites, as the instrument of unalterable fate and the unalterable law of God, is Stoic both in idea an ...
Treatise of Human Nature Book III: Morals
... speeches, and bring us down to something precise and exact concerning our subject. It has been maintained that •virtue is nothing but conformity to reason; •there are eternal fitnesses and unfitnesses of things, which are the same to every rational being who considers them; •the changeless standards ...
... speeches, and bring us down to something precise and exact concerning our subject. It has been maintained that •virtue is nothing but conformity to reason; •there are eternal fitnesses and unfitnesses of things, which are the same to every rational being who considers them; •the changeless standards ...
James Warren, Facing Death, Epicurus and his Critics (Book Review)
... and health care.3 Even if the child raised in the less developed country never perceives the harm, in comparison to the life she or he might have lived elsewhere such lowered access to resources seems to be a "harm". But, although the case of children being raised with different levels of access to ...
... and health care.3 Even if the child raised in the less developed country never perceives the harm, in comparison to the life she or he might have lived elsewhere such lowered access to resources seems to be a "harm". But, although the case of children being raised with different levels of access to ...
NR 4 - Hartvig Nissen Camilla Tran
... There is no rationality to be discovered in their behaviour, nor is there one to be found in ours; there is no higher being to lend our lives a fixed essence. (Albert Camus calls the friction between a will to life, and the acknowledgement of an inherently meaningless life, absurd.) The biological ...
... There is no rationality to be discovered in their behaviour, nor is there one to be found in ours; there is no higher being to lend our lives a fixed essence. (Albert Camus calls the friction between a will to life, and the acknowledgement of an inherently meaningless life, absurd.) The biological ...
1.20.15_Ghost_in_the_Machine_Part_I
... level we are told stories of liquidity and non-correlation (what? you don’t understand what an efficient portfolio frontier is? and you call yourself a professional?), both good and necessary things, to be sure. But not sufficient things, at least not to cast the powerful magic that is diversificati ...
... level we are told stories of liquidity and non-correlation (what? you don’t understand what an efficient portfolio frontier is? and you call yourself a professional?), both good and necessary things, to be sure. But not sufficient things, at least not to cast the powerful magic that is diversificati ...
Problems Of Metaphysical Philosophy
... fall out of such criticism is to locate the ground from metaphysics takes its roots and also garners nourishment. The location of this ground from which metaphysics and every other thing derives source and garners nourishment is regarded by Heidegger to be the “overcoming of metaphysics” or in a mor ...
... fall out of such criticism is to locate the ground from metaphysics takes its roots and also garners nourishment. The location of this ground from which metaphysics and every other thing derives source and garners nourishment is regarded by Heidegger to be the “overcoming of metaphysics” or in a mor ...
Famous Mathematician - MATHS-S12
... knowledge. He asks about things he is curious about and give some effort discovering the answers and turns out to be important things for humans. ...
... knowledge. He asks about things he is curious about and give some effort discovering the answers and turns out to be important things for humans. ...
Topic 2b: What is conceptualization? Jerry Fodor (2008): LOT2 The
... - such definitions are ‘know how’ but ‘know that’ must be prior (you aren’t following R unless R is the ‘intentional object; of one of your mental states. - The in-use approach is incompatible with the compositionality of a concept’s ...
... - such definitions are ‘know how’ but ‘know that’ must be prior (you aren’t following R unless R is the ‘intentional object; of one of your mental states. - The in-use approach is incompatible with the compositionality of a concept’s ...
History through the Middle: Between Macro and
... milieu that seems eager to leap with great appetite at any proposition allowing for a differentiation between the true and the illusory to be recreated. To paraphrase Deleuze paraphrasing Artaud, I try to think “before” the innumerable victims of this mania for oppositions, and to fabricate concept ...
... milieu that seems eager to leap with great appetite at any proposition allowing for a differentiation between the true and the illusory to be recreated. To paraphrase Deleuze paraphrasing Artaud, I try to think “before” the innumerable victims of this mania for oppositions, and to fabricate concept ...
Having and Making Choices
... “…the causes of those in the left-hand column are of a different kind from the causes of those in the righthand column”(423) “Free acts are all caused by desires or motives or by some sort of internal psychological states of the agent’s mind” “Acts not freely done are those whose immediate causes ar ...
... “…the causes of those in the left-hand column are of a different kind from the causes of those in the righthand column”(423) “Free acts are all caused by desires or motives or by some sort of internal psychological states of the agent’s mind” “Acts not freely done are those whose immediate causes ar ...
Review of Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School
... that he suggests that Kyoto School philosophy constitutes a chapter in the history of Western philosophy. In this respect he states that the Kyoto School is as influential as that of the neo-Kantians, who are credited with breaking with German Idealism and emphasizing the importance of empirical rat ...
... that he suggests that Kyoto School philosophy constitutes a chapter in the history of Western philosophy. In this respect he states that the Kyoto School is as influential as that of the neo-Kantians, who are credited with breaking with German Idealism and emphasizing the importance of empirical rat ...
Mind and Body Is the “mental” really “material?”
... • “… I know that everything which I clearly and distinctly understand is capable of being created by God …. Hence the fact that I clearly and distinctly understand one thing apart from another is enough to make me certain that the two things are distinct, since they are capable of being separated…. ...
... • “… I know that everything which I clearly and distinctly understand is capable of being created by God …. Hence the fact that I clearly and distinctly understand one thing apart from another is enough to make me certain that the two things are distinct, since they are capable of being separated…. ...
Notes on Jamieson, chapter 5
... than others. And although they all signify to us their natural impulses, such as anger, fear, hunger and the like, by using their voice or other bodily movements, no brute animal has so far ever been observed that reached a level of perfection at which it used genuine speech, that is, by indicating ...
... than others. And although they all signify to us their natural impulses, such as anger, fear, hunger and the like, by using their voice or other bodily movements, no brute animal has so far ever been observed that reached a level of perfection at which it used genuine speech, that is, by indicating ...
CH.2 - Home Page of Dr. H Lee Cheek
... its several definitions, logos, of course means "word" and "reason." The mode of questioning which is dialogue is limited by the very material of which it is constructed, words. However, the questions, though composed of words, do not seek the words of which the answer is composed. Words (logoi) ar ...
... its several definitions, logos, of course means "word" and "reason." The mode of questioning which is dialogue is limited by the very material of which it is constructed, words. However, the questions, though composed of words, do not seek the words of which the answer is composed. Words (logoi) ar ...
Imre Lakatos`s Philosophy of Mathematics
... constitutes the nature of the given discipline. The set of historical data is too large and confused to be handled, with no intrinsic system or method in them, so we need to have certain preconceptions and biases: historians unavoidably give rational reconstructions of the actual history. Granted t ...
... constitutes the nature of the given discipline. The set of historical data is too large and confused to be handled, with no intrinsic system or method in them, so we need to have certain preconceptions and biases: historians unavoidably give rational reconstructions of the actual history. Granted t ...