What is Human Nature?
... • For Thomas Aquinas, however, one is not limited in their ability to love and serve God by differing levels of intelligence or knowledge. • In his view of Human Nature, note that Love and Service to God trumps Reason !!! • Question for the class: Does this view contradict the previously asserted su ...
... • For Thomas Aquinas, however, one is not limited in their ability to love and serve God by differing levels of intelligence or knowledge. • In his view of Human Nature, note that Love and Service to God trumps Reason !!! • Question for the class: Does this view contradict the previously asserted su ...
Mirror neurons, human intentions, and their impact on mediation
... relationships, generate options, and seek commitment, etc. And, in the last decade or so, there has been more emphasis on parties’ emotions through acknowledgement and empathy. Unfortunately, that is about as far as our knowledge extends. From a psychological and neuroscience point of view, we reall ...
... relationships, generate options, and seek commitment, etc. And, in the last decade or so, there has been more emphasis on parties’ emotions through acknowledgement and empathy. Unfortunately, that is about as far as our knowledge extends. From a psychological and neuroscience point of view, we reall ...
Reductionism in Ethics (for IEE, second submission)
... 1. What is reductionism in ethics? Ethical reductionism is a doctrine in metaethics, the area of ethics in which we ask not what the facts are concerning our moral obligations, or concerning what things in life are worth pursuing, but, among other things, questions about the nature (or even the very ...
... 1. What is reductionism in ethics? Ethical reductionism is a doctrine in metaethics, the area of ethics in which we ask not what the facts are concerning our moral obligations, or concerning what things in life are worth pursuing, but, among other things, questions about the nature (or even the very ...
consciousness on slides - Faculty Web Sites at the
... Mark Everett (1963-), son of Hugh Everett and founder of Eels • “My father never, ever said anything to me about his theories. I was in the same house with him for at least 18 years but he was a total stranger to me. He was in his own parallel universe. He was a physical presence, like the furnitur ...
... Mark Everett (1963-), son of Hugh Everett and founder of Eels • “My father never, ever said anything to me about his theories. I was in the same house with him for at least 18 years but he was a total stranger to me. He was in his own parallel universe. He was a physical presence, like the furnitur ...
Introduction to Nihilism
... question? Because if there’s evil, there’s good. If there’s good there has to be a moral law. If there’s a moral law there has to be a transcendent moral lawgiver. But that’s what the skeptic is trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there is no moral law giver, there’s no moral law. If there’ ...
... question? Because if there’s evil, there’s good. If there’s good there has to be a moral law. If there’s a moral law there has to be a transcendent moral lawgiver. But that’s what the skeptic is trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there is no moral law giver, there’s no moral law. If there’ ...
VVFP 2011: Msgr Gordon presentation, `A Christian moral framework`
... fleet of ships and ethics are our sailing orders. These orders tell the ships (us) three things: 1. How to cooperate with one another and thus avoid bumping into to each other. This is Social Ethics. 2. How to keep each ship afloat and in good condition. This is Individual Ethics or Virtue Ethics. I ...
... fleet of ships and ethics are our sailing orders. These orders tell the ships (us) three things: 1. How to cooperate with one another and thus avoid bumping into to each other. This is Social Ethics. 2. How to keep each ship afloat and in good condition. This is Individual Ethics or Virtue Ethics. I ...
In Search of the Good!
... God influences but does not control us. We call this Providence. Augustine wrote on Freedom during the time of the Pelagians who believed Humanity was fully free and the Manicheans who denied any type of freedom whatsoever. ...
... God influences but does not control us. We call this Providence. Augustine wrote on Freedom during the time of the Pelagians who believed Humanity was fully free and the Manicheans who denied any type of freedom whatsoever. ...
FORMAL METHODS AND SCIENCE IN PHILOSOPHY
... Matter is one of the crucial, classical categories that have been used in various philosophical attempts at rational explanation of the world. Despite its long history (or, possibly, because of this rich tradition) an answer to the seemingly simple question “what is matter?” remains far from being c ...
... Matter is one of the crucial, classical categories that have been used in various philosophical attempts at rational explanation of the world. Despite its long history (or, possibly, because of this rich tradition) an answer to the seemingly simple question “what is matter?” remains far from being c ...
Relevance Logic - John MacFarlane
... 2. Using De Morgan’s laws, Double Negation Elimination, Commutation, Association, and Distribution, put the following sentences into both disjunctive normal form and conjunctive normal form. Show your work. (a) (P ∧ Q) ∨ (P ∧ ¬Q) (b) P ∧ Q ∧ ¬Q (c) ¬(P ∨ Q) ∧ ¬(P ∨ ¬Q) 3. Use the procedure described ...
... 2. Using De Morgan’s laws, Double Negation Elimination, Commutation, Association, and Distribution, put the following sentences into both disjunctive normal form and conjunctive normal form. Show your work. (a) (P ∧ Q) ∨ (P ∧ ¬Q) (b) P ∧ Q ∧ ¬Q (c) ¬(P ∨ Q) ∧ ¬(P ∨ ¬Q) 3. Use the procedure described ...
Symmetry Provides a Turing-Type Test for 3D Vision - Purdue e-Pubs
... are made of physical stuff, we must show that symmetry exists in the physical world, as well: – Remember Searle’s argument that robots will never be like us because their CPU (the robot’s brain) is made of transistors, not neurons, like our brain. ...
... are made of physical stuff, we must show that symmetry exists in the physical world, as well: – Remember Searle’s argument that robots will never be like us because their CPU (the robot’s brain) is made of transistors, not neurons, like our brain. ...
Epistemology Dehumanized
... employ such a notion of evidence. As cognitive beings, we seek knowledge because it is truth we want, not mere evidence even if dressed up as “epistemic probability” or “epistemic justification.” The idea that such evidence comes in degrees and that possession of it yields an approximation of knowle ...
... employ such a notion of evidence. As cognitive beings, we seek knowledge because it is truth we want, not mere evidence even if dressed up as “epistemic probability” or “epistemic justification.” The idea that such evidence comes in degrees and that possession of it yields an approximation of knowle ...
Normative Theories of Ethics
... do not depend on circumstances or results and that do not permit individual exceptions. • One of the principal objections to egoism and utilitarianism is that they permit us to treat humans as means to ends. Kant’s principles ...
... do not depend on circumstances or results and that do not permit individual exceptions. • One of the principal objections to egoism and utilitarianism is that they permit us to treat humans as means to ends. Kant’s principles ...
Absolute Truth - Tom Parnelle.Com
... point it out to them, they may respond in anger, "Truth is relative! There's no right and there's no wrong! We should be able to do whatever we want!" If that is a true statement and there is no right and there is no wrong, and everyone should be able to do whatever they want, then why have they be ...
... point it out to them, they may respond in anger, "Truth is relative! There's no right and there's no wrong! We should be able to do whatever we want!" If that is a true statement and there is no right and there is no wrong, and everyone should be able to do whatever they want, then why have they be ...
A2 Philosophy – Revision Book
... Socrates argued that weakness of will – when someone judges that one action is best, but does another – is impossible. If the person does what they say is not best, this only shows that they do not truly believe what they say. Aristotle argued that weakness of will is possible, and occurs when the m ...
... Socrates argued that weakness of will – when someone judges that one action is best, but does another – is impossible. If the person does what they say is not best, this only shows that they do not truly believe what they say. Aristotle argued that weakness of will is possible, and occurs when the m ...
Thesis Abstract
... “Reports” justify claims by pointing at an introspectively-identified internal fact. They give philosophical theses an air of empirical inquiry. In the case of Berkeley and Hume, an attempt is made to substantiate all primary maxims in terms of introspectable internal facts. “Appeals to the reader” ...
... “Reports” justify claims by pointing at an introspectively-identified internal fact. They give philosophical theses an air of empirical inquiry. In the case of Berkeley and Hume, an attempt is made to substantiate all primary maxims in terms of introspectable internal facts. “Appeals to the reader” ...
Moral Sense - JustWarTheory.com
... the life of virtue. The ‘universal benevolence’ that delights moral sense is itself sufficient to the task of producing social cohesion through the gravitational pull of particular attachments (II.v.2). Acting out of this instinctual form of benevolence improves one’s own state of well-being when, u ...
... the life of virtue. The ‘universal benevolence’ that delights moral sense is itself sufficient to the task of producing social cohesion through the gravitational pull of particular attachments (II.v.2). Acting out of this instinctual form of benevolence improves one’s own state of well-being when, u ...
What Does it Mean to Practise Philosophy?
... beyond’. Unless we can go through philosophy, we will always be stalked and dogged by philosophical questions - ‘what is the meaning of this?’, ‘what is the meaning of that?’, and so on. Having disposed of philosophy by going through it, we can see that which is ‘beyond philosophy’, and which is ‘wi ...
... beyond’. Unless we can go through philosophy, we will always be stalked and dogged by philosophical questions - ‘what is the meaning of this?’, ‘what is the meaning of that?’, and so on. Having disposed of philosophy by going through it, we can see that which is ‘beyond philosophy’, and which is ‘wi ...
On the symbolic structure of modern
... The symbolic, conceptual structures of physics are developed in a process with its own dynamics aimed at achieving physical knowledge. Typically in its development physics would leave each time behind it world views and philosophical schemes which itself has helped to build up - for instance, the Ne ...
... The symbolic, conceptual structures of physics are developed in a process with its own dynamics aimed at achieving physical knowledge. Typically in its development physics would leave each time behind it world views and philosophical schemes which itself has helped to build up - for instance, the Ne ...
Morality and Practical Reason: Kant
... • The word that distinguishes moral commands in general is the word ought, and categorical imperatives tell us what we ought to do, independent of circumstances or goals ...
... • The word that distinguishes moral commands in general is the word ought, and categorical imperatives tell us what we ought to do, independent of circumstances or goals ...
Phronomoi Across Cultures: A Checklist
... Who is the Discerning Person? A Virtue Epistemology Checklist In the more than 700 years that have followed upon Aquinas, Western sensitivity to doubt has grown given our experience of Aristotelian science being overhauled by Galileo and Newton, who in their turn gave way to Einstein. Truth, thus, w ...
... Who is the Discerning Person? A Virtue Epistemology Checklist In the more than 700 years that have followed upon Aquinas, Western sensitivity to doubt has grown given our experience of Aristotelian science being overhauled by Galileo and Newton, who in their turn gave way to Einstein. Truth, thus, w ...
The “Scientific Method”
... spectacular proof of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity (1915) when the precession of the orbit of Mercury was in accordance with the theory. However, as Gjertsen observes, if the precession of the orbit had been measured in 1914 (as it nearly was), Einstein’s theory could not have used the dat ...
... spectacular proof of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity (1915) when the precession of the orbit of Mercury was in accordance with the theory. However, as Gjertsen observes, if the precession of the orbit had been measured in 1914 (as it nearly was), Einstein’s theory could not have used the dat ...
2 / Communication before deconstruction
... Heidegger critique of Kant Kant’s critical idealims subordinates object to subject leading to a high degree of ontological indeterminacy. Fundamental ontology Heidegger’s proposal. Traditional ontology does not problematize the nature of Being. This must be the starting point for ontology. ” Heidegg ...
... Heidegger critique of Kant Kant’s critical idealims subordinates object to subject leading to a high degree of ontological indeterminacy. Fundamental ontology Heidegger’s proposal. Traditional ontology does not problematize the nature of Being. This must be the starting point for ontology. ” Heidegg ...
9 December 2009 “our little life is rounded with a sleep” …can
... But what about other things? For example, could one feel, over a whole portion of one's body, could one feel something? Well, not if one hasn't got a body. Could one feel the emotional thump which one has when one experiences emotions? Emotions involve more than just emotional thumps or sensations; ...
... But what about other things? For example, could one feel, over a whole portion of one's body, could one feel something? Well, not if one hasn't got a body. Could one feel the emotional thump which one has when one experiences emotions? Emotions involve more than just emotional thumps or sensations; ...
Purva Mimamsa and Vedanta
... we mean by a proof is a sequence of logical implications beginning with axioms that have been assumed without question. Explanation only means this. We relate it to what has been known before or what has been deduced before. We associate it with past impressions. When it comes to existential questio ...
... we mean by a proof is a sequence of logical implications beginning with axioms that have been assumed without question. Explanation only means this. We relate it to what has been known before or what has been deduced before. We associate it with past impressions. When it comes to existential questio ...
PDF - Jeffrey C. King
... academic philosophy was very bad, so I planned to get my Ph.D. in philosophy and get on with my life after that by pursuing some other career. It didn’t turn out that way. You’re a top philosopher of language. A key area you’ve thought about is the nature of propositions. Before saying what you thin ...
... academic philosophy was very bad, so I planned to get my Ph.D. in philosophy and get on with my life after that by pursuing some other career. It didn’t turn out that way. You’re a top philosopher of language. A key area you’ve thought about is the nature of propositions. Before saying what you thin ...