The Presocratic Sophos - Philosophy 1510 All Sections
... out a reasonable explanation for the changes he saw in nature. Seeking reasons for holding a belief is part of rational discourse. Anaximander (611-546 B.C.), a student of Thales, thought that a limited element like water was insufficient to account for everything. Whatever is responsible for the ex ...
... out a reasonable explanation for the changes he saw in nature. Seeking reasons for holding a belief is part of rational discourse. Anaximander (611-546 B.C.), a student of Thales, thought that a limited element like water was insufficient to account for everything. Whatever is responsible for the ex ...
Is Science Killing the Soul?
... of anti-scientific attitude. In the sense of Soul Two, science doesn't kill the soul, it gives the soul constant and exhilarating re-birth. Now, there are, of course many unsolved problems, and scientists are the first to admit this. There are aspects of human subjective consciousness that are deepl ...
... of anti-scientific attitude. In the sense of Soul Two, science doesn't kill the soul, it gives the soul constant and exhilarating re-birth. Now, there are, of course many unsolved problems, and scientists are the first to admit this. There are aspects of human subjective consciousness that are deepl ...
The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life
... to be gained, and pains to be escaped. And for having so constantly perceived this psychological fact, we must applaud the intuitionist school. Whether or not such applause must be extended to that ...
... to be gained, and pains to be escaped. And for having so constantly perceived this psychological fact, we must applaud the intuitionist school. Whether or not such applause must be extended to that ...
Biology and Epistemology - Assets
... the case of Darwin and his philosophers. He thus tackles a set of questions similar to Ruse’s, but introduces John Stuart Mill into the mix. Mill, as the first truly inductivist philosopher of science, was more representative of the time, when both the “hypothetical” and “deductive” cores of Hersche ...
... the case of Darwin and his philosophers. He thus tackles a set of questions similar to Ruse’s, but introduces John Stuart Mill into the mix. Mill, as the first truly inductivist philosopher of science, was more representative of the time, when both the “hypothetical” and “deductive” cores of Hersche ...
Death - Philosophy
... TTc: “When I die, I will no longer exist. I will just be a corpse.” Such a remark seems self-contradictory. TT is not the view that when people die, they cease existing as the same kind of thing they formerly were. TT implies that when a person dies, he or she ceases existing as any kind of thing, s ...
... TTc: “When I die, I will no longer exist. I will just be a corpse.” Such a remark seems self-contradictory. TT is not the view that when people die, they cease existing as the same kind of thing they formerly were. TT implies that when a person dies, he or she ceases existing as any kind of thing, s ...
The Vindication of St. Thomas
... history of philosophy, we were reading the likes of Henri De Lubac, Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan, Edward Schillebeeckx, Yves Congar, and even the very early Joseph Ratzinger. Some of our teachers were just back from studying in Rome, where they had drunk deeply of so-called Transcendental Thomism — ...
... history of philosophy, we were reading the likes of Henri De Lubac, Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan, Edward Schillebeeckx, Yves Congar, and even the very early Joseph Ratzinger. Some of our teachers were just back from studying in Rome, where they had drunk deeply of so-called Transcendental Thomism — ...
Personal Identity
... whether he is the one who had it. We should have to know who was who before applying the theory that is supposed to tell us who is who.” ii. PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTINUITY: a person, S, who exists at t0 is identical with N, something that exists at t1, if and only if S is, at t0, psychologically continuou ...
... whether he is the one who had it. We should have to know who was who before applying the theory that is supposed to tell us who is who.” ii. PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTINUITY: a person, S, who exists at t0 is identical with N, something that exists at t1, if and only if S is, at t0, psychologically continuou ...
1 Critical Consciousness and Liberal Education
... setting the Greeks apart from the other civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. The Greeks, the nineteenth-century historian Jacob Burckhardt said, “seem original, spontaneous and conscious, in circumstances in which all others were ruled by a more or less mindless necessity.”1 What distinguishe ...
... setting the Greeks apart from the other civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. The Greeks, the nineteenth-century historian Jacob Burckhardt said, “seem original, spontaneous and conscious, in circumstances in which all others were ruled by a more or less mindless necessity.”1 What distinguishe ...
Notes on Hume`s And Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
... The knowledge of that cause and effect is not a priori; it comes entirely from the senses. If we come into contact with some new object, we will not be able to discover any of its causes or effects. We must admit that when we look at our own experience, when we came into contact with new objects, we ...
... The knowledge of that cause and effect is not a priori; it comes entirely from the senses. If we come into contact with some new object, we will not be able to discover any of its causes or effects. We must admit that when we look at our own experience, when we came into contact with new objects, we ...
Virtue Ethics and Moral Pluralsim
... • One common feature of our moral lives that we’ve already encountered are conflicts of duties. There is often more than one thing that we are morally obligated to do, and when we can’t satisfy both obligations, we have to chose one to satisfy and one to fail. • Morally monistic views would ultimate ...
... • One common feature of our moral lives that we’ve already encountered are conflicts of duties. There is often more than one thing that we are morally obligated to do, and when we can’t satisfy both obligations, we have to chose one to satisfy and one to fail. • Morally monistic views would ultimate ...
Velasquez, Philosophy TRACK 1: CHAPTER REVIEW CHAPTER 2
... appetite, reason, and a spirited element. Reason seeks what is good and right, the spirited element seeks to assert itself, and appetite involves desires. For Plato, the purpose and destiny of the soul is to be free of its body and ascend to heaven where it will be united with “Forms”— eternal and p ...
... appetite, reason, and a spirited element. Reason seeks what is good and right, the spirited element seeks to assert itself, and appetite involves desires. For Plato, the purpose and destiny of the soul is to be free of its body and ascend to heaven where it will be united with “Forms”— eternal and p ...
THIS IS THE WAY I AM - The Life Management Alliance
... Adopting a way of being, if only as a “pretend” point of view, will cause somebody to have the potential for seeing things differently. If I choose to be open and compassionate, my actions are more likely to be “to attempt to understand”, “to treat the other person kindly,” “to listen,” “to suggest ...
... Adopting a way of being, if only as a “pretend” point of view, will cause somebody to have the potential for seeing things differently. If I choose to be open and compassionate, my actions are more likely to be “to attempt to understand”, “to treat the other person kindly,” “to listen,” “to suggest ...
Cosmological Certainty - Philsci
... down on will abruptly collapse so that we tumble to our death. We do, on occasions, get it wrong. Bridges do collapse; people die in all sorts of unforeseen accidents. Certainty about our immediate environment is not absolute. But on the whole we are confident that we have got it right, and our con ...
... down on will abruptly collapse so that we tumble to our death. We do, on occasions, get it wrong. Bridges do collapse; people die in all sorts of unforeseen accidents. Certainty about our immediate environment is not absolute. But on the whole we are confident that we have got it right, and our con ...
Cosmological Certainty
... possibility that what we eat or drink will poison us, what we walk, climb on or sit or lie down on will abruptly collapse so that we tumble to our death. We do, on occasions, get it wrong. Bridges do collapse; people die in all sorts of unforeseen accidents. Certainty about our immediate environment ...
... possibility that what we eat or drink will poison us, what we walk, climb on or sit or lie down on will abruptly collapse so that we tumble to our death. We do, on occasions, get it wrong. Bridges do collapse; people die in all sorts of unforeseen accidents. Certainty about our immediate environment ...
Moral Optimism versus Moral Pessimism
... “this is the best possible world and everything in it is a necessary evil” (p. 256). Thus, holistically considered, optimism is a positive psychological disposition about the future. The belief that the future will be good or at least better than what experience has hitherto provided. From the foreg ...
... “this is the best possible world and everything in it is a necessary evil” (p. 256). Thus, holistically considered, optimism is a positive psychological disposition about the future. The belief that the future will be good or at least better than what experience has hitherto provided. From the foreg ...
29 th october, 2016. ethics and human conduct in the
... guide everyone in relating with other persons. The dearth of such code of conduct which is able to regulate individual proclivities made life to be nasty, brutish, and short based on state of nature which was said by THOMAS HOBBES, In order to guide again the situation of "WAR OF ALL AGAINST ALL" mi ...
... guide everyone in relating with other persons. The dearth of such code of conduct which is able to regulate individual proclivities made life to be nasty, brutish, and short based on state of nature which was said by THOMAS HOBBES, In order to guide again the situation of "WAR OF ALL AGAINST ALL" mi ...
Does a Postmodernist Philosophy of Mathematics Make Sense
... 3.4 White’s Argument In his paper Mathematics in the Postmodernist Era, White writes A mathematician, I believe, is quite likely to be motivated by the Platonic view that mathematics is external to human mind, that mathematical truth is discovered and – within a given system of axiomatic assumptions ...
... 3.4 White’s Argument In his paper Mathematics in the Postmodernist Era, White writes A mathematician, I believe, is quite likely to be motivated by the Platonic view that mathematics is external to human mind, that mathematical truth is discovered and – within a given system of axiomatic assumptions ...
Theme 3
... Most fully expressed are the views of the Sophists Protagoras. He owns a famous proposition that "man is the measure of all things: the existing, that they exist and do not exist, they do not exist." He says about the relativity of all knowledge, proving that every statement can be contrasted with a ...
... Most fully expressed are the views of the Sophists Protagoras. He owns a famous proposition that "man is the measure of all things: the existing, that they exist and do not exist, they do not exist." He says about the relativity of all knowledge, proving that every statement can be contrasted with a ...
x - unbc
... other possibilities are that everything that exists belongs to a universal consciousness, or that everything exists as part of a computer program; these theories are analogous to Berkeley’s ...
... other possibilities are that everything that exists belongs to a universal consciousness, or that everything exists as part of a computer program; these theories are analogous to Berkeley’s ...
The Semantic Paradoxes Continued
... Curry’s Paradox uses different logical rules (modus ponens, conditional proof) than the liar paradox (excluded middle, disjunction elimination). This suggests that it’s probably not the logic, but instead self-reference and/ or disquotation that is the problem. ...
... Curry’s Paradox uses different logical rules (modus ponens, conditional proof) than the liar paradox (excluded middle, disjunction elimination). This suggests that it’s probably not the logic, but instead self-reference and/ or disquotation that is the problem. ...
the-ant-the-grasshopper-peter
... structure ‘Should X F Y?’, for example, ‘Should the ant help the grasshopper?’ (This question is concrete or ‘in the story’.) 5. Run an enquiry around this question. 6. Then ask an abstract (‘out’ of the story) version of this: ‘Should you help someone who doesn’t deserve help?’ 7. This may also req ...
... structure ‘Should X F Y?’, for example, ‘Should the ant help the grasshopper?’ (This question is concrete or ‘in the story’.) 5. Run an enquiry around this question. 6. Then ask an abstract (‘out’ of the story) version of this: ‘Should you help someone who doesn’t deserve help?’ 7. This may also req ...
Foundations Of Rel... - The Ecclesbourne School Online
... Those who take the Dualistic view of the body and mind say that the body is an outer shell for the real self, which is within the mind. This is often known as the soul. The body will die, but the soul is separate and immortal and continues after the death of the physical body. ...
... Those who take the Dualistic view of the body and mind say that the body is an outer shell for the real self, which is within the mind. This is often known as the soul. The body will die, but the soul is separate and immortal and continues after the death of the physical body. ...
Moral criteria and character education: A reply to Welch. Journal
... went on too much about that. In fact, effective schools are those that are infused with a clear moral purpose and the core values principle makes this point. Moreover, the most compelling of the CEP principles is Principle 5, which urges schools to give students an opportunity to engage in moral act ...
... went on too much about that. In fact, effective schools are those that are infused with a clear moral purpose and the core values principle makes this point. Moreover, the most compelling of the CEP principles is Principle 5, which urges schools to give students an opportunity to engage in moral act ...
Ionian Philosophers
... responds, since it is always in a state of flux (as are all things). How then can we know it? It cannot be anything that I observed by means of the senses, since everything in the field of taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing is changed, and still the same wax nevertheless remains” It is “nothing ...
... responds, since it is always in a state of flux (as are all things). How then can we know it? It cannot be anything that I observed by means of the senses, since everything in the field of taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing is changed, and still the same wax nevertheless remains” It is “nothing ...
Nietzsche`s critique of past philosophers
... philosophy differently, suspiciously, in relation to the idea that even philosophers are a ...
... philosophy differently, suspiciously, in relation to the idea that even philosophers are a ...