in defense of the primacy of the virtues
... are actions that would be characteristic of virtuous agents. Put another way, we can use virtuous actions as a heuristic in identifying virtuous agents, but we can use these actions in this way precisely because they are the sorts of actions that virtuous agents would perform. Furthermore, and cruci ...
... are actions that would be characteristic of virtuous agents. Put another way, we can use virtuous actions as a heuristic in identifying virtuous agents, but we can use these actions in this way precisely because they are the sorts of actions that virtuous agents would perform. Furthermore, and cruci ...
Is Structural Spacetime Realism Relationism in Disguise
... not yet been reconciled in a single frame. Before passing to the definitions of substantivalism, let me briefly note the logical relationships of these various forms of scientific realism. Quite naturally, a theory cannot even be approximately true if the entities and the structure it postulates don ...
... not yet been reconciled in a single frame. Before passing to the definitions of substantivalism, let me briefly note the logical relationships of these various forms of scientific realism. Quite naturally, a theory cannot even be approximately true if the entities and the structure it postulates don ...
Ethical Encounter - sikkim university library
... taste.7 Or: ‘objectivism’ – the view that value is somehow ‘in the world’ rather than merely ‘in us’ – can be preserved by holding that ‘brutal’ and ‘callous’ register so-called ‘evaluative properties’ of (in this case) the boys’ deeds. (And the evaluative properties are not entailed by the non-eval ...
... taste.7 Or: ‘objectivism’ – the view that value is somehow ‘in the world’ rather than merely ‘in us’ – can be preserved by holding that ‘brutal’ and ‘callous’ register so-called ‘evaluative properties’ of (in this case) the boys’ deeds. (And the evaluative properties are not entailed by the non-eval ...
Getting Priority Straight
... idea, these explanations thereby confer ontological sparsity. The priority theorist holds that, since the existence and features of raindrops can be explained solely by reference to the existence and features of other things, the world is no more ontologically lush for containing raindrops than it i ...
... idea, these explanations thereby confer ontological sparsity. The priority theorist holds that, since the existence and features of raindrops can be explained solely by reference to the existence and features of other things, the world is no more ontologically lush for containing raindrops than it i ...
All About Hinduism - The Divine Life Society
... Buddhism, Christianity and Mohammedanism owe their origin to the prophets. Their dates are fixed. But no such date can be fixed for Hinduism. Hinduism is not born of the teachings of particular prophets. It is not based on a set of dogmas preached by a particular set of teachers. It is free from rel ...
... Buddhism, Christianity and Mohammedanism owe their origin to the prophets. Their dates are fixed. But no such date can be fixed for Hinduism. Hinduism is not born of the teachings of particular prophets. It is not based on a set of dogmas preached by a particular set of teachers. It is free from rel ...
the cosmology of archelaus of athens
... Let me start with a historical point. It is often pointed out that the cosmogonical tradition issues from, or even starts with, Hesiod’s Theogony. Now the Theogony tells us how from an assumed initial stage the gods representative of major structural parts of the physical world emerged, how the fami ...
... Let me start with a historical point. It is often pointed out that the cosmogonical tradition issues from, or even starts with, Hesiod’s Theogony. Now the Theogony tells us how from an assumed initial stage the gods representative of major structural parts of the physical world emerged, how the fami ...
Hegel and Institutional Rationality:
... and not some other.4 Where Hegel veers off (or veers back to Rousseau. whose position on this issue Hegel did not fully appreciate) is in his linking being in some social roles to the realization of reason in both the “subjective” and “objective” sense noted above.5 Whatever else he means by this, h ...
... and not some other.4 Where Hegel veers off (or veers back to Rousseau. whose position on this issue Hegel did not fully appreciate) is in his linking being in some social roles to the realization of reason in both the “subjective” and “objective” sense noted above.5 Whatever else he means by this, h ...
Most Ordinary Counterfactuals are (Probably) False
... outcomes. If the assumption is false, for example, because ‘edge’ is another possible outcome, no matter. In that case, ‘Toss Heads’ and ‘Toss ◊ Tails’ are clearly not contradictories, but they are still contraries. The truth of ‘Toss ◊ Tails’ still implies the falsehood of ‘Toss Heads’. Or ...
... outcomes. If the assumption is false, for example, because ‘edge’ is another possible outcome, no matter. In that case, ‘Toss Heads’ and ‘Toss ◊ Tails’ are clearly not contradictories, but they are still contraries. The truth of ‘Toss ◊ Tails’ still implies the falsehood of ‘Toss Heads’. Or ...
Overview - Course Materials
... reason and a will, then nature would have hit upon a poor arrangement in having the reason of the creature carry out this purpose” (395). Instinct, and not reason, according to Kant, does a much better job of leading a being to happiness, and Kant here suggests the dictum that ignorance, for many, i ...
... reason and a will, then nature would have hit upon a poor arrangement in having the reason of the creature carry out this purpose” (395). Instinct, and not reason, according to Kant, does a much better job of leading a being to happiness, and Kant here suggests the dictum that ignorance, for many, i ...
this PDF file - Lexicon Philosophicum
... contradiction”, as written in the lemma he cites. However, from this statement he draws a conclusion that is not explicit in Aristotle. Indeed, according to Alexander, the fact that there is no intermediate of a contradiction demonstrates at once that the contradictory pairs cannot be both false. In ...
... contradiction”, as written in the lemma he cites. However, from this statement he draws a conclusion that is not explicit in Aristotle. Indeed, according to Alexander, the fact that there is no intermediate of a contradiction demonstrates at once that the contradictory pairs cannot be both false. In ...
The Role Of Genus And Difference In
... much, when he writes, « The relation of this field of study [i.e., logic] to inner reflection, which is called ‘internal reasoning’ is like the relation of grammar to the explicit interpretation, which is called ‘external reasoning’, and like the relation of prosody to the poem » 1 . In this respect ...
... much, when he writes, « The relation of this field of study [i.e., logic] to inner reflection, which is called ‘internal reasoning’ is like the relation of grammar to the explicit interpretation, which is called ‘external reasoning’, and like the relation of prosody to the poem » 1 . In this respect ...
ON KNOCKDOWN ARGUMENTS 1. Introduction A
... existence of motion does not entail that the arguments for the rotation of the earth are not knockdown. Hence, the objection laid out in §2 does not inadvertently support the Equity Thesis. Thinking about another case might make this more clear. Many philosophers hold that we can know (or be justifi ...
... existence of motion does not entail that the arguments for the rotation of the earth are not knockdown. Hence, the objection laid out in §2 does not inadvertently support the Equity Thesis. Thinking about another case might make this more clear. Many philosophers hold that we can know (or be justifi ...
The elementary forms of moral life?
... responsibility. The will, and its liberty to respond, depends in the first instance not on its own properties but on the subject’s relationship to things. Fauconnet asks us to consider moral facts as things. A subject’s moral qualities are, thereby, not characteristics of an individual (such as thei ...
... responsibility. The will, and its liberty to respond, depends in the first instance not on its own properties but on the subject’s relationship to things. Fauconnet asks us to consider moral facts as things. A subject’s moral qualities are, thereby, not characteristics of an individual (such as thei ...
The Role of Language and Logic in Brouwer`s Work
... undertones and reminds the reader of the fact that Brouwer at one point in his career could not make up his mind as to embark on mathematics or on moral philosophy [van Dalen 1984]. The tone of the later writings is on the whole conciliatory with respect to the old adversary: classical/formalist ma ...
... undertones and reminds the reader of the fact that Brouwer at one point in his career could not make up his mind as to embark on mathematics or on moral philosophy [van Dalen 1984]. The tone of the later writings is on the whole conciliatory with respect to the old adversary: classical/formalist ma ...
Can the Science of Well-Being Be Objective?
... I couch these theses as concerning mixed claims in general, but my examples will be mostly about the science of well-‐being. It is worth concentrating on well-‐being for several reasons. First of all, ...
... I couch these theses as concerning mixed claims in general, but my examples will be mostly about the science of well-‐being. It is worth concentrating on well-‐being for several reasons. First of all, ...
The Way of Zen
... the possibilities of human speech and intellectual understanding. To write about Zen is, therefore, as problematic for the outside, “objective” observer as for the inside, “subjective” disciple. In varying situations I have found myself on both sides of the dilemma. I have associated and studied wit ...
... the possibilities of human speech and intellectual understanding. To write about Zen is, therefore, as problematic for the outside, “objective” observer as for the inside, “subjective” disciple. In varying situations I have found myself on both sides of the dilemma. I have associated and studied wit ...
all about hinduism
... Origin And Significance Of The Term That part of the great Aryan race which migrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu, now called the Indus, on the other side of the river. The Persians pronounced the word Sindhu as Hindu ...
... Origin And Significance Of The Term That part of the great Aryan race which migrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu, now called the Indus, on the other side of the river. The Persians pronounced the word Sindhu as Hindu ...
The Given - Tim Crane
... when they perceive a pig. It is unfortunate perhaps that the same name has been given to both relations; but once the distinction is made, confusion should evaporate. Having said that the content of experience is propositional, the next question that typically arises is what the nature of these pro ...
... when they perceive a pig. It is unfortunate perhaps that the same name has been given to both relations; but once the distinction is made, confusion should evaporate. Having said that the content of experience is propositional, the next question that typically arises is what the nature of these pro ...
The Undiscovered Wittgenstein
... fundamentally mistaken; that Peter Hacker, career-long student of Wittgenstein's work and author of the magisterial four volume commentary (and numerous other studies) on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is fundamentally mistaken, as is Michael Nedo, the director of the Cambridge Wittgens ...
... fundamentally mistaken; that Peter Hacker, career-long student of Wittgenstein's work and author of the magisterial four volume commentary (and numerous other studies) on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is fundamentally mistaken, as is Michael Nedo, the director of the Cambridge Wittgens ...
A Critical History of Posthumanism
... of being human, to a future characterization as after humanity. In this sense, one must suppose that this is necessarily technological subject matter. However, I will endeavour to present a more diverse view of the history of posthumanism, which relies on the range of literatures and biopolitical sp ...
... of being human, to a future characterization as after humanity. In this sense, one must suppose that this is necessarily technological subject matter. However, I will endeavour to present a more diverse view of the history of posthumanism, which relies on the range of literatures and biopolitical sp ...
Constructing and Representing Reality: Hegel and the Making of
... Based on his Theory of Forms—the view that nonmaterial abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest, most fundamental reality—Plato denounces “poetry” as “injurious to the minds which do not possess the antidote in a ...
... Based on his Theory of Forms—the view that nonmaterial abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest, most fundamental reality—Plato denounces “poetry” as “injurious to the minds which do not possess the antidote in a ...
Methods of ethics and the descent of man: Darwin and Sidgwick on
... On the basis of this evidence, it may be asked if Sidgwick actually ever studied The Descent of Man itself, or whether his knowledge of it was either mainly or exclusively second-hand. The texts I have been able to consult fail to unequivocally answer that question. ...
... On the basis of this evidence, it may be asked if Sidgwick actually ever studied The Descent of Man itself, or whether his knowledge of it was either mainly or exclusively second-hand. The texts I have been able to consult fail to unequivocally answer that question. ...
1 - General Guide To Personal and Societies Web Space at Oxford
... responses their bearers call for may be quite different.1 After this interlude, we move on to the WKR-problem. We start with Derek Parfit’s distinction between “state-given” and “object-given” reasons for attitudes, which one might try to employ in order to explain what makes some reasons for pro-at ...
... responses their bearers call for may be quite different.1 After this interlude, we move on to the WKR-problem. We start with Derek Parfit’s distinction between “state-given” and “object-given” reasons for attitudes, which one might try to employ in order to explain what makes some reasons for pro-at ...
1 The Aristotelian Method and Aristotelian Metaphysics
... first mover – a view that might be logically sound, but which perhaps seems problematic in the light of modern physics. Aristotle's Metaphysics is especially interesting for us because there he considers a number of fundamental questions about the nature of metaphysics as a discipline: what are its ...
... first mover – a view that might be logically sound, but which perhaps seems problematic in the light of modern physics. Aristotle's Metaphysics is especially interesting for us because there he considers a number of fundamental questions about the nature of metaphysics as a discipline: what are its ...
Collective Intentionality VI, Berkeley
... of normative pragmatism in the language of computer science is even more specific still. Computers are interactive and (unlike books) rich with counterfactual possibilities. When a claim is implemented within a computer program, we can test a variety of cases. By re-expressing a claim in an interact ...
... of normative pragmatism in the language of computer science is even more specific still. Computers are interactive and (unlike books) rich with counterfactual possibilities. When a claim is implemented within a computer program, we can test a variety of cases. By re-expressing a claim in an interact ...