The Apology and Crito
... emphasizes is an awareness of how little he does know. If we allow that, correlated with human knowledge, there is a kind of human virtue (which is less than divine virtue and divine knowledge), then we can say that Socrates has this sort of human virtue. So: human knowledge, like human virtue, is f ...
... emphasizes is an awareness of how little he does know. If we allow that, correlated with human knowledge, there is a kind of human virtue (which is less than divine virtue and divine knowledge), then we can say that Socrates has this sort of human virtue. So: human knowledge, like human virtue, is f ...
Subjectivity, Objectivity, Intersubjectivity: Phenomenology and
... Husserl says that the primordial sphere is characterised by original givenness, the “alien” sphere by non-original, re-presented givenness: the difference is not temporal, logical, or foundational but lies in the mode of givenness. However, this conception is highly problematic. As I have pointed pu ...
... Husserl says that the primordial sphere is characterised by original givenness, the “alien” sphere by non-original, re-presented givenness: the difference is not temporal, logical, or foundational but lies in the mode of givenness. However, this conception is highly problematic. As I have pointed pu ...
Do We Need Empathy for Moral Motivation? Heidi Lene Maibom ()
... empathy or concern is unacceptable. It forces us to accept that it is impossible for an agent to be motivated to do what she thinks is morally right all the time, even in principle. The reason is that both empathy and concern are emotions that are responsive, not to the circumstances that others are ...
... empathy or concern is unacceptable. It forces us to accept that it is impossible for an agent to be motivated to do what she thinks is morally right all the time, even in principle. The reason is that both empathy and concern are emotions that are responsive, not to the circumstances that others are ...
deductive reasoning
... Some philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, etc. have asked whether the distinction between mythical and rational thinking is valid. In particular they ask whether the distinction is culturally biased. Remember! Just because an account discusses God does not necessarily make it mythical! Rat ...
... Some philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, etc. have asked whether the distinction between mythical and rational thinking is valid. In particular they ask whether the distinction is culturally biased. Remember! Just because an account discusses God does not necessarily make it mythical! Rat ...
FoNS, Hist/Phil Module, Lecture 2
... Physics”): "All science is either physics or stamp collecting” ...
... Physics”): "All science is either physics or stamp collecting” ...
Mind and Body - public.iastate.edu
... color is essentially complete, and so she knows all the physical facts about colors and their perception. Mary, however, has been totally color-blind from birth. (Here I deviate from the story’s standard form, in which—for obscure reasons—she’s been living in an entirely blackand-white environment.) ...
... color is essentially complete, and so she knows all the physical facts about colors and their perception. Mary, however, has been totally color-blind from birth. (Here I deviate from the story’s standard form, in which—for obscure reasons—she’s been living in an entirely blackand-white environment.) ...
Colena Sesanker. Philosophy Club. 12/2014 Kant on the Duty to
... It is impossible to make sense of Kant’s moral recommendations without understanding his metaphysics. The following is a rough sketch of his general picture of reality and of one moral consequence of that picture: According to Kant, if we took the world to be exhausted by the phenomena that appeared ...
... It is impossible to make sense of Kant’s moral recommendations without understanding his metaphysics. The following is a rough sketch of his general picture of reality and of one moral consequence of that picture: According to Kant, if we took the world to be exhausted by the phenomena that appeared ...
Sometimes I despair of my philosophical colleagues
... Sometimes I despair of my philosophical colleagues. They are so conservative. I don’t mean this in a political sense. In conventional party-political terms, most professional philosophers are probably well to the left of centre. As a group, they have a strong sense of fairness and little commitment ...
... Sometimes I despair of my philosophical colleagues. They are so conservative. I don’t mean this in a political sense. In conventional party-political terms, most professional philosophers are probably well to the left of centre. As a group, they have a strong sense of fairness and little commitment ...
The Basis of Moral Knowledge
... Kant wanted to base all our knowledge on reason. To give a comparative example about the physical world, we generally operate on the assumption “every change must have a cause.” There is no way to prove this is true from experience (take my word for it) because it is not observable. It is a presumpt ...
... Kant wanted to base all our knowledge on reason. To give a comparative example about the physical world, we generally operate on the assumption “every change must have a cause.” There is no way to prove this is true from experience (take my word for it) because it is not observable. It is a presumpt ...
Bernard Williams
... would be wrong. Jim’s case is different, and harder . . . One question here would be how far one’s powerful objection to killing people just is, in fact, an application of a powerful objection to their being killed. Another dimension of that is the issue of how much it matters that the people at ris ...
... would be wrong. Jim’s case is different, and harder . . . One question here would be how far one’s powerful objection to killing people just is, in fact, an application of a powerful objection to their being killed. Another dimension of that is the issue of how much it matters that the people at ris ...
- Falmouth University Research Repository
... each performs a single task but which also then connects to another such entity and so on and so on. It’s a pretty mechanical and geeky model of existence! But for me, the term “AUTOMATA” is key. What is an automaton? Automatons, historically, have been created by clock makers. They are machine-like ...
... each performs a single task but which also then connects to another such entity and so on and so on. It’s a pretty mechanical and geeky model of existence! But for me, the term “AUTOMATA” is key. What is an automaton? Automatons, historically, have been created by clock makers. They are machine-like ...
Ethics at a Glance - RHCHP Learning Technologies
... Proportionalism is an approach that evolved in the 20th century with the intent of formulating a dynamic, evolutionary and more pluralistic worldview in light of the complexity of contemporary society. It relies on intuitive positive values such as love and loyalty that can be weighed through the re ...
... Proportionalism is an approach that evolved in the 20th century with the intent of formulating a dynamic, evolutionary and more pluralistic worldview in light of the complexity of contemporary society. It relies on intuitive positive values such as love and loyalty that can be weighed through the re ...
History and Approaches
... interact; and that the mind controls the body while the body provides the mind with sensory input for it to decipher. He believed that this action occurs in the pineal gland; located at the top of the brain stem. ...
... interact; and that the mind controls the body while the body provides the mind with sensory input for it to decipher. He believed that this action occurs in the pineal gland; located at the top of the brain stem. ...
Laws of Thought - World Wide Journals
... thing. Those who violate the law of identity are engaged in the informal logical fallacy, we mean equivocation. Law of Non-Contradiction This law of non-contradiction comes under the domain of logic. It says that “one cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect and at t ...
... thing. Those who violate the law of identity are engaged in the informal logical fallacy, we mean equivocation. Law of Non-Contradiction This law of non-contradiction comes under the domain of logic. It says that “one cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect and at t ...
Lewis on Freud and Marx
... them they say that he is rationalizing his own desires, and therefore need not be answered. But if anyone listens to them, they will argue themselves to show that their own doctrines are true. J—I see. And what is the cure for this? R—You must ask them whether any reasoning is valid or not. If they ...
... them they say that he is rationalizing his own desires, and therefore need not be answered. But if anyone listens to them, they will argue themselves to show that their own doctrines are true. J—I see. And what is the cure for this? R—You must ask them whether any reasoning is valid or not. If they ...
Epistemology, introduction
... any theories or human observation. This perspective dominates Western philosophical tradition which provides the foundation of Western science: reality is assumed to be objective, that is, it exists outside our perception. In this paradigm, neither the search for truth nor truth itself is problemati ...
... any theories or human observation. This perspective dominates Western philosophical tradition which provides the foundation of Western science: reality is assumed to be objective, that is, it exists outside our perception. In this paradigm, neither the search for truth nor truth itself is problemati ...
PHIL 219
... ◦ If she kept trying to convince people to accept what she knows to be true, they’d likely end up killing her (like Socrates). ...
... ◦ If she kept trying to convince people to accept what she knows to be true, they’d likely end up killing her (like Socrates). ...
PHI 110 Lecture 6 1 Today we`re gonna start a number of lectures
... I said, was one of the founders of the ordinary language school from his book, Sense and Sensibilia, which was actually published posthumously on this very question — or on this very issue. Quote — so he’s talking here about the general state of philosophy and the general mistake that philosophers m ...
... I said, was one of the founders of the ordinary language school from his book, Sense and Sensibilia, which was actually published posthumously on this very question — or on this very issue. Quote — so he’s talking here about the general state of philosophy and the general mistake that philosophers m ...
Neuroscience and Moral Reliability
... grim for most ethical principles and intuitions. Tenets like “better to save more lives” or “pain is bad” are for instance easily amenable to evolutionary explanations. Human ancestors that shared these intuitions were likely to avoid pain and to rescue each other more than the members of human grou ...
... grim for most ethical principles and intuitions. Tenets like “better to save more lives” or “pain is bad” are for instance easily amenable to evolutionary explanations. Human ancestors that shared these intuitions were likely to avoid pain and to rescue each other more than the members of human grou ...
EECS 690
... A moral agent must be able to have chosen otherwise than she did. (AP) The moral agent must be ultimately responsible for her decisions (UR) - For AP: Consider Martin Luther, “Here I stand, I can do no other”. Whatever he is doing here, he is not trying to duck responsibility. Also consider what has ...
... A moral agent must be able to have chosen otherwise than she did. (AP) The moral agent must be ultimately responsible for her decisions (UR) - For AP: Consider Martin Luther, “Here I stand, I can do no other”. Whatever he is doing here, he is not trying to duck responsibility. Also consider what has ...
Morality and Action
... having only good or bad effects. Sometimes an action may bring about a bad result even though all three components of the moral act are good. • The “principle of double effect” determines whether or not actions that have both good and evil effects are permissible. ...
... having only good or bad effects. Sometimes an action may bring about a bad result even though all three components of the moral act are good. • The “principle of double effect” determines whether or not actions that have both good and evil effects are permissible. ...
DOC - John Woods
... Russell seems not to have been the discoverer of the paradox that bears his name. It may have been known to Cantor (1845-1918) and appears to have been known to Zermelo (18711953). Either way, no fuss was made. You could do perfectly useful set theory, paradox and all, or you could set out to find t ...
... Russell seems not to have been the discoverer of the paradox that bears his name. It may have been known to Cantor (1845-1918) and appears to have been known to Zermelo (18711953). Either way, no fuss was made. You could do perfectly useful set theory, paradox and all, or you could set out to find t ...
lecture2-CriticalThinking
... apeiron ('limitless') nature of some kind, from which come the heavens and the kosmos ('world order'). Anaximander advocated the idea of biological evolution with human beings, like other animals, evolved from fish. Anaximander was the author of the first written work of philosophy in ancient Greece ...
... apeiron ('limitless') nature of some kind, from which come the heavens and the kosmos ('world order'). Anaximander advocated the idea of biological evolution with human beings, like other animals, evolved from fish. Anaximander was the author of the first written work of philosophy in ancient Greece ...
Plato: Phaedo (Selections) 1 And now, O my judges, I desire to
... us in the search after true being: it fills us full of loves, and lusts, and fears, and fancies of all kinds, and endless foolery, and in fact, as men say, takes away from us the power of thinking at all. Whence come wars, and fightings, and factions? whence but from the body and the lusts of the bo ...
... us in the search after true being: it fills us full of loves, and lusts, and fears, and fancies of all kinds, and endless foolery, and in fact, as men say, takes away from us the power of thinking at all. Whence come wars, and fightings, and factions? whence but from the body and the lusts of the bo ...