Communication, Expression, and the Justification of Punishment
... understanding has some desired effect on him. Much could be said for and against these theories, but I want to focus on a particular worry: that they are not able to justify punishment in those cases in which the punished are not receptive to the message conveyed by their punishment. I will use the ...
... understanding has some desired effect on him. Much could be said for and against these theories, but I want to focus on a particular worry: that they are not able to justify punishment in those cases in which the punished are not receptive to the message conveyed by their punishment. I will use the ...
Peter Kreeft-The philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
... and this is a fifth reason Aquinas stands out among philosophers: the close union between the theoretical and the practical sides of his mind. Aquinas was personally absentminded, as most geniuses are, but he was not out of touch, or removed from real life, as most geniuses are. He wrote hundreds of ...
... and this is a fifth reason Aquinas stands out among philosophers: the close union between the theoretical and the practical sides of his mind. Aquinas was personally absentminded, as most geniuses are, but he was not out of touch, or removed from real life, as most geniuses are. He wrote hundreds of ...
1929 Davos Disputation - The Dallas Philosophers Forum
... I would like to pull back from the fray and elucidate what I see as the most significant underlying issue that all the other treatments I have seen of the debate overlook. We have to go below the surface and compare the respective readings of Kant from Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and fro ...
... I would like to pull back from the fray and elucidate what I see as the most significant underlying issue that all the other treatments I have seen of the debate overlook. We have to go below the surface and compare the respective readings of Kant from Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and fro ...
PDF - UNT Digital Library
... environmental aesthetics in order to advocate and promote environmentally sustainable practices, policies, and lifestyles. I attempt to construct an integrated environmental aesthetics in order to inspire people’s feelings of love towards nature and motivate them to protect it. In order to achieve t ...
... environmental aesthetics in order to advocate and promote environmentally sustainable practices, policies, and lifestyles. I attempt to construct an integrated environmental aesthetics in order to inspire people’s feelings of love towards nature and motivate them to protect it. In order to achieve t ...
dubos and hume on the paradox of tragedy
... what he’s doing. But what contribution could the remark in question make toward the clarification of his problem, if that problem is simply that of determining which of two empirical generalizations is true. Here’s what I suggest: the passage just quoted presents the Scylla and Charybdis of Dubos’ p ...
... what he’s doing. But what contribution could the remark in question make toward the clarification of his problem, if that problem is simply that of determining which of two empirical generalizations is true. Here’s what I suggest: the passage just quoted presents the Scylla and Charybdis of Dubos’ p ...
Cato Wittusen - University of Chicago
... 2. Some Obstacles to a Proper Understanding of ‘Secondary Sense’ I want to start by focusing on readings that explore the phenomenon by contrasting secondary uses with metaphors. On the face of it, Wittgenstein is indeed saying that secondary senses should not be reduced to metaphors in remarking th ...
... 2. Some Obstacles to a Proper Understanding of ‘Secondary Sense’ I want to start by focusing on readings that explore the phenomenon by contrasting secondary uses with metaphors. On the face of it, Wittgenstein is indeed saying that secondary senses should not be reduced to metaphors in remarking th ...
The Key to Theosophy - Canadian Theosophical Association
... must remain a riddle; for in the world mental as in the world spiritual each man must progress by his own efforts. The writer cannot do the reader's thinking for him, nor would the latter be any the better off if such vicarious thought were possible. The need for such an exposition as the present ha ...
... must remain a riddle; for in the world mental as in the world spiritual each man must progress by his own efforts. The writer cannot do the reader's thinking for him, nor would the latter be any the better off if such vicarious thought were possible. The need for such an exposition as the present ha ...
Immanuel Kant-Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
... good in itself, and considered by itself is to be esteemed much higher than all that can be brought about by it in favour of any inclination, nay even of the sum total of all inclinations. Even if it should happen that, owing to special disfavour of fortune, or the niggardly provision of a step-moth ...
... good in itself, and considered by itself is to be esteemed much higher than all that can be brought about by it in favour of any inclination, nay even of the sum total of all inclinations. Even if it should happen that, owing to special disfavour of fortune, or the niggardly provision of a step-moth ...
The epistemological tradition in French sociology
... sixties. Many art and literature scholars and critics are familiar with Bachelard’s writings on poetic images and still today these texts are more well known than his epistemological works. Canguilhem’s study on the history of the reflex concept is well known to the historians of medicine or physiol ...
... sixties. Many art and literature scholars and critics are familiar with Bachelard’s writings on poetic images and still today these texts are more well known than his epistemological works. Canguilhem’s study on the history of the reflex concept is well known to the historians of medicine or physiol ...
Popper and Xenophanes - ORCA
... It is next appropriate to summarise Popper’s commentary on this fragment. As he remarks, this passage goes beyond asserting the conjectural character of human knowledge, and presents a theory of objective knowledge, for which, even if you or I may say something true, neither you nor I nor anyone wil ...
... It is next appropriate to summarise Popper’s commentary on this fragment. As he remarks, this passage goes beyond asserting the conjectural character of human knowledge, and presents a theory of objective knowledge, for which, even if you or I may say something true, neither you nor I nor anyone wil ...
5. Conformism and analytic philosophy[11]
... bringing these paradigms before the mind was not to provide an occasion for critical reflection, but merely to provide models to be imitated. It is against this backdrop, Havelock argues, that we are to understand the direction philosophy took in its early years, from the pre-Socratics through Plato ...
... bringing these paradigms before the mind was not to provide an occasion for critical reflection, but merely to provide models to be imitated. It is against this backdrop, Havelock argues, that we are to understand the direction philosophy took in its early years, from the pre-Socratics through Plato ...
Alexander of Aphrodisias`s Account of Universals and
... follow from his definition of a universal alone. This definition may be interpreted as being compatible with universals that exist without being instantiated.6 I will not delve into the question about the ontological status of Aristotelian universals. Rather, I wish to draw attention to the question ...
... follow from his definition of a universal alone. This definition may be interpreted as being compatible with universals that exist without being instantiated.6 I will not delve into the question about the ontological status of Aristotelian universals. Rather, I wish to draw attention to the question ...
A discussion of Aristotle`s De Anima
... to begin with chapter and work through page by page until ? Should we coordinate editions and such? The easiest thing for non-Greek-readers would probably be to use the Barnes collected works (they’re good and common enough that the local library should have a set if one doesn’t want to purchase a ...
... to begin with chapter and work through page by page until ? Should we coordinate editions and such? The easiest thing for non-Greek-readers would probably be to use the Barnes collected works (they’re good and common enough that the local library should have a set if one doesn’t want to purchase a ...
Did Tarski Commit "Tarski`s Fallacy"?
... 1 has a (Tarskian) model. Q.E.D.5 This proof is short and elegant, yet it does not go far enough. First, Tarski's definition of logical consequence applies to standard higher-order logic as much as to standard first-order logic, but the argument from completeness does not apply to standard higher-or ...
... 1 has a (Tarskian) model. Q.E.D.5 This proof is short and elegant, yet it does not go far enough. First, Tarski's definition of logical consequence applies to standard higher-order logic as much as to standard first-order logic, but the argument from completeness does not apply to standard higher-or ...
Truth and Perspectivism
... If Nietzsche is right about the kind of world we live in, then he is justified in claiming that most thoughts or statements we take to be true (e.g. “That leaf is green) cannot correspond to the world. But in one way, Nietzsche seems to be taking too narrow a view of what thought and language presu ...
... If Nietzsche is right about the kind of world we live in, then he is justified in claiming that most thoughts or statements we take to be true (e.g. “That leaf is green) cannot correspond to the world. But in one way, Nietzsche seems to be taking too narrow a view of what thought and language presu ...
Altruistic emotional motivation: An argument in
... We have seen that PE is a variety of motivational monism. This demanding aspect of the theory has led most advocates of PA to search for counterexamples, particular actions or types of action that cannot be convincingly explained in egoistic terms. Indeed, PE could be proven false by showing that at ...
... We have seen that PE is a variety of motivational monism. This demanding aspect of the theory has led most advocates of PA to search for counterexamples, particular actions or types of action that cannot be convincingly explained in egoistic terms. Indeed, PE could be proven false by showing that at ...
Dharmakirti and Husserl on Negative Judgments
... Same as in D1, here the affirmative statement "[I] see only the desk, chairs and books" substitutes for the negative ones "[I] see that Y is not there" or "[I] do not see that Y is there." The normal unobstructed perceptions of desk or chairs indicate what is going on in the perceptual level when I ...
... Same as in D1, here the affirmative statement "[I] see only the desk, chairs and books" substitutes for the negative ones "[I] see that Y is not there" or "[I] do not see that Y is there." The normal unobstructed perceptions of desk or chairs indicate what is going on in the perceptual level when I ...
Speaking the Unnamable: A Phenomenology of Sense in T. S.
... Noesis marks the process and the mode of conscious awareness of the existents of reality, or the act and the process of experiencing; while noema refers to the object of this awareness, this object in its turn appearing as an element of the complex of the noematic meanings (or objects as they are ap ...
... Noesis marks the process and the mode of conscious awareness of the existents of reality, or the act and the process of experiencing; while noema refers to the object of this awareness, this object in its turn appearing as an element of the complex of the noematic meanings (or objects as they are ap ...
THE SUBSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE
... is understood in a syntactic way as a function replacing nonlogical terms; on the model-theoretic approach an interpretation is an assignment of semantic values to the nonlogical expressions plus the specification of a domain. There is another important difference: The model-theoretic analysis of va ...
... is understood in a syntactic way as a function replacing nonlogical terms; on the model-theoretic approach an interpretation is an assignment of semantic values to the nonlogical expressions plus the specification of a domain. There is another important difference: The model-theoretic analysis of va ...
Persuasion, Manipulation, and Responsibility
... charge that certain forms of advertising rob a person of the capacity for free choice in deciding whether to purchase a product, good, or service.”10 Advertising is normally cited by these critics as either being misleading or manipulative through the advertisers’ presentation or mispresentation of ...
... charge that certain forms of advertising rob a person of the capacity for free choice in deciding whether to purchase a product, good, or service.”10 Advertising is normally cited by these critics as either being misleading or manipulative through the advertisers’ presentation or mispresentation of ...
Scepticism with regard to Reason* David Owen, University of
... sometimes seen people make mistakes in such matters and accept as certain... things which seemed false to us.”10 The argument is similar to Hume’s first negative argument: since we are fallible, and make mistakes, we can’t accept as certain even the results of demonstrations. An awareness of the un ...
... sometimes seen people make mistakes in such matters and accept as certain... things which seemed false to us.”10 The argument is similar to Hume’s first negative argument: since we are fallible, and make mistakes, we can’t accept as certain even the results of demonstrations. An awareness of the un ...
Elon tribute to McDermott - Society for the Advancement of American
... There are, however, occasions when McDermott is so fevered that his wedgings, as if by wizardry, metamorphose into rockets, and you feel yourself, as in Plato, a feathered man transported by his spiraling metaphors into the wild blue yonder, where, as Emerson says, the air is all music and the intel ...
... There are, however, occasions when McDermott is so fevered that his wedgings, as if by wizardry, metamorphose into rockets, and you feel yourself, as in Plato, a feathered man transported by his spiraling metaphors into the wild blue yonder, where, as Emerson says, the air is all music and the intel ...
Four Puzzles about Life
... life. Our concepts of life are contingent and vary across space and time; they are relative to our cultures and change with them. Just as physicists are concerned with the nature of matter itself rather than our concept of matter, our concern should be the timeless truth about what life really is—th ...
... life. Our concepts of life are contingent and vary across space and time; they are relative to our cultures and change with them. Just as physicists are concerned with the nature of matter itself rather than our concept of matter, our concern should be the timeless truth about what life really is—th ...
Quining Naturalism
... predicates—say, the terms we use in talking about medium sized objects, or in talking about numbers. Carnap thought that adopting such a framework, or way of talking, typically brings with it ontological methods and questions. These are ‘internal’ questions, questions that arise within the framework ...
... predicates—say, the terms we use in talking about medium sized objects, or in talking about numbers. Carnap thought that adopting such a framework, or way of talking, typically brings with it ontological methods and questions. These are ‘internal’ questions, questions that arise within the framework ...
Levels of Reasons and Causal Explanation
... It is obvious that some explanations of some phenomena speak of the causes of those phenomena. Simple examples come immediately to mind: the bridge collapsed because the wind reached a certain intensity, electrons flew off the metal because light shone on it. Much more controversial is the claim tha ...
... It is obvious that some explanations of some phenomena speak of the causes of those phenomena. Simple examples come immediately to mind: the bridge collapsed because the wind reached a certain intensity, electrons flew off the metal because light shone on it. Much more controversial is the claim tha ...