Engaging Socrates by Joel Alden Schlosser
... rationalism. One could add Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Gottfried Herder, Matthew Arnold, and J.S. Mill to a list of political thinkers who have found Socrates exemplary in some way. Socrates has left a significant mark on the history of political philosophy. One might even add, as Allan Bloom does ...
... rationalism. One could add Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Gottfried Herder, Matthew Arnold, and J.S. Mill to a list of political thinkers who have found Socrates exemplary in some way. Socrates has left a significant mark on the history of political philosophy. One might even add, as Allan Bloom does ...
Jacques Derrida
... Finally, these books are necessary because, just as intellectual needs have changed, the education systems around the world – the contexts in which introductory books are usually read – have changed radically, too. What was suitable for the minority higher education system of the 1960s is not suitab ...
... Finally, these books are necessary because, just as intellectual needs have changed, the education systems around the world – the contexts in which introductory books are usually read – have changed radically, too. What was suitable for the minority higher education system of the 1960s is not suitab ...
Tekstiä esitelmän 1
... questions of the self are approached in Ricœur‘s view from the methodological point of view. Ricœur translates the ideas of the continental tradition into the language of the analytic tradition and vice versa. Investigation of the method of translation yields various results for studies on Ricœur an ...
... questions of the self are approached in Ricœur‘s view from the methodological point of view. Ricœur translates the ideas of the continental tradition into the language of the analytic tradition and vice versa. Investigation of the method of translation yields various results for studies on Ricœur an ...
Nietzsche`s Conception of Friendship
... In couching his conception of friendship within his naturalistic philosophy of the human person and his philosophy of morality, I aim to establish the central importance of friendship in Nietzsche’s philosophy. An equally important second aim is to demonstrate how Nietzsche’s philosophy of friendshi ...
... In couching his conception of friendship within his naturalistic philosophy of the human person and his philosophy of morality, I aim to establish the central importance of friendship in Nietzsche’s philosophy. An equally important second aim is to demonstrate how Nietzsche’s philosophy of friendshi ...
View - OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
... inherited traits. For the higher types, such “freedom” is expressed in acts of strength, selfishness, war, overcoming, and possessing a cheerful attitude towards one’s own fatality. In effect, to be “free” is to embrace the necessary circumstances that one finds oneself in without ...
... inherited traits. For the higher types, such “freedom” is expressed in acts of strength, selfishness, war, overcoming, and possessing a cheerful attitude towards one’s own fatality. In effect, to be “free” is to embrace the necessary circumstances that one finds oneself in without ...
Ought, Agents, and Actions - Personal World Wide Web Pages
... has an epistemic sense, on which it means, roughly, that some proposition is likely to be the case, and adherents of the naïve view are also typically happy to allow that ‘ought’ also has an evaluative sense, on which it means, roughly, that were things ideal, some proposition would be the case.1 Wh ...
... has an epistemic sense, on which it means, roughly, that some proposition is likely to be the case, and adherents of the naïve view are also typically happy to allow that ‘ought’ also has an evaluative sense, on which it means, roughly, that were things ideal, some proposition would be the case.1 Wh ...
THE PHILOSOPHIES OF HISTORY OF HERDER AND
... the objective, the particular and the universal, the real and the projected.6 They are equally concerned with exploring the role of each cultural ethos in history and finding a framework for explaining the development of humanity in time. Herder and Hegel show us what answers someone from their comp ...
... the objective, the particular and the universal, the real and the projected.6 They are equally concerned with exploring the role of each cultural ethos in history and finding a framework for explaining the development of humanity in time. Herder and Hegel show us what answers someone from their comp ...
Hegel, Nietzsche and the Beyond Within Life by Michael Harry
... does is to set up oppositions in appearance, or phenomenologically, for the sake of understanding, in order that the world and humanity within it can be made intelligible. ...
... does is to set up oppositions in appearance, or phenomenologically, for the sake of understanding, in order that the world and humanity within it can be made intelligible. ...
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares by John Dowland
... musical allegory of the Fall by comparing the changes in harmony, musical devices, Latin titles,9 and—most importantly—Dowland’s treatment of the theme. Instead of an audible representation of melancholy, Hauge hears man’s fall from, and subsequent return to, his celestial state. In their interpreta ...
... musical allegory of the Fall by comparing the changes in harmony, musical devices, Latin titles,9 and—most importantly—Dowland’s treatment of the theme. Instead of an audible representation of melancholy, Hauge hears man’s fall from, and subsequent return to, his celestial state. In their interpreta ...
frege on identity statements
... of a function-expression and an argument-expression, as transparently representing the application of function to object. Where this tight relation comes unstuck, as Frege saw it, was precisely at identity statements. From the outset of his explicitly logical explorations in Begriffsschrift, Frege t ...
... of a function-expression and an argument-expression, as transparently representing the application of function to object. Where this tight relation comes unstuck, as Frege saw it, was precisely at identity statements. From the outset of his explicitly logical explorations in Begriffsschrift, Frege t ...
A Conceptual Map of Scientism
... other than the natural sciences, such as the humanities, have nothing to add to the natural sciences if properly carried out. The questions asked in, say, psychology and philosophy, are nonsensical or obscure. We should abandon the subject matters of these disciplines altogether. For example, Otto ...
... other than the natural sciences, such as the humanities, have nothing to add to the natural sciences if properly carried out. The questions asked in, say, psychology and philosophy, are nonsensical or obscure. We should abandon the subject matters of these disciplines altogether. For example, Otto ...
new Nietzsche
... perform t h e mechanics o f interpretation. T h e value o f t h e interpretations can be judged-at least in part-through the attempts of the present con ...
... perform t h e mechanics o f interpretation. T h e value o f t h e interpretations can be judged-at least in part-through the attempts of the present con ...
Kierkegaard`s Ethic of Love: Divine Commands and Moral Obligations
... usually designated virtues. In due course I will consider the relation of moral obligations to some of the other dimensions of the ethical life, since there are important connections between obligations and such topics as the good, for example. Nonetheless, moral obligations are themselves a signifi ...
... usually designated virtues. In due course I will consider the relation of moral obligations to some of the other dimensions of the ethical life, since there are important connections between obligations and such topics as the good, for example. Nonetheless, moral obligations are themselves a signifi ...
Philosophy of the Buddha: An Introduction
... the Pa¯li canon as among its authoritative texts. Though I do not always accept traditional interpretations, I have always found it helpful to reflect on them. In general, I have tried to stay close to what is actually in the Sutta Pit.aka in contrast to what developed only later in the tradition. Th ...
... the Pa¯li canon as among its authoritative texts. Though I do not always accept traditional interpretations, I have always found it helpful to reflect on them. In general, I have tried to stay close to what is actually in the Sutta Pit.aka in contrast to what developed only later in the tradition. Th ...
Philosophy of the Buddha
... the Pāli canon as among its authoritative texts. Though I do not always accept traditional interpretations, I have always found it helpful to reflect on them. In general, I have tried to stay close to what is actually in the Sutta Pit.aka in contrast to what developed only later in the tradition. Th ...
... the Pāli canon as among its authoritative texts. Though I do not always accept traditional interpretations, I have always found it helpful to reflect on them. In general, I have tried to stay close to what is actually in the Sutta Pit.aka in contrast to what developed only later in the tradition. Th ...
The Modern Epistemic Interpretations of Probability
... The accent on rationality features a peculiar trait of the logical interpretation, which takes a normative attitude towards the theory of probability. As we shall see, this marks a major difference from subjectivism. Within Boole’s perspective, the normative character of probability derives from tha ...
... The accent on rationality features a peculiar trait of the logical interpretation, which takes a normative attitude towards the theory of probability. As we shall see, this marks a major difference from subjectivism. Within Boole’s perspective, the normative character of probability derives from tha ...
aiming at virtue in plato
... SV does not by itself rule in or out any non-evaluatively described actiontype, and it says nothing about how to determine what the virtuous action actually is, which is precisely Cleitophon’s complaint. I thus distinguish between establishing the supreme aim of an agent’s action (which is the funct ...
... SV does not by itself rule in or out any non-evaluatively described actiontype, and it says nothing about how to determine what the virtuous action actually is, which is precisely Cleitophon’s complaint. I thus distinguish between establishing the supreme aim of an agent’s action (which is the funct ...
WHAT (GOOD) ARE THINKING DISPOSITIONS?
... We need not accept Quine’s reductionism (accordingto which dispositions just are features of the internal structure of the disposed object), and so we need not follow Quine all the way down the path of physicalism - according to which all (or all 10.I am here ignoring the distinction-important for t ...
... We need not accept Quine’s reductionism (accordingto which dispositions just are features of the internal structure of the disposed object), and so we need not follow Quine all the way down the path of physicalism - according to which all (or all 10.I am here ignoring the distinction-important for t ...
quine`s argument from despair
... should be strictly translatable into the observation language if they are to be empirically significant. Instead, he introduced a liberal form of reduction that allows theoretical sentences to be correlated with lower level sensory sentences in a way short of translatability. Rather than demanding s ...
... should be strictly translatable into the observation language if they are to be empirically significant. Instead, he introduced a liberal form of reduction that allows theoretical sentences to be correlated with lower level sensory sentences in a way short of translatability. Rather than demanding s ...
Angelaki Differential cruelty
... an elaborate system of cruelty. It is in drawing such a connection between difference and cruelty that Deleuze assigns himself a critical task which consists of reinvestigating metaphysics not only through a philosophy of difference but also a philosophy of cruelty. Yet the recapitulation of metaphy ...
... an elaborate system of cruelty. It is in drawing such a connection between difference and cruelty that Deleuze assigns himself a critical task which consists of reinvestigating metaphysics not only through a philosophy of difference but also a philosophy of cruelty. Yet the recapitulation of metaphy ...
Two Meanings of Disenchantment
... perspectives. Heidegger’s doctrine—God is dead, therefore we must mourn—draws on Nietzsche and further reveals the flight of the gods to be irreducible to, and indeed in opposition to, a secular, utterly this-worldly perspective (see, e.g., Heidegger 1971, 89–142). Such reasoning makes no sense from ...
... perspectives. Heidegger’s doctrine—God is dead, therefore we must mourn—draws on Nietzsche and further reveals the flight of the gods to be irreducible to, and indeed in opposition to, a secular, utterly this-worldly perspective (see, e.g., Heidegger 1971, 89–142). Such reasoning makes no sense from ...
John Searle - sikkim university library
... but to gain an understanding of what he says about language, making it easier to explain how and why his ideas evolved to those concerned with the mind, and from there to social reality. So Chapters 1–4 (Part 1) of this study explore Searle’s thoughts on language. In these chapters we see him focusi ...
... but to gain an understanding of what he says about language, making it easier to explain how and why his ideas evolved to those concerned with the mind, and from there to social reality. So Chapters 1–4 (Part 1) of this study explore Searle’s thoughts on language. In these chapters we see him focusi ...
Schopenhauer`s Theory of Justice
... supported with references to the Vedanta of Hindu scripture. One can only imagine the perplexity of the members of the Society. After some delay, they decided not to award the prize at all. The following year, Arthur Schopenhauer, the then obscure scholar whose essay had been rejected by the Society ...
... supported with references to the Vedanta of Hindu scripture. One can only imagine the perplexity of the members of the Society. After some delay, they decided not to award the prize at all. The following year, Arthur Schopenhauer, the then obscure scholar whose essay had been rejected by the Society ...
The Foundations of Arithmetic in Euclid
... §.. Looking back at Euclid’s Greek (for the sake of translating this into Turkish) brings out some misleading features of the standard English translation by Heath. Heath aids the reader by typographical means; but this may cause us to think wrongly that Euclid’s propositions are like modern theor ...
... §.. Looking back at Euclid’s Greek (for the sake of translating this into Turkish) brings out some misleading features of the standard English translation by Heath. Heath aids the reader by typographical means; but this may cause us to think wrongly that Euclid’s propositions are like modern theor ...
Romantic Cosmopolitanism: Novalis`s “Christianity or Europe”
... redirecting it to the so-called “Dark Ages.” He conjures up a picture of the Middle Ages as an era during which Europe was a harmonious religious and political unity, united in one common religion and under one political ruler (the Holy Roman emperor). Everyone acted on the decrees of the Church, an ...
... redirecting it to the so-called “Dark Ages.” He conjures up a picture of the Middle Ages as an era during which Europe was a harmonious religious and political unity, united in one common religion and under one political ruler (the Holy Roman emperor). Everyone acted on the decrees of the Church, an ...