Against the Idols of the Age
... University revealed biases in appointments. When he wrote that a philosopher in the ...
... University revealed biases in appointments. When he wrote that a philosopher in the ...
Thoreau`s Wild Ethics
... adjacent workshops where academics contest their reconstructions, to find open fields where ethics wears the aspect of virtues and their absence. Here the philosopher or theologian will sketch a vivid portrait of friendship or courage, compassion or greed or villainy. The point is not to seek justif ...
... adjacent workshops where academics contest their reconstructions, to find open fields where ethics wears the aspect of virtues and their absence. Here the philosopher or theologian will sketch a vivid portrait of friendship or courage, compassion or greed or villainy. The point is not to seek justif ...
Truth, Value and Epistemic Expressivism
... In other words: it is prima facie good to believe all and only the truth on any question that could come to hand. Note that (TG) doesn’t say that it is good for the propositions that I actually consider to be true. Rather, the point is that it is good, relative to the set of propositions I am able t ...
... In other words: it is prima facie good to believe all and only the truth on any question that could come to hand. Note that (TG) doesn’t say that it is good for the propositions that I actually consider to be true. Rather, the point is that it is good, relative to the set of propositions I am able t ...
The Futility of any Anti-Metaphysical Position
... University of Lagos. Abstract This essay simply explains why it is difficult or even impossible to reject metaphysics. By this we do not mean that metaphysical theories cannot be refuted, what we rather mean to say is that it is absolutely futile to deny the existence of metaphysics and its importan ...
... University of Lagos. Abstract This essay simply explains why it is difficult or even impossible to reject metaphysics. By this we do not mean that metaphysical theories cannot be refuted, what we rather mean to say is that it is absolutely futile to deny the existence of metaphysics and its importan ...
Full Text
... truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communic ation with their own reason” (p. 147); third, re. “civilized man,” “[I]t may be a question… … whether we have not lost by refinement some energy by a Christianity, entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild ...
... truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communic ation with their own reason” (p. 147); third, re. “civilized man,” “[I]t may be a question… … whether we have not lost by refinement some energy by a Christianity, entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild ...
12 Desire-Like Imagination
... identification would be, as Currie and Ravenscroft put it, to confuse the character of an imagining with its content (Currie and Ravenscroft 2002, 27; see also Currie 1997, 67). Just as there is a distinction between desiring an ice cream and believing that one desires an ice cream, there is also a ...
... identification would be, as Currie and Ravenscroft put it, to confuse the character of an imagining with its content (Currie and Ravenscroft 2002, 27; see also Currie 1997, 67). Just as there is a distinction between desiring an ice cream and believing that one desires an ice cream, there is also a ...
FROM FICTION TO PHRONÉSIS A critical dialogue with Martha
... undoubtedly Aristotle. In his Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle gives great priority to the fact that we have unique value systems as humans, that our ethical situations often differ from each other, and that we are not only rational beings but also beings with emotions. Aristotle even believes that we c ...
... undoubtedly Aristotle. In his Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle gives great priority to the fact that we have unique value systems as humans, that our ethical situations often differ from each other, and that we are not only rational beings but also beings with emotions. Aristotle even believes that we c ...
Roman Stoicism
... of us these days. After all, who hasn’t disproven this thesis by standing on a chair to reach something high (or fight off a tiger)? A chair’s function is to support our bums when we want to sit but that doesn’t preclude us from using it in some other way to achieve a different end. When it comes to ...
... of us these days. After all, who hasn’t disproven this thesis by standing on a chair to reach something high (or fight off a tiger)? A chair’s function is to support our bums when we want to sit but that doesn’t preclude us from using it in some other way to achieve a different end. When it comes to ...
REVIEW David Couzens Hoy, The Time of Our Lives: A Critical
... But time, undeniably, also passes by in an objective manner, independent of the mind. Thus, it is not possible to step outside of time, or for the temporal to be more accurate. The temporal dimension is always there as it is a central aspect of being a human. Hoy starts by what he calls Heidegger’s ...
... But time, undeniably, also passes by in an objective manner, independent of the mind. Thus, it is not possible to step outside of time, or for the temporal to be more accurate. The temporal dimension is always there as it is a central aspect of being a human. Hoy starts by what he calls Heidegger’s ...
VIRTUE IS KNOWLEDGE, MCDOWELL AND ARISTOTLE
... discerned by comparison, then novel moral situations accordingly do not fit into the knowledge paradigm. In this way, the objection goes, there must be something else (perhaps an orectic state) besides knowledge determining the course of action. The last objection I raise is the case of the “no-brai ...
... discerned by comparison, then novel moral situations accordingly do not fit into the knowledge paradigm. In this way, the objection goes, there must be something else (perhaps an orectic state) besides knowledge determining the course of action. The last objection I raise is the case of the “no-brai ...
Transcript of the teachings by Geshe Chonyi
... Guntang Rinpoche advises, “When one has faith in the depths of one’s heart, naturally one will put in the effort.” When we have faith and conviction in what we are doing, we will not succumb to difficulties in working towards achieving our goal. However, for most of us, we lack such faith and convic ...
... Guntang Rinpoche advises, “When one has faith in the depths of one’s heart, naturally one will put in the effort.” When we have faith and conviction in what we are doing, we will not succumb to difficulties in working towards achieving our goal. However, for most of us, we lack such faith and convic ...
neo-sentimentalism`s prospects[*]
... concepts. That constraint is that the analysans ought to maintain the action-guidingness, or more generally the normative force, of the analysandum. What is wrong with an analysis of good in terms of biological fitness, for instance, resides in the fact that biological fitness has no particular norm ...
... concepts. That constraint is that the analysans ought to maintain the action-guidingness, or more generally the normative force, of the analysandum. What is wrong with an analysis of good in terms of biological fitness, for instance, resides in the fact that biological fitness has no particular norm ...
INTELLECTUAL AUTONOMY
... intellect. It is unlikely that we can autonomously make a choice unless the beliefs upon which the choice is based are autonomous. This point does not depend upon any particular view of autonomy, but only on the assumption that choices depend upon beliefs. If it is good that acts are autonomous, at ...
... intellect. It is unlikely that we can autonomously make a choice unless the beliefs upon which the choice is based are autonomous. This point does not depend upon any particular view of autonomy, but only on the assumption that choices depend upon beliefs. If it is good that acts are autonomous, at ...
the tension between aristotle_s theories
... their compatibility with a realistic theory of science. In this regard, Aristotle's work is one of the most interesting case-studies in history from which some light might be thrown on this debate, as there is an unavoidable three-way tension between his methodological claims, rhetorical and literar ...
... their compatibility with a realistic theory of science. In this regard, Aristotle's work is one of the most interesting case-studies in history from which some light might be thrown on this debate, as there is an unavoidable three-way tension between his methodological claims, rhetorical and literar ...
I, Sim - Simulation Argument
... people to be genuinely conscious, as you and I are? If they are conscious, what are their mental lives like? Do their mental states have causal powers? Could we have any empirical reasons to believe that our world is real rather than simulated? Relative to me, could it ever be true that I am living ...
... people to be genuinely conscious, as you and I are? If they are conscious, what are their mental lives like? Do their mental states have causal powers? Could we have any empirical reasons to believe that our world is real rather than simulated? Relative to me, could it ever be true that I am living ...
"Meat Thinks" Talk Notes
... Descartes’ strategy may strike you as lame, but here it is: (1) Demonstrate in a way that convinces any rational person (even scientists) that God exists and is not a deceiver. Descartes uses a traditional argument for God (the Ontological Argument) that supposedly does not involve any reference to ...
... Descartes’ strategy may strike you as lame, but here it is: (1) Demonstrate in a way that convinces any rational person (even scientists) that God exists and is not a deceiver. Descartes uses a traditional argument for God (the Ontological Argument) that supposedly does not involve any reference to ...
Pointing and Representing – Three Options
... attention of others. Even though pointing can allow for reference displacement (making it a good candidate for a precursor for linguistic communication) it is a communicative mode that fully depends on sharing the same visual space (Liszkowski, 2010). Through pointing, infants can direct the attenti ...
... attention of others. Even though pointing can allow for reference displacement (making it a good candidate for a precursor for linguistic communication) it is a communicative mode that fully depends on sharing the same visual space (Liszkowski, 2010). Through pointing, infants can direct the attenti ...
Redefining Philosophy through Assimilation
... Another example is Nishida’s assimilation of the ideas found in Plato’s Timaeus to his philosophy of place or basho 場所. Even though Nishida clearly state his difference from Plato, he did admit that it is a term that he “assimilates” (倣う).19 Of course, Nishida did not only employ or assimilate Weste ...
... Another example is Nishida’s assimilation of the ideas found in Plato’s Timaeus to his philosophy of place or basho 場所. Even though Nishida clearly state his difference from Plato, he did admit that it is a term that he “assimilates” (倣う).19 Of course, Nishida did not only employ or assimilate Weste ...
Conscience-Egoism-Kant
... Kant brought the notion of respect (Achtung) to the center of moral philosophy for the first time. To respect people is to treat them as ends in themselves. He sees people as autonomous, i.e., as giving the moral law to themselves. The opposite of respecting people is treating them as mere means to ...
... Kant brought the notion of respect (Achtung) to the center of moral philosophy for the first time. To respect people is to treat them as ends in themselves. He sees people as autonomous, i.e., as giving the moral law to themselves. The opposite of respecting people is treating them as mere means to ...
Spirituality and Biblical Hermeneutics The Challenge of Ricoeur`s
... Ricoeur has been sensitive to forms of expression, to the poetics of language and action, also in its religious dimensions. However, there are all kind of reasons nót to connect Ricoeur’s philosophy to a spiritual hermeneutic and we should give serious attention to these reasons. I distinguish at le ...
... Ricoeur has been sensitive to forms of expression, to the poetics of language and action, also in its religious dimensions. However, there are all kind of reasons nót to connect Ricoeur’s philosophy to a spiritual hermeneutic and we should give serious attention to these reasons. I distinguish at le ...
The Tragic Community - Friedrich Nietzsche and Mao Tse Tung
... Contradiction, for Mao, abides at the heart of all things – within each particular being and amidst the universality of the cosmos, or the All. Contradiction is the existence of all things the birth, life and death of all things, and of the incessant re-birth of all particular kinds of thing, or bei ...
... Contradiction, for Mao, abides at the heart of all things – within each particular being and amidst the universality of the cosmos, or the All. Contradiction is the existence of all things the birth, life and death of all things, and of the incessant re-birth of all particular kinds of thing, or bei ...
Some Remarks on Moral Rules - Università degli Studi di Trieste
... be a deductive model that requires that every singular statement of an ethical system is produced by the conjunction of a general moral norm with a description of a proper case. The purpose of the general norm is to highlight a fundamental property related to the moral dimension; the purpose of the ...
... be a deductive model that requires that every singular statement of an ethical system is produced by the conjunction of a general moral norm with a description of a proper case. The purpose of the general norm is to highlight a fundamental property related to the moral dimension; the purpose of the ...
Neo-Fregeanism and Quantifier Variance
... number of Fs’ and ‘the number of Gs’ really function as singular terms on the lefthand side of Hume’s Principle. 2 Sider, however, suggests that this particular debate is a mere distraction. What’s crucial is whether sentences like ‘the number of Fs is identical to the number of Gs’ are susceptible ...
... number of Fs’ and ‘the number of Gs’ really function as singular terms on the lefthand side of Hume’s Principle. 2 Sider, however, suggests that this particular debate is a mere distraction. What’s crucial is whether sentences like ‘the number of Fs is identical to the number of Gs’ are susceptible ...
johannes bronkhorst trv murti`s reason
... It is important to emphasise that Murti does not in all respects agree with Hegel. As a matter of fact, he develops a vision of reality which is quite different from Hegel's, though inspired by it. We will turn to it below. Here it must be observed that without at least some awareness of Hegel's phi ...
... It is important to emphasise that Murti does not in all respects agree with Hegel. As a matter of fact, he develops a vision of reality which is quite different from Hegel's, though inspired by it. We will turn to it below. Here it must be observed that without at least some awareness of Hegel's phi ...