The Coleridge Circle: Virtue Ethics, Sympathy, and Outrage
... agent. Such ethicists frequently note that we face the existential crunch of decision-making from time to time only, but how we lead our daily lives and what kind of human beings we become are questions always with us. Our virtues are deepseated predispositions that manifest themselves everyday over ...
... agent. Such ethicists frequently note that we face the existential crunch of decision-making from time to time only, but how we lead our daily lives and what kind of human beings we become are questions always with us. Our virtues are deepseated predispositions that manifest themselves everyday over ...
Fourth Person. From the Impersonal to the Unavailable
... be now forcefully endowed with a special and obscure feeling of itself, with a special and dark will to self-conservation and self-survival –otherwise, why should we speak of its protection against the risk of self-dissolution? This life, therefore, even without any personal identity or figure, woul ...
... be now forcefully endowed with a special and obscure feeling of itself, with a special and dark will to self-conservation and self-survival –otherwise, why should we speak of its protection against the risk of self-dissolution? This life, therefore, even without any personal identity or figure, woul ...
Recentering Musicology and the Philosophy of Music
... It might be thought that we should ask: what is musical experience? The trouble with this question is that experiences of music vary a great deal. Some music may remind me of a childhood event, for example. A slightly better question seems to be: what is the nature of the experience of music when we ...
... It might be thought that we should ask: what is musical experience? The trouble with this question is that experiences of music vary a great deal. Some music may remind me of a childhood event, for example. A slightly better question seems to be: what is the nature of the experience of music when we ...
Naming the colours
... The folk psychophysics of colour is common knowledge among us. In the same tacit way in which we believe the theory itself, we likewise believe that others around us all believe it too; and that they in turn ascribe belief in it to those around them in the same way we do; and so on ad infinitum, or ...
... The folk psychophysics of colour is common knowledge among us. In the same tacit way in which we believe the theory itself, we likewise believe that others around us all believe it too; and that they in turn ascribe belief in it to those around them in the same way we do; and so on ad infinitum, or ...
Dialectic and Dialogue in Plato: Revisiting the Image of "Socrates
... creation of new ideas and processes. If one accepts the concept of absolute ideas, it is not possible to beyond these ideas without questioning and doubting their absoluteness” (39). ...
... creation of new ideas and processes. If one accepts the concept of absolute ideas, it is not possible to beyond these ideas without questioning and doubting their absoluteness” (39). ...
MORAL INTUITION, MORAL THEORY, AND PRACTICAL ETHICS
... philosopher of science may criticize certain aspects of the practice of science, and may urge scientists to revise their understanding of the nature of their practices or the status of their conclusions, the philosopher does not presume to tell scientists that they have been utilizing the wrong meth ...
... philosopher of science may criticize certain aspects of the practice of science, and may urge scientists to revise their understanding of the nature of their practices or the status of their conclusions, the philosopher does not presume to tell scientists that they have been utilizing the wrong meth ...
Deleuze Lecture on Kant 1978 - The Partially Examined Life
... You can see clearly that this already implies a certain status of the subject. If I say that there are appearances and that there are essences, which are basically like the sensible and the intelligible, this implies a certain position of the knowing subject, namely: the very notion of appearance r ...
... You can see clearly that this already implies a certain status of the subject. If I say that there are appearances and that there are essences, which are basically like the sensible and the intelligible, this implies a certain position of the knowing subject, namely: the very notion of appearance r ...
The Good Qualitative Researcher
... 1. Power and ethics: The fundamentals Why is it important to discuss ethics in relation to qualitative research? The obvious answer is, of course, that it is important because researchers have ethical obligations to the people they study. Researchers are usually the relatively more powerful part in ...
... 1. Power and ethics: The fundamentals Why is it important to discuss ethics in relation to qualitative research? The obvious answer is, of course, that it is important because researchers have ethical obligations to the people they study. Researchers are usually the relatively more powerful part in ...
the stoic philosopher - College of Stoic Philosophers
... 500 years and be so harsh? I would hope not. If it did, would there be any Stoics living in the 21 st century? Doubtful. How many people are attracted to living life with only a crust of dry bread, a jug of ditch water, and a hairshirt? I know one who claims that he would, but he doesn't live that ...
... 500 years and be so harsh? I would hope not. If it did, would there be any Stoics living in the 21 st century? Doubtful. How many people are attracted to living life with only a crust of dry bread, a jug of ditch water, and a hairshirt? I know one who claims that he would, but he doesn't live that ...
Self-Interest, Ethical Egoism, and the Restored Gospel
... full sense, since he did not actually claim that the ethical life was based on selfinterest. His central notion of virtue is extolled not simply because it is in one’s interest, but because it is noble (to kalos). Further evidence that Aristotle was not really an ethical egoist comes from Nicomachea ...
... full sense, since he did not actually claim that the ethical life was based on selfinterest. His central notion of virtue is extolled not simply because it is in one’s interest, but because it is noble (to kalos). Further evidence that Aristotle was not really an ethical egoist comes from Nicomachea ...
Asian Philosophy (CH. 18 of AP)
... in a larger whole, the primordial Dao, from which everything originates, and which courses through everything. Human knowledge, at its best, transcends the limits of percepts and concepts and intuits the Dao directly. It is direct and immediate, not being dependent upon a false duality between the k ...
... in a larger whole, the primordial Dao, from which everything originates, and which courses through everything. Human knowledge, at its best, transcends the limits of percepts and concepts and intuits the Dao directly. It is direct and immediate, not being dependent upon a false duality between the k ...
Jani Hakkarainen. Hume`s Scepticism and Realism: His Two
... when it comes to explaining why we think this (in 1.4 of the Treatise) Hume goes through great pains to demonstrate that neither the senses nor reason can supply us with our pre-philosophical belief which is, rather, the result of natural instinct (which combines with the imagination to resolve case ...
... when it comes to explaining why we think this (in 1.4 of the Treatise) Hume goes through great pains to demonstrate that neither the senses nor reason can supply us with our pre-philosophical belief which is, rather, the result of natural instinct (which combines with the imagination to resolve case ...
Philosophy as Dependable Analysis:
... where do we see the "philosopher" at work? Is it significant that in our normal everyday language that the concept of "philosopher", unlike that of "scientist" and "scholar", does not connote any specific location? We may say that a person "doing philosophy" is a "philosopher" but that doesn't tell ...
... where do we see the "philosopher" at work? Is it significant that in our normal everyday language that the concept of "philosopher", unlike that of "scientist" and "scholar", does not connote any specific location? We may say that a person "doing philosophy" is a "philosopher" but that doesn't tell ...
Justification by Imagination
... and imagining a certain situation does not commit us to things actually being the way we imagine them to be. In other words, what we imagine is up to us. How then can imagination provide us with any justification? In what follows, I will provide what I take to be the best answer to this puzzle. The ...
... and imagining a certain situation does not commit us to things actually being the way we imagine them to be. In other words, what we imagine is up to us. How then can imagination provide us with any justification? In what follows, I will provide what I take to be the best answer to this puzzle. The ...
PDF - Berkeley Buddhist studies
... coincides with a renewed interest in phenomenology in the academy at large. The revival is due, in part, to findings in the field of cognitive science that are increasingly difficult for philosophers to ignore—findings that bear directly on concepts such as “person,” “self,” “agency,” “consciousness ...
... coincides with a renewed interest in phenomenology in the academy at large. The revival is due, in part, to findings in the field of cognitive science that are increasingly difficult for philosophers to ignore—findings that bear directly on concepts such as “person,” “self,” “agency,” “consciousness ...
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... ability nowadays. Christie Davies points out that the world has changed since Hobbes’ days and the fear of being laughed at is not as central as it used to be. He writes: ‘An ironic self-deprecating humor has become fashionable even on formal occasions in part because direct displays of pride are se ...
... ability nowadays. Christie Davies points out that the world has changed since Hobbes’ days and the fear of being laughed at is not as central as it used to be. He writes: ‘An ironic self-deprecating humor has become fashionable even on formal occasions in part because direct displays of pride are se ...
Darwinian ethics and error - Victoria University of Wellington
... consisting of categorical imperatives. The actions that morality prescribes with categorical force are those that constitute or promote, roughly speaking, cooperation. To cooperate with those who may return the favour (reciprocal altruism), and those who share a substantial portion of one’s genetic ...
... consisting of categorical imperatives. The actions that morality prescribes with categorical force are those that constitute or promote, roughly speaking, cooperation. To cooperate with those who may return the favour (reciprocal altruism), and those who share a substantial portion of one’s genetic ...
Postmodernism in a Nutshell
... text – and rearrange the fragments after his/hers own liking, generating a new perspective that may either revitalize of critique the original text. In philosophy, neo-pragmatism sustains that the meaning of words do not refer to extra-linguistic entities and objects but to other words. Derrida, for ...
... text – and rearrange the fragments after his/hers own liking, generating a new perspective that may either revitalize of critique the original text. In philosophy, neo-pragmatism sustains that the meaning of words do not refer to extra-linguistic entities and objects but to other words. Derrida, for ...
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD AS AN EMPIRICALLY RESPONSIBLE
... Comprehensive collective volumes on American philosophy and its history, like the ones edited by Shook and Margolis (2006) or Misak (2008), do contain articles by leading Mead scholars who discuss him informatively. In spite of this, however, knowledge about what kind of problems Mead actually was d ...
... Comprehensive collective volumes on American philosophy and its history, like the ones edited by Shook and Margolis (2006) or Misak (2008), do contain articles by leading Mead scholars who discuss him informatively. In spite of this, however, knowledge about what kind of problems Mead actually was d ...
Immanuel Kant-Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
... others in the treatment it requires, so as to be able to perform it with greater facility and in the greatest perfection. Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism. It might d ...
... others in the treatment it requires, so as to be able to perform it with greater facility and in the greatest perfection. Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism. It might d ...
Searle Essay Research Paper Solving the MindBody
... view property dualism; for the essence of a property is that it could not even be conceived as existing apart from something else. For example, “whiteness” could not even be imagined to exist all by itself; the reason is that it is a property, not an independent thing. But we can conceive of the mi ...
... view property dualism; for the essence of a property is that it could not even be conceived as existing apart from something else. For example, “whiteness” could not even be imagined to exist all by itself; the reason is that it is a property, not an independent thing. But we can conceive of the mi ...
Aristotle and the Early Stoics on Moral Responsibility
... first for those studying virtue and second for legislators for assigning honor and punishment (1109b30-35, quoted above). Both these reasons involve only adult humans. In NE 3.2-3 Aristotle turns his analysis to the activity peculiar to adult humans, “choice” (proairesis). Choice is a sort of volunt ...
... first for those studying virtue and second for legislators for assigning honor and punishment (1109b30-35, quoted above). Both these reasons involve only adult humans. In NE 3.2-3 Aristotle turns his analysis to the activity peculiar to adult humans, “choice” (proairesis). Choice is a sort of volunt ...
EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTUAL BELIEF
... The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing ‘absolute’ about it. Science does not rest upon rock-bottom. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any ...
... The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing ‘absolute’ about it. Science does not rest upon rock-bottom. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any ...
Metaphysics as the First Philosophy
... question of substance (Meta.1028b3–8). It is beyond the scope of this essay to explicate the Aristotelian notion of “substance” in any detail, but it is important to understand that substances are ontologically prior – this is a topic that I will return to in the next section.2 Aristotle lists a num ...
... question of substance (Meta.1028b3–8). It is beyond the scope of this essay to explicate the Aristotelian notion of “substance” in any detail, but it is important to understand that substances are ontologically prior – this is a topic that I will return to in the next section.2 Aristotle lists a num ...
SPIS TREŚCI
... Prometheus, the son of a Titan in Greek mythology, appears in Hesiod’s epic poem Theogony as a trickster, one who seeks to challenge the wisdom of almighty Zeus by attempting to usurp his authority and free humanity from the dictates of the gods. In one instance, Prometheus steals the fire from Heph ...
... Prometheus, the son of a Titan in Greek mythology, appears in Hesiod’s epic poem Theogony as a trickster, one who seeks to challenge the wisdom of almighty Zeus by attempting to usurp his authority and free humanity from the dictates of the gods. In one instance, Prometheus steals the fire from Heph ...