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 ...
a2 wtf are the basic goods
... Even when one's purpose is not distinct from one's action, something about the action underlies one's rational interest in doing it. One's reasons for playing a particular game or reading a particular novel are goods which are only instantiated through actions chosen for these reasons. Thus, playing ...
... Even when one's purpose is not distinct from one's action, something about the action underlies one's rational interest in doing it. One's reasons for playing a particular game or reading a particular novel are goods which are only instantiated through actions chosen for these reasons. Thus, playing ...
JJC Smart - Westmont homepage server
... (the Utilitarian standard). Critics of this version complain that, understood in one way, Utilitarianism would sanction convicting an innocent person if that would make the majority of people happier. Because of this problem with act Utilitarianism, many such critics favor another version of this th ...
... (the Utilitarian standard). Critics of this version complain that, understood in one way, Utilitarianism would sanction convicting an innocent person if that would make the majority of people happier. Because of this problem with act Utilitarianism, many such critics favor another version of this th ...
heraclitean critique of kantian and enlightenment ethics through the
... superior to nature) as the foundation of philosophical inquiry mainly because this would contradict the Enlightenment’s claim to constitute a rupture from classic and medieval metaphysics and would render Enlightenment a mere extension of Christian metaphysics. As in Christianity, Überlegenheit pres ...
... superior to nature) as the foundation of philosophical inquiry mainly because this would contradict the Enlightenment’s claim to constitute a rupture from classic and medieval metaphysics and would render Enlightenment a mere extension of Christian metaphysics. As in Christianity, Überlegenheit pres ...
Keith Crome`s `Descartes` Evil Demon`
... a certainty of knowledge as yet unavailable to him and hence would be an impossible undertaking. Instead it is sufficient to withhold assent from anything that is not completely certain and indubitable. Neither is it necessary, he says, to investigate each belief individually. Rather, he need consid ...
... a certainty of knowledge as yet unavailable to him and hence would be an impossible undertaking. Instead it is sufficient to withhold assent from anything that is not completely certain and indubitable. Neither is it necessary, he says, to investigate each belief individually. Rather, he need consid ...
comptes rendus 7_2_
... sure, only Alex Voorhoeve had the opportunity to be like Phaedrus discussing with Socrates. The rest of us are still readers much like we are readers of Plato's dialogues ― the only difference being that Voorhoeve's conversations really happened. An implication of our status as readers is that we ar ...
... sure, only Alex Voorhoeve had the opportunity to be like Phaedrus discussing with Socrates. The rest of us are still readers much like we are readers of Plato's dialogues ― the only difference being that Voorhoeve's conversations really happened. An implication of our status as readers is that we ar ...
PDF - UNT Digital Library
... In the above passages, Lao Tzu compares the Tao to a bowl and a bellows to convey the idea that ch’i has the inexhaustible and infinite power of producing life. However this power is hidden because of its emptiness. The Chinese aesthetic appreciation of emptiness and creativity of ch’i can be best i ...
... In the above passages, Lao Tzu compares the Tao to a bowl and a bellows to convey the idea that ch’i has the inexhaustible and infinite power of producing life. However this power is hidden because of its emptiness. The Chinese aesthetic appreciation of emptiness and creativity of ch’i can be best i ...
Dynamic Ethics
... conceptions of privacy have changed in many ways in response to the new information technologies. The new contexts require and constitute different concepts of personal identity, different concepts of society, and also different concepts of morality. The new concepts may be very different, but not b ...
... conceptions of privacy have changed in many ways in response to the new information technologies. The new contexts require and constitute different concepts of personal identity, different concepts of society, and also different concepts of morality. The new concepts may be very different, but not b ...
Cognitive Illusions and the Welcome Psychologism of Logicist
... new theory of human context-independent reasoning as the cornerstone of this foundation. To reach our goal, we begin by using Johnson-Laird’s ingenious cognitive illusions (in which it seems -- to most, anyway -- that certain propositions can be deduced from given information, but really can’t) to r ...
... new theory of human context-independent reasoning as the cornerstone of this foundation. To reach our goal, we begin by using Johnson-Laird’s ingenious cognitive illusions (in which it seems -- to most, anyway -- that certain propositions can be deduced from given information, but really can’t) to r ...
Leiter, Brian / Weisberg, Michael 2012.10.03 in The Nation: Reviewd
... We take no stance on Nagel’s hypothesis that if our moral faculties are simply the result of evolution, they cannot be reliable measures of objective moral truth. But we should note that Nagel’s colleague, philosopher Sharon Street, accepts it and draws the opposite conclusion. She argues that beca ...
... We take no stance on Nagel’s hypothesis that if our moral faculties are simply the result of evolution, they cannot be reliable measures of objective moral truth. But we should note that Nagel’s colleague, philosopher Sharon Street, accepts it and draws the opposite conclusion. She argues that beca ...
REAL TRAITS , REAL FUNCTIONS? Colin Allen
... Before embarking, it is useful to address another terminological point. Many biologists prefer the term "character" to "trait". There are a couple of reasons for this. First, it appears that Darwin himself did not use the term "trait" to refer to the properties of organisms, writing instead of chara ...
... Before embarking, it is useful to address another terminological point. Many biologists prefer the term "character" to "trait". There are a couple of reasons for this. First, it appears that Darwin himself did not use the term "trait" to refer to the properties of organisms, writing instead of chara ...
Integral Love - The Integral Ego
... absence of separation means the cookies are in some sense touching one another. Yet, obviously, the cookies do not all touch one another, or at least not necessarily. However, the cookie tray does. It is in this sense that no separation exists: a reality beyond that of monism exists, a reality withi ...
... absence of separation means the cookies are in some sense touching one another. Yet, obviously, the cookies do not all touch one another, or at least not necessarily. However, the cookie tray does. It is in this sense that no separation exists: a reality beyond that of monism exists, a reality withi ...
Counterfactuals and Modal Epistemology
... Let us consider the example at hand in more detail. Williamson claims that our imagination is somehow restricted by our perception of the situation and our ‘sense’ of how nature works. From this starting point, our imagination proceeds as ‘realistically’ as it can. A preliminary constraint that help ...
... Let us consider the example at hand in more detail. Williamson claims that our imagination is somehow restricted by our perception of the situation and our ‘sense’ of how nature works. From this starting point, our imagination proceeds as ‘realistically’ as it can. A preliminary constraint that help ...
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
... b. plural. Emotional capacities; †instincts of liking or aversion. ...
... b. plural. Emotional capacities; †instincts of liking or aversion. ...
3. The Union of Energy and Consciousness - Serena Roney
... The Buddhist conception, as stated by the Third Karmapa, is: “Both faculties and objects arise from the mind. The manifestation of sensory objects and faculties is dependent upon an element that has been present throughout beginingless time.” (Thrangu, 2001, p.34) In other words, everything, the wh ...
... The Buddhist conception, as stated by the Third Karmapa, is: “Both faculties and objects arise from the mind. The manifestation of sensory objects and faculties is dependent upon an element that has been present throughout beginingless time.” (Thrangu, 2001, p.34) In other words, everything, the wh ...
Kant`s History of Ethics
... even more from his treatment of these principles in his lectures, is the fact that for Kant these proposed principles of morality, though none of them is adequate, form a sort of hierarchy of approximation to an adequate principle. The ‘subjective’ or ‘empirical’ principles are farther from being a ...
... even more from his treatment of these principles in his lectures, is the fact that for Kant these proposed principles of morality, though none of them is adequate, form a sort of hierarchy of approximation to an adequate principle. The ‘subjective’ or ‘empirical’ principles are farther from being a ...
A Conception of Social Ontology - The Cambridge Social Ontology
... directionality, thereby facilitating action that is appropriate to context. For in theorising, as in all forms of human endeavour, it is quite obviously helpful to know something of the nature of whatever it is that one is attempting to express, investigate, affect, address, transform or even produc ...
... directionality, thereby facilitating action that is appropriate to context. For in theorising, as in all forms of human endeavour, it is quite obviously helpful to know something of the nature of whatever it is that one is attempting to express, investigate, affect, address, transform or even produc ...
hindu ethics
... ethics, for he has the feeling that Western ethical thinking has suffered from a certain insularity, which acquaintance with other systems of thought and life should help to remove. On the other hand, he believes that it is important that thoughtful Hindus should have their attention directed to the ...
... ethics, for he has the feeling that Western ethical thinking has suffered from a certain insularity, which acquaintance with other systems of thought and life should help to remove. On the other hand, he believes that it is important that thoughtful Hindus should have their attention directed to the ...
Moral fictionalism - Victoria University of Wellington
... thinking while making these utterances is the same. It is only in the philosophy classroom—moreover, only when discussing sensory perception—that when pressed on the question of whether the grass is green David might look uncomfortable, squirm, and say “Well, it’s not really green—nothing is really ...
... thinking while making these utterances is the same. It is only in the philosophy classroom—moreover, only when discussing sensory perception—that when pressed on the question of whether the grass is green David might look uncomfortable, squirm, and say “Well, it’s not really green—nothing is really ...
The Varieties of Pure Experience: William James and
... intellectual structures ultimately reflect the practical concerns of human beings as they simultaneously shape and are shaped by the world they inhabit and act within. His “concrete analysis,” as he terms it, thus provides the methodological trajectory of his philosophical considerations. James writ ...
... intellectual structures ultimately reflect the practical concerns of human beings as they simultaneously shape and are shaped by the world they inhabit and act within. His “concrete analysis,” as he terms it, thus provides the methodological trajectory of his philosophical considerations. James writ ...
Logos and Forms in Phaedo 96a-102a
... refer to death as the »separation of the soul from the body« (64c), and it is this common denominator that allows Socrates to engage in a dialogue with his interlocutors. In fact, however, the two sides refer to two different concepts of death. Simmias and Cebes perceive ›death‹ as the termination of ...
... refer to death as the »separation of the soul from the body« (64c), and it is this common denominator that allows Socrates to engage in a dialogue with his interlocutors. In fact, however, the two sides refer to two different concepts of death. Simmias and Cebes perceive ›death‹ as the termination of ...
Durkheim vs. Bergson? The Hidden Roots of Postmodern Theory
... of both Durkheimian and Bergsonian thought is a profound criticism of the various kinds of materialism that were in the ascendant in French intellectual culture in the Third Republic, at least partially as a direct result of the very constitution of the Republic, in the context of a deep anxiety tha ...
... of both Durkheimian and Bergsonian thought is a profound criticism of the various kinds of materialism that were in the ascendant in French intellectual culture in the Third Republic, at least partially as a direct result of the very constitution of the Republic, in the context of a deep anxiety tha ...
The Demise of Ethical Monism By Philip A.D. Schneider, Coastal
... prejudging the morality of egoistic behavior.) Other ethical views are possible and at least equally appropriate in business. For example, a stakeholder theory based on the intrinsic human worth of all stakeholders in the business (customers, employees, suppliers, managers, stockholders, and the co ...
... prejudging the morality of egoistic behavior.) Other ethical views are possible and at least equally appropriate in business. For example, a stakeholder theory based on the intrinsic human worth of all stakeholders in the business (customers, employees, suppliers, managers, stockholders, and the co ...
The semantic development of virtue
... But the state of being happy and peaceful in life is not a simple achievement. According to its fleeting nature, mind swings like a pendulum between one’s likes and dislikes. Furthermore, there is a dependency between outer circumstances, whether it being an action or biased thoughts that come out t ...
... But the state of being happy and peaceful in life is not a simple achievement. According to its fleeting nature, mind swings like a pendulum between one’s likes and dislikes. Furthermore, there is a dependency between outer circumstances, whether it being an action or biased thoughts that come out t ...
The Value of Philosophy in Nonideal Circumstances
... who choose to live in dangerous places or find themselves economically dependent because they left the labor market to look after their children, and so on. But, properly understood, luck egalitarianism does not have those implications. If people facing genuinely equal opportunity sets (including th ...
... who choose to live in dangerous places or find themselves economically dependent because they left the labor market to look after their children, and so on. But, properly understood, luck egalitarianism does not have those implications. If people facing genuinely equal opportunity sets (including th ...