A Beginner`s Guide to Descartes`s Meditations
... La Haye-Descartes in 1802, and subsequently, in 1967, simply Descartes). His mother having died when he was only one year old, he lived from that time on with his elder brother and sister in the house of his maternal grandmother. Between the ages often and eighteen he attended the Jesuit College of ...
... La Haye-Descartes in 1802, and subsequently, in 1967, simply Descartes). His mother having died when he was only one year old, he lived from that time on with his elder brother and sister in the house of his maternal grandmother. Between the ages often and eighteen he attended the Jesuit College of ...
“Turtles All the Way Down”: Mind, Emotion and Nothing
... Animal (lust), Wimp (anxiety) and Genius (intellect)—constantly at odds with each other in the eponymous hero’s psyche. In this instance, the movement between inner and outer was effected by the emergence, from the centre of Herman’s forehead, of a kind of thought bubble [11]. The trajectory is from ...
... Animal (lust), Wimp (anxiety) and Genius (intellect)—constantly at odds with each other in the eponymous hero’s psyche. In this instance, the movement between inner and outer was effected by the emergence, from the centre of Herman’s forehead, of a kind of thought bubble [11]. The trajectory is from ...
Subject and Object
... provides, but to say what I mean, choosing among available words, all of which come each with its own different cloud of distracting connotations, associations, prejudices, and customary uses. So as a practical matter, for the sake of argument, let’s accept Gallagher’s stipulation and focus it by sa ...
... provides, but to say what I mean, choosing among available words, all of which come each with its own different cloud of distracting connotations, associations, prejudices, and customary uses. So as a practical matter, for the sake of argument, let’s accept Gallagher’s stipulation and focus it by sa ...
The heritage of german idealism in Kierkeggard`s Either/Or
... Although there is an apparent structural analogy between the ethical choice and Hegelian dialectics, the specific how of Wilhelm’s choice is clearly inspired by Fichte’s concept of faith (as a matter of fact, we do know that Kierkegaard has been reading Die Bestimmung des Menschen). With Fichte, the ...
... Although there is an apparent structural analogy between the ethical choice and Hegelian dialectics, the specific how of Wilhelm’s choice is clearly inspired by Fichte’s concept of faith (as a matter of fact, we do know that Kierkegaard has been reading Die Bestimmung des Menschen). With Fichte, the ...
Intentionality
... (intentionality), and gives the examples of how in judgement something is affirmed or denied, in love something is loved etc. (NB ‘Presentation’ means what we might mean by ‘conscious experience’.) ...
... (intentionality), and gives the examples of how in judgement something is affirmed or denied, in love something is loved etc. (NB ‘Presentation’ means what we might mean by ‘conscious experience’.) ...
Jeanie Yang Mrs. Getchell Honors English 12
... Honors English 12-2nd hour 03 Jan 2016 The Myth of Sisyphus What exactly is Existentialism? One might simply say that it is to exist. But however, it is much more than just existing. Existentialism, in accurate terms, is a philosophy with finding one’s self and the meaning of life through free will, ...
... Honors English 12-2nd hour 03 Jan 2016 The Myth of Sisyphus What exactly is Existentialism? One might simply say that it is to exist. But however, it is much more than just existing. Existentialism, in accurate terms, is a philosophy with finding one’s self and the meaning of life through free will, ...
Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously
... we need to consider different perspectives on the moral issue before us, not because all perspectives are equally valuable, but because the values that can be seen from one perspective may not be seen or adequately appreciated by another. The view here is not that human values are relative or subjec ...
... we need to consider different perspectives on the moral issue before us, not because all perspectives are equally valuable, but because the values that can be seen from one perspective may not be seen or adequately appreciated by another. The view here is not that human values are relative or subjec ...
Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals
... to be generally comprehensible if one does it by dropping all basic insight and replacing it with a disgusting jumble of patched-up observations and half-reasoned principles. Shallow-minded people lap this up, for it is very useful in coffee-house chatter, while people with better sense feel confuse ...
... to be generally comprehensible if one does it by dropping all basic insight and replacing it with a disgusting jumble of patched-up observations and half-reasoned principles. Shallow-minded people lap this up, for it is very useful in coffee-house chatter, while people with better sense feel confuse ...
Science and Spirituality - Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc.
... as to the society at large which, cannot be expected to have an understanding of their religious and cultural history. This difficulty severely strains the majority of the immigrants, who either are not used to intellectual inquiry or do not have the time and patience for what they consider esoteri ...
... as to the society at large which, cannot be expected to have an understanding of their religious and cultural history. This difficulty severely strains the majority of the immigrants, who either are not used to intellectual inquiry or do not have the time and patience for what they consider esoteri ...
Happiness: Unit 7
... Happiness "Happiness is a journey, not a destination; happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it's too late. The time for happiness is today not ...
... Happiness "Happiness is a journey, not a destination; happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it's too late. The time for happiness is today not ...
b. Jr.Sem.Offerings`95
... convictions concern controversial topics that are the subject of public debate (such as the moral permissibility of abortion or of eating meat); others are relatively uncontroversial (consider, for example, the view that it is morally wrong to torture innocent people). This seminar is guided by the ...
... convictions concern controversial topics that are the subject of public debate (such as the moral permissibility of abortion or of eating meat); others are relatively uncontroversial (consider, for example, the view that it is morally wrong to torture innocent people). This seminar is guided by the ...
`Spaces` in Mathematics, Physics, Subjectivity, and Historiography
... The aim of this paper is to sketch an approach for integrating the historiography of science and of philosophy in a systematic way. Although the details of this approach are tailor-made for a certain historical period and specific context, it might be viewed as an exemplary case for integrated appro ...
... The aim of this paper is to sketch an approach for integrating the historiography of science and of philosophy in a systematic way. Although the details of this approach are tailor-made for a certain historical period and specific context, it might be viewed as an exemplary case for integrated appro ...
Living With the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil
... the Superior man cannot be found.’ For Batchelor this is not what the fight against the Devil requires. “Nirvana is found not by forsaking the world, but by probing its dark and fleshy depths.” (104) For Batchelor, as for two of his philosophical interlocutors, Pascal and Montaigne, “Mara cannot be ...
... the Superior man cannot be found.’ For Batchelor this is not what the fight against the Devil requires. “Nirvana is found not by forsaking the world, but by probing its dark and fleshy depths.” (104) For Batchelor, as for two of his philosophical interlocutors, Pascal and Montaigne, “Mara cannot be ...
Herbert Marcuse`s critique of consumer society
... Maybe you could answer this question for yourself, before you continue reading this article. What, according to you, makes life really valuable? What is essential in life in order to be happy and make your life fulfilling and worthwhile? Very many people will start mentioning things like: having clo ...
... Maybe you could answer this question for yourself, before you continue reading this article. What, according to you, makes life really valuable? What is essential in life in order to be happy and make your life fulfilling and worthwhile? Very many people will start mentioning things like: having clo ...
Free Spirits: Idealism and Perfectionism
... their ways of re-appropriating Emerson’s legacy, we can come to outline the idea of a certain version of moral perfectionism, which would be a kind of ethics peculiar to free spirits. My goal for this paper is twofold. First, I want to point out congruencies between these three thinkers, (congruenci ...
... their ways of re-appropriating Emerson’s legacy, we can come to outline the idea of a certain version of moral perfectionism, which would be a kind of ethics peculiar to free spirits. My goal for this paper is twofold. First, I want to point out congruencies between these three thinkers, (congruenci ...
ESSENTIALISM IN PARMENIDES OF ELEA
... Consequently there can be no change, since change consists in things coming into being or ceasing to be … We can put the argument in this way: if language is not just nonsense, words must mean something, and in general they must not mean just other words, but something that is there whether we talk ...
... Consequently there can be no change, since change consists in things coming into being or ceasing to be … We can put the argument in this way: if language is not just nonsense, words must mean something, and in general they must not mean just other words, but something that is there whether we talk ...
The Human Intellect: Aristotle`s Conception of Νοῦς
... both perceptual and intellectual. This is based upon a distinction that he lays out in DA II 5 between material changes, in which one material quality is replaced with another from the same range (e.g. the greenness of an apple is replaced by red), and cognitive changes, in which a cognitive subject ...
... both perceptual and intellectual. This is based upon a distinction that he lays out in DA II 5 between material changes, in which one material quality is replaced with another from the same range (e.g. the greenness of an apple is replaced by red), and cognitive changes, in which a cognitive subject ...
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
... human beings (both phylogenetically and ontogenetically) begin their existence as entirely physical or material entities and since nothing outside of the domain of the physical is added later on in the course of development, then we must necessarily end up being fully developed material beings. Phyl ...
... human beings (both phylogenetically and ontogenetically) begin their existence as entirely physical or material entities and since nothing outside of the domain of the physical is added later on in the course of development, then we must necessarily end up being fully developed material beings. Phyl ...
Moral Cultivation and Confucian Character
... added advantages compared to a philosophy that is confined to a single tradition. It allows us not only to think “outside the box” but also to acquire additional tools in solving problems within one’s own tradition. Philosophizing in response to contemporary problems in a global age, we need to draw ...
... added advantages compared to a philosophy that is confined to a single tradition. It allows us not only to think “outside the box” but also to acquire additional tools in solving problems within one’s own tradition. Philosophizing in response to contemporary problems in a global age, we need to draw ...
Moral Sense - JustWarTheory.com
... responses constitute ‘another kind of affection towards those very affections themselves, which have already been felt, and are now become the subject of a new liking or dislike’ (IV, 251). Such reflective emotions belong to what Shaftesbury calls our ‘natural moral sense’ (IV, 262). We form the con ...
... responses constitute ‘another kind of affection towards those very affections themselves, which have already been felt, and are now become the subject of a new liking or dislike’ (IV, 251). Such reflective emotions belong to what Shaftesbury calls our ‘natural moral sense’ (IV, 262). We form the con ...
Advances in Environmental Biology
... interaction between the mind (ego) and object (real). Hence ego cannot be passivity or sense acceptor. Allama Mohmmad Taghi Jafari, considers the cognition obtained through sense and normal theoretical wisdom as the partial cognition and cognition achieved through the purification and through the in ...
... interaction between the mind (ego) and object (real). Hence ego cannot be passivity or sense acceptor. Allama Mohmmad Taghi Jafari, considers the cognition obtained through sense and normal theoretical wisdom as the partial cognition and cognition achieved through the purification and through the in ...
John Francis Nieto - Thomas Aquinas College
... even if Socrates is no longer a man. Man is still man, wherever and whenever man exists. The intellect must therefore transcend bodily limitations. It must be spiritual. Plato presents this difference of intellect and sense throughout his writings. 15 In many of these works, he proposes-! believe on ...
... even if Socrates is no longer a man. Man is still man, wherever and whenever man exists. The intellect must therefore transcend bodily limitations. It must be spiritual. Plato presents this difference of intellect and sense throughout his writings. 15 In many of these works, he proposes-! believe on ...
Epistemic Error and Experiential Evidence
... qualitative character of experience. That is to say, in some cases, the content of intentional states is ontologically dependent on dynamic relations between what is experienced and the nature of the experience itself, and it is through the interactive engagement of the subjective and objective pol ...
... qualitative character of experience. That is to say, in some cases, the content of intentional states is ontologically dependent on dynamic relations between what is experienced and the nature of the experience itself, and it is through the interactive engagement of the subjective and objective pol ...
How Philosophers Die (BAR 10) PDF 160.80kB
... Virtue helped one face death without fear, and the reward for virtue was social ...
... Virtue helped one face death without fear, and the reward for virtue was social ...