Descartes` Epistemology
... – “Archimedes, in order that he might draw the terrestrial globe out of its place, and transport it elsewhere, demanded only that one point should be fixed and immoveable; in the same way, I shall have the right to have high hopes, if I am happy enough to discover one thing only which is certain an ...
... – “Archimedes, in order that he might draw the terrestrial globe out of its place, and transport it elsewhere, demanded only that one point should be fixed and immoveable; in the same way, I shall have the right to have high hopes, if I am happy enough to discover one thing only which is certain an ...
Why Hume and Kant were mistaken in rejecting natural theology
... example, having had impressions of gold and of a mountain, we can have ideas of gold and of a mountain and then combine them to form the idea of a golden mountain, of which we have not had any impression. But - Hume claims - none of us can have any ideas except ones composed of simple ideas ultimate ...
... example, having had impressions of gold and of a mountain, we can have ideas of gold and of a mountain and then combine them to form the idea of a golden mountain, of which we have not had any impression. But - Hume claims - none of us can have any ideas except ones composed of simple ideas ultimate ...
Artikel voor `de HTV` "Man is actually chaos"
... Because of its practice of combining and mixing heterogeneous art forms and concepts, in combination with its wish to produce a new mythology, early Romanticism may rightly be considered the godfather of the heterogeneous Gesamtkunstwerk, of the aesthetic of heterogeneity, complexity and undecidabil ...
... Because of its practice of combining and mixing heterogeneous art forms and concepts, in combination with its wish to produce a new mythology, early Romanticism may rightly be considered the godfather of the heterogeneous Gesamtkunstwerk, of the aesthetic of heterogeneity, complexity and undecidabil ...
“Forever Wild” and Wild Philosophy
... which claim its founder, Norwegain philosopher Arne Naess, as their source (Naess, 1989). The ecocentrism of this view comes from its promotion of Selfrealization, meaning that one’s individual self is actually a part of the larger Self of the world, so the interests of the ecosystem are identified ...
... which claim its founder, Norwegain philosopher Arne Naess, as their source (Naess, 1989). The ecocentrism of this view comes from its promotion of Selfrealization, meaning that one’s individual self is actually a part of the larger Self of the world, so the interests of the ecosystem are identified ...
Cosmological Certainty - Philsci
... the world around us by means of perception. We open our eyes, and instantly we are aware of the world around us, without any effort or apparent intervention on our part at all. But this, it seems, is an illusion. Decades of work in neuroscience, artificial intelligence and psychology have taught us ...
... the world around us by means of perception. We open our eyes, and instantly we are aware of the world around us, without any effort or apparent intervention on our part at all. But this, it seems, is an illusion. Decades of work in neuroscience, artificial intelligence and psychology have taught us ...
Cosmological Certainty
... the world around us by means of perception. We open our eyes, and instantly we are aware of the world around us, without any effort or apparent intervention on our part at all. But this, it seems, is an illusion. Decades of work in neuroscience, artificial intelligence and psychology have taught us ...
... the world around us by means of perception. We open our eyes, and instantly we are aware of the world around us, without any effort or apparent intervention on our part at all. But this, it seems, is an illusion. Decades of work in neuroscience, artificial intelligence and psychology have taught us ...
modern western philosophy BA PHILOSOPHY VI SEMESTER
... justice. But he cannot take a universe friendly to these values simply for granted. The first necessity is to know things as they are. The spirit of modern philosophy is individualistic, while those of both ancient and medieval philosophy were, in different ways, inclined to be institutional. A mode ...
... justice. But he cannot take a universe friendly to these values simply for granted. The first necessity is to know things as they are. The spirit of modern philosophy is individualistic, while those of both ancient and medieval philosophy were, in different ways, inclined to be institutional. A mode ...
bullshit proposal
... stances that contradict one another in underlying dimensions of things like closeness and distance. Face work points to our concern for maintaining our own and the other’s identity. Discourse analysis has shown us that messages draw their meaning from many sources simultaneously, semantics, culture, ...
... stances that contradict one another in underlying dimensions of things like closeness and distance. Face work points to our concern for maintaining our own and the other’s identity. Discourse analysis has shown us that messages draw their meaning from many sources simultaneously, semantics, culture, ...
“An Event in Sound”1 Considerations on the Ethical
... To the Greeks, to know something was to uncover its being. They called this uncovering aletheia, which can be translated as truth, or literally as unconcealedness (Heidegger, 1998, p. 11). In the fine arts, beauty is exactly this unconcealedness and disclosure. Its appearance is related to the idea ...
... To the Greeks, to know something was to uncover its being. They called this uncovering aletheia, which can be translated as truth, or literally as unconcealedness (Heidegger, 1998, p. 11). In the fine arts, beauty is exactly this unconcealedness and disclosure. Its appearance is related to the idea ...
read - daniel tarr
... the Buddhist tradition, philosophical analysis was seen as the way to treat the prevalent forms of 'misknowledge' by applying criticism to the conceptual knots of the day.” (p.2) The level of sophistication of the application varied according to the sophistication of the ‘philosophical knots’, resu ...
... the Buddhist tradition, philosophical analysis was seen as the way to treat the prevalent forms of 'misknowledge' by applying criticism to the conceptual knots of the day.” (p.2) The level of sophistication of the application varied according to the sophistication of the ‘philosophical knots’, resu ...
Donald Davidson, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
... creature’s behaviour or experience only if it is (or has been) in communication with others. (SIO, p. 202) (5) Therefore, from (2) to (4), to have the concept of error or objective truth one must be (or have been) in communication with others. (6) Therefore, from (1) and (5), to have the concept of ...
... creature’s behaviour or experience only if it is (or has been) in communication with others. (SIO, p. 202) (5) Therefore, from (2) to (4), to have the concept of error or objective truth one must be (or have been) in communication with others. (6) Therefore, from (1) and (5), to have the concept of ...
L. Notes - School of Computing
... is a departure from this natural norm either in the direction of excess or defect (i.e., having, or doing, too much or too little of something which is naturally good). It is a breaking of the natural law. John Hass Christian naturalist. He sees nature as the baseline for morality, but nature must b ...
... is a departure from this natural norm either in the direction of excess or defect (i.e., having, or doing, too much or too little of something which is naturally good). It is a breaking of the natural law. John Hass Christian naturalist. He sees nature as the baseline for morality, but nature must b ...
problemsofphilosophy
... discussion before we can be sure that we have stated it in a form that is wholly true. To make our difficulties plain, let us concentrate attention on the table. To the eye it is oblong, brown and shiny, to the touch it is smooth and cool and hard; when I tap it, it gives out a wooden sound. Any one ...
... discussion before we can be sure that we have stated it in a form that is wholly true. To make our difficulties plain, let us concentrate attention on the table. To the eye it is oblong, brown and shiny, to the touch it is smooth and cool and hard; when I tap it, it gives out a wooden sound. Any one ...
Argument - University of Warwick
... “There is a great difference between the mind and the body, inasmuch as the body is by its very nature always divisible, while the mind is utterly indivisible. For when I consider the mind, or myself in so far as I am merely a thinking thing, I am unable to distinguish any parts within myself; I und ...
... “There is a great difference between the mind and the body, inasmuch as the body is by its very nature always divisible, while the mind is utterly indivisible. For when I consider the mind, or myself in so far as I am merely a thinking thing, I am unable to distinguish any parts within myself; I und ...
The Archetypes of Literature
... out developing any explanation of how the structure came to be what it was and what its nearest relatives are. Structural analysis brings rhetoric back to criticism, but we need a new poetics as well, and the attempt to construct a new poetics out of rhetoric alone can hardly avoid a mere complicati ...
... out developing any explanation of how the structure came to be what it was and what its nearest relatives are. Structural analysis brings rhetoric back to criticism, but we need a new poetics as well, and the attempt to construct a new poetics out of rhetoric alone can hardly avoid a mere complicati ...
Paradox, Irony, Nemesis: The Passage to Understand Life and
... peaceful. A realization of this makes one mature. The sign of maturity is seen not when a person starts speaking of “Big things”, actually it is when a person starts understanding “small things”. A complete man is God, otherwise he is an incomplete God. Time decides whom we are to meet in our life. ...
... peaceful. A realization of this makes one mature. The sign of maturity is seen not when a person starts speaking of “Big things”, actually it is when a person starts understanding “small things”. A complete man is God, otherwise he is an incomplete God. Time decides whom we are to meet in our life. ...
Is and Ought, and the `naturalistic fallacy`
... involve, hence avoiding alienated accounts. I use the term ‘writing’ here deliberately to include literature which might not be counted as typically social scientific, and which is less inhibited by social scientific aversions to value-laden description.1 Indeed, one might argue that while social sc ...
... involve, hence avoiding alienated accounts. I use the term ‘writing’ here deliberately to include literature which might not be counted as typically social scientific, and which is less inhibited by social scientific aversions to value-laden description.1 Indeed, one might argue that while social sc ...
Ethics For The Post-Critical Era - Missouri Western State University
... intellectuals, of the critical movement in philosophy initiated by Descartes, the view of the natural world formulated by Newton, and the articulation of these views in the philosophy of Kant. The critical period of Western thought coincided with the rise of modern science. Both the critical movemen ...
... intellectuals, of the critical movement in philosophy initiated by Descartes, the view of the natural world formulated by Newton, and the articulation of these views in the philosophy of Kant. The critical period of Western thought coincided with the rise of modern science. Both the critical movemen ...
Practical aspects
... Name. Japanese scholars prefer not to talk about samadhi, because this is a true mystic experience. They even don’t like the word “mystic”. But who knows any true religion without mystic experience? The mystic experience makes the difference between philosophy and religion. The true religion is to m ...
... Name. Japanese scholars prefer not to talk about samadhi, because this is a true mystic experience. They even don’t like the word “mystic”. But who knows any true religion without mystic experience? The mystic experience makes the difference between philosophy and religion. The true religion is to m ...
Epistemology Dehumanized
... even though we are humans. It is a virtual tautology. (I shall say more about it at the end of section 2.) Even astronomy is “humanized” in this sense, but it is about stars and planets, not humans. This is why the proposition implies no relativity to humans, let alone to any particular human cultur ...
... even though we are humans. It is a virtual tautology. (I shall say more about it at the end of section 2.) Even astronomy is “humanized” in this sense, but it is about stars and planets, not humans. This is why the proposition implies no relativity to humans, let alone to any particular human cultur ...
Why Should We Believe Moral Claims?
... might try avoiding the skeptical threat by recourse to a coherence theory of justification, according to which beliefs are justified by their relations of mutual support with each other, rather than being built up from independently-justified foundations. In my view, there are conclusive objections ...
... might try avoiding the skeptical threat by recourse to a coherence theory of justification, according to which beliefs are justified by their relations of mutual support with each other, rather than being built up from independently-justified foundations. In my view, there are conclusive objections ...
History of Philosophy2
... the philosophical contributions of all those who, in the past, have reflected on “their” history and so invested it with the spirit of their time. As historians of philosophy, the “events” we have before us are human philosophical systems, produced by human spirit. On another level, however, the his ...
... the philosophical contributions of all those who, in the past, have reflected on “their” history and so invested it with the spirit of their time. As historians of philosophy, the “events” we have before us are human philosophical systems, produced by human spirit. On another level, however, the his ...
http://webct6.valenciacc.edu/webct/RelativeResourceManager
... her life into existence. Few, if any, are always Master-moralistic. Ironically, in terms of analysis, such Master/Slave characteristics can only rarely be discerned from the outside world. The only persons who can really “know” the source that drives the action are those who commit the act. Whether ...
... her life into existence. Few, if any, are always Master-moralistic. Ironically, in terms of analysis, such Master/Slave characteristics can only rarely be discerned from the outside world. The only persons who can really “know” the source that drives the action are those who commit the act. Whether ...
The tension between self governance and absolute inner worth in
... ourselves, is to us a mystery. One of the few things that we do know about this matter is that empirical phenomena like feelings, sensations, and inclinations are not autonomous, and should not therefore be relied upon in ethical decision making. As a theological attempt to consolidate intellectuali ...
... ourselves, is to us a mystery. One of the few things that we do know about this matter is that empirical phenomena like feelings, sensations, and inclinations are not autonomous, and should not therefore be relied upon in ethical decision making. As a theological attempt to consolidate intellectuali ...
The Challenge of Creativity: a Diagnosis of our Times
... is instituted. At each level particular, specific visions of creativity can be seen, though in social events in contemporary social life those levels, or several of them, may come together and overlap in multiple ways. The ontology of creative imagenary drawn up by C. Castoriadis looks at a notion o ...
... is instituted. At each level particular, specific visions of creativity can be seen, though in social events in contemporary social life those levels, or several of them, may come together and overlap in multiple ways. The ontology of creative imagenary drawn up by C. Castoriadis looks at a notion o ...