MARTIN HEIDEGGER Being, Beings, and Truth
... Heidegger believes that consciousness of decontextualized objects (“de-worlded” objects) can only make sense against a background of a very different, more “primordial” kind of understanding—what the analytic philosopher Gilbert Ryle called “knowing-how” rather than “knowing-that”. Actually, Dasein ...
... Heidegger believes that consciousness of decontextualized objects (“de-worlded” objects) can only make sense against a background of a very different, more “primordial” kind of understanding—what the analytic philosopher Gilbert Ryle called “knowing-how” rather than “knowing-that”. Actually, Dasein ...
determinism_and_free..
... There exists an important relationship between freedom and moral responsibility, as it is commonly believed that we should be morally responsible for actions, which are freely performed. Most would agree that we should accept the blame for the things we freely do wrong. If I walked into a supermarke ...
... There exists an important relationship between freedom and moral responsibility, as it is commonly believed that we should be morally responsible for actions, which are freely performed. Most would agree that we should accept the blame for the things we freely do wrong. If I walked into a supermarke ...
A2 Ethics
... There exists an important relationship between freedom and moral responsibility, as it is commonly believed that we should be morally responsible for actions, which are freely performed. Most would agree that we should accept the blame for the things we freely do wrong. If I walked into a supermarke ...
... There exists an important relationship between freedom and moral responsibility, as it is commonly believed that we should be morally responsible for actions, which are freely performed. Most would agree that we should accept the blame for the things we freely do wrong. If I walked into a supermarke ...
Lean Hog -- February - Iowa State University
... unless we are so absolutely certain that it is true that we can’t doubt it. But if we accepted this, we would be forced to conclude that we know nothing at all, or almost nothing. It’s just wrong to say that we don’t know something just because we can doubt that it’s true, or just because it’s possi ...
... unless we are so absolutely certain that it is true that we can’t doubt it. But if we accepted this, we would be forced to conclude that we know nothing at all, or almost nothing. It’s just wrong to say that we don’t know something just because we can doubt that it’s true, or just because it’s possi ...
Plato`s Republic PowerPoint
... including food, shelter, and clothing to a reasonable degree. All men are allowed to have these basics rights of life which Socrates clearly stated. Beyond the basic needs to live, one must be given a certain task based on one’s abilities and/or traits so he can work. Each man must know his own occu ...
... including food, shelter, and clothing to a reasonable degree. All men are allowed to have these basics rights of life which Socrates clearly stated. Beyond the basic needs to live, one must be given a certain task based on one’s abilities and/or traits so he can work. Each man must know his own occu ...
Phronomoi Across Cultures: A Checklist
... doubt has grown given our experience of Aristotelian science being overhauled by Galileo and Newton, who in their turn gave way to Einstein. Truth, thus, would seem to be a more difficult commodity to possess in our own day and age than it did for the medievals. The successive encounters between cul ...
... doubt has grown given our experience of Aristotelian science being overhauled by Galileo and Newton, who in their turn gave way to Einstein. Truth, thus, would seem to be a more difficult commodity to possess in our own day and age than it did for the medievals. The successive encounters between cul ...
Friendship - The University of Sydney
... astonished, when his book was published under the title Politiques de lʼamitié, not to find there any trace of the problem. If the motto—apocryphal according to modern philologists —appeared there in its original form, it was certainly not out of forgetfulness: it was essential to the bookʼs strateg ...
... astonished, when his book was published under the title Politiques de lʼamitié, not to find there any trace of the problem. If the motto—apocryphal according to modern philologists —appeared there in its original form, it was certainly not out of forgetfulness: it was essential to the bookʼs strateg ...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
... in a philosophical argument by presenting (viewers) with a hypothetical case,” who are then essentially “asked to endorse a general conclusion on the basis of their reaction to this case” (Wartenburg 22). Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind presents a hypothetical case and asks viewers to endorse ...
... in a philosophical argument by presenting (viewers) with a hypothetical case,” who are then essentially “asked to endorse a general conclusion on the basis of their reaction to this case” (Wartenburg 22). Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind presents a hypothetical case and asks viewers to endorse ...
Protagoras
... “because cities could not exist if, as in the case of other arts, few men only were partakers of them.” • So how are we to reconcile these conflicting views about the nature of ethics, law and the State? Which represents Protagoras’ authentic views? The Law in general is founded on certain ethical ...
... “because cities could not exist if, as in the case of other arts, few men only were partakers of them.” • So how are we to reconcile these conflicting views about the nature of ethics, law and the State? Which represents Protagoras’ authentic views? The Law in general is founded on certain ethical ...
Zhuangzi and the Heterogeneity of Value
... situations may reasonably arrive at different judgments about what they should do. The heterogeneity of value tends to redirect attention from normative theory to other aspects of ethics, such as the role of practical judgment and wisdom in dealing with conflicts between values. It casts doubt on th ...
... situations may reasonably arrive at different judgments about what they should do. The heterogeneity of value tends to redirect attention from normative theory to other aspects of ethics, such as the role of practical judgment and wisdom in dealing with conflicts between values. It casts doubt on th ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Why naturalize consciousness?
... consciousness bearing on its scientific study; this leaves out those who think it is clear from the outset that a science of consciousness is impossible or whose study of consciousness is directed toward wholly extrascientific purposes. There are two main lines of argument. The first considers how q ...
... consciousness bearing on its scientific study; this leaves out those who think it is clear from the outset that a science of consciousness is impossible or whose study of consciousness is directed toward wholly extrascientific purposes. There are two main lines of argument. The first considers how q ...
1 Barry Smith Rivista di Estetica, 50 (2012), 179
... future is tied to expectations relating to the behavior and attitudes of your fellows, by your desire to preserve your good name, and by a host of other psychological factors operating in the sphere of local, face-to-face interactions. Here the debt is tied to a specific initiating event and to spec ...
... future is tied to expectations relating to the behavior and attitudes of your fellows, by your desire to preserve your good name, and by a host of other psychological factors operating in the sphere of local, face-to-face interactions. Here the debt is tied to a specific initiating event and to spec ...
Introduction: the growth of ignorance?
... institutions which are designed to give a semblance of control over these confections. The epistemological and power aspects of such processes are often obscured by discourses on development being couched predominantly in the idiom of economics, technology and management. What is signally absent in ...
... institutions which are designed to give a semblance of control over these confections. The epistemological and power aspects of such processes are often obscured by discourses on development being couched predominantly in the idiom of economics, technology and management. What is signally absent in ...
The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self
... peculiar things about philosophy. Alone among human intellectual endeavors (actually, alone among all things human), philosophy frequently declares itself dead, exhausted, bored, or dyspeptic and much in need of a long vacation. So, how can philosophers be doing something important, how can philosop ...
... peculiar things about philosophy. Alone among human intellectual endeavors (actually, alone among all things human), philosophy frequently declares itself dead, exhausted, bored, or dyspeptic and much in need of a long vacation. So, how can philosophers be doing something important, how can philosop ...
Heidegger - tools analysis
... Shawn Smith American University of Cairo Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects. Graham Harman. Peru, IL: Open Court Publishing, 2002.With Tool-Being, Graham Harman seeks to reinvigorate both Heidegger studies and realist metaphysics. This book, confidently promises to alter the direct ...
... Shawn Smith American University of Cairo Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects. Graham Harman. Peru, IL: Open Court Publishing, 2002.With Tool-Being, Graham Harman seeks to reinvigorate both Heidegger studies and realist metaphysics. This book, confidently promises to alter the direct ...
Supplemental Notes on Aristotle Philosophy 2
... Since it must be an activity of man, one should examine activities which are exclusively human: Not growth or reproduction, not sensation…. It is the activity of REASON, or activity in accord with reason. Happiness is not virtue itself, but activity in accord with virtue (virtues being both intelle ...
... Since it must be an activity of man, one should examine activities which are exclusively human: Not growth or reproduction, not sensation…. It is the activity of REASON, or activity in accord with reason. Happiness is not virtue itself, but activity in accord with virtue (virtues being both intelle ...
the question is not, "can they talk?
... linguistic ability is a defect among members of the species Homo sapiens. Not so in the case of other species of primates. These animals are not defective in the way and for the reason Defective is, because they are unable to talk. (One does not say that a tree "lacks the ability to drive a car"; on ...
... linguistic ability is a defect among members of the species Homo sapiens. Not so in the case of other species of primates. These animals are not defective in the way and for the reason Defective is, because they are unable to talk. (One does not say that a tree "lacks the ability to drive a car"; on ...
Religion-Jaina philosophy
... language and method (see Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika §6). The history of Indian logic can be traced back at least to pre-Christian works on Indian medicine in which physicians are advised to know about a long list of categories, epistemological and logical, when participating in public debates. In the commentar ...
... language and method (see Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika §6). The history of Indian logic can be traced back at least to pre-Christian works on Indian medicine in which physicians are advised to know about a long list of categories, epistemological and logical, when participating in public debates. In the commentar ...
Chapter 3: Youth Ministry and the Impact of Christian
... conception, or “framework,” of the faith, helped land him in a crisis when these challenges arose, which seemingly could not be answered adequately by that framework. To be a Christian in that same old way would perpetuate his crisis. But he also indicates that he resonated with comments some people ...
... conception, or “framework,” of the faith, helped land him in a crisis when these challenges arose, which seemingly could not be answered adequately by that framework. To be a Christian in that same old way would perpetuate his crisis. But he also indicates that he resonated with comments some people ...
Body and Reason – A Short Genealogy of Subjectivity
... whereas the former is always indivisible; because indeed, when I look at myself as a thinking being, I can see I am a whole and unified being. But when I think of my body, I can see it is made up of parts. I can conclude therefore that my spirit is utterly different from my body”. 1 After having pro ...
... whereas the former is always indivisible; because indeed, when I look at myself as a thinking being, I can see I am a whole and unified being. But when I think of my body, I can see it is made up of parts. I can conclude therefore that my spirit is utterly different from my body”. 1 After having pro ...
Thomas Hobbes: Apologist for Absolutism
... Thomas Hobbes: Apologist for Absolutism Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), the most original political philosopher of the 17th century, turned to reason and empirical observation to find an explanation for social institutions. Hobbes was an urbane and much-traveled man who enthusiastically supported the new ...
... Thomas Hobbes: Apologist for Absolutism Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), the most original political philosopher of the 17th century, turned to reason and empirical observation to find an explanation for social institutions. Hobbes was an urbane and much-traveled man who enthusiastically supported the new ...
How Valuable Could a Material Object Be?
... The bridge between Reason Says and Bold Conclusion, then, appears to involve a judgment about the irrelevance of materiality to value along these lines: Bridge: If we have inherent moral worth irrespective of whether we possess a physical body, then our materiality is irrelevant to our value. From R ...
... The bridge between Reason Says and Bold Conclusion, then, appears to involve a judgment about the irrelevance of materiality to value along these lines: Bridge: If we have inherent moral worth irrespective of whether we possess a physical body, then our materiality is irrelevant to our value. From R ...
Hegel and Schopenhauer
... harbored toward his contemporary Hegel. This sentiment was fed by a number of sources: envy of the highly successful elder philosopher, whom Schopenhauer, lacking in this regard, viewed as a usurper; the gnawing disappointment, manifesting itself in high-handed pretensions, at his own lack of succes ...
... harbored toward his contemporary Hegel. This sentiment was fed by a number of sources: envy of the highly successful elder philosopher, whom Schopenhauer, lacking in this regard, viewed as a usurper; the gnawing disappointment, manifesting itself in high-handed pretensions, at his own lack of succes ...
Glossary - Oxford University Press
... that was dominant throughout most of the twentieth century in Great Britain, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. This way of doing philosophy puts great emphasis on clarity, and it usually sees philosophy as a matter of clarifying important concepts in the sciences, the humanities, politics, ...
... that was dominant throughout most of the twentieth century in Great Britain, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. This way of doing philosophy puts great emphasis on clarity, and it usually sees philosophy as a matter of clarifying important concepts in the sciences, the humanities, politics, ...