The Confucian Self and our Duties to Animals
... universally shared goal or endpoint. Such an idea would elide entirely the open ended, creative implications of xing as something that is defined only in the context of specific, individual, and concretely situated human lives. [quote] For Ames, that humans share some manner of a common physiology a ...
... universally shared goal or endpoint. Such an idea would elide entirely the open ended, creative implications of xing as something that is defined only in the context of specific, individual, and concretely situated human lives. [quote] For Ames, that humans share some manner of a common physiology a ...
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... its contents, what struck me forcefully was that while most of Plato’s conjectures concerning the nature of the physical world are pretty much orthogonal to what modern science would suggest, the “questions” he raises have not changed Vol. 4, No. 1 March 2014 ...
... its contents, what struck me forcefully was that while most of Plato’s conjectures concerning the nature of the physical world are pretty much orthogonal to what modern science would suggest, the “questions” he raises have not changed Vol. 4, No. 1 March 2014 ...
History and Moral Exempla in Enlightenment
... act. It is the complications about the historical point of view in criticism that make ethical criticism a problem. To appreciate the change in the understanding of history we have to begin our narrative earlier than what we are accustomed to and to look at texts other than the standard philosophica ...
... act. It is the complications about the historical point of view in criticism that make ethical criticism a problem. To appreciate the change in the understanding of history we have to begin our narrative earlier than what we are accustomed to and to look at texts other than the standard philosophica ...
Introduction - davidhume.org
... Hume’s first publication, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), began as ‘an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects’. But in both advocating and pursuing the empirical study of the human world, the juvenile Hume ‘was carry’d away by the Heat of Youth & Inventi ...
... Hume’s first publication, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), began as ‘an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects’. But in both advocating and pursuing the empirical study of the human world, the juvenile Hume ‘was carry’d away by the Heat of Youth & Inventi ...
MacIntyre and Emotivism
... the actual world which we inhabit the language of morality is in … [a] state of grave disorder…. What we possess, if this view is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived” ...
... the actual world which we inhabit the language of morality is in … [a] state of grave disorder…. What we possess, if this view is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived” ...
Some Aspects of Human Nature As Viewed by Cardinal
... Such is the purpose of studying the humanities—not to excel in a single view or method of approach, but for the truth writ large about human nature itself. Concludes Newman: When we think of [human nature] in all these relations together, or as the subject at once of all the sciences I have named, t ...
... Such is the purpose of studying the humanities—not to excel in a single view or method of approach, but for the truth writ large about human nature itself. Concludes Newman: When we think of [human nature] in all these relations together, or as the subject at once of all the sciences I have named, t ...
The Identification of Mind and Principle
... “Neo-Confucianism” is a general term used to refer to the renaissance of Confucianism during the Song dynasty following a long period in which Buddhism and Daoism had dominated the philosophical world of the Chinese and also to the various philosophical schools of thought that developed as a result ...
... “Neo-Confucianism” is a general term used to refer to the renaissance of Confucianism during the Song dynasty following a long period in which Buddhism and Daoism had dominated the philosophical world of the Chinese and also to the various philosophical schools of thought that developed as a result ...
consciousness on slides - Faculty Web Sites at the
... • Classical physics was the study of the properties of what was assumed to be preexisting objects. • Objects were assumed to be preexisting because it was thought that they could be perceived directly with the human senses, and the mind told us that the objects existed even when we did not perceive ...
... • Classical physics was the study of the properties of what was assumed to be preexisting objects. • Objects were assumed to be preexisting because it was thought that they could be perceived directly with the human senses, and the mind told us that the objects existed even when we did not perceive ...
Ted Honderich
... "proofs" nor by linguistic analyses of propositions designed to show "free" and "determined" are logically compatible. And third, he faults their simplistic idea that one or the other of them must be right. ...
... "proofs" nor by linguistic analyses of propositions designed to show "free" and "determined" are logically compatible. And third, he faults their simplistic idea that one or the other of them must be right. ...
Casey - Ethics in A Man for All Seasons.fm
... moral? It seems that we must know something of the content of that selfhood—of its principles—before we could regard it as genuinely moral. Often cited in this connection is a controversial passage where More says to Norfolk that “what matters to me is not whether [the Apostolic Succession of the Po ...
... moral? It seems that we must know something of the content of that selfhood—of its principles—before we could regard it as genuinely moral. Often cited in this connection is a controversial passage where More says to Norfolk that “what matters to me is not whether [the Apostolic Succession of the Po ...
Chapter 8 - Barbara Gail Montero
... consciousness arises out of entirely physical processes in the brain? Some philosophers—the Cartesian dualists from Chapter 2—say that we know the solution to the mind-body problem: the mind, including consciousness, causally affects physical features of the world, but is not itself a physical featu ...
... consciousness arises out of entirely physical processes in the brain? Some philosophers—the Cartesian dualists from Chapter 2—say that we know the solution to the mind-body problem: the mind, including consciousness, causally affects physical features of the world, but is not itself a physical featu ...
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... ferent means and with different results — sets him apart from both mainstream philosophers of film as well as film theorists engaging with philosophy. So how to make sense of Cavell’s claim that the “marriage” between film and philosophy is grounded in their responses to scepticism? It is not that t ...
... ferent means and with different results — sets him apart from both mainstream philosophers of film as well as film theorists engaging with philosophy. So how to make sense of Cavell’s claim that the “marriage” between film and philosophy is grounded in their responses to scepticism? It is not that t ...
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Rishis[Seers or Sages] - Hindu World Astrology
... imaginative pictures consciously and deliberately, they could also ...
... imaginative pictures consciously and deliberately, they could also ...
philosophical anthropology: ernst cassirer, max
... Whitehead, Jaspers and Teilhard de Chardin in the West; Buddha and the Mahayanaist in India, Confucius, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu in China, to mention just a few, all share in this contribution. It presents a comprehensive harmony beyond Plato’s scheme of the Four Divided Line; beyond the NeoPlatonist ...
... Whitehead, Jaspers and Teilhard de Chardin in the West; Buddha and the Mahayanaist in India, Confucius, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu in China, to mention just a few, all share in this contribution. It presents a comprehensive harmony beyond Plato’s scheme of the Four Divided Line; beyond the NeoPlatonist ...
The Objectivity of the Past
... (Dummett 2005: 672), as “it involved, in language unacceptable to a proponent of that doctrine, that past events, the memory of and evidence for which had dissipated, were expunged, not merely from our knowledge, but from reality itself: they were no more; they had not happened” (Dummett 2005: 672). ...
... (Dummett 2005: 672), as “it involved, in language unacceptable to a proponent of that doctrine, that past events, the memory of and evidence for which had dissipated, were expunged, not merely from our knowledge, but from reality itself: they were no more; they had not happened” (Dummett 2005: 672). ...
Mind Lectures 1
... A foreigner visiting Oxford or Cambridge for the first time is shown a number of colleges, libraries, playing fields, museums, scientific departments and administrative offices. He then asks ‘But where is the University? I have seen where the members of the Colleges live, where the Registrar works, ...
... A foreigner visiting Oxford or Cambridge for the first time is shown a number of colleges, libraries, playing fields, museums, scientific departments and administrative offices. He then asks ‘But where is the University? I have seen where the members of the Colleges live, where the Registrar works, ...
Social Theory
... was to be considered “true”. Logic, in his view, was an exercise in self-control (CP 5.130), and hence, pragmatism was to foster such control. When we move on the level of restricted (formal) thinking, it is not that hard to accept a link between logic and self-control; either we are skilled in the ...
... was to be considered “true”. Logic, in his view, was an exercise in self-control (CP 5.130), and hence, pragmatism was to foster such control. When we move on the level of restricted (formal) thinking, it is not that hard to accept a link between logic and self-control; either we are skilled in the ...
James, Dewey, and Democracy
... experience itself is not immediately sentenced. To Schiller, James writes, “Dewey’s powerful stuff seems also to ring the death knell of a sentenced world. Yet none of them will see it – Taylor will still write his refutations etc, etc, when the living world will be all drifting after us.”15 Here we ...
... experience itself is not immediately sentenced. To Schiller, James writes, “Dewey’s powerful stuff seems also to ring the death knell of a sentenced world. Yet none of them will see it – Taylor will still write his refutations etc, etc, when the living world will be all drifting after us.”15 Here we ...
Modern Western Philosophy
... 18. Which one of the following statements adequately sums up Descartes’ philosophy? (a) Mind and matter are two aspects of the same reality (b) The world is made of two radically different kinds of substance, mind and matter. (c) Matter alone is real and mind is only an illusion. (d) Mind creates ma ...
... 18. Which one of the following statements adequately sums up Descartes’ philosophy? (a) Mind and matter are two aspects of the same reality (b) The world is made of two radically different kinds of substance, mind and matter. (c) Matter alone is real and mind is only an illusion. (d) Mind creates ma ...
the scottish enlightenment, unintended consequences and the
... knowledge in terms of a process of identification and classification. Science is understood as generalisation from evidence to explain causal relationships, and the science of man must proceed along empirical lines if it is to provide a secure basis for the other sciences. Mandeville enters the fray ...
... knowledge in terms of a process of identification and classification. Science is understood as generalisation from evidence to explain causal relationships, and the science of man must proceed along empirical lines if it is to provide a secure basis for the other sciences. Mandeville enters the fray ...
Ideology Beyond Belief
... I am sympathetic with much of this picture. However, I am worried that the model of reasoned public dialogue is not sufficient to disrupt ideology. That is because an ideology is not simply a set of commonly held beliefs, and adding other implicit attitudes (or antipathy) to the set doesn’t solve th ...
... I am sympathetic with much of this picture. However, I am worried that the model of reasoned public dialogue is not sufficient to disrupt ideology. That is because an ideology is not simply a set of commonly held beliefs, and adding other implicit attitudes (or antipathy) to the set doesn’t solve th ...
ARISTOTLE'S PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN LIFE Sotshangane
... performing just or fair actions. As we also become morally good, it is by performing morally good judgements and acting upon them accordingly. As a matter of fact, to discover the nature of moral principles is an intellectual task, similar to the discovery of mathematical truths. Just as the latter ...
... performing just or fair actions. As we also become morally good, it is by performing morally good judgements and acting upon them accordingly. As a matter of fact, to discover the nature of moral principles is an intellectual task, similar to the discovery of mathematical truths. Just as the latter ...
INTRODUCTION (A) Mind in Indian philosophy
... The nervous system of the body provides the channels through which the mind travels; the direction in which it moves is determined by its desires and tendencies. When the mind becomes pure and desireless it takes the upward course and at the time of departing passes out through the imperceptible ope ...
... The nervous system of the body provides the channels through which the mind travels; the direction in which it moves is determined by its desires and tendencies. When the mind becomes pure and desireless it takes the upward course and at the time of departing passes out through the imperceptible ope ...
Problems Of Metaphysical Philosophy
... Chiedozie Okoro University of Lagos Introduction The word problem as used in this context is a noun and it could mean difficulty, puzzle or question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues ...
... Chiedozie Okoro University of Lagos Introduction The word problem as used in this context is a noun and it could mean difficulty, puzzle or question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues ...
Ontological Justification: From Appearance to Reality
... are cannot be decided with recourse only to logical analysis. To hold that formal and substantial atomicity come apart is to hold that logical and ontological form come apart, and hence to reject the mirror thesis. I take it that in order to be able to justify our ontological conclusions we must rej ...
... are cannot be decided with recourse only to logical analysis. To hold that formal and substantial atomicity come apart is to hold that logical and ontological form come apart, and hence to reject the mirror thesis. I take it that in order to be able to justify our ontological conclusions we must rej ...