Alienation, Consequentialism, and the
... Perhaps the lives of John and Anne or Helen and Lisa would be happier or fuller if none of the alienation mentioned were present. But is this a problem for morality? If, as some have contended, to have a morality is to make normative judgments from a moral point of view and be guided by them, and if ...
... Perhaps the lives of John and Anne or Helen and Lisa would be happier or fuller if none of the alienation mentioned were present. But is this a problem for morality? If, as some have contended, to have a morality is to make normative judgments from a moral point of view and be guided by them, and if ...
IV. The Verbal Form
... From among this welter of indefiniteness the term whose contributions have lent to it greatest prestige is that of the obscure term “Real.” So closely amalgamated have the vaguenesses of both become that the two terms have acquired a common significance, and ordinarily Reality and Being appear as s ...
... From among this welter of indefiniteness the term whose contributions have lent to it greatest prestige is that of the obscure term “Real.” So closely amalgamated have the vaguenesses of both become that the two terms have acquired a common significance, and ordinarily Reality and Being appear as s ...
Ethics Paper
... couldn’t even survive if we didn’t. We treat farmers as means to supply us with food, builders as means to provide us with a place to stay instructors as means to help us get an education. What he is saying is that we shouldn’t treat others as means only. We should deal with others in ways such that ...
... couldn’t even survive if we didn’t. We treat farmers as means to supply us with food, builders as means to provide us with a place to stay instructors as means to help us get an education. What he is saying is that we shouldn’t treat others as means only. We should deal with others in ways such that ...
Aristotle on What It Means To Be Happy
... this can be demonstrated by ‘the roads to Rome fallacy’: Every road leads to some town Therefore, there is a particular town to which all roads lead. As you can see the second premise does not logically follow from the first and neither does it do so with Aristotle’s version: Everything has an aim T ...
... this can be demonstrated by ‘the roads to Rome fallacy’: Every road leads to some town Therefore, there is a particular town to which all roads lead. As you can see the second premise does not logically follow from the first and neither does it do so with Aristotle’s version: Everything has an aim T ...
Epistemology, introduction
... and the "Copenhagen interpretation" of quantum mechanics. This philosophy still dominates most present work in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. According to pragmatic epistemology, knowledge consists of models that attempt to represent the environment in such a way as to maximally simp ...
... and the "Copenhagen interpretation" of quantum mechanics. This philosophy still dominates most present work in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. According to pragmatic epistemology, knowledge consists of models that attempt to represent the environment in such a way as to maximally simp ...
Contemporary Existentialism and the Concept of Naturalness in
... When language is absolutely unavoidable, it is often used not as it means, as in KOAN cases, but what it does. For example, when a disciple asks his master, "What is Buddha?", the reply could be "Three pounds of tlax.33 This kind of seemingly illogical koan or mondo (question and answer) is primaril ...
... When language is absolutely unavoidable, it is often used not as it means, as in KOAN cases, but what it does. For example, when a disciple asks his master, "What is Buddha?", the reply could be "Three pounds of tlax.33 This kind of seemingly illogical koan or mondo (question and answer) is primaril ...
The Influence and Application of Eastern Philosophy
... believe that individual consciousness persisted after death - so even if Tristan and Isolde did become one through death, their experience of oneness would be on the same level that one part of a table experiences it is the same with another part of a table, that is, non-existent. Lastly, Schopenhau ...
... believe that individual consciousness persisted after death - so even if Tristan and Isolde did become one through death, their experience of oneness would be on the same level that one part of a table experiences it is the same with another part of a table, that is, non-existent. Lastly, Schopenhau ...
Thoreau`s Experiment: “I came here to live”
... emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization; the minister, and the school-committee, and every one of you will take care of that… Our sympathies in Massachusetts are not confined to New England; though we may be estranged from the South, we sympathize with the West…The West of which ...
... emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization; the minister, and the school-committee, and every one of you will take care of that… Our sympathies in Massachusetts are not confined to New England; though we may be estranged from the South, we sympathize with the West…The West of which ...
Philosophy 110W - That Marcus Family Home
... The second illustration concerns false promising in order to borrow money. If everyone were to promise falsely to borrow money, then no one would believe such promises. The institution of promise-making would disappear. No promises would be possible. The utilitarian considers factors irrelevant for ...
... The second illustration concerns false promising in order to borrow money. If everyone were to promise falsely to borrow money, then no one would believe such promises. The institution of promise-making would disappear. No promises would be possible. The utilitarian considers factors irrelevant for ...
M METHO ODOL LOGY
... of a science. Scientific inquiry made great gains in in the field of physics, chemistry, biology and other fields pertaining to the natural environment. Social science disciplines adopted the same scientific method. But since the social science s were dealing with the social environment, whether the ...
... of a science. Scientific inquiry made great gains in in the field of physics, chemistry, biology and other fields pertaining to the natural environment. Social science disciplines adopted the same scientific method. But since the social science s were dealing with the social environment, whether the ...
-1- HUSSERL`S DISCOVERY OF PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE
... “absolute givenness, absolute Gegebenheit,” where, he says, we can “lower our anchor on the shore of phenomenology.”7 A little later on, continuing this metaphor and adding an alliteration to it, he says that he hopes to be able to “gain a firm foothold on this new territory, in dem neuen Lande fes ...
... “absolute givenness, absolute Gegebenheit,” where, he says, we can “lower our anchor on the shore of phenomenology.”7 A little later on, continuing this metaphor and adding an alliteration to it, he says that he hopes to be able to “gain a firm foothold on this new territory, in dem neuen Lande fes ...
ORGANISMS, BRAINS AND THEIR PARTS UB PHILOSOPHY OF
... of Guillain-Barre syndrome which mimics brain death except for detectable cerebral activity. It is only the hospitalized organism that thinks, though its life depends upon entities external to it. Likewise, a brain generically dependent on the vat’s machinery would still count as capable of thinking ...
... of Guillain-Barre syndrome which mimics brain death except for detectable cerebral activity. It is only the hospitalized organism that thinks, though its life depends upon entities external to it. Likewise, a brain generically dependent on the vat’s machinery would still count as capable of thinking ...
Draft of “Organisms, Brains and their Parts”
... of Guillain-Barre syndrome which mimics brain death except for detectable cerebral activity. It is only the hospitalized organism that thinks, though its life depends upon entities external to it. Likewise, a brain generically dependent on the vat’s machinery would still count as capable of thinking ...
... of Guillain-Barre syndrome which mimics brain death except for detectable cerebral activity. It is only the hospitalized organism that thinks, though its life depends upon entities external to it. Likewise, a brain generically dependent on the vat’s machinery would still count as capable of thinking ...
Peter Winch: Philosophy as the Art of Disagreement
... The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy8, ‘as an enquiry into the nature of man’s knowledge of reality and into the difference which the possibility of such knowledge makes to human life’. In grappling with the question of the nature of our knowledge and its role in our lives, we ...
... The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy8, ‘as an enquiry into the nature of man’s knowledge of reality and into the difference which the possibility of such knowledge makes to human life’. In grappling with the question of the nature of our knowledge and its role in our lives, we ...
Review: The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
... peasant. However, the Gita, like most theistic literature, advocates segregation of classes and women. In a sense, the Gita is a psychological maneuver to see one’s actions as a natural duty. Krishna is playing upon Arjuna’s conscience, urging him to end evil through his actions. If this involves en ...
... peasant. However, the Gita, like most theistic literature, advocates segregation of classes and women. In a sense, the Gita is a psychological maneuver to see one’s actions as a natural duty. Krishna is playing upon Arjuna’s conscience, urging him to end evil through his actions. If this involves en ...
THE UNTRUTH AND THE TRUTH OF SKEPTICISM
... presumably undergoing some alteration. I am not interested now in taking a stand on this controversy. It suffices for my present purposes that there has been such a controversy. How is this to be explained? Surely not by saying that one of the parties in the controversy was fortunate enough to see a ...
... presumably undergoing some alteration. I am not interested now in taking a stand on this controversy. It suffices for my present purposes that there has been such a controversy. How is this to be explained? Surely not by saying that one of the parties in the controversy was fortunate enough to see a ...
Review of Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics
... of the concept of identity imply that between the so-called "two" things there is a relation that might be called identity. Let us consider some cases so simple that if such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am hold ...
... of the concept of identity imply that between the so-called "two" things there is a relation that might be called identity. Let us consider some cases so simple that if such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am hold ...
THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY (London: Oxford University
... therefore, to avoid favouritism, we are compelled to deny that, in Itself, the table has any one particular colour. The same thing applies to the texture. With the naked eye one can see the grain, but otherwise the table looks smooth and even. If we looked at it through a microscope, we should see r ...
... therefore, to avoid favouritism, we are compelled to deny that, in Itself, the table has any one particular colour. The same thing applies to the texture. With the naked eye one can see the grain, but otherwise the table looks smooth and even. If we looked at it through a microscope, we should see r ...
Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Introduction
... perfectibility – a constant progress which must always remain distant from its goal. But even if, in the advance towards a new principle, the content of the preceding one is comprehended in a more universal sense than before, it is at least certain that the new form which emerges will again be a det ...
... perfectibility – a constant progress which must always remain distant from its goal. But even if, in the advance towards a new principle, the content of the preceding one is comprehended in a more universal sense than before, it is at least certain that the new form which emerges will again be a det ...
John Locke and the Changing Ideal of Scientific Knowledge
... world corresponds to our conceptions, and (2) that, consequently, it is possible for us to know the real natures of essences of substances existing in the world. The growth of empirical science in the seventeenth century, epitomized by the work of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, led to the implicit r ...
... world corresponds to our conceptions, and (2) that, consequently, it is possible for us to know the real natures of essences of substances existing in the world. The growth of empirical science in the seventeenth century, epitomized by the work of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, led to the implicit r ...
Being free by losing control: What Obsessive
... But the hallmark of skill acquisition is the transfer from consciously controlled to intuitive habitual actions, with particular aspects such as timing and attunement to the situation, none of which are under our conscious control. Thus, once we have acquired a skill explicit deliberation is no long ...
... But the hallmark of skill acquisition is the transfer from consciously controlled to intuitive habitual actions, with particular aspects such as timing and attunement to the situation, none of which are under our conscious control. Thus, once we have acquired a skill explicit deliberation is no long ...
Boethius Dacus on the supreme good
... perfect being in the universe, it is right for this to be the first cause. The philosopher also notes that the entire being of the universe, with the exception of this first cause itself, must come from it and thus, that this first cause is the cause which produces beings and orders them to one anot ...
... perfect being in the universe, it is right for this to be the first cause. The philosopher also notes that the entire being of the universe, with the exception of this first cause itself, must come from it and thus, that this first cause is the cause which produces beings and orders them to one anot ...
Vanier
... solitary state; we discover it through mutual dependency, in weakness, in learning through belonging.” (Vanier, Becoming Human) ...
... solitary state; we discover it through mutual dependency, in weakness, in learning through belonging.” (Vanier, Becoming Human) ...
6th-annual-house-bulletin-abstracts-9-oct1
... focus on what has been called “memory wars”, the debate about whether there are repressed memories, going back to Freud. Freud theorized that some disturbing experiences can be banned unconsciously by one’s mind in order to protect one’s consciousness. However these memories can lead to neuroses in ...
... focus on what has been called “memory wars”, the debate about whether there are repressed memories, going back to Freud. Freud theorized that some disturbing experiences can be banned unconsciously by one’s mind in order to protect one’s consciousness. However these memories can lead to neuroses in ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... more than two sentences and which can be consolidated on a post card. These are – 1. Man is a thinking mind, and 2. Matter is extension in motion. ...
... more than two sentences and which can be consolidated on a post card. These are – 1. Man is a thinking mind, and 2. Matter is extension in motion. ...