Print this article - Wittgenstein Repository, ed. Wittgenstein Archives
... appropriate, and a different context. It would be possible to imagine people who as it were thought much more definitely than we, and used different words where we use only one. We ask “What does ‘I am frightened’ really mean, what am I referring to when I say it?” And of course we find no answer, o ...
... appropriate, and a different context. It would be possible to imagine people who as it were thought much more definitely than we, and used different words where we use only one. We ask “What does ‘I am frightened’ really mean, what am I referring to when I say it?” And of course we find no answer, o ...
Early Greek Thought and Perspectives for the - Philsci
... The most famous of them is the paradox of motion, a less famous one deals with the possibility of there being separate things in the world: the paradox of the One and the Many. Zeno’s until now essentially unresolved paradoxes8 were intended to show that motion and separated things cannot exist, pre ...
... The most famous of them is the paradox of motion, a less famous one deals with the possibility of there being separate things in the world: the paradox of the One and the Many. Zeno’s until now essentially unresolved paradoxes8 were intended to show that motion and separated things cannot exist, pre ...
gst113 ethics and human conduct in the society
... with standards with which they can make distinction between moral and immoral actions, moral philosophers undertake two task which are: presenting us with better understanding of concepts employed in moral discourse( this is under the sub-branch of ethics called metaethics) and; two, developing theo ...
... with standards with which they can make distinction between moral and immoral actions, moral philosophers undertake two task which are: presenting us with better understanding of concepts employed in moral discourse( this is under the sub-branch of ethics called metaethics) and; two, developing theo ...
![The Poetics of Philosophy [A Reading of Plato]](http://s1.studyres.com/store/data/017183816_1-313e35910af54fc61b425e59c4421671-300x300.png)
The Poetics of Philosophy [A Reading of Plato]
... work is of a Dionysian soul with an analytic Apollonian bent. It is a melange of word play and exposition that defies categorizing. Its author has tried to say something of philosophical importance, which should not be taken for granted. To cite the words of Alan Bloom when discussing ‘analytic’ phi ...
... work is of a Dionysian soul with an analytic Apollonian bent. It is a melange of word play and exposition that defies categorizing. Its author has tried to say something of philosophical importance, which should not be taken for granted. To cite the words of Alan Bloom when discussing ‘analytic’ phi ...
CHAPTER-V The Orient in Henry David Thoreau`s writings
... remained wholly the child of his age in regarding the material world as a symbol of the spiritual.‖ (94) There is no other American writer, in his thinking, vision, insight and in his writing who has a close association with the Oriental ideas than Henry David Thoreau. As a disciple of Emerson, he b ...
... remained wholly the child of his age in regarding the material world as a symbol of the spiritual.‖ (94) There is no other American writer, in his thinking, vision, insight and in his writing who has a close association with the Oriental ideas than Henry David Thoreau. As a disciple of Emerson, he b ...
The Concept Of Soul Or Self In Vedanta
... Atman manifests in our conscious mind in the wake of strenuous spiritual struggle. The supreme object, according to Vedanta, is to know the Reality through direct intuitive knowledge, which is superior to discursive reasoning. This immediate knowledge unites the knower with that which is known. The ...
... Atman manifests in our conscious mind in the wake of strenuous spiritual struggle. The supreme object, according to Vedanta, is to know the Reality through direct intuitive knowledge, which is superior to discursive reasoning. This immediate knowledge unites the knower with that which is known. The ...
Mike Oren - Iowa State University
... o Indexicality of language – “typically is used to distinguish those classes of expressions whose meaning is conditional on the situation of their use in this way from those” (59). Language is conditional on what the language-user means in the context of speaking—all language has an indexical relat ...
... o Indexicality of language – “typically is used to distinguish those classes of expressions whose meaning is conditional on the situation of their use in this way from those” (59). Language is conditional on what the language-user means in the context of speaking—all language has an indexical relat ...
Reference and Analysis in the Study of Time - Philsci
... notice of many philosophers of science, perhaps because they are so deeply influenced by logic, which must impose homogeneity on the arguments it formalizes, so that they neglect the opportunities offered by, and the constraints imposed by, discursive heterogeneity in historically central reasoning. ...
... notice of many philosophers of science, perhaps because they are so deeply influenced by logic, which must impose homogeneity on the arguments it formalizes, so that they neglect the opportunities offered by, and the constraints imposed by, discursive heterogeneity in historically central reasoning. ...
Action-Oriented Research in Education: A Comparative
... considered that the life, as it were, is the locus of problems that should be settled by means of science. Referring to this kind of problem-based view in both science and life, Karl Popper states that “The work of the scientist does not start with the collection of data, but with the sensitive sele ...
... considered that the life, as it were, is the locus of problems that should be settled by means of science. Referring to this kind of problem-based view in both science and life, Karl Popper states that “The work of the scientist does not start with the collection of data, but with the sensitive sele ...
Philosophy as Therapy for Recovering (Unrestrained) Omnivores
... appropriately satisfied with the degree of harmony between her beliefs and actions, and in which she has the tools to identify and assume beliefs and actions that authentically reflect her values. The malaises in question threaten this ideal. Though they can arise in the context of any moral issue, ...
... appropriately satisfied with the degree of harmony between her beliefs and actions, and in which she has the tools to identify and assume beliefs and actions that authentically reflect her values. The malaises in question threaten this ideal. Though they can arise in the context of any moral issue, ...
Ethical Egoism
... Otherwise, they might harm us. It is to our own advantage to be truthful. Otherwise, others may be dishonest to us. It is to our own advantage to keep our promises. Otherwise, others may break their promises to us. ...
... Otherwise, they might harm us. It is to our own advantage to be truthful. Otherwise, others may be dishonest to us. It is to our own advantage to keep our promises. Otherwise, others may break their promises to us. ...
- Philsci
... "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in view of that constitution, of what the mind can and cannot know. The psychological reading seems the more charitable to Kant, since a psychological theory ...
... "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in view of that constitution, of what the mind can and cannot know. The psychological reading seems the more charitable to Kant, since a psychological theory ...
PROLEGOMENON The consequences of the
... This transcendental argument from experimental activity, together with other arguments from the context of applied and practical science, establishes the inexorability and irreducibility of philosophical ontology and the necessarily stratified and differentiated character of this ontology. It now be ...
... This transcendental argument from experimental activity, together with other arguments from the context of applied and practical science, establishes the inexorability and irreducibility of philosophical ontology and the necessarily stratified and differentiated character of this ontology. It now be ...
動物與道德 - 動物權台灣
... assess the value of our values since values are relative to one's goals and one's self. He emphasized the need to analyze our moral values and how much impact they may have on us. The problem with morality is that those who were considered “good” were the powerful nobles who had more education, and ...
... assess the value of our values since values are relative to one's goals and one's self. He emphasized the need to analyze our moral values and how much impact they may have on us. The problem with morality is that those who were considered “good” were the powerful nobles who had more education, and ...
Contemplation of the Variety of the World
... Several kinds of questions arise from Phillips’s allegedly neutral and descriptive approach to philosophy of religion. One of them has to do with the philosopher’s ability to understand perspectives other than his own. According to Richard Amesbury, Phillips seems to hold that fair-minded philosophe ...
... Several kinds of questions arise from Phillips’s allegedly neutral and descriptive approach to philosophy of religion. One of them has to do with the philosopher’s ability to understand perspectives other than his own. According to Richard Amesbury, Phillips seems to hold that fair-minded philosophe ...
Rejection Alternatives Bad - GDI - 2011
... Self-knowledge is critical to free agency SEP 8 (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-knowledge/#3.4)JFS The role of self-understanding in agency is a complex topic, and we can only briefly examine some leading positions on the issue here. Knowledge of one's re ...
... Self-knowledge is critical to free agency SEP 8 (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-knowledge/#3.4)JFS The role of self-understanding in agency is a complex topic, and we can only briefly examine some leading positions on the issue here. Knowledge of one's re ...
Functionalism - Cognitive Science Department
... physics, chemistry, and other sciences, during the 19th century the first systematic scientific investigations of the mind began. • The early views of the mind saw the mind as consciousness: – mind = consciousness (= spirit/soul?) ...
... physics, chemistry, and other sciences, during the 19th century the first systematic scientific investigations of the mind began. • The early views of the mind saw the mind as consciousness: – mind = consciousness (= spirit/soul?) ...
Sunflowers, Sardines and Responsive Combodying: Three
... makes itself out of those, and so, of course, it contains (it is) information about those. But it is not about soil and water just lying out there by themselves. Rather it is much more complex information about the plant’s living with those, making itself out of them.... ...
... makes itself out of those, and so, of course, it contains (it is) information about those. But it is not about soil and water just lying out there by themselves. Rather it is much more complex information about the plant’s living with those, making itself out of them.... ...
Study Guide: René Descartes
... o Calculations: You may have made an error in your calculations. o Simple beliefs about arithmetic or logic: You may have a feeling of certainty when considering false beliefs. Descartes has a general purpose skeptical alternative: It could be that you are being deceived by evil demons. (This is ...
... o Calculations: You may have made an error in your calculations. o Simple beliefs about arithmetic or logic: You may have a feeling of certainty when considering false beliefs. Descartes has a general purpose skeptical alternative: It could be that you are being deceived by evil demons. (This is ...
What is immediate perception? The Buddhist answer
... Does it mean that we really apprehend svalakshana at the moment of perception? Taking into account that all of our own cognitive devices – images, conceptions, words, etc. – are products of mental construction, how could we say that immediate perception of particulars or of their aspects is a cognit ...
... Does it mean that we really apprehend svalakshana at the moment of perception? Taking into account that all of our own cognitive devices – images, conceptions, words, etc. – are products of mental construction, how could we say that immediate perception of particulars or of their aspects is a cognit ...
Socratic Knowledge, Christian Love, Confucian Virtue
... them and their teachings has been largely reported after their death by those who knew them. Therefore, we can have little certainty of what they actually did or said beyond trusting the sources that report about them. Over time, with varying memories, translations and interpretations of the origina ...
... them and their teachings has been largely reported after their death by those who knew them. Therefore, we can have little certainty of what they actually did or said beyond trusting the sources that report about them. Over time, with varying memories, translations and interpretations of the origina ...
Unavoidable Today? Is Protagoras' Moral Relativism
... thinking on this not still applicable to our times? Vet in our global community, practice demands practice. It is forced upon cultures and societies to decide and act upon at least some actions as just or unjust, humane or inhumane wherever they occur. A problem is that within a relativist approach ...
... thinking on this not still applicable to our times? Vet in our global community, practice demands practice. It is forced upon cultures and societies to decide and act upon at least some actions as just or unjust, humane or inhumane wherever they occur. A problem is that within a relativist approach ...
Philosophy as Quest - Oregon State University
... in the world. Religions provide conceptual blueprints that describe how the world (all of existence) works and what modes of living fit with that picture of reality (e.g. follow God’s plan, obey the will of Allah, harmonize with the Tao, tread the eight-fold path, etc.) Philosophy also serves to pro ...
... in the world. Religions provide conceptual blueprints that describe how the world (all of existence) works and what modes of living fit with that picture of reality (e.g. follow God’s plan, obey the will of Allah, harmonize with the Tao, tread the eight-fold path, etc.) Philosophy also serves to pro ...
Nowadays when we hear the term “prudence”
... should any great advantage accrue.” This is perfectly true, but it is only the beginning of the problem, since all it does is focus the question: why cultivate a character trait that could be so disastrous? In particular, why cultivate a trait that so drastically limits your options for extricating ...
... should any great advantage accrue.” This is perfectly true, but it is only the beginning of the problem, since all it does is focus the question: why cultivate a character trait that could be so disastrous? In particular, why cultivate a trait that so drastically limits your options for extricating ...