Why Didnâ•Žt Plato Just Write Arguments? The Role of Image
... forms, in this same system of "Platonic metaphysics," are the phenomena of human experience. We apprehend the phenomena through our senses. They are in constant flux—they are created and perish. Sensation, passion, and emotion, which necessarily accompany human experience since we are embodied creat ...
... forms, in this same system of "Platonic metaphysics," are the phenomena of human experience. We apprehend the phenomena through our senses. They are in constant flux—they are created and perish. Sensation, passion, and emotion, which necessarily accompany human experience since we are embodied creat ...
Is It Ethical to Eat Plants?
... otherness in one’s corporeal and psychic interiority’?10 The how of human eating entails much more than a biological process; it is also and above all, a cultural practice enveloped in a set of generally unquestioned attitudes. How we eat is a physical reflection of how we think, an embodied laborat ...
... otherness in one’s corporeal and psychic interiority’?10 The how of human eating entails much more than a biological process; it is also and above all, a cultural practice enveloped in a set of generally unquestioned attitudes. How we eat is a physical reflection of how we think, an embodied laborat ...
Film, Philosophy and the Imagination
... In the phenomenological reduction one needs to strip away the theoretical or scientific conceptions and thematizations that overlay the phenomenon one wishes to study, and which prevents one from seeing the phenomenon in a non-abstracting manner. The Epoche is the moment in which we break free from ...
... In the phenomenological reduction one needs to strip away the theoretical or scientific conceptions and thematizations that overlay the phenomenon one wishes to study, and which prevents one from seeing the phenomenon in a non-abstracting manner. The Epoche is the moment in which we break free from ...
No. 7 Ralph Nelson
... particularly successful in persuading others to accept his own interpretation as authentically Thomistic. ...
... particularly successful in persuading others to accept his own interpretation as authentically Thomistic. ...
A Tension in Pragmatist and Neo
... where for instance one is able correctly to classify or describe an object one has never experienced directly. To have knowledge by acquaintance with something, on the other hand, is a matter of being directly perceptually aware of the qualitative nature of some reality, and for James this is to be ...
... where for instance one is able correctly to classify or describe an object one has never experienced directly. To have knowledge by acquaintance with something, on the other hand, is a matter of being directly perceptually aware of the qualitative nature of some reality, and for James this is to be ...
MTO 0.11: Covach, Destructuring Cartesian Dualism
... is placed on the phenomenon of our conscious experience itself. Husserl conceived of phenomenology as a method that was applicable to many disciplines, and indeed, in the years following the publication of Husserl’s central texts (Logical Investigations [1900, 1901], Ideas I [1913], and Cartesian Me ...
... is placed on the phenomenon of our conscious experience itself. Husserl conceived of phenomenology as a method that was applicable to many disciplines, and indeed, in the years following the publication of Husserl’s central texts (Logical Investigations [1900, 1901], Ideas I [1913], and Cartesian Me ...
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... is associated with weaving, which is a powerful act associated with creation; the cosmos itself is a weaving in progress (p. 363, 403). Chapter 7 discusses teotl’s role as time-place. Time and place are not distinctive concepts, but concrete realities that exist as a single entity anchored together ...
... is associated with weaving, which is a powerful act associated with creation; the cosmos itself is a weaving in progress (p. 363, 403). Chapter 7 discusses teotl’s role as time-place. Time and place are not distinctive concepts, but concrete realities that exist as a single entity anchored together ...
Chapter 2: You are what you do Key Terms Agent
... Naturalism was first coined in 1903 and is the one, if not the most, widely held philosophy today. It sees the material universe as a unified system and believes everything in it is shaped by physical, biological, psychological, social and environmental processes. You can think of it like a chain; e ...
... Naturalism was first coined in 1903 and is the one, if not the most, widely held philosophy today. It sees the material universe as a unified system and believes everything in it is shaped by physical, biological, psychological, social and environmental processes. You can think of it like a chain; e ...
Treatise of Human Nature Book III: Morals
... are eternal unchangeable fitnesses and unfitnesses of things. If unaided thought and understanding could fix the boundaries of right and wrong, any item’s being virtuous or vicious must consist either in some relations between objects or in some matter of fact that is discovered by our reasoning. It ...
... are eternal unchangeable fitnesses and unfitnesses of things. If unaided thought and understanding could fix the boundaries of right and wrong, any item’s being virtuous or vicious must consist either in some relations between objects or in some matter of fact that is discovered by our reasoning. It ...
Hume
... • General conformity in what has pleased mankind in all ages and countries • Not agreement on everything • Depends on conditions of appreciation ...
... • General conformity in what has pleased mankind in all ages and countries • Not agreement on everything • Depends on conditions of appreciation ...
Materialy/07/Dividing of Ethics
... than unfavorable only to the agent performing the action. Ethical Altruism: an action is morally right if the consequences of that action are more favorable than unfavorable to everyone except the agent. Utilitarianism: an action is morally right if the consequences of that action are more favorable ...
... than unfavorable only to the agent performing the action. Ethical Altruism: an action is morally right if the consequences of that action are more favorable than unfavorable to everyone except the agent. Utilitarianism: an action is morally right if the consequences of that action are more favorable ...
Rationalism - LabTec-CS
... AS Philosophy – Unit 2 – Rationalism Foundationalism and the Cogito As we have seen, the rationalists were primarily interested in logically necessary truths. But why was this? Well, if you think back to some of the problems we looked at in regard to scepticism, you will remember that the extreme s ...
... AS Philosophy – Unit 2 – Rationalism Foundationalism and the Cogito As we have seen, the rationalists were primarily interested in logically necessary truths. But why was this? Well, if you think back to some of the problems we looked at in regard to scepticism, you will remember that the extreme s ...
the filipinos in their hybrid logical conversations: a preliminary study
... I would like to argue that in the domain of Logic, yes, ambiguity is fallacious! We have to recognize that the “fallacy of ambiguity” operates in the sphere of an academic discipline that recognizes its flaws and errors. We cannot do otherwise because that would undermine our own understanding of cr ...
... I would like to argue that in the domain of Logic, yes, ambiguity is fallacious! We have to recognize that the “fallacy of ambiguity” operates in the sphere of an academic discipline that recognizes its flaws and errors. We cannot do otherwise because that would undermine our own understanding of cr ...
Natural Law NC TOC
... Even when one's purpose is not distinct from one's action, something about the action underlies one's rational interest in doing it. One's reasons for playing a particular game or reading a particular novel are goods which are only instantiated through actions chosen for these reasons. Thus, playing ...
... Even when one's purpose is not distinct from one's action, something about the action underlies one's rational interest in doing it. One's reasons for playing a particular game or reading a particular novel are goods which are only instantiated through actions chosen for these reasons. Thus, playing ...
What is Philosophy
... change the world. Even scientists engaged in basic research often discover information that can be directly used in changing the world, though that is not their aim. Philosophers never uncover this kind of information, though philosophical investigation may give scientists a kind of understanding th ...
... change the world. Even scientists engaged in basic research often discover information that can be directly used in changing the world, though that is not their aim. Philosophers never uncover this kind of information, though philosophical investigation may give scientists a kind of understanding th ...
Sound Not Light: Levinas and the Elements of Thought
... way can we understand this excessive and overflowing quality of the face? The question is a significant one. Indeed, we would argue that it is, in fact, through this point that we are brought to see how Levinas’ account of the face has import beyond what can be said only about our relations with oth ...
... way can we understand this excessive and overflowing quality of the face? The question is a significant one. Indeed, we would argue that it is, in fact, through this point that we are brought to see how Levinas’ account of the face has import beyond what can be said only about our relations with oth ...
Pragmatism`s Legacy to Sociology Respecified
... attribute to them); and d) the primacy of practice over theory (action is the irremediable setting in which ordinary lives unfold) (Putnam 1994: 152). According to Putnam, the key idea Pragmatism has brought to theoretical reasoning – philosophical or social – is that fallibilism does not necessaril ...
... attribute to them); and d) the primacy of practice over theory (action is the irremediable setting in which ordinary lives unfold) (Putnam 1994: 152). According to Putnam, the key idea Pragmatism has brought to theoretical reasoning – philosophical or social – is that fallibilism does not necessaril ...
Meditations on First Philosophy in which are demonstrated the
... something certain and indubitable. For whether I am awake or asleep, two plus three makes five, and a square has only four sides. It seems impossible to suspect that such obvious truths might be false. However, I have for many years been sure that there is an all-powerful God who made me to be the s ...
... something certain and indubitable. For whether I am awake or asleep, two plus three makes five, and a square has only four sides. It seems impossible to suspect that such obvious truths might be false. However, I have for many years been sure that there is an all-powerful God who made me to be the s ...
Infallibilism and Human Kinds
... human kinds cannot be known a priori. I will illustrate this claim using the example of money, a case that is frequently cited by collective acceptance theorists. Money, like many other institutions, requires projectibility, and the latter in turn requires knowledge of the mechanisms that sustain ou ...
... human kinds cannot be known a priori. I will illustrate this claim using the example of money, a case that is frequently cited by collective acceptance theorists. Money, like many other institutions, requires projectibility, and the latter in turn requires knowledge of the mechanisms that sustain ou ...
Communication, Language and Autonomy
... consequently if we discover that the object we were looking at does not exist when we were perceiving it then it was not the “real” object and the intentional content was not in fact satisfied. Using a geometrical jargon, according to the results of background and network capacities, we say that the ...
... consequently if we discover that the object we were looking at does not exist when we were perceiving it then it was not the “real” object and the intentional content was not in fact satisfied. Using a geometrical jargon, according to the results of background and network capacities, we say that the ...
First Name Surname Nationality Key Theories Key
... After travelling and encountering people with different beliefs he questioned how any belief could be considered right. Realised that beliefs are cultural not natural and stated "man is the measure of all things", meaning that everything is relative and there are no objective truths. ...
... After travelling and encountering people with different beliefs he questioned how any belief could be considered right. Realised that beliefs are cultural not natural and stated "man is the measure of all things", meaning that everything is relative and there are no objective truths. ...
Knowledge structuring in scholarly discourse
... There is a tendency that an author will count himself to an established scientific field while some of his readers may want to push him “out of the family”. It would be helpful while working on structuring knowledge and scientific fields that authors write their abstracts in form of the FFM (Five-Fi ...
... There is a tendency that an author will count himself to an established scientific field while some of his readers may want to push him “out of the family”. It would be helpful while working on structuring knowledge and scientific fields that authors write their abstracts in form of the FFM (Five-Fi ...
War and/as Play - Inter
... Apostolova, War and/as Play calls the ‘stepping out of common reality into a higher order’. This characteristic of play is what makes it essential for our individual, as well as, group development. It is through play that a child develops his or her ability to identify, distinguish, and symbolize – ...
... Apostolova, War and/as Play calls the ‘stepping out of common reality into a higher order’. This characteristic of play is what makes it essential for our individual, as well as, group development. It is through play that a child develops his or her ability to identify, distinguish, and symbolize – ...
epistemology - mrsmcfadyensspace
... that knowledge is possible – that we can gain knowledge by various means. • One of the reasons for studying Philosophy is, after all, that you want to have knowledge of Philosophy. But you also want to have knowledge of many other things: whether it will rain today; what books you need for your cour ...
... that knowledge is possible – that we can gain knowledge by various means. • One of the reasons for studying Philosophy is, after all, that you want to have knowledge of Philosophy. But you also want to have knowledge of many other things: whether it will rain today; what books you need for your cour ...
Virtue Ethics and Moral Pluralsim
... • How do we know if they are “acting in character?” • What if we lack a virtuous character? ...
... • How do we know if they are “acting in character?” • What if we lack a virtuous character? ...