reply to Tracy Llanera - Keele Research Repository
... have an uphill battle trying to combat it. And once they are drawn in, and start thinking about our world within a wider context which scientistic culture tries to discredit – about what to do with this life we have found ourselves with, and how much technological power we can realistically handle – ...
... have an uphill battle trying to combat it. And once they are drawn in, and start thinking about our world within a wider context which scientistic culture tries to discredit – about what to do with this life we have found ourselves with, and how much technological power we can realistically handle – ...
CONTENDING WITH STANLEY CAVELL
... be capable, a demand for the origination, call it, of one’s utterances. In Wittgenstein’s manner: “What we do is return words from their metaphysical to their everyday use”—which is to say, a use I can own as mine. Conant several times recurs to the American tropism toward Europe for ratification of ...
... be capable, a demand for the origination, call it, of one’s utterances. In Wittgenstein’s manner: “What we do is return words from their metaphysical to their everyday use”—which is to say, a use I can own as mine. Conant several times recurs to the American tropism toward Europe for ratification of ...
Rene Descartes
... led astray by a dream, or deceived by a demon, Descartes nevertheless cannot doubt that he himself exists. This is the first certainty of the Meditations, the anchor or foundation on which the Cartesian project depends: „this proposition “I am”, “I exist”, whenever I utter it or conceive it in my mi ...
... led astray by a dream, or deceived by a demon, Descartes nevertheless cannot doubt that he himself exists. This is the first certainty of the Meditations, the anchor or foundation on which the Cartesian project depends: „this proposition “I am”, “I exist”, whenever I utter it or conceive it in my mi ...
Moral Theory and Experience
... inquiry that, however useful and important, it is limited by the purposes, methods, selectivity, particular to the sciences.3 Dewey spent many years reading and criticizing current psychological theories because he found them based on problematic dualisms. This was of consequence since current educa ...
... inquiry that, however useful and important, it is limited by the purposes, methods, selectivity, particular to the sciences.3 Dewey spent many years reading and criticizing current psychological theories because he found them based on problematic dualisms. This was of consequence since current educa ...
An Argument for Reversing the Bases of Science
... behind what we experience through our senses. Therefore, a scientific study of nature cannot pay too much attention to sense experience. It cannot stay or dwell upon the richness and variety of such experience. It must move on to what lies behind it, in the realm of mathematical algebraisations, i.e ...
... behind what we experience through our senses. Therefore, a scientific study of nature cannot pay too much attention to sense experience. It cannot stay or dwell upon the richness and variety of such experience. It must move on to what lies behind it, in the realm of mathematical algebraisations, i.e ...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
... When we add further that, unless we deny that the notion of morality has any truth or reference to any possible object, we must admit that its law must be valid, not merely for men but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions but with ab ...
... When we add further that, unless we deny that the notion of morality has any truth or reference to any possible object, we must admit that its law must be valid, not merely for men but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions but with ab ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... of an end. Many actions we perform are not products of our own deliberation and voluntary judgment. Yet Aquinas points out that acts of this sort are not properly human acts ―since they do not proceed from the deliberation of the reason‖13. In order for an act to count as a human act, it must be a p ...
... of an end. Many actions we perform are not products of our own deliberation and voluntary judgment. Yet Aquinas points out that acts of this sort are not properly human acts ―since they do not proceed from the deliberation of the reason‖13. In order for an act to count as a human act, it must be a p ...
ethics and human conduct in the society
... Normative ethics is the sub-branch of moral philosophy that deals with this issue. The main focus of this division of ethics is on determining ‘principles that ought to guide human conduct,’ or ‘the formulation of moral rules that have direct implications for what human actions, institutions, and wa ...
... Normative ethics is the sub-branch of moral philosophy that deals with this issue. The main focus of this division of ethics is on determining ‘principles that ought to guide human conduct,’ or ‘the formulation of moral rules that have direct implications for what human actions, institutions, and wa ...
this PDF file - European Scientific Journal
... sense(s) of education in an axiological perspective. Our age deals with a crisis that, more than economic, is a crisis of sense and values. The global narratives that ground and legitimate knowledge, culture and society faded, and gave place to a kind of void or fragmentation of meaning: science, re ...
... sense(s) of education in an axiological perspective. Our age deals with a crisis that, more than economic, is a crisis of sense and values. The global narratives that ground and legitimate knowledge, culture and society faded, and gave place to a kind of void or fragmentation of meaning: science, re ...
sermon - Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst
... at every single thing that crept along near me as something I could suck up for a sermon. The weekly “What are you going to say?” That’s something else. Anyway, I do note that I made margin notes as I always do, so I was sort of paying attention. However, I didn’t really notice there were these thin ...
... at every single thing that crept along near me as something I could suck up for a sermon. The weekly “What are you going to say?” That’s something else. Anyway, I do note that I made margin notes as I always do, so I was sort of paying attention. However, I didn’t really notice there were these thin ...
Treatise of Human Nature Book III: Morals
... reputation seriously claimed that such a falsehood is indeed the foundation of all guilt and moral ugliness. [This was William Wollaston, who died about 15 years before Hume wrote the Treatise.] To see that he was wrong about that, we need only consider this: When a false conclusion is drawn from an ...
... reputation seriously claimed that such a falsehood is indeed the foundation of all guilt and moral ugliness. [This was William Wollaston, who died about 15 years before Hume wrote the Treatise.] To see that he was wrong about that, we need only consider this: When a false conclusion is drawn from an ...
PHI 110 Lecture 1 1 Welcome to Philosophy 110, Introduction to
... how we are the same person that we’ve always been, or we are a different person than we used to be. A lot of times people will undergo sort of life-changing events or life-changing frames of mind which will lead them to say, “I’m no longer the same person that I was.” Philosophy tries to make sense ...
... how we are the same person that we’ve always been, or we are a different person than we used to be. A lot of times people will undergo sort of life-changing events or life-changing frames of mind which will lead them to say, “I’m no longer the same person that I was.” Philosophy tries to make sense ...
Journal - Vassar Philosophy
... itself,” (Levinas 105). This means that modern architects conceived of architecture as existing apart from society, continuing to build not for the community but for the sake of architecture itself. For Team 10, the modern architects who approached architecture as an isolated craft had rendered the ...
... itself,” (Levinas 105). This means that modern architects conceived of architecture as existing apart from society, continuing to build not for the community but for the sake of architecture itself. For Team 10, the modern architects who approached architecture as an isolated craft had rendered the ...
29 th october, 2016. ethics and human conduct in the
... philosophy which determines where there an action is right or wrong. The first theories are Teleological theories which talks on the consequences of an action in determining its rightness or wrongness. An action in its right if it brings good result and wrong if it brings about bad ones. The normati ...
... philosophy which determines where there an action is right or wrong. The first theories are Teleological theories which talks on the consequences of an action in determining its rightness or wrongness. An action in its right if it brings good result and wrong if it brings about bad ones. The normati ...
Philosophy 35
... however. After much contemplation, Descartes became absolutely certain that whether dreaming or awake, he was definitely THINKING. As a thinking being, Descartes concluded that he must exist. Based on this premise, Descartes offered the Western world the idea that reality is based on the experience ...
... however. After much contemplation, Descartes became absolutely certain that whether dreaming or awake, he was definitely THINKING. As a thinking being, Descartes concluded that he must exist. Based on this premise, Descartes offered the Western world the idea that reality is based on the experience ...
The Asian Sage - Philosophy 1510 All Sections
... According to Buddhist teachings, it is impossible to “explain” the awakening. But a rough idea might be that saw himself and all of life as part of an unending process of change, that the universe is a system of interconnected inseparable parts, composed of all varieties of life forever moving from ...
... According to Buddhist teachings, it is impossible to “explain” the awakening. But a rough idea might be that saw himself and all of life as part of an unending process of change, that the universe is a system of interconnected inseparable parts, composed of all varieties of life forever moving from ...
THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS AND SOCRATES
... he employed for such an explanation were condensation and rarefaction. Pure air is the most rarefied substance, but it can condense into heavier and heavier forms. These may be graded, according to their degree of condensation—as fire, and then wind, and then clouds, and then water, and then earth. ...
... he employed for such an explanation were condensation and rarefaction. Pure air is the most rarefied substance, but it can condense into heavier and heavier forms. These may be graded, according to their degree of condensation—as fire, and then wind, and then clouds, and then water, and then earth. ...
considerations on knowledge philosophy during the
... mythological parables. The harmony between logos and mythos is somewhat resumed, as this harmony already existed in the tradition of the Universal Wisdom. Symbol interpretation is extremely valuable on this pre-epistemological background. The association between the cognitive states of conscience an ...
... mythological parables. The harmony between logos and mythos is somewhat resumed, as this harmony already existed in the tradition of the Universal Wisdom. Symbol interpretation is extremely valuable on this pre-epistemological background. The association between the cognitive states of conscience an ...
Nietzsche`s critique of past philosophers
... Nietzsche is questioning the very foundations of philosophy. To accept his claims means being a new kind of philosopher, ones who ‘taste and inclination’, whose values, are quite different. Throughout his philosophy, Nietzsche is concerned with origins, both psychological and historical. Much of phi ...
... Nietzsche is questioning the very foundations of philosophy. To accept his claims means being a new kind of philosopher, ones who ‘taste and inclination’, whose values, are quite different. Throughout his philosophy, Nietzsche is concerned with origins, both psychological and historical. Much of phi ...
What is Hindu Spirituality
... existence of spirit or consciousness but its ultimate reality. According to this perspective, matter constitutes the ultimate reality about the universe, and consciousness is an epiphenomenon of matter. Just as two gases—hydrogen and oxygen—generate water, which possesses a quality they don’t, namel ...
... existence of spirit or consciousness but its ultimate reality. According to this perspective, matter constitutes the ultimate reality about the universe, and consciousness is an epiphenomenon of matter. Just as two gases—hydrogen and oxygen—generate water, which possesses a quality they don’t, namel ...
sadwcn_adwy - Square
... values secured are recognized the more easily for having been first enjoyed when other people furnished the means to them; while the maintenance of these values is facilitated by an external tradition (1052) …’ Santayana reveals how the reality of imagination can transcend mere sense through intuiti ...
... values secured are recognized the more easily for having been first enjoyed when other people furnished the means to them; while the maintenance of these values is facilitated by an external tradition (1052) …’ Santayana reveals how the reality of imagination can transcend mere sense through intuiti ...
On Moral Progress: A Response to Richard Rorty
... wrong with the generals in Laches was that they had not done this sort of preparatory thinking; clearly, then, they would come to new situations badly prepared, as Nicias eventually did, with disastrous results. Confronting a new case with an adequate principle already in hand helps one think when t ...
... wrong with the generals in Laches was that they had not done this sort of preparatory thinking; clearly, then, they would come to new situations badly prepared, as Nicias eventually did, with disastrous results. Confronting a new case with an adequate principle already in hand helps one think when t ...
Resolving an Ethical Dilemma
... always been scrupulously honest know the full range of negative consequences that come from lying? Yet recognizing only certain, "experienced" people as qualified to make moral judgments could jeopardize the fair, open, impartial and objective method of assessing consequences that a teleological out ...
... always been scrupulously honest know the full range of negative consequences that come from lying? Yet recognizing only certain, "experienced" people as qualified to make moral judgments could jeopardize the fair, open, impartial and objective method of assessing consequences that a teleological out ...
Preface - PhilPapers
... developed throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, so that now the blunders are an allpervasive feature of our world. The Enlightenment, and what it led to, has long been criticized, by the Romantic movement, by what Isaiah Berlin has called 'the counter-Enlightenment', and more recently by the Fran ...
... developed throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, so that now the blunders are an allpervasive feature of our world. The Enlightenment, and what it led to, has long been criticized, by the Romantic movement, by what Isaiah Berlin has called 'the counter-Enlightenment', and more recently by the Fran ...