VVFP 2011: Msgr Gordon presentation, `A Christian moral framework`
... fleet of ships and ethics are our sailing orders. These orders tell the ships (us) three things: 1. How to cooperate with one another and thus avoid bumping into to each other. This is Social Ethics. 2. How to keep each ship afloat and in good condition. This is Individual Ethics or Virtue Ethics. I ...
... fleet of ships and ethics are our sailing orders. These orders tell the ships (us) three things: 1. How to cooperate with one another and thus avoid bumping into to each other. This is Social Ethics. 2. How to keep each ship afloat and in good condition. This is Individual Ethics or Virtue Ethics. I ...
Kwame Nkrumah
... and Euro-Christian influence, and their traditional world views to create a society that will lead to the harmonious growth and development of its people. The thrust of his argument is that any political or ethical principle must have a foundation in a metaphysical system. A philosophical idea must ...
... and Euro-Christian influence, and their traditional world views to create a society that will lead to the harmonious growth and development of its people. The thrust of his argument is that any political or ethical principle must have a foundation in a metaphysical system. A philosophical idea must ...
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind 1
... red sensation as the awareness of a red particular, rather than as the awareness of its being red. • Then the formation of ideas of repeatables would proceed by the association of words (‘red’) with a range of ‘resembling particulars’. • But the association needs to be handled carefully: If we think ...
... red sensation as the awareness of a red particular, rather than as the awareness of its being red. • Then the formation of ideas of repeatables would proceed by the association of words (‘red’) with a range of ‘resembling particulars’. • But the association needs to be handled carefully: If we think ...
Why is it Important to Manage Expectations in our Life? 49 The one
... pass to all those nearest. Accordingly, just as in times of plague we must take care not to sit besides those bodies that have already been infected and burn with the disease... so in selecting friends we must pay attention to their characters.” So, if you have an anger problem, don’t surround yours ...
... pass to all those nearest. Accordingly, just as in times of plague we must take care not to sit besides those bodies that have already been infected and burn with the disease... so in selecting friends we must pay attention to their characters.” So, if you have an anger problem, don’t surround yours ...
Plato and Vedanta
... Logos as a bridge over the gulf that separates man and God, the known and the unknown. The Logos was identified with one or another of the physical elements, according as one or another was thought to be the ultimate substance of the universe. Heraclitus, who lived in the sixth century BC, was the f ...
... Logos as a bridge over the gulf that separates man and God, the known and the unknown. The Logos was identified with one or another of the physical elements, according as one or another was thought to be the ultimate substance of the universe. Heraclitus, who lived in the sixth century BC, was the f ...
epistemological puzzles alexandru anghelescu, laurenţiu rozylowicz
... description of the possible relations between the actors of the play. I…VI describe the same structure from six different angles; it describes the relation between them in 6 different ways. For centuries it was believed that the logic which Aristotle “discovered” put the pupil against the master. No ...
... description of the possible relations between the actors of the play. I…VI describe the same structure from six different angles; it describes the relation between them in 6 different ways. For centuries it was believed that the logic which Aristotle “discovered” put the pupil against the master. No ...
- Philsci
... this instance seems to turn principally upon an extremely demanding criterion for knowledge. Huet’s Against Cartesian Philosophy (1694/2003) is nicely explicit in extending its skepticism to internal matters of ongoing thought, though the examples and arguments differ considerably from mine here. ...
... this instance seems to turn principally upon an extremely demanding criterion for knowledge. Huet’s Against Cartesian Philosophy (1694/2003) is nicely explicit in extending its skepticism to internal matters of ongoing thought, though the examples and arguments differ considerably from mine here. ...
Transcendentalism
... The practical aims of the transcendentalists were varied; some among the group linked it with utopian social change and, in the case of Brownson, it joined explicitly with early socialism, while others found it an exclusively individual and idealist project. Emerson believed the latter. In his 1842 ...
... The practical aims of the transcendentalists were varied; some among the group linked it with utopian social change and, in the case of Brownson, it joined explicitly with early socialism, while others found it an exclusively individual and idealist project. Emerson believed the latter. In his 1842 ...
A catalog of conscious experiences
... one eye and then uncover it, you can get an idea of the change. In my previous state, I would have said that there was no way for the depth of my vision to improve; the world already seemed as three-dimensional as it could be. The change was subtle, almost ineffable, but extremely striking. Certainl ...
... one eye and then uncover it, you can get an idea of the change. In my previous state, I would have said that there was no way for the depth of my vision to improve; the world already seemed as three-dimensional as it could be. The change was subtle, almost ineffable, but extremely striking. Certainl ...
The Self
... the MI, an account of human conceptual abilities purely in terms of biology, chemistry, or physics, could never be accepted as correct. The problem, as Sellars points out, is that it some such naturalistic account must be correct, for “somehow the world is the cause of an individual’s image of the w ...
... the MI, an account of human conceptual abilities purely in terms of biology, chemistry, or physics, could never be accepted as correct. The problem, as Sellars points out, is that it some such naturalistic account must be correct, for “somehow the world is the cause of an individual’s image of the w ...
Conscious Experience
... Today, the problem of consciousness - perhaps together with the question of the origin of the universe - inarks the very limit of human striving for understanding. It appears to many to be the last great puzzle and the greatest theoretical challenge of our time. A solution of this puzzle through emp ...
... Today, the problem of consciousness - perhaps together with the question of the origin of the universe - inarks the very limit of human striving for understanding. It appears to many to be the last great puzzle and the greatest theoretical challenge of our time. A solution of this puzzle through emp ...
Ethical Criticism
... responsibility and self-knowledge to a play of rhetorical codes and figurations; as if reading occured in a vacuum, unaffected by the institutional, political, social and historical world of the reader or the text. III. Derrida: even though each reading is a misreading, each reading is an act of dec ...
... responsibility and self-knowledge to a play of rhetorical codes and figurations; as if reading occured in a vacuum, unaffected by the institutional, political, social and historical world of the reader or the text. III. Derrida: even though each reading is a misreading, each reading is an act of dec ...
Anzai Masahiro
... I think that we must reconstruct “next lifestyle of human being and the attitude for the environment” ．We should reflect the shadow of“logos－centrism”and create the way to co-exist and reconcile beyond any difference，any discrimination and opposition to avoid tragic catastrophes in our future．We mus ...
... I think that we must reconstruct “next lifestyle of human being and the attitude for the environment” ．We should reflect the shadow of“logos－centrism”and create the way to co-exist and reconcile beyond any difference，any discrimination and opposition to avoid tragic catastrophes in our future．We mus ...
SEMANTICS – AN INTERVIEW WITH JERRY FODOR
... ‘in the first instance’. Formulas in natural languages inherit their semantic properties from those of the mental representations that they are used to express. To a first approximation, ‘snow is white’ means that snow is white in English because it’s the form of words that English speakers use to e ...
... ‘in the first instance’. Formulas in natural languages inherit their semantic properties from those of the mental representations that they are used to express. To a first approximation, ‘snow is white’ means that snow is white in English because it’s the form of words that English speakers use to e ...
Taking Social Constructionism Seriously
... anymore than the movements of a dance do. Indeed, “[t]he terms by which we understand our world and our self are neither required nor demanded by “what there is”” (ISC:47). Instead, all description is poetic and rhetorical, and we can never really refer to anything outside our language. As I argued ...
... anymore than the movements of a dance do. Indeed, “[t]he terms by which we understand our world and our self are neither required nor demanded by “what there is”” (ISC:47). Instead, all description is poetic and rhetorical, and we can never really refer to anything outside our language. As I argued ...
Religion and Environmental Ethics
... nature as Dhamma. On this the entire world functions, and keeps on going. Dhamma draws a clear line between man and beasts. Man is supposed to be morally sound and of good conduct. Therefore there has to be a code of conduct in human behaviour and also an order in the nature. According to Buddhism c ...
... nature as Dhamma. On this the entire world functions, and keeps on going. Dhamma draws a clear line between man and beasts. Man is supposed to be morally sound and of good conduct. Therefore there has to be a code of conduct in human behaviour and also an order in the nature. According to Buddhism c ...
Kinds of Things—Towards a Bestiary of the
... sophisticated naïve anthropologist can calmly note the impasse from a position of neutrality and conclude (tentatively) that holes are virtually indispensable in the ontology of the manifest image, but probably not portable, without strikingly counterintuitive revision, to the austere scientific imag ...
... sophisticated naïve anthropologist can calmly note the impasse from a position of neutrality and conclude (tentatively) that holes are virtually indispensable in the ontology of the manifest image, but probably not portable, without strikingly counterintuitive revision, to the austere scientific imag ...
Pragmatism Lite - NYU Philosophy
... claim about what beliefs are; it is rather to make a historical claim about how they come into existence. The thought is that what we believe is not to be explained by the way the world is or by the available evidence, but rather by the fact that some of our beliefs turn out to be more useful than o ...
... claim about what beliefs are; it is rather to make a historical claim about how they come into existence. The thought is that what we believe is not to be explained by the way the world is or by the available evidence, but rather by the fact that some of our beliefs turn out to be more useful than o ...
What are computers (if they`re not thinking things)?
... computers?’ is still worth asking, since almost no-one thinks of past and existing computers, or even of most foreseeable computers, as thinking things. We still need an account of what these devices that now surround us are, even if computationalists are right to think of them as proto-thinkers, as ...
... computers?’ is still worth asking, since almost no-one thinks of past and existing computers, or even of most foreseeable computers, as thinking things. We still need an account of what these devices that now surround us are, even if computationalists are right to think of them as proto-thinkers, as ...
III The lecture on Ethics
... total world description would contain no ethical judgment and nothing that would imply one, though it would contain 'all true propositions that can be made''; all propositions stand, as it were on the same level'. State of mind like a murder, or a pain or rage it causes are facts which, therefore we ...
... total world description would contain no ethical judgment and nothing that would imply one, though it would contain 'all true propositions that can be made''; all propositions stand, as it were on the same level'. State of mind like a murder, or a pain or rage it causes are facts which, therefore we ...
Navigating the Asian Future: from Asian Thoughts
... Recent developments from gene therapy, stem cells to cloning and in the future, artificial genes and artificial chromosomes and humans augmented non-biologically through say artificial intelligence implants challenge some of the basic assumptions about the human. We are, or will soon be, constructin ...
... Recent developments from gene therapy, stem cells to cloning and in the future, artificial genes and artificial chromosomes and humans augmented non-biologically through say artificial intelligence implants challenge some of the basic assumptions about the human. We are, or will soon be, constructin ...
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... was cut up, the parts remained alive and developed into new organisms with new “souls,” did in fact compel a decoupling of “organized bodies” from organic form. Bonnet’s decentering of the Chain of Being through his provocative statement that an elephant could be a Leibniz is residually anthropologi ...
... was cut up, the parts remained alive and developed into new organisms with new “souls,” did in fact compel a decoupling of “organized bodies” from organic form. Bonnet’s decentering of the Chain of Being through his provocative statement that an elephant could be a Leibniz is residually anthropologi ...
Philosophy as Wisdom of Love
... East, this philosophical impulse was inseparable from the evolutionary spiritual impulse for selfrealization, which defined the office of philosophy in the East as the Way of Realization. Therefore, such eminent esoteric schools of Eastern thought as Yogacara, Madhyamika, rDzogs-chen, Vedanta, Samkh ...
... East, this philosophical impulse was inseparable from the evolutionary spiritual impulse for selfrealization, which defined the office of philosophy in the East as the Way of Realization. Therefore, such eminent esoteric schools of Eastern thought as Yogacara, Madhyamika, rDzogs-chen, Vedanta, Samkh ...
