Plato: Phaedo (Selections) 1 And now, O my judges, I desire to
... And are not the temperate exactly in the same case? They are temperate because they are intemperate—which might seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they are afraid of losing; and in their desire t ...
... And are not the temperate exactly in the same case? They are temperate because they are intemperate—which might seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they are afraid of losing; and in their desire t ...
Class #2 - 3-18-13
... it can rely on to define any domain of study. Thus, metaphysics is more accurately “a collection of questions that seem to group together about what is real and what reality is like.” ...
... it can rely on to define any domain of study. Thus, metaphysics is more accurately “a collection of questions that seem to group together about what is real and what reality is like.” ...
The Method – Analysis and Criticisms
... chance, I look at the one real plant. Do I know that I it is a plant? In this context, we might say that I don’t. I am lucky to be looking at the real plant. I could have easily been looking at a fake plant and have had a false belief. In sum, whether we know or not can depend on whether context: wh ...
... chance, I look at the one real plant. Do I know that I it is a plant? In this context, we might say that I don’t. I am lucky to be looking at the real plant. I could have easily been looking at a fake plant and have had a false belief. In sum, whether we know or not can depend on whether context: wh ...
KANT - ARISTOTLE lecture
... principles or laws, based on the overarching virtue of justice, but they arise out of our nature as beings possessing reason. In other ...
... principles or laws, based on the overarching virtue of justice, but they arise out of our nature as beings possessing reason. In other ...
Hinduism
... Pleasure is too trivial to satisfy one’s total nature. This claim Smith appears to think is either self-evident, or otherwise not in need of bolstering. What does it mean, “one’s total nature”? How strong a reason is this? (Would success, ‘making a difference’, or knowledge, existence, or joy be val ...
... Pleasure is too trivial to satisfy one’s total nature. This claim Smith appears to think is either self-evident, or otherwise not in need of bolstering. What does it mean, “one’s total nature”? How strong a reason is this? (Would success, ‘making a difference’, or knowledge, existence, or joy be val ...
Hinduism
... Pleasure is too trivial to satisfy one’s total nature. This claim Smith appears to think is either self-evident, or otherwise not in need of bolstering. What does it mean, “one’s total nature”? How strong a reason is this? (Would success, ‘making a difference’, or knowledge, existence, or joy be val ...
... Pleasure is too trivial to satisfy one’s total nature. This claim Smith appears to think is either self-evident, or otherwise not in need of bolstering. What does it mean, “one’s total nature”? How strong a reason is this? (Would success, ‘making a difference’, or knowledge, existence, or joy be val ...
Powerpoint - History and Philosophy of Science @ UCD
... to seek and find truth, are ultimately only instruments of the mind, whose only sanction and validity come from other mental acts. Newman, 1870 Grammar of Assent ...
... to seek and find truth, are ultimately only instruments of the mind, whose only sanction and validity come from other mental acts. Newman, 1870 Grammar of Assent ...
power, authority and pointless activity
... new emotional growth, a process that requires deconstructing the sense of self (an authoritarian commodification) and reconstructing the concept of social relationship. Our experience is that this comes, not from some abstract ideological commitment, but from a participatory process in which people ...
... new emotional growth, a process that requires deconstructing the sense of self (an authoritarian commodification) and reconstructing the concept of social relationship. Our experience is that this comes, not from some abstract ideological commitment, but from a participatory process in which people ...
Bertrand Russell. The World of Universals [The Problems of
... Pronouns stand for particulars, but are ambiguous: it is only by the context or the circumstances that we know what particulars they stand for. The word ‘now’ stands for a particular, namely the present moment; but like pronouns, it stands for an ambiguous particular, because the present is always c ...
... Pronouns stand for particulars, but are ambiguous: it is only by the context or the circumstances that we know what particulars they stand for. The word ‘now’ stands for a particular, namely the present moment; but like pronouns, it stands for an ambiguous particular, because the present is always c ...
SGI-USA Men`s Division Monthly Suggested Study Material for
... the human heart, a country or an organization - no matter how strong and flourishing it may be for a time - will reach impasse. As Nichiren Daishonin writes, ’Only worms born of the lion’s body feed on the lion.’ (WND-I, 302). The causes for destruction reside within organizations and other bodies, ...
... the human heart, a country or an organization - no matter how strong and flourishing it may be for a time - will reach impasse. As Nichiren Daishonin writes, ’Only worms born of the lion’s body feed on the lion.’ (WND-I, 302). The causes for destruction reside within organizations and other bodies, ...
Body and soul Michael Lacewing Plato In his work, the Phaedo
... behaviour is in terms of final causes (why? for what reason?). Finally, a formal cause provides us with “the account of the essence” of something, an account of why something is in terms of what it is. So we might reply to the question why a heart pumps blood in terms of what it is to be a heart. N ...
... behaviour is in terms of final causes (why? for what reason?). Finally, a formal cause provides us with “the account of the essence” of something, an account of why something is in terms of what it is. So we might reply to the question why a heart pumps blood in terms of what it is to be a heart. N ...
Topic 2b: What is conceptualization? Jerry Fodor (2008): LOT2 The
... “bringing of logic and logical syntax together with a theory of mental process is the foundation of [...] cognitive science.” (Mentalese: only something language-like may have a logical form) Mental processes: computations on mental representations (not associations) The mind’s goal is thinking abou ...
... “bringing of logic and logical syntax together with a theory of mental process is the foundation of [...] cognitive science.” (Mentalese: only something language-like may have a logical form) Mental processes: computations on mental representations (not associations) The mind’s goal is thinking abou ...
Egoism and Altruism
... concern for others • This theory claims that everyone always acts to his or her own advantage and that the only reason why a person performs morally good action is because it serves his or her own interests • In popular language, this is called selfishness ...
... concern for others • This theory claims that everyone always acts to his or her own advantage and that the only reason why a person performs morally good action is because it serves his or her own interests • In popular language, this is called selfishness ...
The Principles of History RGCollingwood and
... deteriorate, and each new work on history will tell us less than previous books. And more to the point a historian will never be able to compete with a scientist as to intellectual daring and creativity. In fact a historian is nothing but a compiler, an individual who cuts from previous works and pa ...
... deteriorate, and each new work on history will tell us less than previous books. And more to the point a historian will never be able to compete with a scientist as to intellectual daring and creativity. In fact a historian is nothing but a compiler, an individual who cuts from previous works and pa ...
Philosophy 100 Lecture 12 Minds and bodies
... – something is clear when it is “present and apparent to an attentive mind, in the same way as we assert that we see objects clearly when, being present to the regarding eye, they operate upon it with sufficient strength.” (Principles of Philosophy, 1.45) – Example: ...
... – something is clear when it is “present and apparent to an attentive mind, in the same way as we assert that we see objects clearly when, being present to the regarding eye, they operate upon it with sufficient strength.” (Principles of Philosophy, 1.45) – Example: ...
Capitalism and Morality - Wheeling Jesuit University
... There are a number of reasons for the incongruity. In the first place, our understanding of technology is always incomplete. We have a limited understanding of the full effects of any technological change. Secondly, the societal values change in ways that do not always match the changes which take p ...
... There are a number of reasons for the incongruity. In the first place, our understanding of technology is always incomplete. We have a limited understanding of the full effects of any technological change. Secondly, the societal values change in ways that do not always match the changes which take p ...
Contemporary Expressions of Various World Views 1
... viewpoint, even though I take shameless advantage of it when trying to break myself of bad habits. Somehow I've come to associate Skinner with those horrible experiments done on orphaned monkeys, and I probably would have gone on doing so (quite wrongly) if it hadn't been for your bringing him up. T ...
... viewpoint, even though I take shameless advantage of it when trying to break myself of bad habits. Somehow I've come to associate Skinner with those horrible experiments done on orphaned monkeys, and I probably would have gone on doing so (quite wrongly) if it hadn't been for your bringing him up. T ...
Albert the Great On the Causes of the Properties of the Elements
... compound or living substance. Even the water that we drink and the air that we breathe are not instances of pure elements; they are compounds that are dominated by the obvious element but that also contain important traces of the other elements. The four elements are thus the basic chemistry of natu ...
... compound or living substance. Even the water that we drink and the air that we breathe are not instances of pure elements; they are compounds that are dominated by the obvious element but that also contain important traces of the other elements. The four elements are thus the basic chemistry of natu ...
Markie, Speckles, and Classical Foundationalism
... Rather, one is appeared to only many-speckled-ly, and when one is directly acquainted with the exemplification of that property as one has the relevant thought and awareness of the relevant correspondence, one has only noninferential justification for believing that one is appeared to many-speckled- ...
... Rather, one is appeared to only many-speckled-ly, and when one is directly acquainted with the exemplification of that property as one has the relevant thought and awareness of the relevant correspondence, one has only noninferential justification for believing that one is appeared to many-speckled- ...
The Vindication of St. Thomas
... idealistic aspiring clerics, studying philosophy and theology. In addition to various figures in the history of philosophy, we were reading the likes of Henri De Lubac, Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan, Edward Schillebeeckx, Yves Congar, and even the very early Joseph Ratzinger. Some of our teachers we ...
... idealistic aspiring clerics, studying philosophy and theology. In addition to various figures in the history of philosophy, we were reading the likes of Henri De Lubac, Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan, Edward Schillebeeckx, Yves Congar, and even the very early Joseph Ratzinger. Some of our teachers we ...
Class #2
... it can rely on to define any domain of study. Thus, metaphysics is more accurately “a collection of questions that seem to group together about what is real and what reality is like.” ...
... it can rely on to define any domain of study. Thus, metaphysics is more accurately “a collection of questions that seem to group together about what is real and what reality is like.” ...
Confucian Ethics in the Analects as Virtue Ethics
... modern developments of ethical theory in Western philosophy, the triad of intent-actionconsequence dominates our treatment of moral investigation. Did the agent have the right intention? Did the agent’s action bring about the best consequence? Was their action intended to be pleasurable, did it orig ...
... modern developments of ethical theory in Western philosophy, the triad of intent-actionconsequence dominates our treatment of moral investigation. Did the agent have the right intention? Did the agent’s action bring about the best consequence? Was their action intended to be pleasurable, did it orig ...
May – What is the Nature of `Self`
... Does it change over time? What does this mean for personal responsibility and indeed our own happiness and contentment? The Abrahamic superstitions are very clear that the ‘self’ or ‘soul’ retains responsibility for its actions throughout and beyond life. Certainly it can repent and reform but never ...
... Does it change over time? What does this mean for personal responsibility and indeed our own happiness and contentment? The Abrahamic superstitions are very clear that the ‘self’ or ‘soul’ retains responsibility for its actions throughout and beyond life. Certainly it can repent and reform but never ...
Cognitum hypothesis and cognitum consciousness
... possible to solve main mysteries of human existence, he is generally considered as mystic, but here we are about to ignore this fact and going to interpret him just in light of physics. Ouspensky's some points are essential for us already here, and they should supplement the list of requirements for ...
... possible to solve main mysteries of human existence, he is generally considered as mystic, but here we are about to ignore this fact and going to interpret him just in light of physics. Ouspensky's some points are essential for us already here, and they should supplement the list of requirements for ...
lecture5 revised
... 1. actions/practices are defined in contexts a practice is: “any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human activity through which goods internal to that form of activity are realized in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence which are appropriate t ...
... 1. actions/practices are defined in contexts a practice is: “any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human activity through which goods internal to that form of activity are realized in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence which are appropriate t ...