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 ...
Mind and Body Is the “mental” really “material?”
... • “… I know that everything which I clearly and distinctly understand is capable of being created by God …. Hence the fact that I clearly and distinctly understand one thing apart from another is enough to make me certain that the two things are distinct, since they are capable of being separated…. ...
... • “… I know that everything which I clearly and distinctly understand is capable of being created by God …. Hence the fact that I clearly and distinctly understand one thing apart from another is enough to make me certain that the two things are distinct, since they are capable of being separated…. ...
THE MORAL SANCTION THE idea of a moral sanction has given
... question of the totality of beings, in arealm where morality is supreme, -there will continue to exist certain incomplete reactions for the reason that the order of the uniVierse, while embracing individuals within itself, does not, however, suppress their existence. However, God, the Author of aU o ...
... question of the totality of beings, in arealm where morality is supreme, -there will continue to exist certain incomplete reactions for the reason that the order of the uniVierse, while embracing individuals within itself, does not, however, suppress their existence. However, God, the Author of aU o ...
Categorical imperatives - Philosophy 1510 All Sections
... Kant believed that as conscious, rational creatures, we each possess intrinsic worth, a special moral dignity that always deserves respect. In other words, we are more than mere objects to be used to further this or that end. Kant formulates the categorical imperative around the concept of dignity – ...
... Kant believed that as conscious, rational creatures, we each possess intrinsic worth, a special moral dignity that always deserves respect. In other words, we are more than mere objects to be used to further this or that end. Kant formulates the categorical imperative around the concept of dignity – ...
Thomas Hippler
... possible for him to relate these blurred, fudged lives to public events and to the direct experience of history.” (pp. 35-37) These citations should be sufficient to make clear that things are not as easy as Erik puts them in his criticism of “traditional historiography”. Is it, then, really “possib ...
... possible for him to relate these blurred, fudged lives to public events and to the direct experience of history.” (pp. 35-37) These citations should be sufficient to make clear that things are not as easy as Erik puts them in his criticism of “traditional historiography”. Is it, then, really “possib ...
This dissertation is a critique of three strands of recent
... induction, which recognizes the variety of methods of confirmation practiced by scientists. Second, I show how regress problems about inductive justification can be resolved in light of evidence from psychology regarding perception and concept-formation which point to the possibility of a new kind o ...
... induction, which recognizes the variety of methods of confirmation practiced by scientists. Second, I show how regress problems about inductive justification can be resolved in light of evidence from psychology regarding perception and concept-formation which point to the possibility of a new kind o ...
Do We Think Outside The Stream Of Consciousness?
... a thought to another and second, that there is no succession within any act of thinking a thought. The analysis of this discussion helps me reconstructing the argument and putting forward its assumptions, as well as provides me with the tools to argue against it, in different ways. Firstly, it is no ...
... a thought to another and second, that there is no succession within any act of thinking a thought. The analysis of this discussion helps me reconstructing the argument and putting forward its assumptions, as well as provides me with the tools to argue against it, in different ways. Firstly, it is no ...
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... explain, but of which we have glimpses and are given clues. In this sense, aesthetic experience is moral, for it makes us realize we are part of a grander design than ourselves, one we can never truly understand. ...
... explain, but of which we have glimpses and are given clues. In this sense, aesthetic experience is moral, for it makes us realize we are part of a grander design than ourselves, one we can never truly understand. ...
Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is. verseny 07 L
... suprising but nonetheless logical solution of the problem: The answers to the philosphical questions are not facts of the world, but they are found outside of the universe, and thus also outside of the scope of language whose task is to express the facts of the world. „The meaning (aim) of the world ...
... suprising but nonetheless logical solution of the problem: The answers to the philosphical questions are not facts of the world, but they are found outside of the universe, and thus also outside of the scope of language whose task is to express the facts of the world. „The meaning (aim) of the world ...
BL5-13 - Additional Information
... work De Methodo, preceded Hobbes's De Natura Humana, by more than a year. But what is of much more importance, Hobbes builds nothing on the principle which he had announced. He does not even announce it, as differing in any respect from the general laws of material motion and impact: nor was it, ind ...
... work De Methodo, preceded Hobbes's De Natura Humana, by more than a year. But what is of much more importance, Hobbes builds nothing on the principle which he had announced. He does not even announce it, as differing in any respect from the general laws of material motion and impact: nor was it, ind ...
PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH SEMINAR, PHILOSOPHY TEA AND
... Løgstrup (1905-81). We will look in particular at his key text The Ethical Demand (1956), in which he defends an account of ethics as involving the responsibility to care for the interests of the other, and how this is one-sided, radical, silent and unfulfillable - and rests on the idea that life is ...
... Løgstrup (1905-81). We will look in particular at his key text The Ethical Demand (1956), in which he defends an account of ethics as involving the responsibility to care for the interests of the other, and how this is one-sided, radical, silent and unfulfillable - and rests on the idea that life is ...
The Metaphysics of John Dewey, Part II
... Philosophic Method,” which gives the gist of his lost doctoral dissertation, claims that Kant, in virtue of making a numerical distinction between the subject and object of experience, cannot show how it is possible for them to stand in epistemic relations to each other, such as the subject perceiv ...
... Philosophic Method,” which gives the gist of his lost doctoral dissertation, claims that Kant, in virtue of making a numerical distinction between the subject and object of experience, cannot show how it is possible for them to stand in epistemic relations to each other, such as the subject perceiv ...
Thinking along similar lines
... and gives thought towards how things are or might be. It doesn't reflect thinking so much as creates thinking; it's a way of thinking, which is perhaps why the curator, Irene Barberis, calls another exhibition Lines of Thinking at Langford120. Like the Greeks, our artists are still capable of drawin ...
... and gives thought towards how things are or might be. It doesn't reflect thinking so much as creates thinking; it's a way of thinking, which is perhaps why the curator, Irene Barberis, calls another exhibition Lines of Thinking at Langford120. Like the Greeks, our artists are still capable of drawin ...
What Does it Mean to Practise Philosophy?
... Philosophy draws upon its academic heritage and history. Yet it engages in Philosophical Counselling, work with children, or business, or with those that are not professional philosophers, and its philosophical method and perspective clearly lend value to these things. Between these two poles philos ...
... Philosophy draws upon its academic heritage and history. Yet it engages in Philosophical Counselling, work with children, or business, or with those that are not professional philosophers, and its philosophical method and perspective clearly lend value to these things. Between these two poles philos ...
Lecture Introduction to John Locke
... through the visual apparatus of a different animal. I believe the photographer may have been Lennart Nilsson, or at least was a photographer who used lasers in his photography, and the photographer was able to somehow get the camera to "see" the daisy through the visual apparatus of several differen ...
... through the visual apparatus of a different animal. I believe the photographer may have been Lennart Nilsson, or at least was a photographer who used lasers in his photography, and the photographer was able to somehow get the camera to "see" the daisy through the visual apparatus of several differen ...
Mathematical Intuition: Poincaré, Pólya, Dewey
... practical convergence calculations, and in the process of mathematical discovery. I am going into a discussion of practical knowledge in mathematics, as a kind of real knowledge, even though it is not demonstrative or deductive knowledge. I try to explain why people must do what they do, in order to ...
... practical convergence calculations, and in the process of mathematical discovery. I am going into a discussion of practical knowledge in mathematics, as a kind of real knowledge, even though it is not demonstrative or deductive knowledge. I try to explain why people must do what they do, in order to ...
Reply to Holland … The Meaning of Life and Darwinism
... (discussing the truths of logic and mathematics) rather like ‘boundary stones which our thought can overflow but not dislodge’.10 And finally normativity: moral principles exert an authoritative demand or call upon us, whether we like it or not. Darwin tries to wriggle out of this when he speaks def ...
... (discussing the truths of logic and mathematics) rather like ‘boundary stones which our thought can overflow but not dislodge’.10 And finally normativity: moral principles exert an authoritative demand or call upon us, whether we like it or not. Darwin tries to wriggle out of this when he speaks def ...
A Critical Analysis of Empiricism
... ideas are there that are not tractable in terms of sense experience. According to them all concepts, all knowledge and all scientific generalizations are ultimately reducible to sensations and perceptions (Hospers, 1967). “Man is the measure of all things”—the ancient Greek sophists may be termed as ...
... ideas are there that are not tractable in terms of sense experience. According to them all concepts, all knowledge and all scientific generalizations are ultimately reducible to sensations and perceptions (Hospers, 1967). “Man is the measure of all things”—the ancient Greek sophists may be termed as ...
Teaching Ethics in the High Schools: A Deweyan Challenge
... Dewey’s rationale for making ethics a subject for study in high school is that it has a series of cascading benefits, such as the development of an open-minded disposition, moral imagination and the ability to address problematic “practical situations” generally. Open-mindedness is a secondary dispo ...
... Dewey’s rationale for making ethics a subject for study in high school is that it has a series of cascading benefits, such as the development of an open-minded disposition, moral imagination and the ability to address problematic “practical situations” generally. Open-mindedness is a secondary dispo ...
Divisibility
... dependent for its existence upon being the content of a mental perception. What exists can both exist on its own and also exist as the content of a perception or thought, without depending upon being such a content for its existence. Therefore perception is not a case of an event merely representing ...
... dependent for its existence upon being the content of a mental perception. What exists can both exist on its own and also exist as the content of a perception or thought, without depending upon being such a content for its existence. Therefore perception is not a case of an event merely representing ...
Teaching Across the Curriculum and General Systems Theory
... philosophical implications of modern knowledge of the natural world, delving into The Tao of Physics and other such integrative studies. In his writing about the physical universe, Fuller uses analogies and creates new words to such an extent that it would be nearly impossible to categorize his work ...
... philosophical implications of modern knowledge of the natural world, delving into The Tao of Physics and other such integrative studies. In his writing about the physical universe, Fuller uses analogies and creates new words to such an extent that it would be nearly impossible to categorize his work ...
Essay 96 Topic II ´´Death and life, survival and perishing, success
... ’’Faust’’, explores the metamorphosis of a single human being, from an academic framework of refference to a metaphysical horizon of expectations. It is the volatile aspect of one’s existence that is so interesting about this matter, meaning that, in order to get away from the academic ennui he embr ...
... ’’Faust’’, explores the metamorphosis of a single human being, from an academic framework of refference to a metaphysical horizon of expectations. It is the volatile aspect of one’s existence that is so interesting about this matter, meaning that, in order to get away from the academic ennui he embr ...
Confucius Excerpts
... person. As to those who make a cleavage between objects and distinguish between the self and others, they are small men. That the great man can regard Heaven, Earth, and the myriad things as one body is not because he deliberately wants to do so, but because it is natural to the humane nature of his ...
... person. As to those who make a cleavage between objects and distinguish between the self and others, they are small men. That the great man can regard Heaven, Earth, and the myriad things as one body is not because he deliberately wants to do so, but because it is natural to the humane nature of his ...
Velasquez, Philosophy TRACK 1: CHAPTER REVIEW CHAPTER 2
... If you believe that humans are self-interested, this will affect how you interact with others. It will also affect how you think society should be organized; would a self-interested society be better arranged along socialist or capitalist lines, for example? And it will affect how you interact with ...
... If you believe that humans are self-interested, this will affect how you interact with others. It will also affect how you think society should be organized; would a self-interested society be better arranged along socialist or capitalist lines, for example? And it will affect how you interact with ...
The Good Life and the `Radical Contingency of the Ethical`
... evidence from a whole range of literary texts, such as the epic poetry and drama of the ancient world, provides an overwhelming case for supposing that its inhabitants were beings for whom the basic biological determinants of well-being were no different from what they are for us today. If there is ...
... evidence from a whole range of literary texts, such as the epic poetry and drama of the ancient world, provides an overwhelming case for supposing that its inhabitants were beings for whom the basic biological determinants of well-being were no different from what they are for us today. If there is ...