From Classical to Contemporary
... The attempt to “suspend, for the moment, one’s humanity” in the midst of a landscape underwritten with the “hollowness of their civilized image” (2306). Ultimately, the story paints a picture of “spiritual desolation that not only illustrates a shameful moment in modern history but raises questions ...
... The attempt to “suspend, for the moment, one’s humanity” in the midst of a landscape underwritten with the “hollowness of their civilized image” (2306). Ultimately, the story paints a picture of “spiritual desolation that not only illustrates a shameful moment in modern history but raises questions ...
John Ryder ABSTRACT: Philosophers have
... experience. Benjamin spoke of language, Dewey of inference, and Buchler of judgment. This paper discusses what each meant, why each addressed the question as he did, and in the end which is preferable. The argument is made that Benjamin and Dewey exaggerated the role of language and inference respec ...
... experience. Benjamin spoke of language, Dewey of inference, and Buchler of judgment. This paper discusses what each meant, why each addressed the question as he did, and in the end which is preferable. The argument is made that Benjamin and Dewey exaggerated the role of language and inference respec ...
Yvonne Förster - InterCultural Philosophy
... Approaching texts from Buddhist or other eastern traditions means being confronted with a variety of languages that cannot be understood if one has not studied ancient Asian languages. The next obstacle is that one usually has to deal with texts from religious backgrounds, which need a very careful ...
... Approaching texts from Buddhist or other eastern traditions means being confronted with a variety of languages that cannot be understood if one has not studied ancient Asian languages. The next obstacle is that one usually has to deal with texts from religious backgrounds, which need a very careful ...
The Concept of Collectivism in Relation to Islamic and Contempo
... which none would be denied the necessities of education, health care, work or decent housing because of poverty. That a society without fear in which all had the opportunity to develop to their full potential. It was only after the Second World War that these ideas were put into practice in Britain ...
... which none would be denied the necessities of education, health care, work or decent housing because of poverty. That a society without fear in which all had the opportunity to develop to their full potential. It was only after the Second World War that these ideas were put into practice in Britain ...
The Presocratic Sophos - Philosophy 1510 All Sections
... move beyond mythological accounts, an attempt to figure out a reasonable explanation for the changes he saw in nature. Seeking reasons for holding a belief is part of rational discourse. Anaximander (611-546 B.C.), a student of Thales, thought that a limited element like water was insufficient to ac ...
... move beyond mythological accounts, an attempt to figure out a reasonable explanation for the changes he saw in nature. Seeking reasons for holding a belief is part of rational discourse. Anaximander (611-546 B.C.), a student of Thales, thought that a limited element like water was insufficient to ac ...
Cognitivism (psychology)
... Criticisms of psychological cognitivism Cognitivism has been criticised in a number of ways. Phenomenologists and hermeneutic philosophers have criticised the positivist approach of cognitivism for reducing individual meaning to what they perceive as measurements stripped of all significance. They ...
... Criticisms of psychological cognitivism Cognitivism has been criticised in a number of ways. Phenomenologists and hermeneutic philosophers have criticised the positivist approach of cognitivism for reducing individual meaning to what they perceive as measurements stripped of all significance. They ...
22. Stoics
... Providence and the close relationship between man and God, and the duty of love towards one’s fellowmen: “When any one does you a wrong, set yourself at once to consider what was the point of view, good or bad, that led him wrong. As soon as you perceive it you will be sorry for him, not surprised o ...
... Providence and the close relationship between man and God, and the duty of love towards one’s fellowmen: “When any one does you a wrong, set yourself at once to consider what was the point of view, good or bad, that led him wrong. As soon as you perceive it you will be sorry for him, not surprised o ...
The Emergence of Self-Awareness
... One of the deepest questions in this area is how any soulfulness can exist in a world of sub-atomic particles buzzing about in mostly empty space. The ancients believed that the self emerged from the activity of the heart. It is clear today that the seat of selfhood and self-awareness is rather in t ...
... One of the deepest questions in this area is how any soulfulness can exist in a world of sub-atomic particles buzzing about in mostly empty space. The ancients believed that the self emerged from the activity of the heart. It is clear today that the seat of selfhood and self-awareness is rather in t ...
Philosophy of Science
... experience them…. And this experience is human and philosophical just as far as a man is able to make use of the beneficent grace given to him, but such experience is not enough for man, because it does not give full certainty as regards corporeal things because of their complexity and touches the s ...
... experience them…. And this experience is human and philosophical just as far as a man is able to make use of the beneficent grace given to him, but such experience is not enough for man, because it does not give full certainty as regards corporeal things because of their complexity and touches the s ...
The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life
... nothing more is to be said. The familiar pair of names, Intuitionist and Evolutionist, so commonly used now to connote all possible differences in ethical opinion, really refer to the psychological question alone. The discussion of this question hinges so much upon particular details that it is ...
... nothing more is to be said. The familiar pair of names, Intuitionist and Evolutionist, so commonly used now to connote all possible differences in ethical opinion, really refer to the psychological question alone. The discussion of this question hinges so much upon particular details that it is ...
Nietzsche and Existentialism
... Inauthentic Life: Lived by people who never seriously question themselves or whether or not they are simply being led around by the institutions designed to help them; Are they genuine, or merely acting a part? If humans never know who they really are as individuals lead a zombie kind of existence ...
... Inauthentic Life: Lived by people who never seriously question themselves or whether or not they are simply being led around by the institutions designed to help them; Are they genuine, or merely acting a part? If humans never know who they really are as individuals lead a zombie kind of existence ...
Belief, Truth, & Knowledge
... We have the ability to reason. We have the ability to make decisions freely. There is such a thing as right and wrong. We have the ability to know what is right and wrong. It is better to do what is right rather than what is wrong. ...
... We have the ability to reason. We have the ability to make decisions freely. There is such a thing as right and wrong. We have the ability to know what is right and wrong. It is better to do what is right rather than what is wrong. ...
Ethics Power Point slides Lecture Notes Page
... use his own power…for the preservation of his own…life. • For as long as every man holds this right of doing anything he likes, so long all men are in the condition of war. • Right is laid aside, either by simply renouncing it or transferring it… • The mutual transferring of right is that which men ...
... use his own power…for the preservation of his own…life. • For as long as every man holds this right of doing anything he likes, so long all men are in the condition of war. • Right is laid aside, either by simply renouncing it or transferring it… • The mutual transferring of right is that which men ...
Argument that statements of value cannot be translated into
... equivalent. Statements of value cannot be translated into statements of empirical fact. That is, The validity of ethical judgements is not determined by the felicific tendencies of actions, any more than by the nature of people’s feelings; but that it must be regarded as “absolute” or “intrinsic,” a ...
... equivalent. Statements of value cannot be translated into statements of empirical fact. That is, The validity of ethical judgements is not determined by the felicific tendencies of actions, any more than by the nature of people’s feelings; but that it must be regarded as “absolute” or “intrinsic,” a ...
Foundations Of Rel... - The Ecclesbourne School Online
... Dualistic view of the body and mind say that the body is an outer shell for the real self, which is within the mind. This is often known as the soul. The body will die, but the soul is separate and immortal and continues after the death of the physical body. ...
... Dualistic view of the body and mind say that the body is an outer shell for the real self, which is within the mind. This is often known as the soul. The body will die, but the soul is separate and immortal and continues after the death of the physical body. ...
Philosophy as Therapeutic Amelioration
... How is it that something as scientifically suspect as mind-cure, e.g. faith healing, can be compared to science? The activity of mind-cure, viewed in its affinity to scientific method, provides an excellent perspective from which to view the pragmatic upshot of James’s doctrine of the will to believ ...
... How is it that something as scientifically suspect as mind-cure, e.g. faith healing, can be compared to science? The activity of mind-cure, viewed in its affinity to scientific method, provides an excellent perspective from which to view the pragmatic upshot of James’s doctrine of the will to believ ...
a community celebration - Society for Humanistic Judaism
... our Jewish outlook. They are Humanistic Jews and they celebrate their identity in ways both similar to and different from what we do in our local communities. In learning about the Society for Humanistic Judaism and the other congregations, there arises the promise of new friends, fresh ideas, diffe ...
... our Jewish outlook. They are Humanistic Jews and they celebrate their identity in ways both similar to and different from what we do in our local communities. In learning about the Society for Humanistic Judaism and the other congregations, there arises the promise of new friends, fresh ideas, diffe ...
Cosmological principle, and my view on philosophy “Cosmological
... their cases through math. I have a very strong doubt about arguments based on words, because philosophers, who argue through words, often contradict the hard result of physics. This doubt started when I flipped through a philosophy book when I was in high school. In the book, I read statements that ...
... their cases through math. I have a very strong doubt about arguments based on words, because philosophers, who argue through words, often contradict the hard result of physics. This doubt started when I flipped through a philosophy book when I was in high school. In the book, I read statements that ...
Plato
... unless political power & philosophy are brought together & those who now pursue either the one or the other exclusively are prevented from doing so -neither our political problems nor our human troubles in general can be ended . . . . ” ...
... unless political power & philosophy are brought together & those who now pursue either the one or the other exclusively are prevented from doing so -neither our political problems nor our human troubles in general can be ended . . . . ” ...
Plato
... unless political power & philosophy are brought together & those who now pursue either the one or the other exclusively are prevented from doing so -neither our political problems nor our human troubles in general can be ended . . . . " ...
... unless political power & philosophy are brought together & those who now pursue either the one or the other exclusively are prevented from doing so -neither our political problems nor our human troubles in general can be ended . . . . " ...
meth-XI
... their occasional refluence (and though, as in successive schematisms of Becher, Stahl, and Lavoisier,174 the varying stream may for a time appear to comprehend and inisle some particular department of knowledge which even then it only peninsulates) are yet flowing towards this mid channel, and will ...
... their occasional refluence (and though, as in successive schematisms of Becher, Stahl, and Lavoisier,174 the varying stream may for a time appear to comprehend and inisle some particular department of knowledge which even then it only peninsulates) are yet flowing towards this mid channel, and will ...
Wittgenstein World History Name: E. Napp Date: Biographical
... struggling with “We should want that if we believe that E=mc2, then E=mc2; and that if we believe … etc.”). We can see, also, that this sort of utility depends upon nothing more than the fact that the attribution of truth to a statement is obviously equivalent to the statement itself – for example, ...
... struggling with “We should want that if we believe that E=mc2, then E=mc2; and that if we believe … etc.”). We can see, also, that this sort of utility depends upon nothing more than the fact that the attribution of truth to a statement is obviously equivalent to the statement itself – for example, ...
Identity Theory 1
... Can we really trust what we perceive? If our bodies are composed strictly of material things, how can one base their reality upon something bound to change? ...
... Can we really trust what we perceive? If our bodies are composed strictly of material things, how can one base their reality upon something bound to change? ...
Ethics of Aspiration - webteach.mc.uky.edu
... individual’s personality (psyche) which motivates them to control their behavior by abiding by rules of morality are virtues. With the rules of morality being those rules/behaviors necessary for successful social living. ...
... individual’s personality (psyche) which motivates them to control their behavior by abiding by rules of morality are virtues. With the rules of morality being those rules/behaviors necessary for successful social living. ...
1 Empiricism, Rationalism, and Plato`s Innatism Intro to Philosophy
... applies, mutatis mutandis, to any quality/property, thing, or relation observed in the world. The gist of the argument to rationalism, I take it then, starts with Plato’s assumption that the sense faculties are deeply unreliable. (Hence the stuff about how the body is an impediment to knowledge in m ...
... applies, mutatis mutandis, to any quality/property, thing, or relation observed in the world. The gist of the argument to rationalism, I take it then, starts with Plato’s assumption that the sense faculties are deeply unreliable. (Hence the stuff about how the body is an impediment to knowledge in m ...