Normality and pathology
... compliance with the status quo, since it appears to identify the morally desirable with whatever state of affairs is at present in existence.41 Durkheim denies that this is so; on the contrary, it is only through definite knowledge of the potentially emergent trends in social reality that active int ...
... compliance with the status quo, since it appears to identify the morally desirable with whatever state of affairs is at present in existence.41 Durkheim denies that this is so; on the contrary, it is only through definite knowledge of the potentially emergent trends in social reality that active int ...
Epistemology 1
... together in some manner 3. Third kind is about ideas which deals with the coexistence of two or more ideas belonging together ...
... together in some manner 3. Third kind is about ideas which deals with the coexistence of two or more ideas belonging together ...
Paul Hoover - Boise State English Department
... Their private lives, of course, are none of our business. ...
... Their private lives, of course, are none of our business. ...
Reviews
... and Cognitivism: a Postmodern Appraisal, Asian Philosophy 5, no. 1 [1995]). It is thus timely and pleasant to welcome a book of collected papers on this theme from respected academic writers. Unlike most such collections which have arisen from colloquia or conferences, these essays were specificall ...
... and Cognitivism: a Postmodern Appraisal, Asian Philosophy 5, no. 1 [1995]). It is thus timely and pleasant to welcome a book of collected papers on this theme from respected academic writers. Unlike most such collections which have arisen from colloquia or conferences, these essays were specificall ...
Pragmatism and Humanism: Bergson as a reader of - PUC-SP
... strictly necessary in the elements or the principles to recompose with them the indefinable series of objects and events.”4 In other words, the systematic character of reality, including the entire exigency to its intellectual comprehension, comes from intelligence or from techno-practical rationali ...
... strictly necessary in the elements or the principles to recompose with them the indefinable series of objects and events.”4 In other words, the systematic character of reality, including the entire exigency to its intellectual comprehension, comes from intelligence or from techno-practical rationali ...
Document
... appeared to represent the practicability of combining both. These are the poetry of nature. The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the ...
... appeared to represent the practicability of combining both. These are the poetry of nature. The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the ...
your existence
... meaningless and we are entirely responsible for our lives. Understanding this can big a big ol' bummer, and it often scares the sh!t out of people to realize they alone are responsible for the course of human events. It is relatively easy to say "Well, God has a plan, so those 20,000,000 people the ...
... meaningless and we are entirely responsible for our lives. Understanding this can big a big ol' bummer, and it often scares the sh!t out of people to realize they alone are responsible for the course of human events. It is relatively easy to say "Well, God has a plan, so those 20,000,000 people the ...
Philosophy 224
... • “Hence, any man who follows his nature and indulges his emotions will inevitably become involved in wrangling and strife, will violate the forms and rules of society, and will end as a criminal” (28). ...
... • “Hence, any man who follows his nature and indulges his emotions will inevitably become involved in wrangling and strife, will violate the forms and rules of society, and will end as a criminal” (28). ...
Can a Buddhist become a Mason?
... We all know that an Atheist cannot be a Mason through any lodge in enmity with our Grand Lodge. With the prevalence of free thought and religious criticism today many individuals find they cannot conscientiously adhere to the strict dogma of any specific organized religion and more readily classify ...
... We all know that an Atheist cannot be a Mason through any lodge in enmity with our Grand Lodge. With the prevalence of free thought and religious criticism today many individuals find they cannot conscientiously adhere to the strict dogma of any specific organized religion and more readily classify ...
What is Philosophy? - UCI Humanities Core
... Main figures: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle – known for: 1. Conceptual Precision 2. Logical analysis and logical arguments (vs. appeals to emotion) 3. Comprehensive worldviews, including: Physics: accounts of the natural world, the gods, soul and body Ethics: accounts of the best human life and the ...
... Main figures: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle – known for: 1. Conceptual Precision 2. Logical analysis and logical arguments (vs. appeals to emotion) 3. Comprehensive worldviews, including: Physics: accounts of the natural world, the gods, soul and body Ethics: accounts of the best human life and the ...
From The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, edited by
... made the forms of misunderstanding take on a positive rather than a negative importance as archaic forms of understanding. The hypostatic and poetic tinge of language which makes it so often recalcitrant to scientific purposes is a record not only of a different way of thinking, but of seeing, feeli ...
... made the forms of misunderstanding take on a positive rather than a negative importance as archaic forms of understanding. The hypostatic and poetic tinge of language which makes it so often recalcitrant to scientific purposes is a record not only of a different way of thinking, but of seeing, feeli ...
Belief, Truth, Knowledge notes
... • Very seductive because it can often serve as a very persuasive excuse for very bad behaviour Skepticism: the foundation of Relativism Skepticism is based on the attitude of ________________. • True knowledge is ________________, therefore there is no absolute truth. • Religions (not God) determine ...
... • Very seductive because it can often serve as a very persuasive excuse for very bad behaviour Skepticism: the foundation of Relativism Skepticism is based on the attitude of ________________. • True knowledge is ________________, therefore there is no absolute truth. • Religions (not God) determine ...
Sermon: “The Bhagavad Gita: The Path of Consecrated Action
... that the war in the Bhagavad Gita has symbolic meaning. We find in the Gita that there is going to be a great battle for the realm, and how can we doubt that this is the realm of the Soul? Are we going to allow the forces of good or the forces of evil to win within us?” This is the interpretation fa ...
... that the war in the Bhagavad Gita has symbolic meaning. We find in the Gita that there is going to be a great battle for the realm, and how can we doubt that this is the realm of the Soul? Are we going to allow the forces of good or the forces of evil to win within us?” This is the interpretation fa ...
Descartes vision of Philosophy Methodic Doubt and the Cogito
... 2. Scientific beleifs • These are not set on the firmest foundations (at his time) • So doubt is possible about scientific beliefs • We cannot use them for our foundation… ...
... 2. Scientific beleifs • These are not set on the firmest foundations (at his time) • So doubt is possible about scientific beliefs • We cannot use them for our foundation… ...
Action research, stories and practical philosophy
... If I don’t get good marks and all that People just laugh at me They say – you’re crap, you can’t get good marks anyway ...
... If I don’t get good marks and all that People just laugh at me They say – you’re crap, you can’t get good marks anyway ...
An Interpretation of the Continuous Adaptation of the Self
... Ideas of the nondual/dual distinction are grounded in physical/biological science, philosophy, and the social sciences. From a physical perspective the work of Einstein and Bohr, and more recently Barad (2007) and Robert Rosen (2000) stand as exemplars in the realization that the idea and experience ...
... Ideas of the nondual/dual distinction are grounded in physical/biological science, philosophy, and the social sciences. From a physical perspective the work of Einstein and Bohr, and more recently Barad (2007) and Robert Rosen (2000) stand as exemplars in the realization that the idea and experience ...
DO NOW - philoteacher
... DO NOW: “Four questions” 3 minutes Here are four questions. Write which branch of philosophy the question represents. 1. Should good and bad be determined by custom, law or some other person/concept? 2. What makes some art beautiful and other art ugly? 3. Can words have meaning other than what the ...
... DO NOW: “Four questions” 3 minutes Here are four questions. Write which branch of philosophy the question represents. 1. Should good and bad be determined by custom, law or some other person/concept? 2. What makes some art beautiful and other art ugly? 3. Can words have meaning other than what the ...
PHIL 1115 - Ursula Stange
... -------------------------------------Kierkegaard: The solitary wanderer "If a human being did not have an eternal consciousness, if underlying everything there were only a wild, fermenting power... what would life be then but despair?" ----------------------------------- "I stick my finger into e ...
... -------------------------------------Kierkegaard: The solitary wanderer "If a human being did not have an eternal consciousness, if underlying everything there were only a wild, fermenting power... what would life be then but despair?" ----------------------------------- "I stick my finger into e ...
Introduction - Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
... Let’s consider the nature of meaning. Meanings are both relative and they are objective. Meaning comes out of interaction, and interaction is the essence of an event. Dewey says, ‘Meanings are objective because they are modes of natural interaction; such an interaction...includes things and energie ...
... Let’s consider the nature of meaning. Meanings are both relative and they are objective. Meaning comes out of interaction, and interaction is the essence of an event. Dewey says, ‘Meanings are objective because they are modes of natural interaction; such an interaction...includes things and energie ...
Is Teaching Still Possible? Writing, Meaning, and Higher Order
... read a little phenomenology, but psychology is usually about a generation behind. Thus psychologists have recently taken up structuralism, just as it's being 5. I do not deny the value of analyzing cohesive devices in the context of discourse; this, I take it, is precisely what Richards had in mind ...
... read a little phenomenology, but psychology is usually about a generation behind. Thus psychologists have recently taken up structuralism, just as it's being 5. I do not deny the value of analyzing cohesive devices in the context of discourse; this, I take it, is precisely what Richards had in mind ...
Process Ontology in Early American Pragmatism, Buddhism, and
... that nothing lasts forever. Everything is impermanent. There is no eternal substance. All things change. This is essentially an empirical observation that as Ken Inada states, focuses “on the nature of experiential reality” (233). This is no secret, but even though we see change everywhere we look, ...
... that nothing lasts forever. Everything is impermanent. There is no eternal substance. All things change. This is essentially an empirical observation that as Ken Inada states, focuses “on the nature of experiential reality” (233). This is no secret, but even though we see change everywhere we look, ...
PHI 110 Lecture 6 1 Today we`re gonna start a number of lectures
... Today we’re gonna start a number of lectures on two thinkers who reject the idea of personhood and of personal identity. We’re gonna spend two lectures on each thinker. What I want to do today is I just sort of want to set things up. I want to talk a little bit about the direction from which this li ...
... Today we’re gonna start a number of lectures on two thinkers who reject the idea of personhood and of personal identity. We’re gonna spend two lectures on each thinker. What I want to do today is I just sort of want to set things up. I want to talk a little bit about the direction from which this li ...
Traditional Western View
... that humans are made in the image of God. Man has an immaterial and immortal soul and the ability to love and to know, in the very manner of God. • Augustine emphasized that humans have will and intellect, the ability to choose between good and evil. • “The purpose of man is to know God through reas ...
... that humans are made in the image of God. Man has an immaterial and immortal soul and the ability to love and to know, in the very manner of God. • Augustine emphasized that humans have will and intellect, the ability to choose between good and evil. • “The purpose of man is to know God through reas ...
Speech by the Rt Hon Tony Blair to the 2009 Rimini Meeting 27
... dominated merely by the most powerful or driven by the short-term, needs a strong sense of shared purpose, a countervailing force generated by the pursuit of the Common Good. There is no going back to old insularities. We are indeed today interdependent. Take any challenge – the financial crisis, cl ...
... dominated merely by the most powerful or driven by the short-term, needs a strong sense of shared purpose, a countervailing force generated by the pursuit of the Common Good. There is no going back to old insularities. We are indeed today interdependent. Take any challenge – the financial crisis, cl ...
Buddhist Concepts: The Oneness of Body and Mind
... abbreviation of “two but not two.” This implies that body and mind, or form and spirit, appear to be distinct entities, and in some ways may be described as such; but on the deepest level both are expressions of the same core reality that is life itself. In The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teach ...
... abbreviation of “two but not two.” This implies that body and mind, or form and spirit, appear to be distinct entities, and in some ways may be described as such; but on the deepest level both are expressions of the same core reality that is life itself. In The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teach ...