November - North Growth Management
... Since October 9th, 2002, US equities have staged a broad and powerful rally the type of rally that has historically been associated with the early stages of a new bull market. The technology sector led the pack with the NASDAQ Composite Index rising 32.8% from October 9th to November 30th while th ...
... Since October 9th, 2002, US equities have staged a broad and powerful rally the type of rally that has historically been associated with the early stages of a new bull market. The technology sector led the pack with the NASDAQ Composite Index rising 32.8% from October 9th to November 30th while th ...
The Upanishadic Vision of the Human
... The distinction between the good and the gratifying is mapped onto a distinction between the wise person and the fool, which in turn is coordinated to a distinction between knowledge and ignorance. In a move whose commonness is worthy of some thought, this last distinction is in turn connected to ...
... The distinction between the good and the gratifying is mapped onto a distinction between the wise person and the fool, which in turn is coordinated to a distinction between knowledge and ignorance. In a move whose commonness is worthy of some thought, this last distinction is in turn connected to ...
Lesson Plan: Descarte`s Rationalism
... paper and compare their ideas. Then ask the question ‘How can we know what is in the bag without opening it up?’ Introduce rationalism: a school of thought that claims that truth and knowledge are based on reason. Sense observations are not reliable because they change with people’s perceptions. Wha ...
... paper and compare their ideas. Then ask the question ‘How can we know what is in the bag without opening it up?’ Introduce rationalism: a school of thought that claims that truth and knowledge are based on reason. Sense observations are not reliable because they change with people’s perceptions. Wha ...
Arthur`s Bentley obstinate philosophy
... ideas and to take a look at one of the earliest manifestations of these debates, characterized by his pragmatist philosophy and inquiries into how in living processes action, perception and cognition are all deeply intertwined. If for cognitive processes «there is nothing sacred about skull and skin ...
... ideas and to take a look at one of the earliest manifestations of these debates, characterized by his pragmatist philosophy and inquiries into how in living processes action, perception and cognition are all deeply intertwined. If for cognitive processes «there is nothing sacred about skull and skin ...
August - Spiritist Society of Florida
... whether we truly believe it within our hearts. There is a difference because just because we understand something if we don’t honestly believe it in our heart and soul, it will not entirely sustain us when we truly need it. If there is any doubt whatsoever within us during times of crisis, solely ha ...
... whether we truly believe it within our hearts. There is a difference because just because we understand something if we don’t honestly believe it in our heart and soul, it will not entirely sustain us when we truly need it. If there is any doubt whatsoever within us during times of crisis, solely ha ...
An Emerson Mood
... language philosopher is feeling …is that our relation to the world’s existence is somehow closer than the ideas of believing and knowing are made to convey.” (145) ...
... language philosopher is feeling …is that our relation to the world’s existence is somehow closer than the ideas of believing and knowing are made to convey.” (145) ...
Josef Früchtl Professor in Philosophy University of Amsterdam
... After my return from Italy I got employed as assistent of Prof. Scheer at the Philosophical Department of the University of Frankfurt/M., financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The research project had the title: „Aesthetics and Morality“. From this work arose my book Ästhetische Erfahrung ...
... After my return from Italy I got employed as assistent of Prof. Scheer at the Philosophical Department of the University of Frankfurt/M., financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The research project had the title: „Aesthetics and Morality“. From this work arose my book Ästhetische Erfahrung ...
Reason and experience
... claimed that there is empirical evidence for God's existence, others have argued that we know this through reason or some kind of intuitive insight. ...
... claimed that there is empirical evidence for God's existence, others have argued that we know this through reason or some kind of intuitive insight. ...
PDF - Brunswick Group
... emotions and relationships – aspects of human nature that are impossible to quantify. Where the French saw human organizations as machines that could be taken apart and put back together, the British saw them as impossibly complex networks of human relationships – living organisms that couldn’t be c ...
... emotions and relationships – aspects of human nature that are impossible to quantify. Where the French saw human organizations as machines that could be taken apart and put back together, the British saw them as impossibly complex networks of human relationships – living organisms that couldn’t be c ...
Philosophical Schools of Thought
... Pleasure alone is good All happiness is a function of pleasure Hippie motto: “If it feels good, do it.” Differs from Epicureanism – pain negates pleasure – hedonism makes no such distinction ...
... Pleasure alone is good All happiness is a function of pleasure Hippie motto: “If it feels good, do it.” Differs from Epicureanism – pain negates pleasure – hedonism makes no such distinction ...
2. Scientific Renaissance in the sixteenth century: Renewing ancient
... 1. Science proceeds by genius who makes unexpected discoveries. 2. Scientists are autonomous agents working outside social-cultural context 3. Science is itself is value free Natural philosophy: a category, also known as “physics”, approximately equal to Aristotle’s term physis. It referred to syste ...
... 1. Science proceeds by genius who makes unexpected discoveries. 2. Scientists are autonomous agents working outside social-cultural context 3. Science is itself is value free Natural philosophy: a category, also known as “physics”, approximately equal to Aristotle’s term physis. It referred to syste ...
What`s in a word: philosophy, theology and thinking?
... particular view of philosophy and philosophical practice. Whilst a scan of the index is not a scientific study, it nevertheless reveals a lack of references to other traditions. Within religious discourse, whilst individual religions have their own positions, there has emerged a broader discourse of ...
... particular view of philosophy and philosophical practice. Whilst a scan of the index is not a scientific study, it nevertheless reveals a lack of references to other traditions. Within religious discourse, whilst individual religions have their own positions, there has emerged a broader discourse of ...
Can Philosophy Serve a High Purpose
... and defining the symbols which occur in them. It is of no importance whether we call one who is engaged in the latter activity a philosopher or a scientist. What we must recognise is that it is necessary for a philosopher to become a scientist, in this sense, if he is to make any substantial contrib ...
... and defining the symbols which occur in them. It is of no importance whether we call one who is engaged in the latter activity a philosopher or a scientist. What we must recognise is that it is necessary for a philosopher to become a scientist, in this sense, if he is to make any substantial contrib ...
What is Secular Humanistic Judaism
... time we acknowledge a variety of circumstances that influence our ability to control our lives, including physical ability, economic opportunity, political rights, mental and physical health, and the harmful actions of others and of nature. We have an obligation to treat each other with dignity. We ...
... time we acknowledge a variety of circumstances that influence our ability to control our lives, including physical ability, economic opportunity, political rights, mental and physical health, and the harmful actions of others and of nature. We have an obligation to treat each other with dignity. We ...
DARWINISM - The theory attributed to Charles Darwin (1809
... The process, particularly employed in Plato’s dialogues, of discovering first principles, or underlying realities, through digging out, possibly through Socratic questioning of another, what is presupposed by our common sense beliefs about, and experience of, the world. The Socratic, or negative, di ...
... The process, particularly employed in Plato’s dialogues, of discovering first principles, or underlying realities, through digging out, possibly through Socratic questioning of another, what is presupposed by our common sense beliefs about, and experience of, the world. The Socratic, or negative, di ...
Pleonastic Possible Worlds References
... The standard semantics for the modal fragment of natural languages can only be correct if there is more than one possible world. The nature and existence of possible worlds is thus of fundamental importance for such a semantics. The paper develops an account of possible worlds in the spirit of the p ...
... The standard semantics for the modal fragment of natural languages can only be correct if there is more than one possible world. The nature and existence of possible worlds is thus of fundamental importance for such a semantics. The paper develops an account of possible worlds in the spirit of the p ...
the stoic philosopher - College of Stoic Philosophers
... task, a promise of a particular prize, a possible promotion, an economic incentive. Any of these things can work as a veil that makes us incapable of distinguishing where the real good lies. We must keep the highest attention in order to direct our actions towards the supreme goal of serving the oth ...
... task, a promise of a particular prize, a possible promotion, an economic incentive. Any of these things can work as a veil that makes us incapable of distinguishing where the real good lies. We must keep the highest attention in order to direct our actions towards the supreme goal of serving the oth ...
Enlightenment - Wando High School
... believed that the deductive method used in mathematics was the way to discover universal truths. ...
... believed that the deductive method used in mathematics was the way to discover universal truths. ...
1 Border Crossing, Democracy, and Deweyan Growth Border
... of, one of the most radical and insightful group of feminist thinkers at the end of the twentieth century: Latina Lesbian Women in the U.S.A.” (2001, p. 152). The lived experiences of Latina lesbians such as Anzaldúa and Lugones challenge notions of identity that insist on the internal coherence of ...
... of, one of the most radical and insightful group of feminist thinkers at the end of the twentieth century: Latina Lesbian Women in the U.S.A.” (2001, p. 152). The lived experiences of Latina lesbians such as Anzaldúa and Lugones challenge notions of identity that insist on the internal coherence of ...
- Falmouth University Research Repository
... Ian Bogost is one of many theorists contending with a paradigmatic shift in philosophy which has been taking various forms for the past 10 years or so, whereby Existence or Being no longer emanates out of a central human Subject, but instead, is distributed outwards into “myriad objects.” This philo ...
... Ian Bogost is one of many theorists contending with a paradigmatic shift in philosophy which has been taking various forms for the past 10 years or so, whereby Existence or Being no longer emanates out of a central human Subject, but instead, is distributed outwards into “myriad objects.” This philo ...
The Enduring Revolution
... It was a holocaust survivor who exposed this myth most eloquently. Yehiel Dinur was a witness during the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Dinur entered the courtroom and stared at the man behind the bulletproof glass—the man who had presided over the slaughter of millions. The court was hushed as a victim c ...
... It was a holocaust survivor who exposed this myth most eloquently. Yehiel Dinur was a witness during the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Dinur entered the courtroom and stared at the man behind the bulletproof glass—the man who had presided over the slaughter of millions. The court was hushed as a victim c ...
Non-rational human beings, the poverty of philosophy
... is a fact in every sense that the word normally signifies, but what that fact means to you depends on whether you are Will Forrest, a peasant in 1930s Ukraine, or Joseph Stalin, even before you have assigned a moral value to the fact. There is no standard by which this fact can be fit into a narrati ...
... is a fact in every sense that the word normally signifies, but what that fact means to you depends on whether you are Will Forrest, a peasant in 1930s Ukraine, or Joseph Stalin, even before you have assigned a moral value to the fact. There is no standard by which this fact can be fit into a narrati ...
Monism and Dualism
... there is reason to suppose that conscious life is correlated with material phenomena). The parallels already drawn point directly to such a relation; it would be an amazing accident, if, while the characteristic marks repeated themselves in this way, there were not at the foundation an inner connec ...
... there is reason to suppose that conscious life is correlated with material phenomena). The parallels already drawn point directly to such a relation; it would be an amazing accident, if, while the characteristic marks repeated themselves in this way, there were not at the foundation an inner connec ...
Sartre and the Existentialist Vision of the Human
... As defined by nothingness, our existence is meaningless. According to most accounts, the meaning of our lives is given to us. Sartre denies this. To the extent that our life comes to have meaning, it has only the meaning we choose to give to it. We are thus absolutely free. We find ourselves in th ...
... As defined by nothingness, our existence is meaningless. According to most accounts, the meaning of our lives is given to us. Sartre denies this. To the extent that our life comes to have meaning, it has only the meaning we choose to give to it. We are thus absolutely free. We find ourselves in th ...