Kant`s Account of Moral Education
... possibility of influencing someone else’s processes of learning. According to Kant’s view, however, the human self can only be seen as free if it is not influenced by empirical causes, that is, if it stands outside the causal chains of the empirical world. The idea of transcendental freedom is intro ...
... possibility of influencing someone else’s processes of learning. According to Kant’s view, however, the human self can only be seen as free if it is not influenced by empirical causes, that is, if it stands outside the causal chains of the empirical world. The idea of transcendental freedom is intro ...
Why Response-Dependence Theories of Morality are False
... response plays a truth-determining role in morality. This is stronger than the claim that the response in question plays a merely constitutive role in morality, for the response can play a constitutive role without playing a truth-determining role. By way of analogy, it has recently been argued4 tha ...
... response plays a truth-determining role in morality. This is stronger than the claim that the response in question plays a merely constitutive role in morality, for the response can play a constitutive role without playing a truth-determining role. By way of analogy, it has recently been argued4 tha ...
The Key to Theosophy - Canadian Theosophical Association
... must remain a riddle; for in the world mental as in the world spiritual each man must progress by his own efforts. The writer cannot do the reader's thinking for him, nor would the latter be any the better off if such vicarious thought were possible. The need for such an exposition as the present ha ...
... must remain a riddle; for in the world mental as in the world spiritual each man must progress by his own efforts. The writer cannot do the reader's thinking for him, nor would the latter be any the better off if such vicarious thought were possible. The need for such an exposition as the present ha ...
dubos and hume on the paradox of tragedy
... paradox—this is, after all, a Hume conference and I would like to introduce this reading primarily as a means to clarifying the question of what’s at issue between Dubos and Hume—here is Dubos’ solution, as I understand it: First of all, as noted above, he thinks that “one of the greatest wants of m ...
... paradox—this is, after all, a Hume conference and I would like to introduce this reading primarily as a means to clarifying the question of what’s at issue between Dubos and Hume—here is Dubos’ solution, as I understand it: First of all, as noted above, he thinks that “one of the greatest wants of m ...
Wittgenstein on the Experience of Meaning
... notions of the “experience of meaning”, the “feeling”, “face” or “soul” of words, as ingredients of their meaning and use. Musical allusions and analogies are of particular importance here. Likewise, this conception of meaning is of great significance for the philosophy of music. One of the great pr ...
... notions of the “experience of meaning”, the “feeling”, “face” or “soul” of words, as ingredients of their meaning and use. Musical allusions and analogies are of particular importance here. Likewise, this conception of meaning is of great significance for the philosophy of music. One of the great pr ...
Hegel and Institutional Rationality:
... understood him. "…(F)or who is not acute enough to see a great deal in his own surroundings which is really far from being as it ought to be?" (EL, §6) So “conforming to right,” and "being rational in and for itself" and participating in certain institutions, all amount to the same thing, and the sa ...
... understood him. "…(F)or who is not acute enough to see a great deal in his own surroundings which is really far from being as it ought to be?" (EL, §6) So “conforming to right,” and "being rational in and for itself" and participating in certain institutions, all amount to the same thing, and the sa ...
Glory as an Ethical Idea
... this particular match within the 2009 series. (If they had won, Australia would have retained the Ashes.) There are also personal aspects to what happened, concerning the dramatic personae that Ponting and Flintoff had developed within that series as it unfolded: Ponting’s alleged uptightness and do ...
... this particular match within the 2009 series. (If they had won, Australia would have retained the Ashes.) There are also personal aspects to what happened, concerning the dramatic personae that Ponting and Flintoff had developed within that series as it unfolded: Ponting’s alleged uptightness and do ...
Cosmopolitanism, Stoicism, and Liberalism
... by the more formal ties of a shared citizenship. The other is that we take seriously the value not just of human life but of particular human lives, which means taking interest in the practices and beliefs that lend them significance. People are different, the cosmopolitan knows, and there is much t ...
... by the more formal ties of a shared citizenship. The other is that we take seriously the value not just of human life but of particular human lives, which means taking interest in the practices and beliefs that lend them significance. People are different, the cosmopolitan knows, and there is much t ...
THE LEGACY OF AHITĀGNI RAJWADE
... subordinate status, or his shocking fascination for fascism. But it must be noted that he was largely free of communal rancor, his public engagements did not involve rigid caste-based discrimination, his daughters and daughters-in-law were educated, and he did not offer a fullblown fascist political ...
... subordinate status, or his shocking fascination for fascism. But it must be noted that he was largely free of communal rancor, his public engagements did not involve rigid caste-based discrimination, his daughters and daughters-in-law were educated, and he did not offer a fullblown fascist political ...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
... individual? This fails to capture the idea that there is in fact nothing of value in this world except what is good for the individual. Thoughts such as these led G.E. Moore to object to the very idea of ‘good for’ (Moore 1903, pp. 98–9). Moore argued that the idea of ‘my own good’, which he saw as ...
... individual? This fails to capture the idea that there is in fact nothing of value in this world except what is good for the individual. Thoughts such as these led G.E. Moore to object to the very idea of ‘good for’ (Moore 1903, pp. 98–9). Moore argued that the idea of ‘my own good’, which he saw as ...
Review Article Reasons Consequentialism Benjamin Sachs Journal of Moral Philosophy 10 (2013) 671–682
... act in accordance with our reasons for preference or desire. And this is just what Portmore’s Act-Consequentialism says. By employing this reductionist theory of goodness Portmore renders consequentialism compatible with a wider range of our intuitions about cases. Here is an example: Take a case in ...
... act in accordance with our reasons for preference or desire. And this is just what Portmore’s Act-Consequentialism says. By employing this reductionist theory of goodness Portmore renders consequentialism compatible with a wider range of our intuitions about cases. Here is an example: Take a case in ...
how optional is morality
... ought to comply because it is socially demanded of us. But this is a mistake: I haven’t yet made any claims about the source of morality’s authority for us. Social pressures to be moral are not intrinsically moral motivations, which spring rather from the incorporation of morality into our personal ...
... ought to comply because it is socially demanded of us. But this is a mistake: I haven’t yet made any claims about the source of morality’s authority for us. Social pressures to be moral are not intrinsically moral motivations, which spring rather from the incorporation of morality into our personal ...
The Argument from Moral Experience
... It is often said that our moral experience, broadly construed to include our ways of thinking and talking about morality, has a certain objective-seeming character to it. No matter what turns out to be the case as far as metaethics is concerned, it is said, it seems as though morality is a realm of ...
... It is often said that our moral experience, broadly construed to include our ways of thinking and talking about morality, has a certain objective-seeming character to it. No matter what turns out to be the case as far as metaethics is concerned, it is said, it seems as though morality is a realm of ...
pr.4
... “her” without losing its capacity to designate itself, and how the “he/she” of identifying reference can be internalised in a speaking subject who designates himself or herself as an I. (OA41) Interlocution is an operative word, because earlier on, Ricoeur had stated that pragmatics is a theory of l ...
... “her” without losing its capacity to designate itself, and how the “he/she” of identifying reference can be internalised in a speaking subject who designates himself or herself as an I. (OA41) Interlocution is an operative word, because earlier on, Ricoeur had stated that pragmatics is a theory of l ...
pages 22-48
... being less attentive to Polanyi’s contribution than epistemologists, social and political theorists, and those who work in the domain of fundamental theology have been. There are at least two impediments in the way of securing the sort of hearing for Polanyi among ethicists that would allow us to pr ...
... being less attentive to Polanyi’s contribution than epistemologists, social and political theorists, and those who work in the domain of fundamental theology have been. There are at least two impediments in the way of securing the sort of hearing for Polanyi among ethicists that would allow us to pr ...
Overview - Course Materials
... It’s important to note that formal knowledge cannot be derived from the empirical world. We will see this again and again in the Grounding. We will not be able to derive universal laws applicable to all rational beings from the empirical world. This is the mistake the Kant sees in a number of ethica ...
... It’s important to note that formal knowledge cannot be derived from the empirical world. We will see this again and again in the Grounding. We will not be able to derive universal laws applicable to all rational beings from the empirical world. This is the mistake the Kant sees in a number of ethica ...
Ought and Reality - Scandinavian Studies in Law
... leads Peczenik to hold the doctrine that ethical values constitute the ultimate foundation of the validity of a law. This is important for the law and its application since legal and juridical reasoning involve ethical values that require to be balanced. This raises the questions what these ethical ...
... leads Peczenik to hold the doctrine that ethical values constitute the ultimate foundation of the validity of a law. This is important for the law and its application since legal and juridical reasoning involve ethical values that require to be balanced. This raises the questions what these ethical ...
Disagreement and the Ethics of Belief
... goals. Neither is concerned with beliefs I may or may not have had in the past, and neither makes prescriptions for what I should believe in the future. Further still, each is concerned with what I should believe now regarding the disputed proposition in question, and with respect to the goal of bel ...
... goals. Neither is concerned with beliefs I may or may not have had in the past, and neither makes prescriptions for what I should believe in the future. Further still, each is concerned with what I should believe now regarding the disputed proposition in question, and with respect to the goal of bel ...
The Way of Zen
... of the capacity of the mind for self-deception, for going into places where entrance is impossible without leaving one’s critical ...
... of the capacity of the mind for self-deception, for going into places where entrance is impossible without leaving one’s critical ...
Ethical Encounter - sikkim university library
... understood as a linguistic projection of a ‘subjective’ sensation of taste.7 Or: ‘objectivism’ – the view that value is somehow ‘in the world’ rather than merely ‘in us’ – can be preserved by holding that ‘brutal’ and ‘callous’ register so-called ‘evaluative properties’ of (in this case) the boys’ d ...
... understood as a linguistic projection of a ‘subjective’ sensation of taste.7 Or: ‘objectivism’ – the view that value is somehow ‘in the world’ rather than merely ‘in us’ – can be preserved by holding that ‘brutal’ and ‘callous’ register so-called ‘evaluative properties’ of (in this case) the boys’ d ...
3. Kant`s Moral Constructivism
... being. And this is true of everyone, past, present, and future. This is the relevant equilibrium state; and we are to imagine that this state obtains, like any other order of nature, in perpetuity, backwards and forwards in time. Kant takes for granted that everyone in the perturbed social world kn ...
... being. And this is true of everyone, past, present, and future. This is the relevant equilibrium state; and we are to imagine that this state obtains, like any other order of nature, in perpetuity, backwards and forwards in time. Kant takes for granted that everyone in the perturbed social world kn ...
Speaking the Unnamable: A Phenomenology of Sense in T. S.
... of human existence in the world. Consciousness is aware of reality as comprised of objects that appear to conscious view in a particular given mode and thus constitute a meaningful vision of that which consciousness perceives. Noesis marks the fact that consciousness intends to see that which it per ...
... of human existence in the world. Consciousness is aware of reality as comprised of objects that appear to conscious view in a particular given mode and thus constitute a meaningful vision of that which consciousness perceives. Noesis marks the fact that consciousness intends to see that which it per ...
Epistemic Reasons II: Basing
... it seemed, Hyman (1999)'s. Abstractionists and mentalists tend to favor the view that belief is all that is required. If pluralists are right that there is no deep disagreement between facualists and nonfactualists, some of the disagreement here is superficial. Still, even if we should acknowledge b ...
... it seemed, Hyman (1999)'s. Abstractionists and mentalists tend to favor the view that belief is all that is required. If pluralists are right that there is no deep disagreement between facualists and nonfactualists, some of the disagreement here is superficial. Still, even if we should acknowledge b ...
Metaphor in the Mind - Penn Arts and Sciences
... unfamiliar or mysterious topics, such as computers or particle physics. But even here, this doesn’t imply that we can’t think about – that is, refer in thought to – those topics at all except in metaphorical terms. Metaphors are powerful tools for structuring thought, and they do make it easy to foc ...
... unfamiliar or mysterious topics, such as computers or particle physics. But even here, this doesn’t imply that we can’t think about – that is, refer in thought to – those topics at all except in metaphorical terms. Metaphors are powerful tools for structuring thought, and they do make it easy to foc ...
Four Puzzles about Life
... violate my account of life. Nothing prevents us from entertaining the scientific fantasy of species that never evolve and adapt, as creationists perhaps suppose. For all I know, this is possible. So is the possibility that all organisms were created in seven days by an omnipotent, omniscient, and om ...
... violate my account of life. Nothing prevents us from entertaining the scientific fantasy of species that never evolve and adapt, as creationists perhaps suppose. For all I know, this is possible. So is the possibility that all organisms were created in seven days by an omnipotent, omniscient, and om ...