1 KANT ON VIRTUE: SEEKING THE IDEAL IN HUMAN
... ends but also to make it a principle (or maxim) to promote them. Moreover, we must make this our principle because it is right (out of respect for moral law), not simply because it makes us happy or promotes our personal ends. If we are fortunate, adopting “the ends that are duties” may contribute t ...
... ends but also to make it a principle (or maxim) to promote them. Moreover, we must make this our principle because it is right (out of respect for moral law), not simply because it makes us happy or promotes our personal ends. If we are fortunate, adopting “the ends that are duties” may contribute t ...
New wilderness landscapes as moral criticism A Nietzschean
... side.” All of nature (not just living nature) has a striving towards internalization: all that is, exists not just as a force (i.e., something that works externally on other entities), but also as a will (i.e., with an interior quality), and as interpretation. Having an interior, mental quality is n ...
... side.” All of nature (not just living nature) has a striving towards internalization: all that is, exists not just as a force (i.e., something that works externally on other entities), but also as a will (i.e., with an interior quality), and as interpretation. Having an interior, mental quality is n ...
Berne Autonomy Paper
... perspective. Schechtman (1996, 114-115) urges that in addition to your explicit self-narrative, which you are normally able to articulate if called upon to do so, you may have one or more implicit self-narratives that conflict with your explicit selfnarrative. In cases of self-deception and repressi ...
... perspective. Schechtman (1996, 114-115) urges that in addition to your explicit self-narrative, which you are normally able to articulate if called upon to do so, you may have one or more implicit self-narratives that conflict with your explicit selfnarrative. In cases of self-deception and repressi ...
Cicero`s Tusculan Disputations, by Marcus Tullius Cicero
... Themistocles, some years before, was deemed ignorant because at an entertainment he declined the lyre when it was offered to him. For this reason musicians flourished in Greece; music was a general study; and whoever was unacquainted with it was not considered as fully instructed in learning. Geome ...
... Themistocles, some years before, was deemed ignorant because at an entertainment he declined the lyre when it was offered to him. For this reason musicians flourished in Greece; music was a general study; and whoever was unacquainted with it was not considered as fully instructed in learning. Geome ...
Methods of ethics and the descent of man: Darwin and Sidgwick on
... role also for Sidgwick, and for broadly similar reasons. Darwin and Sidgwick both agree that the most effective way to promote some good (the standard) is not always to aim at it (the motive), but instead to focus on subsidiary ends and principles, such as material wealth or the so-called ‘golden ru ...
... role also for Sidgwick, and for broadly similar reasons. Darwin and Sidgwick both agree that the most effective way to promote some good (the standard) is not always to aim at it (the motive), but instead to focus on subsidiary ends and principles, such as material wealth or the so-called ‘golden ru ...
The Best of Best Paul Kurtz` philosophy of humanism
... a more viable strategy to strive for than outspoken atheistic humanism. In a secular society people can enjoy their personal delusions, as long as they don‟t harm others. The problem with Kurtz‟ term multisecularism could be that it has a ring of multiculturalism, and multiculturalism too often turn ...
... a more viable strategy to strive for than outspoken atheistic humanism. In a secular society people can enjoy their personal delusions, as long as they don‟t harm others. The problem with Kurtz‟ term multisecularism could be that it has a ring of multiculturalism, and multiculturalism too often turn ...
What Normative Terms Mean and Why It Matters for Ethical Theory.
... these speci c linguistic and ethical issues can be seen as case studies illustrating the fruitfulness of utilizing resources from philosophy of language and linguistics in ethical theorizing. Of course, one could acknowledge a role for linguistic inquiry in ethics but reject my speci c claims about ...
... these speci c linguistic and ethical issues can be seen as case studies illustrating the fruitfulness of utilizing resources from philosophy of language and linguistics in ethical theorizing. Of course, one could acknowledge a role for linguistic inquiry in ethics but reject my speci c claims about ...
RJWhat is a (good) institution
... as an institution –, and I will focus primarily on two aspects. Firstly: institutions are characterized by the fact that they are “simultaneously given and made” in a way that warrants further exploration. They are the results of human actions, but in many ways, we cannot fully avail ourselves of th ...
... as an institution –, and I will focus primarily on two aspects. Firstly: institutions are characterized by the fact that they are “simultaneously given and made” in a way that warrants further exploration. They are the results of human actions, but in many ways, we cannot fully avail ourselves of th ...
The Genesis of Shame
... idea of getting it on. I suggest that what they didn’t think of until the Fall was the idea of not getting it on-though I admit that this suggestion will take some getting used to. Here I am imagining that the knowledge gained from the tree was not physically extracted from the fruit itself; rather, ...
... idea of getting it on. I suggest that what they didn’t think of until the Fall was the idea of not getting it on-though I admit that this suggestion will take some getting used to. Here I am imagining that the knowledge gained from the tree was not physically extracted from the fruit itself; rather, ...
Hegel`s Phenomenology of Spirit Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
... self-thinking thought. To say that the Absolute is Spirit is to say that it is infinite selfluminous or self-conscious subject. This is what Absolute as Spirit means: self-conscious, self-thinking infinite subject. The question that may be raised is: is this not Aristotle’s definition of God? Yes, b ...
... self-thinking thought. To say that the Absolute is Spirit is to say that it is infinite selfluminous or self-conscious subject. This is what Absolute as Spirit means: self-conscious, self-thinking infinite subject. The question that may be raised is: is this not Aristotle’s definition of God? Yes, b ...
1967DKarticle
... Matters are even more serious with Mannheim than indicated thus far. In the conventional account of Mannheim’s development, it is also customary to claim that after he came to England in 1933 he was progressively enlightened by non-Central European influences and came increasingly to see the folly o ...
... Matters are even more serious with Mannheim than indicated thus far. In the conventional account of Mannheim’s development, it is also customary to claim that after he came to England in 1933 he was progressively enlightened by non-Central European influences and came increasingly to see the folly o ...
Our Concept of Time
... B-theorists is precisely about this issue, i.e., about the essential features of time, an analysis of the folk concept would go some way towards adjudicating an element of this dispute. The importance of analysing the folk concept of time is not restricted to debates in metaphysics. The second reaso ...
... B-theorists is precisely about this issue, i.e., about the essential features of time, an analysis of the folk concept would go some way towards adjudicating an element of this dispute. The importance of analysing the folk concept of time is not restricted to debates in metaphysics. The second reaso ...
DERRIDA/CIXOUS, CIXOUS/DERRIDA Prof. Claire Colebrook
... referential manner, one might also say that new sexual relations were possible, and that there was something seductive about theory. Derrida himself suggested this in a number of texts, perhaps most clearly in his essay on Lacan where proper deconstructive reading would require a certain infidelity ...
... referential manner, one might also say that new sexual relations were possible, and that there was something seductive about theory. Derrida himself suggested this in a number of texts, perhaps most clearly in his essay on Lacan where proper deconstructive reading would require a certain infidelity ...
Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism Author(s)
... pp. 1-29.) Stout distinguishes two forms of the universalisation principle, the causal form and the hypothetical form. To say that you ought not to do an action A because it would have bad results if everyone (or many people) did action A may be merely to point out that while the action A would othe ...
... pp. 1-29.) Stout distinguishes two forms of the universalisation principle, the causal form and the hypothetical form. To say that you ought not to do an action A because it would have bad results if everyone (or many people) did action A may be merely to point out that while the action A would othe ...
Gideon Manning DESCARTES` HEALTHY MACHINES AND THE
... [peraguntur instrumentis] which are large enough to be easily perceivable by the senses.”10 ...
... [peraguntur instrumentis] which are large enough to be easily perceivable by the senses.”10 ...
Character, Virtue and Self-Interest in the Ethics
... opposing moral concepts. Without entering into a detailed history of these two ideas I would make the following distinctions: altruism is that trait which disposes a person to take the interests of others into account in using power, privilege, position and knowledge. It was first introduced by Augu ...
... opposing moral concepts. Without entering into a detailed history of these two ideas I would make the following distinctions: altruism is that trait which disposes a person to take the interests of others into account in using power, privilege, position and knowledge. It was first introduced by Augu ...
1.Kant`s Account of the Unity
... The issue of the unity of the self is recognized as an important issue throughout a large part of the history of Western philosophy. Yet, as every significant philosophical problem that survived through several radically different philosophical eras it was subject to substantial changes, not just in ...
... The issue of the unity of the self is recognized as an important issue throughout a large part of the history of Western philosophy. Yet, as every significant philosophical problem that survived through several radically different philosophical eras it was subject to substantial changes, not just in ...
24.500/Phil253 topics in philosophy of mind/perceptual experience session 8 Figure by MIT OCW.
... requires that there be a causal unity, an object, for the term to refer to. The rule fixing the reference of [‘I’] is…”Any token of ‘I’ refers to whoever produced it”…If we really thought that occurrent thoughts in one person’s stream of consciousness were being produced by the beliefs and desires o ...
... requires that there be a causal unity, an object, for the term to refer to. The rule fixing the reference of [‘I’] is…”Any token of ‘I’ refers to whoever produced it”…If we really thought that occurrent thoughts in one person’s stream of consciousness were being produced by the beliefs and desires o ...
First Reader: Ashok Gangadean Second Reader: Jerry Miller ABSTRACT:
... What, then, does it mean to have a systematized ethics cemented within these contingent historical realities? How will we transcend our heretofore-detrimental environmental beliefs and behaviors while keeping our ethics in that same historical context and resulting self-view as a species? Moreover, ...
... What, then, does it mean to have a systematized ethics cemented within these contingent historical realities? How will we transcend our heretofore-detrimental environmental beliefs and behaviors while keeping our ethics in that same historical context and resulting self-view as a species? Moreover, ...
Matthew Shen Goodman SOAN Senior Comprehensive Thesis
... struggle and compete for the stakes of certain fields. However, his concentration on how power is accumulated and exercised in the social world leads him to reduce individual aesthetic experience to exactly that: a struggle for power couched in terms that attempt to deny that very struggle as their ...
... struggle and compete for the stakes of certain fields. However, his concentration on how power is accumulated and exercised in the social world leads him to reduce individual aesthetic experience to exactly that: a struggle for power couched in terms that attempt to deny that very struggle as their ...
Greenham, D. (2016) Emerson`s ”Apposite Metaphors” and the
... vehicle and the ground of a metaphor (96-97, 117). The tenor is the subject of the metaphor, which in the first instance above is the “moral or intellectual fact”; the vehicle the term used, that is, the “corporeal or animal fact”, and the ground the thing they have in common that allows the one to ...
... vehicle and the ground of a metaphor (96-97, 117). The tenor is the subject of the metaphor, which in the first instance above is the “moral or intellectual fact”; the vehicle the term used, that is, the “corporeal or animal fact”, and the ground the thing they have in common that allows the one to ...
buddhist meta-ethics ethical theory, action
... representing and considering alternative courses of action; there is no such thing as choice without alternatives between which one can choose. This is both recognized by Keown when he introduces the notion of a Buddha’s decision to teach as occurring subsequent to his recognition of alternatives, a ...
... representing and considering alternative courses of action; there is no such thing as choice without alternatives between which one can choose. This is both recognized by Keown when he introduces the notion of a Buddha’s decision to teach as occurring subsequent to his recognition of alternatives, a ...
13 responses to evolution: spencer`s evolutionism, bergsonism, and
... in questions about evolution. As one commentator has noted, most nineteenthcentury evolutionists were Lamarckians or Spencerians rather than Darwinians: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) had published his theory of progressive evolution in Philosophie zoologique in 1809 and Herbert Spencer (1820–190 ...
... in questions about evolution. As one commentator has noted, most nineteenthcentury evolutionists were Lamarckians or Spencerians rather than Darwinians: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) had published his theory of progressive evolution in Philosophie zoologique in 1809 and Herbert Spencer (1820–190 ...
Lecture Notes
... reasons why the norms are as they are, or the applications are as they are. It appeals to causes instead: contingent features of embodiment, provenance, situation, history, tradition, interests, and so on. LW often offers genealogies of our discursive practices, or describes practices for which gene ...
... reasons why the norms are as they are, or the applications are as they are. It appeals to causes instead: contingent features of embodiment, provenance, situation, history, tradition, interests, and so on. LW often offers genealogies of our discursive practices, or describes practices for which gene ...
Existential Semiotics and Cultural Psychology
... a subject temporarily exits his Dasein in his transcendental act, he can naturally stay in this journey one minute, hour, day, week, year, decades. In the temporal sense, the journey can thus last whatsoever time span. Yet, it can occur that when he returns to the world of his Dasein, symbolized by ...
... a subject temporarily exits his Dasein in his transcendental act, he can naturally stay in this journey one minute, hour, day, week, year, decades. In the temporal sense, the journey can thus last whatsoever time span. Yet, it can occur that when he returns to the world of his Dasein, symbolized by ...