Peter Ramus - ENGL 4103 - Rhetoric and Persuasion
... Not necessarily opposed to Christian thought. Emphasized individual capacity and potential. ...
... Not necessarily opposed to Christian thought. Emphasized individual capacity and potential. ...
The Philosopher and the Sage: Plato and Lao
... philosophical journey. The goal is to apprehend the sun itself and behold everything else in its light, after which the enlightened philosopher will return to the cave to bring the benefit of his enlightenment to his fellow citizens. However, even Socrates himself, a self-proclaimed philosopher (cf. ...
... philosophical journey. The goal is to apprehend the sun itself and behold everything else in its light, after which the enlightened philosopher will return to the cave to bring the benefit of his enlightenment to his fellow citizens. However, even Socrates himself, a self-proclaimed philosopher (cf. ...
Why ethics is hard: or some of the reasons why
... I don’t think that “the knowledge argument” here presented is a sound argument against physicalism. (Neither does Jackson any more, though I and others find the reasons he now gives for rejecting it both puzzling and obscure.) The knowledge argument attacks a formulation of physicalism that says th ...
... I don’t think that “the knowledge argument” here presented is a sound argument against physicalism. (Neither does Jackson any more, though I and others find the reasons he now gives for rejecting it both puzzling and obscure.) The knowledge argument attacks a formulation of physicalism that says th ...
PHI 515 Quine
... Different names (‘Superman’, ‘Clark Kent’) for the same thing don’t seem synonymous or to have the same "cognitive value". It seems, then, as if there must be something more to the meaning of a name than mere reference. (We’ve met with this before— right?) ...
... Different names (‘Superman’, ‘Clark Kent’) for the same thing don’t seem synonymous or to have the same "cognitive value". It seems, then, as if there must be something more to the meaning of a name than mere reference. (We’ve met with this before— right?) ...
THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY (London: Oxford University
... Other philosophers since Berkeley have also held that, although the table does not depend for its existence upon being seen by me, it does depend upon being seen (or otherwise apprehended in sensation) by some mind—not necessarily the mind of God, but more often the whole collective mind of the univ ...
... Other philosophers since Berkeley have also held that, although the table does not depend for its existence upon being seen by me, it does depend upon being seen (or otherwise apprehended in sensation) by some mind—not necessarily the mind of God, but more often the whole collective mind of the univ ...
Glossary - Oxford University Press
... one another. But they are not the same. The last one has to do with knowledge, the middle one with possibility, and the first one with meaning. Although some philosophers think that the three distinctions amount to the same thing, others do not. Kant maintains that truths of arithmetic are a priori ...
... one another. But they are not the same. The last one has to do with knowledge, the middle one with possibility, and the first one with meaning. Although some philosophers think that the three distinctions amount to the same thing, others do not. Kant maintains that truths of arithmetic are a priori ...
Word
... tells us, we are always ignorant of the future to some extent and we ought not to pretend we know more about it than we do (James 4:13-16). Job’s friends were wrong to think that they knew the reasons for his torment, and Job himself had to be humbled as God reminded him of his ignorance (Job 38-42) ...
... tells us, we are always ignorant of the future to some extent and we ought not to pretend we know more about it than we do (James 4:13-16). Job’s friends were wrong to think that they knew the reasons for his torment, and Job himself had to be humbled as God reminded him of his ignorance (Job 38-42) ...
Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Rationalism
... internal critique of rationalism. In asking what conception of reason is at work in the Enlightenment, Jacobi is the first to say that philosophers of the Enlightenment have their own presuppositions and to put in question the truth of their system. This questioning opens up into a comparison betwee ...
... internal critique of rationalism. In asking what conception of reason is at work in the Enlightenment, Jacobi is the first to say that philosophers of the Enlightenment have their own presuppositions and to put in question the truth of their system. This questioning opens up into a comparison betwee ...
File
... Pure aesthetic experience indicates a harmony between us (our rational faculties) and the world/aesthetic objects. Aesthetic experience should give us a sense of a “beyond” that we can neither know nor explain, but of which we have glimpses and are given clues. In this sense, aesthetic experience is ...
... Pure aesthetic experience indicates a harmony between us (our rational faculties) and the world/aesthetic objects. Aesthetic experience should give us a sense of a “beyond” that we can neither know nor explain, but of which we have glimpses and are given clues. In this sense, aesthetic experience is ...
A catalog of conscious experiences
... different from what it is like to think of the Eiffel tower. More obviously, cognitive attitudes such as desire often have a strong phenomenal flavor. Desire seems to exert a phenomenological ‘tug’, and memory often has a qualitative component, as with the experience of nostalgia or regret. ...
... different from what it is like to think of the Eiffel tower. More obviously, cognitive attitudes such as desire often have a strong phenomenal flavor. Desire seems to exert a phenomenological ‘tug’, and memory often has a qualitative component, as with the experience of nostalgia or regret. ...
Chapter 23 Immanuel Kant`s Ethical Theory
... Kant announces that the moral law is categorical and he asserts its absolute authority. He claims that, what makes willing right is that it must be based on a rational principle. According to him the moral law is a law of reason. He treats man as fundamentally a rational being and therefore, to obey ...
... Kant announces that the moral law is categorical and he asserts its absolute authority. He claims that, what makes willing right is that it must be based on a rational principle. According to him the moral law is a law of reason. He treats man as fundamentally a rational being and therefore, to obey ...
KANT - ARISTOTLE lecture
... strictly in terms of moral laws like the categorical imperative. We can have good emotions and pleasures, and good feelings toward each other, something like the higher pleasures of Mill and Epicurus. Aristotle DOES have moral commands or principles or laws, based on the overarching virtue of justic ...
... strictly in terms of moral laws like the categorical imperative. We can have good emotions and pleasures, and good feelings toward each other, something like the higher pleasures of Mill and Epicurus. Aristotle DOES have moral commands or principles or laws, based on the overarching virtue of justic ...
Lesson 6
... knowledge.’ What is knowledge? Why is knowledge better than opinion? Can you give any examples of knowledge that is not based on opinion? Mathematics or a scientific fact e.g. It takes light from the sun eight and a half minutes to reach the earth. ...
... knowledge.’ What is knowledge? Why is knowledge better than opinion? Can you give any examples of knowledge that is not based on opinion? Mathematics or a scientific fact e.g. It takes light from the sun eight and a half minutes to reach the earth. ...
Introduction
... reasons, which reason does not know.” (680; emphasis added) Typically, philosophers have emphasised the negative part of this statement. However, the positive is at least as important. Pascal was an intuitionist and believed sentiments to be the springboard of morality, but he was no sentimentalist ...
... reasons, which reason does not know.” (680; emphasis added) Typically, philosophers have emphasised the negative part of this statement. However, the positive is at least as important. Pascal was an intuitionist and believed sentiments to be the springboard of morality, but he was no sentimentalist ...
Does Comparative Philosophy have a Fusion Future? Responses
... ways to a contemporary context" or are even intelligible (Levine 2016: 219, 222)? What available tricks or strategies insure both "integrative" and "creative" philosophical approaches of the sort that Neville and Deutsch call for? (cited ibid.: 220-21) For many reasons, we worry about the dangers of ...
... ways to a contemporary context" or are even intelligible (Levine 2016: 219, 222)? What available tricks or strategies insure both "integrative" and "creative" philosophical approaches of the sort that Neville and Deutsch call for? (cited ibid.: 220-21) For many reasons, we worry about the dangers of ...
Trying to keep philosophy honest
... often frowned upon in philosophical debates. The marginalization of Wittgenstein often takes the form of regarding philosophers whose work is inspired by his as forming their own enclave. In the leading journals of the field, one would rarely find a work, say, by Quine or Davidson, or a work written ...
... often frowned upon in philosophical debates. The marginalization of Wittgenstein often takes the form of regarding philosophers whose work is inspired by his as forming their own enclave. In the leading journals of the field, one would rarely find a work, say, by Quine or Davidson, or a work written ...
Glendinning , Simon. 'Varieties of Neoliberalism' LEQS Paper No. 89, March 2015
... The great masters of the philosophical tradition from Plato to Descartes to Kant and beyond, all subscribe to something like this view of man, of the pure humanity of man, as rational subjectivity. I am going to come back to Plato shortly, to an incredible moment in an incredible philosophical text, ...
... The great masters of the philosophical tradition from Plato to Descartes to Kant and beyond, all subscribe to something like this view of man, of the pure humanity of man, as rational subjectivity. I am going to come back to Plato shortly, to an incredible moment in an incredible philosophical text, ...
Ontological Justification: From Appearance to Reality
... rests are difficult to justify and should, I believe, be abandoned. Now, all is not thereby lost. Logical atomism can be portrayed as a “two-tiered system” (Simons, 1992: 158). Its first tier involves identification of the formally atomic propositions – the atoms of our conceptualisations – by mean ...
... rests are difficult to justify and should, I believe, be abandoned. Now, all is not thereby lost. Logical atomism can be portrayed as a “two-tiered system” (Simons, 1992: 158). Its first tier involves identification of the formally atomic propositions – the atoms of our conceptualisations – by mean ...
A Beginner`s Guide to Descartes`s Meditations
... ‘a series of footnotes to Plato’,’ so it may be argued that the importance of Descartes lies more in the problems he identified and tried to answer, than in the success of the actual solutions which he proposed. Many philosophy courses at all levels will therefore at some point involve, to greater o ...
... ‘a series of footnotes to Plato’,’ so it may be argued that the importance of Descartes lies more in the problems he identified and tried to answer, than in the success of the actual solutions which he proposed. Many philosophy courses at all levels will therefore at some point involve, to greater o ...
Philosophy as Therapeutic Amelioration
... zigzag…. [N]ot only do the terms themselves and their associates and environments change, but we change and their meaning for us changes….”32 Through what James refers to as an “interstitial alteration,”33 the content of experience can be transformed: “[the] real effectual causation … of reality is ...
... zigzag…. [N]ot only do the terms themselves and their associates and environments change, but we change and their meaning for us changes….”32 Through what James refers to as an “interstitial alteration,”33 the content of experience can be transformed: “[the] real effectual causation … of reality is ...
Slide 1
... We need to conduct the study at more SOCs. We would like to invite participation from the FIRST community in our study. Study participation can benefit both the SOC and the community. ...
... We need to conduct the study at more SOCs. We would like to invite participation from the FIRST community in our study. Study participation can benefit both the SOC and the community. ...
A Decolonial Imagination: Sociology, Anthropology and The Politics
... as it is to imagine that they have no end–which is to say, that they are outside history– (Santos, 2014: 24) such imaginative impasses nevertheless seem to have a paralysing effect on critical thought. This paralysis is explained, according to Santos, by the Eurocentric epistemology informing Marxis ...
... as it is to imagine that they have no end–which is to say, that they are outside history– (Santos, 2014: 24) such imaginative impasses nevertheless seem to have a paralysing effect on critical thought. This paralysis is explained, according to Santos, by the Eurocentric epistemology informing Marxis ...
PDF - Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics
... further here.20 Instead, I shall assume that there possibly could be a reconstruction of Socrates’ criticism along these lines. Such an account would take the inspiration theory as its main clue and give an explanation of its critical potential in terms of a lack of personal autonomy or freedom of t ...
... further here.20 Instead, I shall assume that there possibly could be a reconstruction of Socrates’ criticism along these lines. Such an account would take the inspiration theory as its main clue and give an explanation of its critical potential in terms of a lack of personal autonomy or freedom of t ...
Blaise Pascal. (1623-1662). His Religious Philosophy
... us to know what is meant by the words motion, number, space. Without stopping for useless definitions, it penetrates into the very nature, and discovers the wonderful properties, of these three things, "which," says Pascal, speaking as a true Cartesian, "comprise the whole universe." But if we try t ...
... us to know what is meant by the words motion, number, space. Without stopping for useless definitions, it penetrates into the very nature, and discovers the wonderful properties, of these three things, "which," says Pascal, speaking as a true Cartesian, "comprise the whole universe." But if we try t ...