What Does it Mean to Practise Philosophy?
... appropriate and established philosophical tenets to support their own attitude to life. And I am left wondering if this is a Practical Philosophy. In some respects it is - it seems eminently practical and singularly philosophical - but, as far as individuals discovering something practical which is ...
... appropriate and established philosophical tenets to support their own attitude to life. And I am left wondering if this is a Practical Philosophy. In some respects it is - it seems eminently practical and singularly philosophical - but, as far as individuals discovering something practical which is ...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
... little of this, and a little of that, in marvellous mixture, without its occurring to them to ask whether the principles of morality are to be sought in the knowledge of human nature at all (which we can have only from experience); or, if this is not so, if these principles are to be found altogethe ...
... little of this, and a little of that, in marvellous mixture, without its occurring to them to ask whether the principles of morality are to be sought in the knowledge of human nature at all (which we can have only from experience); or, if this is not so, if these principles are to be found altogethe ...
1st Prize: Cherry Dicko
... In relation to Brexit, O’Neill says campaigners ‘did not provide the basic means for voters to judge…’5. Judging is an ability, so here O’Neill implies that the public needed a sort of informed ability knowledge in order to give informed consent – a sort of propositional knowledge from which to exer ...
... In relation to Brexit, O’Neill says campaigners ‘did not provide the basic means for voters to judge…’5. Judging is an ability, so here O’Neill implies that the public needed a sort of informed ability knowledge in order to give informed consent – a sort of propositional knowledge from which to exer ...
Introduction In the frigid air of an East Prussian morning, a young
... remained entrapped within a deception of a different kind, and it would take another historic figure – Immanuel Kant – to shed light on the problem and bring about a “Copernican Revolution” of philosophy. Philosophers before Kant principally believed that the careful use of pure reason could lead to ...
... remained entrapped within a deception of a different kind, and it would take another historic figure – Immanuel Kant – to shed light on the problem and bring about a “Copernican Revolution” of philosophy. Philosophers before Kant principally believed that the careful use of pure reason could lead to ...
Socratic Knowledge, Christian Love, Confucian Virtue
... broad areas of life and living, and could be look to for a model and philosophy of life or for a guiding purpose and direction, we will focus our discussion on Socrates' ideas of knowledge, Jesus' teachings in relation to love, Confucius' thoughts about virtue, and Buddha's teachings on emptiness. ...
... broad areas of life and living, and could be look to for a model and philosophy of life or for a guiding purpose and direction, we will focus our discussion on Socrates' ideas of knowledge, Jesus' teachings in relation to love, Confucius' thoughts about virtue, and Buddha's teachings on emptiness. ...
Doctrine of Forms
... idea or form. This is the universal, the common nature or quality, which is grasped in the concept (ex: beauty). There are many beautiful things, but we form one universal concept of beauty itself: and Plato assumed that these universal concepts are not merely subjective concepts, but that in them w ...
... idea or form. This is the universal, the common nature or quality, which is grasped in the concept (ex: beauty). There are many beautiful things, but we form one universal concept of beauty itself: and Plato assumed that these universal concepts are not merely subjective concepts, but that in them w ...
Outline Truth and Lie
... to reality, but because he believes the reality to which truths correspond must be completely independent of human beings, of both our capacities and our cognitive interest.” 88 “truths are illusions” means that “the beliefs we recognize as truths do not possess the unlimited value we assume to be p ...
... to reality, but because he believes the reality to which truths correspond must be completely independent of human beings, of both our capacities and our cognitive interest.” 88 “truths are illusions” means that “the beliefs we recognize as truths do not possess the unlimited value we assume to be p ...
MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Philo 12) - Law, Politics, and Philosophy
... the actions of man or of the nature of the material universe, although empirical studies of man are of relevance to the philosopher. Philosophers do not generally engage in empirical researches that usually begin with specific questions about someone or something. Although they may consider the “gen ...
... the actions of man or of the nature of the material universe, although empirical studies of man are of relevance to the philosopher. Philosophers do not generally engage in empirical researches that usually begin with specific questions about someone or something. Although they may consider the “gen ...
Review: The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
... who is a professor of “Hindu” Studies at Britain’s Oxford University, spares us the fetters of Orientalism, the bane of Cambridge School scholarship on South Asian history. This translation, which he calls “New,” is really not that new. There are innumerable translations of this well-known Brahmanic ...
... who is a professor of “Hindu” Studies at Britain’s Oxford University, spares us the fetters of Orientalism, the bane of Cambridge School scholarship on South Asian history. This translation, which he calls “New,” is really not that new. There are innumerable translations of this well-known Brahmanic ...
Book Review - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
... In his latest book, entitled The New French Philosophy, Ian James presents the theories of seven contemporary French philosophers (Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, Catherine Malabou, Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, François Laruelle), seeking to indicate a “new” way of thinking in ...
... In his latest book, entitled The New French Philosophy, Ian James presents the theories of seven contemporary French philosophers (Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, Catherine Malabou, Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, François Laruelle), seeking to indicate a “new” way of thinking in ...
Leibniz Discourse 8
... bruise on your knee, the speed with which you won the marathon, … . None of these things, however, counts as a substance in the philosopher’s sense.1 ...
... bruise on your knee, the speed with which you won the marathon, … . None of these things, however, counts as a substance in the philosopher’s sense.1 ...
CONTENDING WITH STANLEY CAVELL
... (after its self-distinction from being a scientist, or a theologian, or an artist) in the absence of objective credentials, is that other philosophers recognize the work as pertinent to their thinking. But is not that really all that shows any work to be philosophy, since one with objective credenti ...
... (after its self-distinction from being a scientist, or a theologian, or an artist) in the absence of objective credentials, is that other philosophers recognize the work as pertinent to their thinking. But is not that really all that shows any work to be philosophy, since one with objective credenti ...
Philosophy without Intuitions, by Herman Cappelen. Oxford: Oxford
... In order to say something interesting about philosophy as a discipline, one will have to say something interesting about first-order philosophy, too; presumably about metaphysics (What is the nature of the objects of philosophical inquiry?), epistemology (How can we know about the objects of philoso ...
... In order to say something interesting about philosophy as a discipline, one will have to say something interesting about first-order philosophy, too; presumably about metaphysics (What is the nature of the objects of philosophical inquiry?), epistemology (How can we know about the objects of philoso ...
Boethius Dacus on the supreme good
... of the value of beings. This delight is greater than that of sense. Therefore, he despises sense pleasures. But many sins and vices consist in excessive sense pleasure. Thirdly, because there is no sin in understanding and theorizing. There is no possibility of excess and of sin in the order of supr ...
... of the value of beings. This delight is greater than that of sense. Therefore, he despises sense pleasures. But many sins and vices consist in excessive sense pleasure. Thirdly, because there is no sin in understanding and theorizing. There is no possibility of excess and of sin in the order of supr ...
M METHO ODOL LOGY
... judgments. Therefore, the idea of a completely value-neutral science, independent of subjective interpretation, based on facts, is questionable. This is more so for the social sciences and humanities where subjective interpretation of facts by human beings plays a greater role than the natural scien ...
... judgments. Therefore, the idea of a completely value-neutral science, independent of subjective interpretation, based on facts, is questionable. This is more so for the social sciences and humanities where subjective interpretation of facts by human beings plays a greater role than the natural scien ...
Topic 2b: What is conceptualization? Jerry Fodor (2008): LOT2 The
... Representational theory of mind (RTM). A theory of the cognitive mind (philosophy, psychology, cognitive science) RTM: referentialism – reference is the only primitive mind-world semantic property; referential account of the content of intentional states – mental realism. Page 22: “it’s intentionali ...
... Representational theory of mind (RTM). A theory of the cognitive mind (philosophy, psychology, cognitive science) RTM: referentialism – reference is the only primitive mind-world semantic property; referential account of the content of intentional states – mental realism. Page 22: “it’s intentionali ...
contents
... Looking for an explanation of the world in the world itself, they sought the primary source of the world in something material. These naive spontaneous materialist doctrines of the Milesians were diametrically opposed to the no less naive but unscientific world outlook based on mythology which preva ...
... Looking for an explanation of the world in the world itself, they sought the primary source of the world in something material. These naive spontaneous materialist doctrines of the Milesians were diametrically opposed to the no less naive but unscientific world outlook based on mythology which preva ...
Can Activist Scholars Learn Research Methods from Rumi
... faced prospects of living without pensions, workers of living without wages, and children growing up with reduced funding for education. Yet everyone turned to the very economists to bail them out of their situations. Further away daisy bombs, cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs, biological weapons, la ...
... faced prospects of living without pensions, workers of living without wages, and children growing up with reduced funding for education. Yet everyone turned to the very economists to bail them out of their situations. Further away daisy bombs, cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs, biological weapons, la ...
a_new_problem_for_th.. - University of St Andrews
... The A-theory or ‘tensed’ theory of time says that the A-series of McTaggart’s famous argument is real.1 This means that the properties picked out by terms like past, present and future - known as ‘tenses’ - are mind-independent properties of times. Consequently on this view the ‘flow’ or ‘passage’ o ...
... The A-theory or ‘tensed’ theory of time says that the A-series of McTaggart’s famous argument is real.1 This means that the properties picked out by terms like past, present and future - known as ‘tenses’ - are mind-independent properties of times. Consequently on this view the ‘flow’ or ‘passage’ o ...
Leibniz and the Spell of the Continuous
... But the rule just quoted depends, said Leibniz, on a still “more general principle,” namely that “as the given quantities are ordered, so the affected quantities are ordered also [datis ordinatis etiam quaesita sunt ordinata]” [2, p. 539]. Again the utterance is cryptic, but—as his subsequent illust ...
... But the rule just quoted depends, said Leibniz, on a still “more general principle,” namely that “as the given quantities are ordered, so the affected quantities are ordered also [datis ordinatis etiam quaesita sunt ordinata]” [2, p. 539]. Again the utterance is cryptic, but—as his subsequent illust ...
Rape of Aphrodite
... Postmodernism. The fetishistic penchant of Post-structuralists and Post-modernists has made the treatment of art and literature destructively convoluted and obfuscated, and offers infinite leeway for analysis of any kind. The trite adage ''Kill the writer’’ has been grossly misused and misidentified ...
... Postmodernism. The fetishistic penchant of Post-structuralists and Post-modernists has made the treatment of art and literature destructively convoluted and obfuscated, and offers infinite leeway for analysis of any kind. The trite adage ''Kill the writer’’ has been grossly misused and misidentified ...
khadeijah abdullah darwish
... authoritatively, defeated the opinions of those who opposed him. All applauded him and bore witness to his immense value. The Minister welcomed him with great respect and in the year 484 hijrah, entrusted to him his school, An Nizamiya, in Baghdad. People enthused to listen to his phraseology, the p ...
... authoritatively, defeated the opinions of those who opposed him. All applauded him and bore witness to his immense value. The Minister welcomed him with great respect and in the year 484 hijrah, entrusted to him his school, An Nizamiya, in Baghdad. People enthused to listen to his phraseology, the p ...
Class #5 - 1/15/14
... Genevieve Lloyd suggests that the issue is even more fundamental and may be near impossible to resolve. Read your text on page 73 carefully!! We will discuss this passage in class next week. ...
... Genevieve Lloyd suggests that the issue is even more fundamental and may be near impossible to resolve. Read your text on page 73 carefully!! We will discuss this passage in class next week. ...
Environmental Ethics Anthropocentrism
... that I am not in the body like a pilot in his ship because I feel pain when the body is injured but his dualism would imply just the pilot and ship analogy Descartes’ dualism has been called the “ghost in the machine” hypothesis the mind is a sort of ghostly substance (it is not extended, does not t ...
... that I am not in the body like a pilot in his ship because I feel pain when the body is injured but his dualism would imply just the pilot and ship analogy Descartes’ dualism has been called the “ghost in the machine” hypothesis the mind is a sort of ghostly substance (it is not extended, does not t ...
1 Critical Consciousness and Liberal Education
... critical consciousness. Such an achievement is remarkable enough. Yet true to their drive to question and criticize everything, the Greeks turned critical consciousness not just on nature and other peoples, but, as we’ve already seen in their willingness to scrutinize their own beliefs about slavery ...
... critical consciousness. Such an achievement is remarkable enough. Yet true to their drive to question and criticize everything, the Greeks turned critical consciousness not just on nature and other peoples, but, as we’ve already seen in their willingness to scrutinize their own beliefs about slavery ...