Anzai Masahiro
... as knowledge by reason or words．Wittgenstein believed in god and absolute value．But， he said he couldn’t talk about it24．He liked to read the Gospels．Kant strongly believed in god at first．But，he strictly demonstrated impossibility to recognize it by theoretical reason25．For them，precision and stric ...
... as knowledge by reason or words．Wittgenstein believed in god and absolute value．But， he said he couldn’t talk about it24．He liked to read the Gospels．Kant strongly believed in god at first．But，he strictly demonstrated impossibility to recognize it by theoretical reason25．For them，precision and stric ...
Apr 7
... 3. Levels to Dharmakirti's theorizing: (a) the realism of everyday beliefs and practices (vyavahara or prapanca), (b) refutations of realism and establishment of Buddhist doctrinces such as no-self, momentariness, and a phenomenalism of ineffable particulars, sva-lakshana, "that which is its own mar ...
... 3. Levels to Dharmakirti's theorizing: (a) the realism of everyday beliefs and practices (vyavahara or prapanca), (b) refutations of realism and establishment of Buddhist doctrinces such as no-self, momentariness, and a phenomenalism of ineffable particulars, sva-lakshana, "that which is its own mar ...
here - News @ Wesleyan
... vocabulary altogether, driving the words “belief,” “personal,” and “experience” like demons out of my unconsciously Protestant students during the first few weeks of Religion 101. Like many rituals, this one never quite sticks, so I find myself repeating the exorcism two years later in our department’ ...
... vocabulary altogether, driving the words “belief,” “personal,” and “experience” like demons out of my unconsciously Protestant students during the first few weeks of Religion 101. Like many rituals, this one never quite sticks, so I find myself repeating the exorcism two years later in our department’ ...
ume and the Modern View of Human Nature
... insists that we can’t begin by assuming anything about the ultimate structure of reality of our place in it, but must rather start with what we are given: experience, as we experience it. ◦ Any conclusions we make must be appropriate generalizations from this immediate data. ...
... insists that we can’t begin by assuming anything about the ultimate structure of reality of our place in it, but must rather start with what we are given: experience, as we experience it. ◦ Any conclusions we make must be appropriate generalizations from this immediate data. ...
Stove`s Discovery of the Worst Argument in the World
... players in the intellectual world? The cultural-relativist, for example, inveighs bitterly against our science-based, white-male cultural perspective. She says that it is not only injurious but cognitively limiting. Injurious it may be; or again it may not. But why does she believe that it is cognit ...
... players in the intellectual world? The cultural-relativist, for example, inveighs bitterly against our science-based, white-male cultural perspective. She says that it is not only injurious but cognitively limiting. Injurious it may be; or again it may not. But why does she believe that it is cognit ...
What`s in a word: philosophy, theology and thinking?
... As an informal educator and one who has been practically involved in helping young people to think about what they ought to be doing with their lives, what is worth living for, and the need for public action, I found much in the book with which I can agree. The book is in three parts, the first two ...
... As an informal educator and one who has been practically involved in helping young people to think about what they ought to be doing with their lives, what is worth living for, and the need for public action, I found much in the book with which I can agree. The book is in three parts, the first two ...
THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS AND SOCRATES
... AND SOCRATES Here we examine the beginnings of Western philosophy. We do this especially with an eye to exploring how what went before Plato might have influenced him, especially his theory of human nature. We shall focus on the views about knowledge and reality of some of the philosophers who wrote ...
... AND SOCRATES Here we examine the beginnings of Western philosophy. We do this especially with an eye to exploring how what went before Plato might have influenced him, especially his theory of human nature. We shall focus on the views about knowledge and reality of some of the philosophers who wrote ...
Previous Final Examination Questions
... 4. What was Gaunilo’s objection to Anselm’s claim that a being than which none greater can be thought must exist? 5. How did Aquinas explain how God’s existence is compatible with the existence of evil in the world? 6. Why did Descartes think it necessary to prove that God exists? 7. In what sense d ...
... 4. What was Gaunilo’s objection to Anselm’s claim that a being than which none greater can be thought must exist? 5. How did Aquinas explain how God’s existence is compatible with the existence of evil in the world? 6. Why did Descartes think it necessary to prove that God exists? 7. In what sense d ...
1 PHIL 2303: Human Nature and the Meaning of Life Prof
... sides, which are common to these qualities; to observe that particular in which the estimable qualities agree on the one hand, and the blameable on the other; and thence to reach the foundation of ethics, and find those universal principles, from which all censure or approbation is ultimately derive ...
... sides, which are common to these qualities; to observe that particular in which the estimable qualities agree on the one hand, and the blameable on the other; and thence to reach the foundation of ethics, and find those universal principles, from which all censure or approbation is ultimately derive ...
Frankfurt and Rationalism
... Harry Frankfurt attacks ethical rationalism—the view that ethics derives from sound practical reasoning—in several recent publications.1 However his criticisms are based on a simple misunderstanding. Once corrected, his criticisms prove unfounded, and the prospect of a renewed ethical rationalism, i ...
... Harry Frankfurt attacks ethical rationalism—the view that ethics derives from sound practical reasoning—in several recent publications.1 However his criticisms are based on a simple misunderstanding. Once corrected, his criticisms prove unfounded, and the prospect of a renewed ethical rationalism, i ...
modern western philosophy BA PHILOSOPHY VI SEMESTER
... rationalistic thinking. It helps the students to know the method of abstraction as well. In this unit we shall try to understand how Descartes thinking deviate from classical philosophy. Finally we see how Spinoza and Leibnitz developed rationalism which was developed by Descartes in M odern Western ...
... rationalistic thinking. It helps the students to know the method of abstraction as well. In this unit we shall try to understand how Descartes thinking deviate from classical philosophy. Finally we see how Spinoza and Leibnitz developed rationalism which was developed by Descartes in M odern Western ...
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind 1
... just as ‘red’ was said to have objective existence in the idea of a red triangle, it was also said to have objective existence in the sensation (or impression, in Hume’s terminology) of a red triangle. • Sensations were simply thought of as more detailed and specific than the ‘abstract’ thoughts we ...
... just as ‘red’ was said to have objective existence in the idea of a red triangle, it was also said to have objective existence in the sensation (or impression, in Hume’s terminology) of a red triangle. • Sensations were simply thought of as more detailed and specific than the ‘abstract’ thoughts we ...
The Presocratic Sophos - Philosophy 1510 All Sections
... It’s possible to think of these ordered relations – which describe how things change or move – as an example of what Heraclitus meant by the Logos. ...
... It’s possible to think of these ordered relations – which describe how things change or move – as an example of what Heraclitus meant by the Logos. ...
12 Purva Mimamsa and Vedanta
... of the Vedānta Sutras, Shankara begins by asking if there is anything in our experience that we can be certain of. This is the question of the philosopher and we find echoes of the same question in the later writings of René Descartes and Bertrand Russell. “Our senses may deceive us; our memory may ...
... of the Vedānta Sutras, Shankara begins by asking if there is anything in our experience that we can be certain of. This is the question of the philosopher and we find echoes of the same question in the later writings of René Descartes and Bertrand Russell. “Our senses may deceive us; our memory may ...
andreas pistorius
... alent (let us agree) to ‘I want to be non-free.’ Is this possible? As we have seen, Kant claims in chapter III that no one can think of himself as not free. So what do I say when I say that I want to be non-free? I contradict myself. It is not unlike saying, ‘I want to be Brad Pitt’. It is logically ...
... alent (let us agree) to ‘I want to be non-free.’ Is this possible? As we have seen, Kant claims in chapter III that no one can think of himself as not free. So what do I say when I say that I want to be non-free? I contradict myself. It is not unlike saying, ‘I want to be Brad Pitt’. It is logically ...
philosophy as a second order discipline
... The key to understanding philosophy is having an insight into the activities the practitioners of the discipline have undertaken since its inception and this was Oladipo (2008:11) suggest when he holds that is possible to provide a fairly acceptable characterization of philosophy by considering “the ...
... The key to understanding philosophy is having an insight into the activities the practitioners of the discipline have undertaken since its inception and this was Oladipo (2008:11) suggest when he holds that is possible to provide a fairly acceptable characterization of philosophy by considering “the ...
New Pragmatism
... William James’s rejection of metaphysical pseudo-problems … [T]he pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. Is the world one or many?—fated or free?—material or spiritual?—here are notions either of which may or may not hold good o ...
... William James’s rejection of metaphysical pseudo-problems … [T]he pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. Is the world one or many?—fated or free?—material or spiritual?—here are notions either of which may or may not hold good o ...
Logic: the `Art of Thinking`
... (4) If we do not raise taxes, the money runs out. (5) We must raise taxes. (6) Therefore, the money does not run out. ...
... (4) If we do not raise taxes, the money runs out. (5) We must raise taxes. (6) Therefore, the money does not run out. ...
In the history of philosophy, Francis Bacon is credited with the
... everyone to the same standard. There are really two ways to accomplish this. The first is to validate the implicit knowledge of the oppressed in the same way that the implicit knowledge of privileged has been validated. This I take to be the option Shotwell favours. The alternative is not that we di ...
... everyone to the same standard. There are really two ways to accomplish this. The first is to validate the implicit knowledge of the oppressed in the same way that the implicit knowledge of privileged has been validated. This I take to be the option Shotwell favours. The alternative is not that we di ...
Epicurus and Lucretius
... called ‘preconceptions’ (prolepsis) and are available to our mental faculties even in the absence of the physical objects from which they originated. They are the material of judgment—and it is when we reason about our sensations (for instance, claiming that something is as we perceive it to be) tha ...
... called ‘preconceptions’ (prolepsis) and are available to our mental faculties even in the absence of the physical objects from which they originated. They are the material of judgment—and it is when we reason about our sensations (for instance, claiming that something is as we perceive it to be) tha ...
Social Studies 9R – Mr. Berman Aim #7: How did early Greek
... government, philosophy, and other subjects. He believed a person could gain knowledge by making hypotheses and then testing those hypotheses through observation, experimentation and classifying information. This became known as The Scientific Method. Aristotle studied existing governments in his boo ...
... government, philosophy, and other subjects. He believed a person could gain knowledge by making hypotheses and then testing those hypotheses through observation, experimentation and classifying information. This became known as The Scientific Method. Aristotle studied existing governments in his boo ...
lecture1-Science
... As a result of evolution, increasingly complex living organisms arise that are able to survive and adapt to their environment. It means they are able to register inputs (data) from the environment, to structure those into information, and in more developed organisms into knowledge. The evolutionary ...
... As a result of evolution, increasingly complex living organisms arise that are able to survive and adapt to their environment. It means they are able to register inputs (data) from the environment, to structure those into information, and in more developed organisms into knowledge. The evolutionary ...
Excerpt from Deborah L
... believe it to be; and in addition to this for us to believe, concerning our belief, that another belief is not possible - in the sense that whenever some belief about the first belief is formed, it is impossible for it to be otherwise, and so on ad infinitum. (Kitab al-burhan, in al-'Ajam and Fakhry ...
... believe it to be; and in addition to this for us to believe, concerning our belief, that another belief is not possible - in the sense that whenever some belief about the first belief is formed, it is impossible for it to be otherwise, and so on ad infinitum. (Kitab al-burhan, in al-'Ajam and Fakhry ...
Aristotle - Start.ca
... We have seen that Greek philosophy was highly speculative, especially in metaphysics (Remember Thales & the others -- the one substance behind all reality is water? air? fire? earth?), where they tried to discover the true nature of the world by reason alone. This had an immediate impact on their et ...
... We have seen that Greek philosophy was highly speculative, especially in metaphysics (Remember Thales & the others -- the one substance behind all reality is water? air? fire? earth?), where they tried to discover the true nature of the world by reason alone. This had an immediate impact on their et ...
Philosophy Papers - Warren Wilson College
... Argument/Thesis Statement The whole point of a philosophy paper is to advance a specific thesis. It is the boss of your paper, to which everything else must answer. Remember, a thesis is a single claim on a distinct topic that you can support with evidence. Although there are very many different kin ...
... Argument/Thesis Statement The whole point of a philosophy paper is to advance a specific thesis. It is the boss of your paper, to which everything else must answer. Remember, a thesis is a single claim on a distinct topic that you can support with evidence. Although there are very many different kin ...