Ought and Reality - Scandinavian Studies in Law
... appointment to the Chair of Practical Philosophy in the University of Uppsala. It was published in April as “Om moraliska föreställningars sanning” (On the Truth of Moral Ideas) although his intended title was “Verklighet och Böra” (Reality and Ought). Thus Thomas Mautner informs us in his edition o ...
... appointment to the Chair of Practical Philosophy in the University of Uppsala. It was published in April as “Om moraliska föreställningars sanning” (On the Truth of Moral Ideas) although his intended title was “Verklighet och Böra” (Reality and Ought). Thus Thomas Mautner informs us in his edition o ...
b. Jr.Sem.Offerings`95
... DESCRIPTION: Egalitarians believe that distributive justice requires the equal distribution of certain goods. This view has some initial attractions, such as, for example, its appeal to our sense of fairness and to our sense that distributive justice should pay particular attention to the worst-off ...
... DESCRIPTION: Egalitarians believe that distributive justice requires the equal distribution of certain goods. This view has some initial attractions, such as, for example, its appeal to our sense of fairness and to our sense that distributive justice should pay particular attention to the worst-off ...
Aztec Philosophy - University Press of Colorado
... Because one cannot adequately understand Nahua theology, religion, and ritual as well as ethical, political, epistemological, and aesthetic thinking and activity without first understanding Nahua metaphysics, I devote this work to Nahua metaphysics. Nahua ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, ...
... Because one cannot adequately understand Nahua theology, religion, and ritual as well as ethical, political, epistemological, and aesthetic thinking and activity without first understanding Nahua metaphysics, I devote this work to Nahua metaphysics. Nahua ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, ...
Chapter One: Introduction
... caused by prejudice in the economy of credibility; and that hermeneutical injustice is caused by structural prejudice in the economy of collective hermeneutical resources. ...
... caused by prejudice in the economy of credibility; and that hermeneutical injustice is caused by structural prejudice in the economy of collective hermeneutical resources. ...
Knowledge and Reality in the Vedanta School with emphasis on
... would have been easy to find a positive term if it has been tried to assert dogmatically the oneness of all reality as a positive conclusion. The Advaita does not positively assert this oneness; it simply denies the dualism which presents itself in our ordinary thinking. This distinction is not only ...
... would have been easy to find a positive term if it has been tried to assert dogmatically the oneness of all reality as a positive conclusion. The Advaita does not positively assert this oneness; it simply denies the dualism which presents itself in our ordinary thinking. This distinction is not only ...
Postmodernism in a Nutshell
... text – and rearrange the fragments after his/hers own liking, generating a new perspective that may either revitalize of critique the original text. In philosophy, neo-pragmatism sustains that the meaning of words do not refer to extra-linguistic entities and objects but to other words. Derrida, for ...
... text – and rearrange the fragments after his/hers own liking, generating a new perspective that may either revitalize of critique the original text. In philosophy, neo-pragmatism sustains that the meaning of words do not refer to extra-linguistic entities and objects but to other words. Derrida, for ...
Classical Western Philosophy BA Philosophy UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT Core Course
... 119 According to------,we have two sources of knowledge: faith and reason. (a)Plato (b) Aristotle (c) St.Anselm (d) Socrates 120 St. Augustine was very much influenced by the philosophy of-(a) Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Anselm 121. The Milesian philosophers were also known as………….. (a) rat ...
... 119 According to------,we have two sources of knowledge: faith and reason. (a)Plato (b) Aristotle (c) St.Anselm (d) Socrates 120 St. Augustine was very much influenced by the philosophy of-(a) Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Anselm 121. The Milesian philosophers were also known as………….. (a) rat ...
Liberal Neutrality: A Compelling and Radical Principle
... act) cannot be simply to have reasons that are good reasons for you to M, based on your desires, ends, and so on. A moral justification for M-ing requires impartial reasons: a moral reason is not simply a reason from your point of view, but from some shared or impartial point of view. “[B]y the mora ...
... act) cannot be simply to have reasons that are good reasons for you to M, based on your desires, ends, and so on. A moral justification for M-ing requires impartial reasons: a moral reason is not simply a reason from your point of view, but from some shared or impartial point of view. “[B]y the mora ...
hellenic philosophy
... and South and North. There, it has stood for millennia as a beacon of bright light available to every part of the world seeking philosophic enlightenment. Furthermore, if we were to allow the Northern Europeans to claim exclusively as their own the Hellenic Classical heritage, especially Hellenic ph ...
... and South and North. There, it has stood for millennia as a beacon of bright light available to every part of the world seeking philosophic enlightenment. Furthermore, if we were to allow the Northern Europeans to claim exclusively as their own the Hellenic Classical heritage, especially Hellenic ph ...
the fragility of consciousness: lonergan and the postmodern concern
... of faculties; and it is true that the ancients were content to deduce the presence of the faculty from observations made about the relationships between objects and the intentional acts by which they are "known" sensitively or intellectually. If we prescindfromLocke's nominalism, it becomes clear th ...
... of faculties; and it is true that the ancients were content to deduce the presence of the faculty from observations made about the relationships between objects and the intentional acts by which they are "known" sensitively or intellectually. If we prescindfromLocke's nominalism, it becomes clear th ...
Sophism and Moral Agnosticism, or, How to Tell a Relativist from a
... implied in the very questions which form the title of MacIntyre’s text (Whose Justice, Which Rationality?) as well as its key contentions. Now, the most constructive aspect of MacIntyre’s argument has shown that within a given tradition, there can be internal debate. If at some point the tradition ...
... implied in the very questions which form the title of MacIntyre’s text (Whose Justice, Which Rationality?) as well as its key contentions. Now, the most constructive aspect of MacIntyre’s argument has shown that within a given tradition, there can be internal debate. If at some point the tradition ...
Sophism and Moral Agnosticism, or How to Tell A Relativist from A
... committed to the standards of rational justification integral to the very practice of philosophical inquiry. 4 I will propose that this same understanding and commitment were displayed by Socrates, in his stand against the popular sophistical relativism of his own time. I maintain there is a distinc ...
... committed to the standards of rational justification integral to the very practice of philosophical inquiry. 4 I will propose that this same understanding and commitment were displayed by Socrates, in his stand against the popular sophistical relativism of his own time. I maintain there is a distinc ...
- Philsci
... tomorrow, that the Earth existed five minutes ago, that there’s any “external world” at all, even whether two and three make five, still we can know, it’s said, the basic features of our ongoing stream of experience. Descartes espouses this view in his first two Meditations. So does Hume, in the fir ...
... tomorrow, that the Earth existed five minutes ago, that there’s any “external world” at all, even whether two and three make five, still we can know, it’s said, the basic features of our ongoing stream of experience. Descartes espouses this view in his first two Meditations. So does Hume, in the fir ...
The Influence of Classification on World View and Epistemology
... As scientific classification usually comes after the formation of concept of universal in the mind, so it is suitable to reconsider the process of perception and epistemology. It is obvious that the basis of our knowledge is one’s self knowledge. And the real perception is the presence of one near h ...
... As scientific classification usually comes after the formation of concept of universal in the mind, so it is suitable to reconsider the process of perception and epistemology. It is obvious that the basis of our knowledge is one’s self knowledge. And the real perception is the presence of one near h ...
Hume`s Source of the “Impression
... The passage of the Treatise has a counterpart in the Enquiry: Here therefore we may divide all the perceptions of the mind into two classes or species, which are distinguished by their different degrees of force and vivacity. The less forcible and lively are commonly denominated thoughts or ideas. T ...
... The passage of the Treatise has a counterpart in the Enquiry: Here therefore we may divide all the perceptions of the mind into two classes or species, which are distinguished by their different degrees of force and vivacity. The less forcible and lively are commonly denominated thoughts or ideas. T ...
Scholar`s Session on David Wood - Vanderbilt College of Arts and
... radical claim. I am unaware of any thinker, past or present, who has made a more radical claim about the relationship between thought and nature. But this is also a very difficult thought to follow, and I have some difficulty following David’s way of thinking it through. What becomes of thinking in ...
... radical claim. I am unaware of any thinker, past or present, who has made a more radical claim about the relationship between thought and nature. But this is also a very difficult thought to follow, and I have some difficulty following David’s way of thinking it through. What becomes of thinking in ...
Naming the colours
... wanted to succeed at his task. We need not worry about demarcation, so long as we agree to include all that will be needed for what follows. The folk psychophysics of colour is common knowledge among us. In the same tacit way in which we believe the theory itself, we likewise believe that others aro ...
... wanted to succeed at his task. We need not worry about demarcation, so long as we agree to include all that will be needed for what follows. The folk psychophysics of colour is common knowledge among us. In the same tacit way in which we believe the theory itself, we likewise believe that others aro ...
Counterfactuals and Modal Epistemology
... This is fine as far as it goes, but so far there has been no explanation as to how we are supposed to be able to pick out scenarios which are in fact metaphysically possible. It seems that our imagination may easily produce scenarios that are not only physically impossible, but also metaphysically i ...
... This is fine as far as it goes, but so far there has been no explanation as to how we are supposed to be able to pick out scenarios which are in fact metaphysically possible. It seems that our imagination may easily produce scenarios that are not only physically impossible, but also metaphysically i ...
Advances in Environmental Biology
... authenticity, but common wisdom tells us about its authenticity. Issues such as the principle of noncontradiction, the principle of causality and the initial principles of mathematics fall into this category. Obviously cognition and the initial principles are the basis of all scientific facts. The r ...
... authenticity, but common wisdom tells us about its authenticity. Issues such as the principle of noncontradiction, the principle of causality and the initial principles of mathematics fall into this category. Obviously cognition and the initial principles are the basis of all scientific facts. The r ...
Ethics For The Post-Critical Era - Missouri Western State University
... intellectuals, of the critical movement in philosophy initiated by Descartes, the view of the natural world formulated by Newton, and the articulation of these views in the philosophy of Kant. The critical period of Western thought coincided with the rise of modern science. Both the critical movemen ...
... intellectuals, of the critical movement in philosophy initiated by Descartes, the view of the natural world formulated by Newton, and the articulation of these views in the philosophy of Kant. The critical period of Western thought coincided with the rise of modern science. Both the critical movemen ...
Dewey`s Aesthetic Experience in the Nature
... an important change in the understanding of the subject, including the subject as the author and the recipient of art. In particular the theory of aesthetic experience into which a corporeal and multi-sensual subject was introduced, was transformed dramatically in comparison to the modern tradition ...
... an important change in the understanding of the subject, including the subject as the author and the recipient of art. In particular the theory of aesthetic experience into which a corporeal and multi-sensual subject was introduced, was transformed dramatically in comparison to the modern tradition ...
Logos and Forms in Phaedo 96a-102a
... phenomena, turning its attention to a ὑπερουράνιοϚ τόποϚ, a new area somehow ›pure‹, ›immaculate‹ and ›unspoiled‹ by any contact with the world of phenomena? Let us turn to the well-known simile of the sun in eclipse: »Well, then, it seemed to me next, since I’ d wearied of studying beings, that I m ...
... phenomena, turning its attention to a ὑπερουράνιοϚ τόποϚ, a new area somehow ›pure‹, ›immaculate‹ and ›unspoiled‹ by any contact with the world of phenomena? Let us turn to the well-known simile of the sun in eclipse: »Well, then, it seemed to me next, since I’ d wearied of studying beings, that I m ...
The Philosophy of Sleep: The Views of Descartes, Locke and
... the Soul in such a state of thinking, does very little, if at all, to excel that of a Looking-glass, which constantly receives variety of Images, or Ideas, but retains none; they disappear and vanish, and there remain no footsteps of them; the Looking-glass is never the better for such Ideas, nor th ...
... the Soul in such a state of thinking, does very little, if at all, to excel that of a Looking-glass, which constantly receives variety of Images, or Ideas, but retains none; they disappear and vanish, and there remain no footsteps of them; the Looking-glass is never the better for such Ideas, nor th ...
Aesthetics as Philosophy of Experience
... and the Continental philosophers see philosophy more as a discussion of special problems. In the field of Aesthetics, however, the difference appears even more pronounced, and certainly more relevant than in other fields of research. For more than fifty years, between the 1950s and the early 2000s, Anal ...
... and the Continental philosophers see philosophy more as a discussion of special problems. In the field of Aesthetics, however, the difference appears even more pronounced, and certainly more relevant than in other fields of research. For more than fifty years, between the 1950s and the early 2000s, Anal ...
A reply on Spinoza`s behalf
... than an active substance. But for Spinoza, this merely invites the question “in virtue of what are all exercises of active force exercises of the same active force?” Herder appeals specifically to living force to account for the specific characteristic activity of living things, while Spinoza holds th ...
... than an active substance. But for Spinoza, this merely invites the question “in virtue of what are all exercises of active force exercises of the same active force?” Herder appeals specifically to living force to account for the specific characteristic activity of living things, while Spinoza holds th ...