Engaging Socrates by Joel Alden Schlosser
... benefit –over the past few years. I thank Peter Euben, Jill Frank, Michael Gillespie, and Ruth Grant. To Jill, I am especially grateful for her deep involvement as an outside reader as well as her committed support throughout the process. To Peter, I am thankful for his constant questions and energy ...
... benefit –over the past few years. I thank Peter Euben, Jill Frank, Michael Gillespie, and Ruth Grant. To Jill, I am especially grateful for her deep involvement as an outside reader as well as her committed support throughout the process. To Peter, I am thankful for his constant questions and energy ...
View - OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
... inherited traits. For the higher types, such “freedom” is expressed in acts of strength, selfishness, war, overcoming, and possessing a cheerful attitude towards one’s own fatality. In effect, to be “free” is to embrace the necessary circumstances that one finds oneself in without ...
... inherited traits. For the higher types, such “freedom” is expressed in acts of strength, selfishness, war, overcoming, and possessing a cheerful attitude towards one’s own fatality. In effect, to be “free” is to embrace the necessary circumstances that one finds oneself in without ...
aiming at virtue in plato
... In the Cleitophon, a short and strange dialogue attributed to Plato, the character “Socrates” speaks only twice. He accuses the eponymous interlocutor on the one hand of telling people that it is a waste of time to associate with him, while on the other of lauding contact with Thrasymachus, the infa ...
... In the Cleitophon, a short and strange dialogue attributed to Plato, the character “Socrates” speaks only twice. He accuses the eponymous interlocutor on the one hand of telling people that it is a waste of time to associate with him, while on the other of lauding contact with Thrasymachus, the infa ...
Hegel, Nietzsche and the Beyond Within Life by Michael Harry
... transcendent beyond has in fact been made present and not merely destroyed by its progressive appearance as history, ...
... transcendent beyond has in fact been made present and not merely destroyed by its progressive appearance as history, ...
Philosophy of the Buddha
... the way of life that accords with this. (‘Dhamma’ is the Pāli spelling followed here; the more familiar ‘Dharma’ is in Sanskrit.) By examining this teaching, we will be studying the heart of all Buddhist traditions. Of course, these traditions have interpreted and developed the Buddha’s teaching in ...
... the way of life that accords with this. (‘Dhamma’ is the Pāli spelling followed here; the more familiar ‘Dharma’ is in Sanskrit.) By examining this teaching, we will be studying the heart of all Buddhist traditions. Of course, these traditions have interpreted and developed the Buddha’s teaching in ...
Philosophy of the Buddha: An Introduction
... the way of life that accords with this. (‘Dhamma’ is the Pa¯li spelling followed here; the more familiar ‘Dharma’ is in Sanskrit.) By examining this teaching, we will be studying the heart of all Buddhist traditions. Of course, these traditions have interpreted and developed the Buddha’s teaching in ...
... the way of life that accords with this. (‘Dhamma’ is the Pa¯li spelling followed here; the more familiar ‘Dharma’ is in Sanskrit.) By examining this teaching, we will be studying the heart of all Buddhist traditions. Of course, these traditions have interpreted and developed the Buddha’s teaching in ...
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares by John Dowland
... musical allegory of the Fall by comparing the changes in harmony, musical devices, Latin titles,9 and—most importantly—Dowland’s treatment of the theme. Instead of an audible representation of melancholy, Hauge hears man’s fall from, and subsequent return to, his celestial state. In their interpreta ...
... musical allegory of the Fall by comparing the changes in harmony, musical devices, Latin titles,9 and—most importantly—Dowland’s treatment of the theme. Instead of an audible representation of melancholy, Hauge hears man’s fall from, and subsequent return to, his celestial state. In their interpreta ...
The Theaetetus as a Superior Apology.
... ranks of the sophists. Plato’s audience was familiar with such men who proclaimed they had attained some truth and sought to propagate it (Cooper xix). In the Apology, Socrates seeks to differentiate himself from sophists by claiming he has no knowledge (22c). This is why he believes the Delphic ora ...
... ranks of the sophists. Plato’s audience was familiar with such men who proclaimed they had attained some truth and sought to propagate it (Cooper xix). In the Apology, Socrates seeks to differentiate himself from sophists by claiming he has no knowledge (22c). This is why he believes the Delphic ora ...
Scholastic Qualities, Primary and Secondary
... as secondary qualities. The list in (b) comes straight from Aristotle, and he is perfectly clear (329b33) that all of these can be derived from (a). (Even here, however, there is doubt regarding heavy and lightweight. For despite their inclusion on Aristotle’s canonical list, they are in other conte ...
... as secondary qualities. The list in (b) comes straight from Aristotle, and he is perfectly clear (329b33) that all of these can be derived from (a). (Even here, however, there is doubt regarding heavy and lightweight. For despite their inclusion on Aristotle’s canonical list, they are in other conte ...
Beeckman, Descartes and the force of motion
... that went far beyond the isolated insights of Beeckman;7 and on the other, that Descartes had not, in any case, fully grasped the principles of Beeckman’s physics in 1618, which he rediscovered for himself only after many years’ further labour. Thus Alexandre Koyré, in his celebrated study of the pr ...
... that went far beyond the isolated insights of Beeckman;7 and on the other, that Descartes had not, in any case, fully grasped the principles of Beeckman’s physics in 1618, which he rediscovered for himself only after many years’ further labour. Thus Alexandre Koyré, in his celebrated study of the pr ...
On Reasons to Live Justifiably: In Support of a Humean
... articulation of such a view, should it be able to explain at least much of what we want from an account of moral reasons, would then provide a kind of helpful confidence in our claims about moral reasons. Even if one’s favored view turns out to fail, she need not then fear that nihilism about moral ...
... articulation of such a view, should it be able to explain at least much of what we want from an account of moral reasons, would then provide a kind of helpful confidence in our claims about moral reasons. Even if one’s favored view turns out to fail, she need not then fear that nihilism about moral ...
Was Pyrrho the Founder of Skepticism?
... traditions. In order to gain acceptance for his philosophy, Arcesilaus had to show his precursors to be Socrates and Plato. Differences also existed. Pyrrho’s skepticism with gave “no reason to engage in philosophical argument” (LS, 446). For him skepticism was a way of life, but for Arcesilaus it w ...
... traditions. In order to gain acceptance for his philosophy, Arcesilaus had to show his precursors to be Socrates and Plato. Differences also existed. Pyrrho’s skepticism with gave “no reason to engage in philosophical argument” (LS, 446). For him skepticism was a way of life, but for Arcesilaus it w ...
Writing Duty: Religion, Obligation and Autonomy in George Eliot and
... Connections between George Eliot and Immanuel Kant have been, for the most part, neglected. However, we have good reason to believe that Eliot not only read Kant (as well as many who were directly influenced by Kant), but substantially agreed with him on critical and moral issues. This thesis invest ...
... Connections between George Eliot and Immanuel Kant have been, for the most part, neglected. However, we have good reason to believe that Eliot not only read Kant (as well as many who were directly influenced by Kant), but substantially agreed with him on critical and moral issues. This thesis invest ...
Schopenhauer`s Theory of Justice
... book called the fourfold "root" of something or other must be intended for apothecaries. The proud young doctor of philosophy, angry and hurt, countered by saying his book would still be available when all the novels she was publishing were long forgotten. She agreed, adding that the entire first pr ...
... book called the fourfold "root" of something or other must be intended for apothecaries. The proud young doctor of philosophy, angry and hurt, countered by saying his book would still be available when all the novels she was publishing were long forgotten. She agreed, adding that the entire first pr ...
CLEMENS, JUSTIN Title - Minerva Access
... plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which it makes any sense to say that it is 'true,?,,9 But it is also becau ...
... plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which it makes any sense to say that it is 'true,?,,9 But it is also becau ...
Platonic Meditations: The Work of Alain Badiou
... plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which it makes any sense to say that it is 'true,?,,9 But it is also becau ...
... plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which it makes any sense to say that it is 'true,?,,9 But it is also becau ...
Epistemological Vs - Birkbeck, University of London
... But why all this creative reconstruction, all this make believe? The stimulation of his sensory receptors is all the evidence anybody has had to go on, ultimately, in arriving at his picture of the world. Why not just see how this construction really proceeds? Why not settle for psychology! (Quine ( ...
... But why all this creative reconstruction, all this make believe? The stimulation of his sensory receptors is all the evidence anybody has had to go on, ultimately, in arriving at his picture of the world. Why not just see how this construction really proceeds? Why not settle for psychology! (Quine ( ...
Merleau-Ponty`s transcendental theory of perception - SAS
... engaged, like the philosopher of mind, in making claims about their essential nature, necessary and sufficient or constitutive conditions, and so on. Accordingly it seems reasonable to expect that, allowing for differences of vocabulary and methodology, on matters of substance numerous points of con ...
... engaged, like the philosopher of mind, in making claims about their essential nature, necessary and sufficient or constitutive conditions, and so on. Accordingly it seems reasonable to expect that, allowing for differences of vocabulary and methodology, on matters of substance numerous points of con ...
- James Tartaglia
... Rorty interprets this as a dispute over standards of evidence. Galileo and other new scientists were trying to limit the evidential scope of scripture; they wanted to keep religion and science separate, with those parts of scripture conflicting with science to be construed non-literally. Bellarmine ...
... Rorty interprets this as a dispute over standards of evidence. Galileo and other new scientists were trying to limit the evidential scope of scripture; they wanted to keep religion and science separate, with those parts of scripture conflicting with science to be construed non-literally. Bellarmine ...
ABSOLUTE TRUTH AS CONTRASTED WITH
... other positions. He analyzes it in this way: “Instead of antithesis (that some things are true and their opposite untrue), truth and moral rightness will be found in the flow of history, a synthesis of them. . . . Today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our ...
... other positions. He analyzes it in this way: “Instead of antithesis (that some things are true and their opposite untrue), truth and moral rightness will be found in the flow of history, a synthesis of them. . . . Today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our ...
Towart 1 - Personal.psu.edu
... other positions. He analyzes it in this way: “Instead of antithesis (that some things are true and their opposite untrue), truth and moral rightness will be found in the flow of history, a synthesis of them. . . . Today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our ...
... other positions. He analyzes it in this way: “Instead of antithesis (that some things are true and their opposite untrue), truth and moral rightness will be found in the flow of history, a synthesis of them. . . . Today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our ...
Willful Ignorance and Self-Deception
... of a sort inadequate for knowledge? It may seem that this would allow us to maintain that he was ignorant of p, since if being ignorant of something simply means not knowing it, and if Speer only believed but did not know that p, then he was, strictly speaking, ignorant that p. However, believing t ...
... of a sort inadequate for knowledge? It may seem that this would allow us to maintain that he was ignorant of p, since if being ignorant of something simply means not knowing it, and if Speer only believed but did not know that p, then he was, strictly speaking, ignorant that p. However, believing t ...
Popper and Xenophanes - ORCA
... the model of scientific method and of other forms of Enlightenment research the method of Conjectures and Refutations, a phrase which was also the title of a book of his, published in his prime in 1963. This method of critical rationalism and critical realism, which he claimed to have devised as lon ...
... the model of scientific method and of other forms of Enlightenment research the method of Conjectures and Refutations, a phrase which was also the title of a book of his, published in his prime in 1963. This method of critical rationalism and critical realism, which he claimed to have devised as lon ...
Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Second Edition
... course, but the matter is, at most, controversial for us. Aristotle would have found it absurd and, in a way, he would have been right. I try to reclaim the wondrousness of it for philosophical reflection. The encounters I mark are dramatic. Holland did not have such occasions in mind when he spoke o ...
... course, but the matter is, at most, controversial for us. Aristotle would have found it absurd and, in a way, he would have been right. I try to reclaim the wondrousness of it for philosophical reflection. The encounters I mark are dramatic. Holland did not have such occasions in mind when he spoke o ...
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
... motive of an act when judging its moral character; the theory of the two categories of substance and accident (the two other categories, condition and relation, are not considered by the Muslim theologians to pertain to reality, since they are subjective); above all, the fatalism and determinism in ...
... motive of an act when judging its moral character; the theory of the two categories of substance and accident (the two other categories, condition and relation, are not considered by the Muslim theologians to pertain to reality, since they are subjective); above all, the fatalism and determinism in ...