CITAS DE IRVING FISHER: ECONOMÍA, EL PROBLEMA DE LA
... Economists have burdened themselves with a crude psychology. It is unnecessary for economists to enter within the field of psychology, but it is necessary to acknowledge contact with that field. The point of con- tact is human desire. It is quite impossible for any economic theory to be completely w ...
... Economists have burdened themselves with a crude psychology. It is unnecessary for economists to enter within the field of psychology, but it is necessary to acknowledge contact with that field. The point of con- tact is human desire. It is quite impossible for any economic theory to be completely w ...
2. NOTIONS OF MORALITY (notes)
... Essentialism: Life is essentially meaningful. Existentialism: Life is not essentially meaningful; but, it is, or can be, existentially meaningful. ...
... Essentialism: Life is essentially meaningful. Existentialism: Life is not essentially meaningful; but, it is, or can be, existentially meaningful. ...
Chapter 7 Summary Plato (427-347 BC) Teacher of Aristotle High
... ■ He made extensive commentaries on Aristotle’s ethics ■ At a person’s core is a desire for the good - following this desire is the basis of ethics ■ Equated God with the highest good - this God is the trinitarian God of Christianity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit ■ Aquinas’s faith in the resurrecti ...
... ■ He made extensive commentaries on Aristotle’s ethics ■ At a person’s core is a desire for the good - following this desire is the basis of ethics ■ Equated God with the highest good - this God is the trinitarian God of Christianity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit ■ Aquinas’s faith in the resurrecti ...
Document
... feel is right or wrong for themselves. Situational Ethics — one must judge a person's actions by first putting oneself in the actor's situation. ...
... feel is right or wrong for themselves. Situational Ethics — one must judge a person's actions by first putting oneself in the actor's situation. ...
lecture
... pleasure. Each action has an objective value determined by the hedonic calculus Bentham’s Theory of Right Conduct: every agent is morally obligated to perform the action which will maximize pleasure overall for everyone involved. ...
... pleasure. Each action has an objective value determined by the hedonic calculus Bentham’s Theory of Right Conduct: every agent is morally obligated to perform the action which will maximize pleasure overall for everyone involved. ...
10 Moral Philosophy STUDENT GUIDE
... 23. Aesara, the Lucanian. The Greek philosopher Aesara of Lucania taught that all morally significant decisions, whether regarding families or the state, should reflect the appropriate proportions of reason, willpower, and such positive emotions as love. Her analysis of the soul was similar to Plato ...
... 23. Aesara, the Lucanian. The Greek philosopher Aesara of Lucania taught that all morally significant decisions, whether regarding families or the state, should reflect the appropriate proportions of reason, willpower, and such positive emotions as love. Her analysis of the soul was similar to Plato ...
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975)
... Film fascinates us (engages our emotions), through images and spectacle Mulvey uses psychoanalysis ‘to discover where and how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre-existing patterns of fascination already at work within the individual subject’ (= spectator) She says she is using psychoanalyti ...
... Film fascinates us (engages our emotions), through images and spectacle Mulvey uses psychoanalysis ‘to discover where and how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre-existing patterns of fascination already at work within the individual subject’ (= spectator) She says she is using psychoanalyti ...
Is_There_A_God_FF04
... Utilitarianism is the edifice that stands upon the foundation of hedonism. It suggests that “good” is that which ultimately gives the greatest amount of pleasure to the greatest number of people. ...
... Utilitarianism is the edifice that stands upon the foundation of hedonism. It suggests that “good” is that which ultimately gives the greatest amount of pleasure to the greatest number of people. ...
NAME: EMMANUEL EMMANUELA OLUWATOSIN. DEPARTMENT
... HUMAN CONDUCT IN THE SOCIETY” ON PAGES 119-207. The idea of human being referred to as “zoo politikon” meaning political animals by Aristotle portrays human beings as social beings, in the sense that no human being can survive alone or be an island( or a Robinson Crusoe) and be satisfied with himsel ...
... HUMAN CONDUCT IN THE SOCIETY” ON PAGES 119-207. The idea of human being referred to as “zoo politikon” meaning political animals by Aristotle portrays human beings as social beings, in the sense that no human being can survive alone or be an island( or a Robinson Crusoe) and be satisfied with himsel ...
Stuart Low Trust Philosophy Forum: Philosophy and Happiness
... The session this week was spent talking about happiness as philosophers, and bore that model of philosophy in mind. Now look back the centre of the “School of Athens”. There are two figures right in the middle of it all. On the left is Plato, on the right is Aristotle. These are the two great figure ...
... The session this week was spent talking about happiness as philosophers, and bore that model of philosophy in mind. Now look back the centre of the “School of Athens”. There are two figures right in the middle of it all. On the left is Plato, on the right is Aristotle. These are the two great figure ...
Epicurean and Stoic Views of Happiness
... for the benefit of the whole (as when I have a rotten tooth pulled out). The rational person will therefore not be unduly distressed by natural misfortune, since, as Epictetus put it (quoting Chrysippus) “for my foot too, if it had intelligence, would have an impulse to get muddy” (Discourses, 2,6,9 ...
... for the benefit of the whole (as when I have a rotten tooth pulled out). The rational person will therefore not be unduly distressed by natural misfortune, since, as Epictetus put it (quoting Chrysippus) “for my foot too, if it had intelligence, would have an impulse to get muddy” (Discourses, 2,6,9 ...
Utilitarianism-R-Warren-041014
... Principle strengths and weaknesses of utilitarianism. The difference between act and rule utilitarianism. ...
... Principle strengths and weaknesses of utilitarianism. The difference between act and rule utilitarianism. ...
Classical Chinese Philosophies - Fort Thomas Independent Schools
... Kant believed that our actions were not as important as our intentions in morality Kant also believed all humans were capable, through reason, of figuring out right/wrong. Reason is an authority ‘in’ us but it transcends us Why be Moral?: “It is the rationale thing to do.” ...
... Kant believed that our actions were not as important as our intentions in morality Kant also believed all humans were capable, through reason, of figuring out right/wrong. Reason is an authority ‘in’ us but it transcends us Why be Moral?: “It is the rationale thing to do.” ...
Ethics 481 2008 3
... possible courses of action to determine which will have the greatest positive effect on the world; then We can provide a scientific answer to the question of what we ought to do. ...
... possible courses of action to determine which will have the greatest positive effect on the world; then We can provide a scientific answer to the question of what we ought to do. ...
Lecture
... pleasure. Each action has an objective value determined by the hedonic calculus Bentham’s Theory of Right Conduct: every agent is morally obligated to perform the action which will maximize pleasure overall for everyone involved. ...
... pleasure. Each action has an objective value determined by the hedonic calculus Bentham’s Theory of Right Conduct: every agent is morally obligated to perform the action which will maximize pleasure overall for everyone involved. ...
Final Exam
... 3. Plato and Aristotle would say that one should do what is good for you. Thus, they are both: (a) Ethical Egoists. (b) Psychological Egoists. (c) Moral Relativists. (d) None of the above. 4. If I see a homeless person and I decide to help him find a home because I personally feel that everyone shou ...
... 3. Plato and Aristotle would say that one should do what is good for you. Thus, they are both: (a) Ethical Egoists. (b) Psychological Egoists. (c) Moral Relativists. (d) None of the above. 4. If I see a homeless person and I decide to help him find a home because I personally feel that everyone shou ...
Utilitarianism
... To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.” Utility is NOT a “godless” doctrine. “If it be a true belief that God desires, above all things, the happiness of his creatures, and that this was his purpose in their cr ...
... To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.” Utility is NOT a “godless” doctrine. “If it be a true belief that God desires, above all things, the happiness of his creatures, and that this was his purpose in their cr ...
REVIEW OF CHAPTER NINETHEEN: ENGAGING THE FUTURE IN
... between what is good or bad ,by seeking adequate reasons and evidence that will enable them make justifiable decision. Here meta ethics comes in ,meta ethics allows the philosopher to explicate the concept or idea being conceived ,allowing him to unfold the meanings of terminologies and avoid lingui ...
... between what is good or bad ,by seeking adequate reasons and evidence that will enable them make justifiable decision. Here meta ethics comes in ,meta ethics allows the philosopher to explicate the concept or idea being conceived ,allowing him to unfold the meanings of terminologies and avoid lingui ...
Handout - John Provost, PhD
... A great school of philosophy was the Epicureans. The founder, Epicurus, was born in 342 (Aristotle was still alive for another twenty years) to a poor Athenian colonist. He began the study of philosophy when he was fourteen years old. He founded his school in 311 and lived in Athens from 307 until h ...
... A great school of philosophy was the Epicureans. The founder, Epicurus, was born in 342 (Aristotle was still alive for another twenty years) to a poor Athenian colonist. He began the study of philosophy when he was fourteen years old. He founded his school in 311 and lived in Athens from 307 until h ...
hcc 2nd exam review
... Greatest Happiness Principle: “Acts are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness (intended pleasure), wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” (pain and privation of pleasure). Cultural, intellectual, & spiritual pleasures are of greater value than mere physical pleasure, ...
... Greatest Happiness Principle: “Acts are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness (intended pleasure), wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” (pain and privation of pleasure). Cultural, intellectual, & spiritual pleasures are of greater value than mere physical pleasure, ...
SPECIAL NOTES: This is a comparison/contrast paper
... himself from allowing others from interfering with this calm. One can finally achieve freedom by freeing oneself from all nonimportant desires” (242). We can now see that Stoicism and Epicureanism have a common thread: to achieve ones purpose in life, she must look within. Clark expands on this idea ...
... himself from allowing others from interfering with this calm. One can finally achieve freedom by freeing oneself from all nonimportant desires” (242). We can now see that Stoicism and Epicureanism have a common thread: to achieve ones purpose in life, she must look within. Clark expands on this idea ...
the stoic philosopher - College of Stoic Philosophers
... has its own terroir, a term borrowed from wine cultivation, that includes quality of the soil, plant elevation, weather, and the total natural environment of its physical location. The tea we drink, from green to black, differs principally in the production of that leaf. After it is picked, oxidatio ...
... has its own terroir, a term borrowed from wine cultivation, that includes quality of the soil, plant elevation, weather, and the total natural environment of its physical location. The tea we drink, from green to black, differs principally in the production of that leaf. After it is picked, oxidatio ...
Psychological Egoism - K
... actions can be motivated simply by a desire for pleasure, without some prior concern with things other than one’s own pleasure, where the satisfaction of these other-regarding desires is what brings pleasure. The idea is simply that the best way to find happiness is not to seek it, but rather seek s ...
... actions can be motivated simply by a desire for pleasure, without some prior concern with things other than one’s own pleasure, where the satisfaction of these other-regarding desires is what brings pleasure. The idea is simply that the best way to find happiness is not to seek it, but rather seek s ...