Metaphysics as the First Philosophy
... which I find the most interesting. The reason for this choice is mainly that I believe there to be good reasons to think that understanding substances as essences is the best way of accommodating the Aristotelian idea of metaphysics as the first philosophy in contemporary metaphysics. Let me first s ...
... which I find the most interesting. The reason for this choice is mainly that I believe there to be good reasons to think that understanding substances as essences is the best way of accommodating the Aristotelian idea of metaphysics as the first philosophy in contemporary metaphysics. Let me first s ...
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY—a trend in contemporary philosophy with
... philosophical problems but with removing them (“the philosopher is occupied with a problem as a physician is occupied with an illness”). Some of Wittgenstein’s disciples (including J. Wisdom in England and M. Lazerowitz in the USA) emphasized and developed the therapeutic dimension of philosophy. Be ...
... philosophical problems but with removing them (“the philosopher is occupied with a problem as a physician is occupied with an illness”). Some of Wittgenstein’s disciples (including J. Wisdom in England and M. Lazerowitz in the USA) emphasized and developed the therapeutic dimension of philosophy. Be ...
Contemplation of the Variety of the World
... as James Cavell and Stephen Mulhall, advocate the underlabourer conception of philosophy. These philosophers see philosophy as therapeutical techniques which aim only at clarifying conceptual confusions without dealing with fundamental philosophical questions. Phillips finds this interpretation of W ...
... as James Cavell and Stephen Mulhall, advocate the underlabourer conception of philosophy. These philosophers see philosophy as therapeutical techniques which aim only at clarifying conceptual confusions without dealing with fundamental philosophical questions. Phillips finds this interpretation of W ...
On Aristotle and Economics
... 2.1. The Aristotelian metaphysical categories As affirmed by Michael Loux (2002: xi), “what the metaphysician is supposed to do is to identify the relevant kinds, to specify the characteristics or categorical features peculiar to each, and to indicate the ways those very general kinds are related to ...
... 2.1. The Aristotelian metaphysical categories As affirmed by Michael Loux (2002: xi), “what the metaphysician is supposed to do is to identify the relevant kinds, to specify the characteristics or categorical features peculiar to each, and to indicate the ways those very general kinds are related to ...
Being and Time Introduction Chapter One
... • We must first determine the Being of Dasein • But we are investigating Being through an investigation of Dasein • So how can we understand Being through an investigation of Dasein when we first must understand the Being of Dasein? • Answer: We have a pre-investigative understanding of the Being of ...
... • We must first determine the Being of Dasein • But we are investigating Being through an investigation of Dasein • So how can we understand Being through an investigation of Dasein when we first must understand the Being of Dasein? • Answer: We have a pre-investigative understanding of the Being of ...
Thales
... Thales of Miletus [has been] since early antiquity regarded as the founder of the Ionian school of natural philosophy. Evidence suggests that he was a Milesian of Greek origin who flourished around 580 B.C. and that his field of distinguished activities included practical and political matters. Ther ...
... Thales of Miletus [has been] since early antiquity regarded as the founder of the Ionian school of natural philosophy. Evidence suggests that he was a Milesian of Greek origin who flourished around 580 B.C. and that his field of distinguished activities included practical and political matters. Ther ...
Curd, Ch. 2
... believed that the only principles of all things are principles in the form of matter. For that of which all existing things are composed and that from which they originally come to be and that into which they finally perish—the substance persisting but changing in its attributes—this they state is t ...
... believed that the only principles of all things are principles in the form of matter. For that of which all existing things are composed and that from which they originally come to be and that into which they finally perish—the substance persisting but changing in its attributes—this they state is t ...
Aristotle`s Physics: a Physicist`s Look - Philsci
... Aristotle’s physics [1–3] does not enjoy good press. It is commonly called “intuitive”, and at the same time “blatantly wrong”. For instance, it is commonly said to state that heavier objects fall faster when every high-school kid should know they fall at the same speed. (Do they??) Science, we also ...
... Aristotle’s physics [1–3] does not enjoy good press. It is commonly called “intuitive”, and at the same time “blatantly wrong”. For instance, it is commonly said to state that heavier objects fall faster when every high-school kid should know they fall at the same speed. (Do they??) Science, we also ...
hellenic philosophy
... which had given birth to genuine Hellenic philosophy, as it developed in the preChristian and pre-Islamic Mediterranean world. This “sin” was committed by introducing into philosophical thinking the new authority of “sacred books” and “scriptural revelations.” The errors were multiplied due to the d ...
... which had given birth to genuine Hellenic philosophy, as it developed in the preChristian and pre-Islamic Mediterranean world. This “sin” was committed by introducing into philosophical thinking the new authority of “sacred books” and “scriptural revelations.” The errors were multiplied due to the d ...
1 The Aristotelian Method and Aristotelian Metaphysics
... affect all other aspects of his philosophy. The idea that metaphysics is necessary for all other philosophical activities is indeed the key point in my conception of metaphysics as well. Quite generally it could be said that this is the upshot of Aristotelian metaphysics: metaphysics is the first ph ...
... affect all other aspects of his philosophy. The idea that metaphysics is necessary for all other philosophical activities is indeed the key point in my conception of metaphysics as well. Quite generally it could be said that this is the upshot of Aristotelian metaphysics: metaphysics is the first ph ...
Substantive Syllogisms - Scholarship at UWindsor
... Anything that is not able to receive into itself death is non-mortal The soul is not able to receive into itself death. THEREFORE, the soul is non-mortal. This now has the appearance of a Barbara syllogism. Another example is cited from Republic I (353b2-7) and put forward as: "Does not everything w ...
... Anything that is not able to receive into itself death is non-mortal The soul is not able to receive into itself death. THEREFORE, the soul is non-mortal. This now has the appearance of a Barbara syllogism. Another example is cited from Republic I (353b2-7) and put forward as: "Does not everything w ...
Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture
... philosophy emerged from the attempt by African nationalists or freedom fighters to develop a new, and possibly, unique political theory, based on African traditional socialism and family hood (2009, 4). This is an ideological conception. Pantaleon Iroegbu in a broader sense says that African philoso ...
... philosophy emerged from the attempt by African nationalists or freedom fighters to develop a new, and possibly, unique political theory, based on African traditional socialism and family hood (2009, 4). This is an ideological conception. Pantaleon Iroegbu in a broader sense says that African philoso ...
Market and Morals
... Plato argues: Injustice sets people at odds: Suppose: the unjust are always trying to outdo everyone else, be they just or unjust [And so are like “the ignorant and the bad”] So: it would be stupid for the gang of thieves to practice injustice toward each other [true; but what about practicing it to ...
... Plato argues: Injustice sets people at odds: Suppose: the unjust are always trying to outdo everyone else, be they just or unjust [And so are like “the ignorant and the bad”] So: it would be stupid for the gang of thieves to practice injustice toward each other [true; but what about practicing it to ...
Syllogism - University of Windsor
... Anything that is not able to receive into itself death is non-mortal The soul is not able to receive into itself death. THEREFORE, the soul is non-mortal. This now has the appearance of a Barbara syllogism. Another example is cited from Republic I (353b2-7) and put forward as: "Does not everything w ...
... Anything that is not able to receive into itself death is non-mortal The soul is not able to receive into itself death. THEREFORE, the soul is non-mortal. This now has the appearance of a Barbara syllogism. Another example is cited from Republic I (353b2-7) and put forward as: "Does not everything w ...
Asouzu`s Critique of Philosophy of Essence and Its Implication for
... contemporary scientific issues, it will lead us to no unity and growth in science. Furthermore, from Ibuanyidanda’s perspective, we are of the view that its nature of harmonious non-polarized ontology is a breakthrough to contemporary scientific issues especially the debate within macro physics, the ...
... contemporary scientific issues, it will lead us to no unity and growth in science. Furthermore, from Ibuanyidanda’s perspective, we are of the view that its nature of harmonious non-polarized ontology is a breakthrough to contemporary scientific issues especially the debate within macro physics, the ...
What is Philosophy?
... • OK, so what makes one open-minded? Open-mindedness has to do with your attitude towards beliefs: – You are able to consider alternative beliefs. – You have no initial preference of one belief over the other. – You accept the possibility that existing beliefs ...
... • OK, so what makes one open-minded? Open-mindedness has to do with your attitude towards beliefs: – You are able to consider alternative beliefs. – You have no initial preference of one belief over the other. – You accept the possibility that existing beliefs ...
What is Philosophy? Minds and Machines
... • OK, so what makes one open-minded? Open-mindedness has to do with your attitude towards beliefs: – You are able to consider alternative beliefs. – You have no initial preference of one belief over the other. – You accept the possibility that existing beliefs ...
... • OK, so what makes one open-minded? Open-mindedness has to do with your attitude towards beliefs: – You are able to consider alternative beliefs. – You have no initial preference of one belief over the other. – You accept the possibility that existing beliefs ...
Ethics in Medieval Western Philosophy
... Greek philosophy ceased to be creative after Plotinus in the 3rd century AD. A century later Christian thinkers began to assimilate Neo-Platonism into Christian doctrine in order to give a rational interpretation of Christian faith. Thus, medieval philosophy was born of the confluence of Greek philo ...
... Greek philosophy ceased to be creative after Plotinus in the 3rd century AD. A century later Christian thinkers began to assimilate Neo-Platonism into Christian doctrine in order to give a rational interpretation of Christian faith. Thus, medieval philosophy was born of the confluence of Greek philo ...
Analyzing Plato`s Arguments
... syncretism reflects the propensity of interpreters to reach the sixth stage. 3. An Illustration: The TMA Modern Platonic scholarship might seem far removed from syncretism. But it is not difficult to find in recent scholarship a series of discussions of a single Platonic text guided by the principle ...
... syncretism reflects the propensity of interpreters to reach the sixth stage. 3. An Illustration: The TMA Modern Platonic scholarship might seem far removed from syncretism. But it is not difficult to find in recent scholarship a series of discussions of a single Platonic text guided by the principle ...
Latin and Greek for Philosophers
... remember the valid forms of the syllogism (‘Barbara’, ‘Celarent’, ‘Darii’, etc.). Since one of these syllogism consisted of three universal-affirmative (or ‘a’) propositions it was associated with a woman’s name containing three a’s). Aristotle held that Barbara was the most appropriate argument for ...
... remember the valid forms of the syllogism (‘Barbara’, ‘Celarent’, ‘Darii’, etc.). Since one of these syllogism consisted of three universal-affirmative (or ‘a’) propositions it was associated with a woman’s name containing three a’s). Aristotle held that Barbara was the most appropriate argument for ...
On the Ancient Idea that Music Shapes Character
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... rights are held exclusively by Springer Science +Business Media Dordrecht. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be selfarchived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your article, please use the accepted manuscript version for posting on ...
Epicurean and Stoic Views of Happiness
... have an impulse to get muddy” (Discourses, 2,6,9). This makes the Stoic view of “indifferent things” (adiaphora) rather more intelligible. External goods, such as health, wealth or friendship, are lepton, “to be taken”, and it is natural to be pleased when they occur, but we should not be distressed ...
... have an impulse to get muddy” (Discourses, 2,6,9). This makes the Stoic view of “indifferent things” (adiaphora) rather more intelligible. External goods, such as health, wealth or friendship, are lepton, “to be taken”, and it is natural to be pleased when they occur, but we should not be distressed ...
Latin and Greek for Philosophers
... this thing’): a proposed solution lacking in independent justification (e.g. ‘Aristotle’s view that nous is the kind of knowledge we have of the first principles seems entirely ad hoc.’) Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas: ‘Plato is a friend but truth is a greater friend’, based loosely on Aristot ...
... this thing’): a proposed solution lacking in independent justification (e.g. ‘Aristotle’s view that nous is the kind of knowledge we have of the first principles seems entirely ad hoc.’) Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas: ‘Plato is a friend but truth is a greater friend’, based loosely on Aristot ...