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... The legacy of the peoples that created the oldest seats culture in Asia, Africa and Southern Europe was of great importance for the development of philosophy. Historical documents in which the rudiments of spontaneous materialist views are recorded date back to the end of the third and beginning of ...
... The legacy of the peoples that created the oldest seats culture in Asia, Africa and Southern Europe was of great importance for the development of philosophy. Historical documents in which the rudiments of spontaneous materialist views are recorded date back to the end of the third and beginning of ...
Morality as Freedom
... Law. This formula merely tells us to choose a law. Its only constraint on our choice is that it have the form of a law. Nothing provides any content for that law. All that it has to be is a law. By making the Formula of Universal Law its principle, the free will retains the position of spontaneity. ...
... Law. This formula merely tells us to choose a law. Its only constraint on our choice is that it have the form of a law. Nothing provides any content for that law. All that it has to be is a law. By making the Formula of Universal Law its principle, the free will retains the position of spontaneity. ...
Stove`s Discovery of the Worst Argument in the World
... by the same argument for linguistic idealism. Immersion in the semi-idealist tradition long noted in America is sufficient.9 Putnam adduces the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem in symbolic logic in support of that position. The theorem says that a theory, conceived as a set of uninterpreted symbol strings, ...
... by the same argument for linguistic idealism. Immersion in the semi-idealist tradition long noted in America is sufficient.9 Putnam adduces the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem in symbolic logic in support of that position. The theorem says that a theory, conceived as a set of uninterpreted symbol strings, ...
Mind and Body Is the “mental” really “material?”
... utterly indivisible. For when I consider the mind …, I am unable to distinguish any parts …. As for the faculties of willing, of understanding, of sensory perception, … these cannot be termed parts of the mind, since it is one and the same mind that wills, and understands and has sensory perceptions ...
... utterly indivisible. For when I consider the mind …, I am unable to distinguish any parts …. As for the faculties of willing, of understanding, of sensory perception, … these cannot be termed parts of the mind, since it is one and the same mind that wills, and understands and has sensory perceptions ...
consciousness of self, of time and of death in greek philosophy
... In this paper, I do not propose to discuss the ways (B) of thinking about and coming to terms with our awareness (A) of our coming death. I would like rather to discuss a more particular and perhaps unusual problem, that of the relation between (A) our awareness of our death and (C) our consciousnes ...
... In this paper, I do not propose to discuss the ways (B) of thinking about and coming to terms with our awareness (A) of our coming death. I would like rather to discuss a more particular and perhaps unusual problem, that of the relation between (A) our awareness of our death and (C) our consciousnes ...
introduction: the task of thinking reality
... contemplation and thought itself. Schmitz elucidates the origins of the contemplative insight into things that lies at the heart of metaphysics. The Greeks called this approach to things theoria, which comes from the word theoros, a word which means "one who sees." The "one who sees" is the theoros, ...
... contemplation and thought itself. Schmitz elucidates the origins of the contemplative insight into things that lies at the heart of metaphysics. The Greeks called this approach to things theoria, which comes from the word theoros, a word which means "one who sees." The "one who sees" is the theoros, ...
Aristotle and the Problem of Human Knowledge
... I shall argue that, according to Aristotle, the knowledge we may attain is profoundly qualified by our status as human knowers. Throughout the corpus, Aristotle maintains a separation of knowledge at the broadest level into two kinds, human and divine. The separation is not complete—human knowers may ...
... I shall argue that, according to Aristotle, the knowledge we may attain is profoundly qualified by our status as human knowers. Throughout the corpus, Aristotle maintains a separation of knowledge at the broadest level into two kinds, human and divine. The separation is not complete—human knowers may ...
Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh “Peirce`s Epistemic
... The American philosophers Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 - 1914) ...
... The American philosophers Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 - 1914) ...
1 - PhilPapers
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...
PHI 515 Quine
... Here’s another try at unpacking the notion of analyticity: First suppose that all sentences carry with them their own conditions of verification (or confirmation). Then we might understand as analytically true any statement that could be confirmed by any experience whatsoever (or possibly, couldn’t ...
... Here’s another try at unpacking the notion of analyticity: First suppose that all sentences carry with them their own conditions of verification (or confirmation). Then we might understand as analytically true any statement that could be confirmed by any experience whatsoever (or possibly, couldn’t ...
MCDOWELL`S MORAL REALISM AND THE SECONDARY
... possessed by the robber from a practical perspective in which certain ends are valued, in this case, the end of successful thieving. From the standpoint of one interested in theft, or at least hypothetically contemplating it, what might appear otherwise to be a deficiency in an agent’s function — sh ...
... possessed by the robber from a practical perspective in which certain ends are valued, in this case, the end of successful thieving. From the standpoint of one interested in theft, or at least hypothetically contemplating it, what might appear otherwise to be a deficiency in an agent’s function — sh ...
Classical Western Philosophy BA Philosophy UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT Core Course
... (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) rationalists (b) empiricists (c) atomists (d) the first materialists 122. .………………is considered as the founder of th ...
... (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) rationalists (b) empiricists (c) atomists (d) the first materialists 122. .………………is considered as the founder of th ...
THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE
... we take of his performance. Normally we do not say that people know things unless they have followed one of the accredited routes to knowledge. If someone reaches a true conclusion without appearing to have any adequate basis for it, we are likely to say that he does not really know it. But if he we ...
... we take of his performance. Normally we do not say that people know things unless they have followed one of the accredited routes to knowledge. If someone reaches a true conclusion without appearing to have any adequate basis for it, we are likely to say that he does not really know it. But if he we ...
Cosmological sources of critical cosmopolitanism
... temptation for long – to clothe their own particular aspirations and actions in the moral purposes of the universe’.2 In the second sense, however, cosmopolitanism has been used to take distance from any particular ‘us’ and criticise ‘us’ as a particular community, nation or state. Prior to the mode ...
... temptation for long – to clothe their own particular aspirations and actions in the moral purposes of the universe’.2 In the second sense, however, cosmopolitanism has been used to take distance from any particular ‘us’ and criticise ‘us’ as a particular community, nation or state. Prior to the mode ...
A Realist Theory of Science
... Darwin worked these into a knowledge of a process, too slow and complex to be perceived, which had been going on for millions of years before him. But he could not, at least if his theory is correct, have produced the process he described, the intransitive object of the knowledge he had produced: th ...
... Darwin worked these into a knowledge of a process, too slow and complex to be perceived, which had been going on for millions of years before him. But he could not, at least if his theory is correct, have produced the process he described, the intransitive object of the knowledge he had produced: th ...
Thomas Hippler
... caused by a malign demon; an absolute standpoint for truth can be found only in selfreflexivity. It is useless to multiply the examples.4 History, being a empirical kind of knowledge, falls naturally under the condemnation of “empiricism” as an inferior knowledge. Moreover, the objects of history an ...
... caused by a malign demon; an absolute standpoint for truth can be found only in selfreflexivity. It is useless to multiply the examples.4 History, being a empirical kind of knowledge, falls naturally under the condemnation of “empiricism” as an inferior knowledge. Moreover, the objects of history an ...
Dualism and Progress in Kant and Nietzsche
... dynamic principle of historical progress that was a civilizing process.i Kant thought that human nature was a paradox — human beings were both gregarious and self-interested — and he termed this paradox “unsocial sociability”. This paradoxical nature is the hidden mechanism of history. Its proper de ...
... dynamic principle of historical progress that was a civilizing process.i Kant thought that human nature was a paradox — human beings were both gregarious and self-interested — and he termed this paradox “unsocial sociability”. This paradoxical nature is the hidden mechanism of history. Its proper de ...
Polar Concepts Essay Research Paper Sam Vaknin
... essential to the process of understanding concepts and assimilating them in the language and in the meta-language. We all know what is indefinite, imperfect, even eternal. We do not need ? nor are we aided by the introduction of ? their polar complements. On the contrary, such an introduction is bou ...
... essential to the process of understanding concepts and assimilating them in the language and in the meta-language. We all know what is indefinite, imperfect, even eternal. We do not need ? nor are we aided by the introduction of ? their polar complements. On the contrary, such an introduction is bou ...
File - Phinith Philavanh
... impression is that supposed idea derived?” (Soccio 298), and if there isn’t any to appoint, this would confirm the truth. Hume proven what is called empirical criterion of meaning “which all meaningful ideas can be traced to sense experience (impressions)” (Soccio 298). John Locke questions that how ...
... impression is that supposed idea derived?” (Soccio 298), and if there isn’t any to appoint, this would confirm the truth. Hume proven what is called empirical criterion of meaning “which all meaningful ideas can be traced to sense experience (impressions)” (Soccio 298). John Locke questions that how ...
Kant`s Account of Moral Education
... me point to one important issue. The Critique of Pure Reason starts with an inquiry of the necessary presuppositions of our experience. This project is strongly influenced by David Hume’s insight that causality is not empirically given – thus, we can perceive that two events happen in a temporal ord ...
... me point to one important issue. The Critique of Pure Reason starts with an inquiry of the necessary presuppositions of our experience. This project is strongly influenced by David Hume’s insight that causality is not empirically given – thus, we can perceive that two events happen in a temporal ord ...
Aristotle on What It Means To Be Happy
... this can be demonstrated by ‘the roads to Rome fallacy’: Every road leads to some town Therefore, there is a particular town to which all roads lead. As you can see the second premise does not logically follow from the first and neither does it do so with Aristotle’s version: Everything has an aim T ...
... this can be demonstrated by ‘the roads to Rome fallacy’: Every road leads to some town Therefore, there is a particular town to which all roads lead. As you can see the second premise does not logically follow from the first and neither does it do so with Aristotle’s version: Everything has an aim T ...
considerations on knowledge philosophy during the
... and for the people that believed in them. Both Platonism and the other currents of ancient philosophy fully contributed to the creation of a genuine Renaissancespecific scientific spirit. Culianu therefore rejected any association between the Popperian term of science and the Renaissance sciences, p ...
... and for the people that believed in them. Both Platonism and the other currents of ancient philosophy fully contributed to the creation of a genuine Renaissancespecific scientific spirit. Culianu therefore rejected any association between the Popperian term of science and the Renaissance sciences, p ...
Stanisław Judycki
... Descartes’ ontological proof (or ontological argument) remains a mystery. On the one hand Descartes based his reasoning on simple and convincing premises, but on the other he proceeded as though he did not notice that he so quickly and easily resolved such an important and complicated problem as the ...
... Descartes’ ontological proof (or ontological argument) remains a mystery. On the one hand Descartes based his reasoning on simple and convincing premises, but on the other he proceeded as though he did not notice that he so quickly and easily resolved such an important and complicated problem as the ...
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind 1
... • ‘Ings’ and ‘eds’: An experience is often thought of as a process that occurs ‘in’ us– this is an experiencing, the having of an experience. • But experiences are also thought of in terms of what is experienced in them (the object of the experience). • Sellars is concerned here that we not move too ...
... • ‘Ings’ and ‘eds’: An experience is often thought of as a process that occurs ‘in’ us– this is an experiencing, the having of an experience. • But experiences are also thought of in terms of what is experienced in them (the object of the experience). • Sellars is concerned here that we not move too ...
PARADOX: THEME AND SEMIOTIC VARIATIONS* Michael Shapiro
... In favour of this interpretation is also the fact that Peirce (CP 6.182), like Aristotle . . . refers to the potentiality of segments as a way to reconcile them with continuity: 'Of course, there ...
... In favour of this interpretation is also the fact that Peirce (CP 6.182), like Aristotle . . . refers to the potentiality of segments as a way to reconcile them with continuity: 'Of course, there ...