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... ethical claim of Socrates stating that knowledge is the same as virtue. Virtue is concerned with “making the soul as good as possible.” Being so, it is first necessary to know what makes the soul good. Thus, knowledge and goodness are closely related. Socrates also links knowing and doing; and so he ...
... ethical claim of Socrates stating that knowledge is the same as virtue. Virtue is concerned with “making the soul as good as possible.” Being so, it is first necessary to know what makes the soul good. Thus, knowledge and goodness are closely related. Socrates also links knowing and doing; and so he ...
Thesis Abstract
... experience much more often than philosophers who contemplate mental operations. Perhaps, the reason thereof is that observing “operations” is supposed to furnish data about the mind itself; it serves primarily as a foundation of an experimental science of the mind (psychology). The study of images, ...
... experience much more often than philosophers who contemplate mental operations. Perhaps, the reason thereof is that observing “operations” is supposed to furnish data about the mind itself; it serves primarily as a foundation of an experimental science of the mind (psychology). The study of images, ...
Death On The Grand Scale
... work. In the Phenomenology of Spirit, the famous pages on "Self-consciousness" had argued that mutual recognition would never have arisen if there had not been, at a more primordial stage of history, and at a more primordial level of spiritual self-consciousness, a battle to the death betweeen two s ...
... work. In the Phenomenology of Spirit, the famous pages on "Self-consciousness" had argued that mutual recognition would never have arisen if there had not been, at a more primordial stage of history, and at a more primordial level of spiritual self-consciousness, a battle to the death betweeen two s ...
NA - st1philosophy
... experiences. Nominalists (who follow the doctrine that universals or general ideas are merely names without any corresponding reality, and that only particular objects exist) believe that musical works are collections should be thought of as individual scores and performances (Goodman 1968, Predel ...
... experiences. Nominalists (who follow the doctrine that universals or general ideas are merely names without any corresponding reality, and that only particular objects exist) believe that musical works are collections should be thought of as individual scores and performances (Goodman 1968, Predel ...
Handout
... (empirical) idealism (= the view that all objects that we can encounter are really just mental ideas). This is because both positions presuppose that the “subject”, or “consciousness”, is first given as an objectively present substance, and that the question of the reality of external objects can th ...
... (empirical) idealism (= the view that all objects that we can encounter are really just mental ideas). This is because both positions presuppose that the “subject”, or “consciousness”, is first given as an objectively present substance, and that the question of the reality of external objects can th ...
From The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, edited by
... whole subject seems to shrink into a hard, small shell, treasured only by scholars in large universities. The common man knows little about it and cares less. What marks such a purely academic phase of philosophical thought is that its substance as well as its form is furnished by a scholastic tradi ...
... whole subject seems to shrink into a hard, small shell, treasured only by scholars in large universities. The common man knows little about it and cares less. What marks such a purely academic phase of philosophical thought is that its substance as well as its form is furnished by a scholastic tradi ...
Glosses on Porphyry
... but nevertheless the nature of those properties [of genera] is made clear through the similarity of these [of the most special species], for the properties of genera are described in the same way as the properties of species, namely, that the property belongs only to that one species, to every indiv ...
... but nevertheless the nature of those properties [of genera] is made clear through the similarity of these [of the most special species], for the properties of genera are described in the same way as the properties of species, namely, that the property belongs only to that one species, to every indiv ...
1 Names and senses
... 2 Names as descriptions Another influential theory of naming, descriptivism, originated with Russell at the beginning of the 20th century. He simply took names to be synonymous with definite descriptions, and held that they were interchangeable. So every name can also be specified in the form “the F” w ...
... 2 Names as descriptions Another influential theory of naming, descriptivism, originated with Russell at the beginning of the 20th century. He simply took names to be synonymous with definite descriptions, and held that they were interchangeable. So every name can also be specified in the form “the F” w ...
Epistemology, introduction
... coherence among the different pieces of knowledge. Constructions that are inconsistent with the bulk of other knowledge that the individual has will tend to be rejected. Constructions that succeed in integrating previously incoherent pieces of knowledge will be maintained. The second, to be called s ...
... coherence among the different pieces of knowledge. Constructions that are inconsistent with the bulk of other knowledge that the individual has will tend to be rejected. Constructions that succeed in integrating previously incoherent pieces of knowledge will be maintained. The second, to be called s ...
Problems Of Metaphysical Philosophy
... Chiedozie Okoro University of Lagos Introduction The word problem as used in this context is a noun and it could mean difficulty, puzzle or question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues ...
... Chiedozie Okoro University of Lagos Introduction The word problem as used in this context is a noun and it could mean difficulty, puzzle or question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... P Kant, following Hume, urged that a priori arguments which purport to conclude that something exists are inappropriate. P Logic, which procedes apriori, should make no existence assertions according to Hume and Kant P We generally construct logic to tell us about the relations among statements, not ...
... P Kant, following Hume, urged that a priori arguments which purport to conclude that something exists are inappropriate. P Logic, which procedes apriori, should make no existence assertions according to Hume and Kant P We generally construct logic to tell us about the relations among statements, not ...
Kant-The Critique of Practical Reason
... It is here that Kant first signals in the Critique of Practical Reason the form of the law of morality he has in mind. He refers to the question ‘what if everybody did that?’ which one might put to an actor. He asks whether an action would be practicable and in particular if it would lead to other r ...
... It is here that Kant first signals in the Critique of Practical Reason the form of the law of morality he has in mind. He refers to the question ‘what if everybody did that?’ which one might put to an actor. He asks whether an action would be practicable and in particular if it would lead to other r ...
Knowing justice and acting justly What is the source of virtue in
... So Plato’s argument that philosophers should be rulers depends on his arguments about how knowledge and virtue are linked. In the handout on ‘Philosophers, knowledge, and virtue’, we raised the objection that it is not certain that studying philosophy and the Forms will make someone virtuous. A seco ...
... So Plato’s argument that philosophers should be rulers depends on his arguments about how knowledge and virtue are linked. In the handout on ‘Philosophers, knowledge, and virtue’, we raised the objection that it is not certain that studying philosophy and the Forms will make someone virtuous. A seco ...
Kant on Irresistible Inclinations: Moral Worth, Happiness
... I have no intention of arguing that Kant held that we have irresistible inclinations. However, I do believe that it can be inferred from several of his discussions what Kant believed could constitute an irresistible inclination. In fact, such comments suggest that, while we may not have irresistible ...
... I have no intention of arguing that Kant held that we have irresistible inclinations. However, I do believe that it can be inferred from several of his discussions what Kant believed could constitute an irresistible inclination. In fact, such comments suggest that, while we may not have irresistible ...
-BECOMING X1 - artykuły innych autorów
... he is the absolute Thing." Yet that "he is the absolute Person… is a point which the philosophy of Spinoza never reached." This is important as showing that such theistic utterances belong for Hegel in philosophy, whatever his not very well observed reservations about use of the name "God" there. ...
... he is the absolute Thing." Yet that "he is the absolute Person… is a point which the philosophy of Spinoza never reached." This is important as showing that such theistic utterances belong for Hegel in philosophy, whatever his not very well observed reservations about use of the name "God" there. ...
Knowledge
... Questioning Is it possible that we have any knowledge at the level of certitude? one of the most difficult subject in epistemology ...
... Questioning Is it possible that we have any knowledge at the level of certitude? one of the most difficult subject in epistemology ...
Pragmatism and Humanism: Bergson as a reader of - PUC-SP
... sense that it is the satisfaction of the necessities of life. The structure of reality is, therefore, patterned after utilitarian criterions, forasmuch the assuring of the means of survival is its first function. Thenceforth the parallelism with the instinct, that does not have, however, the flexibi ...
... sense that it is the satisfaction of the necessities of life. The structure of reality is, therefore, patterned after utilitarian criterions, forasmuch the assuring of the means of survival is its first function. Thenceforth the parallelism with the instinct, that does not have, however, the flexibi ...
THE MORAL ARGUMENT
... The existence of these laws presupposes the existence of a law-giver and an agent to help us achieve what we cannot achieve on our own in this world : the exact coincidence of happiness and morality, ...
... The existence of these laws presupposes the existence of a law-giver and an agent to help us achieve what we cannot achieve on our own in this world : the exact coincidence of happiness and morality, ...
Error theory
... reasons and values, if they exist, aren’t going to be like physical properties. Are psychological states ‘part of the fabric of the world’? They certainly exist – whether one is happy or in pain is a psychological fact. But, of course, it isn’t a mind-independent fact. So not all objective facts are ...
... reasons and values, if they exist, aren’t going to be like physical properties. Are psychological states ‘part of the fabric of the world’? They certainly exist – whether one is happy or in pain is a psychological fact. But, of course, it isn’t a mind-independent fact. So not all objective facts are ...
Market and Morals
... importantly, we don’t need to worry about that issue ....) 2. A good synonym would be “the self” or “the person” - that is, whatever it is that is happy or sad, just or unjust, etc. - without importing a theory as to what this “thing” is …. 3. Maybe, for instance, it’s a neural structure [If it is, ...
... importantly, we don’t need to worry about that issue ....) 2. A good synonym would be “the self” or “the person” - that is, whatever it is that is happy or sad, just or unjust, etc. - without importing a theory as to what this “thing” is …. 3. Maybe, for instance, it’s a neural structure [If it is, ...
Heidegger - tools analysis
... possibilities. Such projecting has nothing to do with comporting oneself toward a plan that has been thought out. It is not a plan, since Dasein has, as Dasein, already projected itself. ...
... possibilities. Such projecting has nothing to do with comporting oneself toward a plan that has been thought out. It is not a plan, since Dasein has, as Dasein, already projected itself. ...
The Upanishadic Vision of the Human
... The text starts with a cosmogony: an account of the nature, origin, and development of the universe. The particular story we get shares quite a bit with other cosmogonies from this period. The name given to the original principle is "Atman" which here is given a material significance by the tran ...
... The text starts with a cosmogony: an account of the nature, origin, and development of the universe. The particular story we get shares quite a bit with other cosmogonies from this period. The name given to the original principle is "Atman" which here is given a material significance by the tran ...
Virtue, Right, and the Cultivation of Autonomy:
... to all causal agents because it is only by appeal to a specific cause’s basic way of producing effects, its law, that it is able to explain any of its purported results. With this premise in hand, Kant then moves to the question of rational causality, the causality of reason, and claims that here t ...
... to all causal agents because it is only by appeal to a specific cause’s basic way of producing effects, its law, that it is able to explain any of its purported results. With this premise in hand, Kant then moves to the question of rational causality, the causality of reason, and claims that here t ...
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... might “see the world in a grain of sand | And heaven in a wild flower” (William Blake); we might see the oppression of the working classes “written” into the uniformity of industrial landscapes 2) Marx - “life is not determined by consciousness but consciousness by life.” Our aesthetics lives, at th ...
... might “see the world in a grain of sand | And heaven in a wild flower” (William Blake); we might see the oppression of the working classes “written” into the uniformity of industrial landscapes 2) Marx - “life is not determined by consciousness but consciousness by life.” Our aesthetics lives, at th ...
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
... accessible to me, for example, nor presumably is mine to him. This does not prevent us each from believing that the other's experience has such a subjective character.) If anyone is inclined to deny that we can believe in the existence of facts like this whose exact nature we cannot possibly conceiv ...
... accessible to me, for example, nor presumably is mine to him. This does not prevent us each from believing that the other's experience has such a subjective character.) If anyone is inclined to deny that we can believe in the existence of facts like this whose exact nature we cannot possibly conceiv ...