ganz – some notes concerning aristotle
... demand “a say” but who have nothing to say other than about what they want for themselves or their interest group; rule by those who demand The fundamental meaning of “Timocracy” is as I define it below. But Aristotle came to associate Timocracy with “a property qualification”. What I think he means ...
... demand “a say” but who have nothing to say other than about what they want for themselves or their interest group; rule by those who demand The fundamental meaning of “Timocracy” is as I define it below. But Aristotle came to associate Timocracy with “a property qualification”. What I think he means ...
Class #2 - 3-18-13
... The feeling of wonder is the mark of the philosopher, for all philosophy has its origins in wonder. …. Plato ...
... The feeling of wonder is the mark of the philosopher, for all philosophy has its origins in wonder. …. Plato ...
c1w3 - GEOCITIES.ws
... • Plato believed that learning is recollection • Prior to birth, the soul knows everything but in the process of birth, it forgets what it knew • So Meno’s search was an attempt to remember what the soul knows but has forgotten • Plato denied the 2nd premise, not the 3rd – 2- If we know what we are ...
... • Plato believed that learning is recollection • Prior to birth, the soul knows everything but in the process of birth, it forgets what it knew • So Meno’s search was an attempt to remember what the soul knows but has forgotten • Plato denied the 2nd premise, not the 3rd – 2- If we know what we are ...
LCS 11: Introduction to Cognitive Science. Behaviorism
... fixed and random reinforcement. The strongest type was random reinforcement, in which the animal is rewarded at random intervals. Indeed, it sometimes happened that although feeding device was dismantled, the pigeon indefinitely continued to perform the behavior that was associated with the reward. ...
... fixed and random reinforcement. The strongest type was random reinforcement, in which the animal is rewarded at random intervals. Indeed, it sometimes happened that although feeding device was dismantled, the pigeon indefinitely continued to perform the behavior that was associated with the reward. ...
Chapter 23 Immanuel Kant`s Ethical Theory
... law is a law of reason. He treats man as fundamentally a rational being and therefore, to obey the dictates of reason is not only desirable, but is categorical. Moreover, the universe where man finds himself is also constructed on rational principles. Hence the ultimate criterion that makes an actio ...
... law is a law of reason. He treats man as fundamentally a rational being and therefore, to obey the dictates of reason is not only desirable, but is categorical. Moreover, the universe where man finds himself is also constructed on rational principles. Hence the ultimate criterion that makes an actio ...
REVIEW David Couzens Hoy, The Time of Our Lives: A Critical
... Kant’s transcendental philosophy. Put briefly, Kant makes a distinction between a priori knowledge, which is transcendental, and a posteriori knowledge, which is empirical—and this distinction allows a separation of time and temporality. A hermeneutical theory of interpretation, such as the one favo ...
... Kant’s transcendental philosophy. Put briefly, Kant makes a distinction between a priori knowledge, which is transcendental, and a posteriori knowledge, which is empirical—and this distinction allows a separation of time and temporality. A hermeneutical theory of interpretation, such as the one favo ...
Lecture notes on Immanuel Kant
... given through perception. Kant divides the aesthetic into two parts: an intuitive aspect and a conceptual aspect. That is, any sense perception is given as raw sense data, but organised and understood through conceptualization. The word ‘intuition’ does not have the meaning we usually attach to it a ...
... given through perception. Kant divides the aesthetic into two parts: an intuitive aspect and a conceptual aspect. That is, any sense perception is given as raw sense data, but organised and understood through conceptualization. The word ‘intuition’ does not have the meaning we usually attach to it a ...
Velasquez, Philosophy TRACK 1: CHAPTER REVIEW CHAPTER 2
... the soul is to be free of its body and ascend to heaven where it will be united with “Forms”— eternal and perfect ideals. For Plato, as opposed to Freud, Hobbes and Mercer, humans can control their appetites and their aggression through the use of reason; they are not ruled by selfinterested desires ...
... the soul is to be free of its body and ascend to heaven where it will be united with “Forms”— eternal and perfect ideals. For Plato, as opposed to Freud, Hobbes and Mercer, humans can control their appetites and their aggression through the use of reason; they are not ruled by selfinterested desires ...
Chris Krause
... duplex of the perceiver and perceived. For example when one says “I hate myself” he is speaking of a remote self, not the actual self existing at the present – two selves, a duplex. In this instance we are once again unable to define the self (because it does not exist) or anything else for that mat ...
... duplex of the perceiver and perceived. For example when one says “I hate myself” he is speaking of a remote self, not the actual self existing at the present – two selves, a duplex. In this instance we are once again unable to define the self (because it does not exist) or anything else for that mat ...
The Beginnings of the Modern World
... Skepticism: If the doctrines and dogma of the venerable are imperfect, subject to examination and evaluation by Reason, what about popular beliefs rooted in everyday experience—good old common sense? Bishop George Berkeley, was an Irish prelate and philosopher who wanted to show that our basic, seem ...
... Skepticism: If the doctrines and dogma of the venerable are imperfect, subject to examination and evaluation by Reason, what about popular beliefs rooted in everyday experience—good old common sense? Bishop George Berkeley, was an Irish prelate and philosopher who wanted to show that our basic, seem ...
1 “Our cabaret is a gesture. Every word that is spoken and sung here
... scholar or student, and the people or things to which they attend. She writes: “Perhaps the anthropologist’s macrocosm is this: co-presence. At least the presence of persons is not, thankfully, reducible to the anthropologist’s relationships with them. In this realization, anthropology might find a ...
... scholar or student, and the people or things to which they attend. She writes: “Perhaps the anthropologist’s macrocosm is this: co-presence. At least the presence of persons is not, thankfully, reducible to the anthropologist’s relationships with them. In this realization, anthropology might find a ...
Why Hume and Kant were mistaken in rejecting natural theology
... catalogue). But despite his crude theory of thinking, Hume may have been correct in the general point he was trying to make, that – as a contingent fact7- we think only by means of concepts derived (in some sense) from our experience of their application to (the internal or external) world . As the ...
... catalogue). But despite his crude theory of thinking, Hume may have been correct in the general point he was trying to make, that – as a contingent fact7- we think only by means of concepts derived (in some sense) from our experience of their application to (the internal or external) world . As the ...
Plato and the Presocratics
... Pythagoras of Samos The name ‘Pythagoras’ appears just once in the dialogues when (at Republic 600a) Plato describes him as ‘the founder of a way of life.’ But at Philebus 16d Plato alludes to a ‘Prometheus like figure’ who taught that ‘all things consist of a one and many, and have in their nature ...
... Pythagoras of Samos The name ‘Pythagoras’ appears just once in the dialogues when (at Republic 600a) Plato describes him as ‘the founder of a way of life.’ But at Philebus 16d Plato alludes to a ‘Prometheus like figure’ who taught that ‘all things consist of a one and many, and have in their nature ...
Kant`s Critique of the Ontological Argument: FAIL
... conceive of (e.g.) of a square circle, it does not follow that square circles cannot exist in reality.8 However, unless Aquinas is willing to go this far, then he cannot exclude the possibility that conceptual truths can entail substantive existential claims. More than this, it seems obviously true ...
... conceive of (e.g.) of a square circle, it does not follow that square circles cannot exist in reality.8 However, unless Aquinas is willing to go this far, then he cannot exclude the possibility that conceptual truths can entail substantive existential claims. More than this, it seems obviously true ...
Quiz1 - Ryerson University
... To reject everything that we believed beforehand. (b) To reject everything that Aristotle had to say. (c) To reject every belief for which there was even the slightest doubt. (d) None of the above. ...
... To reject everything that we believed beforehand. (b) To reject everything that Aristotle had to say. (c) To reject every belief for which there was even the slightest doubt. (d) None of the above. ...
HERE - BasicIncome.com
... cold. But physics assures us that the greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and the coldness of snow, are not the greenness, hardness, and coldness that we know in our own experience, but something very different. The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if ph ...
... cold. But physics assures us that the greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and the coldness of snow, are not the greenness, hardness, and coldness that we know in our own experience, but something very different. The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if ph ...
Human-nature-as-it
... strictures against founding morality on human nature, his analysis of the nature of human reason is the basis for his own rational account of morality. Yet in the second book of the second Critique he does acknowledge that without a teleological framework the whole project of morality becomes uninte ...
... strictures against founding morality on human nature, his analysis of the nature of human reason is the basis for his own rational account of morality. Yet in the second book of the second Critique he does acknowledge that without a teleological framework the whole project of morality becomes uninte ...
Here
... use the former term to stand for extension, shape, motion, rest, solidity and number; by the latter term they denote all other perceptible qualities, such as colours, sounds, tastes, and so on. Our ideas of secondary qualities don’t resemble anything existing outside the mind or unperceived, they ad ...
... use the former term to stand for extension, shape, motion, rest, solidity and number; by the latter term they denote all other perceptible qualities, such as colours, sounds, tastes, and so on. Our ideas of secondary qualities don’t resemble anything existing outside the mind or unperceived, they ad ...
Plato`s Theories of Art
... of a copy of a Form. It is even more of an illusion than is ordinary experience. On this theory, works of art are at best entertainment, and at worst a dangerous delusion. A moment's thought will suggest a way of building a more art-friendly theory out of Plato's philosophy. What if the artist is so ...
... of a copy of a Form. It is even more of an illusion than is ordinary experience. On this theory, works of art are at best entertainment, and at worst a dangerous delusion. A moment's thought will suggest a way of building a more art-friendly theory out of Plato's philosophy. What if the artist is so ...
Word
... Fichte’s critical analysis of Kant’s view of the relation of the phenomenal and noumenal realms. Our experience of ‘choosing’ involves a feeling of freedom; whereas ordinary perception involves the feeling of necessity. Ordinary perception forces itself upon us. We can choose not to pay attention to ...
... Fichte’s critical analysis of Kant’s view of the relation of the phenomenal and noumenal realms. Our experience of ‘choosing’ involves a feeling of freedom; whereas ordinary perception involves the feeling of necessity. Ordinary perception forces itself upon us. We can choose not to pay attention to ...
Plato and Vedanta
... after generation from teacher to disciple. The same processes have been fo/lowed even to the present day. All aspirants after spiritual awakening must practice them if they would want to acquire personal experience of the truth they are seeking. In the Upanisads, the word Om was held sacred by sages ...
... after generation from teacher to disciple. The same processes have been fo/lowed even to the present day. All aspirants after spiritual awakening must practice them if they would want to acquire personal experience of the truth they are seeking. In the Upanisads, the word Om was held sacred by sages ...
Simplicity - Heythrop College Publications
... This disappointing feature explains the significance of the symbolism of coldness in Early Romantic poetry or in the related art as, for example, in Caspar David Friedrich painting Failed Hope of 1823: pack ice, sinking ships, ruines, blue flowers everywhere. Our desire is directed into the infinite ...
... This disappointing feature explains the significance of the symbolism of coldness in Early Romantic poetry or in the related art as, for example, in Caspar David Friedrich painting Failed Hope of 1823: pack ice, sinking ships, ruines, blue flowers everywhere. Our desire is directed into the infinite ...
Objectivity of Oughts Matjaž Potrč, University of Ljubljana The
... needs to be embraced. This leads one to moral realism, whose quite clear form is endorsement of abstract properties or entities, such as Oughts. One may oppose such a reasoning however, in claiming that there cannot be any such abstract Platonic or Meinongian objects, especially if one adopts natura ...
... needs to be embraced. This leads one to moral realism, whose quite clear form is endorsement of abstract properties or entities, such as Oughts. One may oppose such a reasoning however, in claiming that there cannot be any such abstract Platonic or Meinongian objects, especially if one adopts natura ...
Are We Really So Modern - Northampton Community College
... harmony” is guaranteed by a beneficent God. If philosophy is defiance of common sense, then Leibniz’s ideas are very philosophical indeed—too much so even for most of his fellowphilosophers. (Hegel called them “a metaphysical romance.”) But he was driven to the apparent absurdity of denying causalit ...
... harmony” is guaranteed by a beneficent God. If philosophy is defiance of common sense, then Leibniz’s ideas are very philosophical indeed—too much so even for most of his fellowphilosophers. (Hegel called them “a metaphysical romance.”) But he was driven to the apparent absurdity of denying causalit ...