January 30 Reading - Are We Really So Modern
... existence of a good God, who guarantees the truth of my perceptions and so underwrites the existence of the world. But here most people believe that Descartes went astray. “God’s guarantee is not worth the paper Descartes wrote it on,” Gottlieb quips. And, if God doesn’t exist, then all Descartes ha ...
... existence of a good God, who guarantees the truth of my perceptions and so underwrites the existence of the world. But here most people believe that Descartes went astray. “God’s guarantee is not worth the paper Descartes wrote it on,” Gottlieb quips. And, if God doesn’t exist, then all Descartes ha ...
Class #2
... promote everyone’s best interest. If you hold this view, then you are a utilitarian. Utilitarianism was argued by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). ...
... promote everyone’s best interest. If you hold this view, then you are a utilitarian. Utilitarianism was argued by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). ...
Early Greek Thought and Perspectives for the - Philsci
... being absolutely One, and being absolutely Being7 . This brings to mind the paradoxes of Zeno of Elea ([57], p. 263 sq.), according to tradition a disciple of Parmenides ([45], Parmenides, 204-206, 128(c-d)). The most famous of them is the paradox of motion, a less famous one deals with the possibil ...
... being absolutely One, and being absolutely Being7 . This brings to mind the paradoxes of Zeno of Elea ([57], p. 263 sq.), according to tradition a disciple of Parmenides ([45], Parmenides, 204-206, 128(c-d)). The most famous of them is the paradox of motion, a less famous one deals with the possibil ...
GUIDE AND REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM IN PHILOSOPHY: As you
... Understand Rene Descartes’ “cogito ergo sum”: “I think, therefore I am”; The single indubitable truth on which Descartes epistemology is based. Also, know meditation 1 on methodic doubt, arguments for God’s existence in meditation 3, and his explanation why error occurs and how to avoid errors in fo ...
... Understand Rene Descartes’ “cogito ergo sum”: “I think, therefore I am”; The single indubitable truth on which Descartes epistemology is based. Also, know meditation 1 on methodic doubt, arguments for God’s existence in meditation 3, and his explanation why error occurs and how to avoid errors in fo ...
Social Studies 9R – Mr. Berman Aim #7: How did early Greek
... Some philosophers were interested in ethics, or ideas about the right way to live. One of those philosophers was Socrates. Socrates was a teacher who lived in Athens. He taught that people must learn to think for themselves. Only through clear thinking could people discover the right wav to live. So ...
... Some philosophers were interested in ethics, or ideas about the right way to live. One of those philosophers was Socrates. Socrates was a teacher who lived in Athens. He taught that people must learn to think for themselves. Only through clear thinking could people discover the right wav to live. So ...
Englightenment in Philosophy and Religion
... privileged to have enjoyed higher education? How does our thinking and living give us meaning and purpose? I teach in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, and that is where I want to focus my remarks this evening. How can insights from philosophy and religion help us to live a meaningful life? ...
... privileged to have enjoyed higher education? How does our thinking and living give us meaning and purpose? I teach in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, and that is where I want to focus my remarks this evening. How can insights from philosophy and religion help us to live a meaningful life? ...
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... just men. Their souls, more than others, aim to fulfil the desires of the rational part. After comparing the philosopher king to the most unjust type of man—represents by the tyrant, who is ruled entirely by his non-rational appetites—Plato claims that justice is worthwhile for its own sake. In Book ...
... just men. Their souls, more than others, aim to fulfil the desires of the rational part. After comparing the philosopher king to the most unjust type of man—represents by the tyrant, who is ruled entirely by his non-rational appetites—Plato claims that justice is worthwhile for its own sake. In Book ...
Inferential Knowledge of the Occurrence of Something
... In very few, but significant, passages, Dharmakīrti expressed by the term saṃbhavānumāna an inferential knowledge concerning the occurrence of something. In one passage, in particular, the subject under discussion are the mental qualities. The paper will expose the use of saṃbhavānumāna in Dharmakīr ...
... In very few, but significant, passages, Dharmakīrti expressed by the term saṃbhavānumāna an inferential knowledge concerning the occurrence of something. In one passage, in particular, the subject under discussion are the mental qualities. The paper will expose the use of saṃbhavānumāna in Dharmakīr ...
meth-XI
... their occasional refluence (and though, as in successive schematisms of Becher, Stahl, and Lavoisier,174 the varying stream may for a time appear to comprehend and inisle some particular department of knowledge which even then it only peninsulates) are yet flowing towards this mid channel, and will ...
... their occasional refluence (and though, as in successive schematisms of Becher, Stahl, and Lavoisier,174 the varying stream may for a time appear to comprehend and inisle some particular department of knowledge which even then it only peninsulates) are yet flowing towards this mid channel, and will ...
Human Personhood from a Kantian Perspective
... for everyone based on this example and still have it be true; therefore it is not a moral act. From the ontological viewpoint, Kantian Ethics seems to support the idea that all humans are persons as members of the human race. If a biological Homo sapiens is a person, that means that all Homo sapiens ...
... for everyone based on this example and still have it be true; therefore it is not a moral act. From the ontological viewpoint, Kantian Ethics seems to support the idea that all humans are persons as members of the human race. If a biological Homo sapiens is a person, that means that all Homo sapiens ...
1: Power and the State 1
... purpose and justification of the State, that political instrument which is fashioned by individuals but shows often so little of their own image. The Republic, the book that was to outline the model State, is a sad book. Plato’s philosophical system is responsible, though at some removes, for the w ...
... purpose and justification of the State, that political instrument which is fashioned by individuals but shows often so little of their own image. The Republic, the book that was to outline the model State, is a sad book. Plato’s philosophical system is responsible, though at some removes, for the w ...
Direct and representative realism
... So we see the appearance of the vase, which is a mental thing which really is red; and this way, we indirectly see the vase, which is a physical thing which isn’t really red, but creates an appearance of being red. 3. Objections to indirect realism Locke and other indirect realists claim that, in ve ...
... So we see the appearance of the vase, which is a mental thing which really is red; and this way, we indirectly see the vase, which is a physical thing which isn’t really red, but creates an appearance of being red. 3. Objections to indirect realism Locke and other indirect realists claim that, in ve ...
Socrates and Plato - Metaphysics and Epistemology
... immaterial blueprints of objects in the physical world They constitute those essential features of all individual objects belonging to the same class – e.g. what all horses have in common that makes them horses or what all acts of justice have in common that makes them just. Also translated as I ...
... immaterial blueprints of objects in the physical world They constitute those essential features of all individual objects belonging to the same class – e.g. what all horses have in common that makes them horses or what all acts of justice have in common that makes them just. Also translated as I ...
Philosophy
... think we understand the real world, but because we are trapped in our bodies we can see only the shadows on the wall. One of his goals is to help us understand the real world better, by finding ways to predict or understand the real world even without being able to see it. Aristotle's father was Nic ...
... think we understand the real world, but because we are trapped in our bodies we can see only the shadows on the wall. One of his goals is to help us understand the real world better, by finding ways to predict or understand the real world even without being able to see it. Aristotle's father was Nic ...
Greater Reality Achieved Through Consciousness
... postulation of “innerness” or mentality in everything has the air of an arbitrary assertion, motivated by theoretical needs rather than by what we observe in less complex entities like atoms and rocks. And the second weakness (Skrbina calls it the “combination” problem) is that panpsychism has troub ...
... postulation of “innerness” or mentality in everything has the air of an arbitrary assertion, motivated by theoretical needs rather than by what we observe in less complex entities like atoms and rocks. And the second weakness (Skrbina calls it the “combination” problem) is that panpsychism has troub ...
Lessons from Kant: On Knowledge, Morality, and Beauty
... operational theories regarding the apparatus in use etc.). In scholarly settings, which are actually far more dominant (since almost all that we know comes from texts not from raw data), the relevant theories include also “theories” regarding the trustworthiness of various sources. In both cases, w ...
... operational theories regarding the apparatus in use etc.). In scholarly settings, which are actually far more dominant (since almost all that we know comes from texts not from raw data), the relevant theories include also “theories” regarding the trustworthiness of various sources. In both cases, w ...
An introduction to philosophy
... • He provides all the information to our senses • Including the illusion that there are other minds • How do we know that this is not the case? • We don’t! ...
... • He provides all the information to our senses • Including the illusion that there are other minds • How do we know that this is not the case? • We don’t! ...
Reviews
... reliable causal route to valid cognition. Indeed, Cabezon himself systematically uses pramàõa in the latter sense of reliable means of producing valid cognition , and not for the cognition that is the product of its exercise. But his discussion of whether scripture is to be counted as a pramàõa is r ...
... reliable causal route to valid cognition. Indeed, Cabezon himself systematically uses pramàõa in the latter sense of reliable means of producing valid cognition , and not for the cognition that is the product of its exercise. But his discussion of whether scripture is to be counted as a pramàõa is r ...
A Buddhist Critique of Cartesian Dualism in the Cognitive Sciences
... be any relation or interaction between them? In short, insofar as material means nonmental, the project of “naturalizing mind” cannot avoid reductionism—reducing the mental to the material. We face the same ontological gulf when we attempt to isolate mind as a distinct entity or essence, or—a more r ...
... be any relation or interaction between them? In short, insofar as material means nonmental, the project of “naturalizing mind” cannot avoid reductionism—reducing the mental to the material. We face the same ontological gulf when we attempt to isolate mind as a distinct entity or essence, or—a more r ...
Epicurus and Lucretius
... principles. Socrates emphasized harmony of different elements of the city and of the soul as a step toward the virtuous life, and justified the superiority of virtue by appeal to self interest; to do evil harms the soul, and it is the virtuous man who has the best chance of happiness. His own person ...
... principles. Socrates emphasized harmony of different elements of the city and of the soul as a step toward the virtuous life, and justified the superiority of virtue by appeal to self interest; to do evil harms the soul, and it is the virtuous man who has the best chance of happiness. His own person ...
Final Exam
... 2. Explain Aristotle’s theory of virtue in detail, using at least three examples. At least two of the examples must be ones used by Aristotle himself. 3. Write a one-page “play” or “Socratic dialogue” with two characters discussing their views on the dispute between universalism and moral relativism ...
... 2. Explain Aristotle’s theory of virtue in detail, using at least three examples. At least two of the examples must be ones used by Aristotle himself. 3. Write a one-page “play” or “Socratic dialogue” with two characters discussing their views on the dispute between universalism and moral relativism ...
Notes for Aristotle`s On Soul
... Aristotle lists several parts or powers of the soul: nutritive (414b1ff); perceptive (414b2); desiring (414b3); locomotive (414b17); and understanding (414b19). Aristotle holds that the soul is a cause in three senses: what something is for (final cause); as the substance (understood as essence or f ...
... Aristotle lists several parts or powers of the soul: nutritive (414b1ff); perceptive (414b2); desiring (414b3); locomotive (414b17); and understanding (414b19). Aristotle holds that the soul is a cause in three senses: what something is for (final cause); as the substance (understood as essence or f ...
Skepticism
... major premise, “All men are mortal”—can be proved only by a complete induction. But the complete induction involves a knowledge of the conclusion—“Socrates is a mortal.” For we cannot say, that all men are mortal unless we already know that Socrates is mortal. The Syllogism is, therefore, an instanc ...
... major premise, “All men are mortal”—can be proved only by a complete induction. But the complete induction involves a knowledge of the conclusion—“Socrates is a mortal.” For we cannot say, that all men are mortal unless we already know that Socrates is mortal. The Syllogism is, therefore, an instanc ...
Dewey Experience and Philosophic Method
... perhaps can change the way we see the meanings of these terms. Nature and experience do work harmoniously together when experience is seen as the only method for knowing nature, and nature, so disclosed, “deepens, enriches and directs the further development of experience.” 460 In the natural scienc ...
... perhaps can change the way we see the meanings of these terms. Nature and experience do work harmoniously together when experience is seen as the only method for knowing nature, and nature, so disclosed, “deepens, enriches and directs the further development of experience.” 460 In the natural scienc ...
PlatoX6_Commentary-_..
... more important purpose of writing: to preserve thought and meaning. Plato claims at one point that the written word is nothing more than a crutch for people's minds, that they will never be able impart any knowledge of importance. ...
... more important purpose of writing: to preserve thought and meaning. Plato claims at one point that the written word is nothing more than a crutch for people's minds, that they will never be able impart any knowledge of importance. ...