1. The Opening Sentence
... have to be educated. But education can to be done properly only by those who are themselves educated (or perhaps even enlightened): and these are the (future) teachers. An educated person reasons well, and can think autonomously. Hence, since good teachers master their subject, they can teach metaph ...
... have to be educated. But education can to be done properly only by those who are themselves educated (or perhaps even enlightened): and these are the (future) teachers. An educated person reasons well, and can think autonomously. Hence, since good teachers master their subject, they can teach metaph ...
Plato - Start.ca
... Plato held that determining what constituted a “good life” was an intellectual task similar to the discovery of mathematical truths o Just as the latter can’t be discovered by the untrained, neither can the former o Only after they have been educated in various disciplines (math, philosophy, etc.) t ...
... Plato held that determining what constituted a “good life” was an intellectual task similar to the discovery of mathematical truths o Just as the latter can’t be discovered by the untrained, neither can the former o Only after they have been educated in various disciplines (math, philosophy, etc.) t ...
doc the problems with philosophy
... The fact of whiteness being white, can be applied to many white things. These things are participating in a common essence. Forms. Russell renames forms as universals. According to Plato the real world was a universal. Human speech habitually involves at least one universal per sentence. This is me ...
... The fact of whiteness being white, can be applied to many white things. These things are participating in a common essence. Forms. Russell renames forms as universals. According to Plato the real world was a universal. Human speech habitually involves at least one universal per sentence. This is me ...
Notes to Introduce Epistemology
... Locke’s epistemological dualism: The two factors involved in knowledge are (1) mind which knows, and (2) its ideas which are known. The ego-centric predicament: If we know only our ideas directly, how can we be certain of their correspondence with things in the external world? ...
... Locke’s epistemological dualism: The two factors involved in knowledge are (1) mind which knows, and (2) its ideas which are known. The ego-centric predicament: If we know only our ideas directly, how can we be certain of their correspondence with things in the external world? ...
Greek Thought
... Sophists: They were people who used rhetoric to answer questions of nature and reality. They especially questioned ideas of good and evil. ...
... Sophists: They were people who used rhetoric to answer questions of nature and reality. They especially questioned ideas of good and evil. ...
Metaphysics
... means creator, causer, intelligence, sustainer of the universe. the arguments that philosophers consider,examine whether it is reasonable to suppose there is such a being. ...
... means creator, causer, intelligence, sustainer of the universe. the arguments that philosophers consider,examine whether it is reasonable to suppose there is such a being. ...
Colena Sesanker. Philosophy Club. 12/2014 Kant on the Duty to
... Imperative is, just as advertised, categorical. There are no circumstances in which it does not hold. There are no scenarios in which one is excused from one’s moral duty, no matter how difficult it might be. The CI is formulated in three distinct, but functionally equivalent, ways. The three ways p ...
... Imperative is, just as advertised, categorical. There are no circumstances in which it does not hold. There are no scenarios in which one is excused from one’s moral duty, no matter how difficult it might be. The CI is formulated in three distinct, but functionally equivalent, ways. The three ways p ...
TRANSCENDENTALISM “Transcend” to a higher spiritual
... become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. . . . Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for ne ...
... become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. . . . Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for ne ...
Plato, knowledge and virtue
... • The Form of beauty is pure beauty; it (alone) is not both beautiful and not beautiful. • Therefore, we can have knowledge of the Forms, though not through our senses. • The highest knowledge is knowledge of the Form of the Good: it is from the good that ‘things that are just and so on derive their ...
... • The Form of beauty is pure beauty; it (alone) is not both beautiful and not beautiful. • Therefore, we can have knowledge of the Forms, though not through our senses. • The highest knowledge is knowledge of the Form of the Good: it is from the good that ‘things that are just and so on derive their ...
Marco Trivellato - Professor Dugan - PHI 101 ISL - Due date 05
... incarnation and the trinity. Aquinas’s ideas about the existence of God, made me think about that. There are still things that are not understandable to humans. So there must be something or someone that makes these things happen. During the modern era, philosophy focused on pragmatism, idealism and ...
... incarnation and the trinity. Aquinas’s ideas about the existence of God, made me think about that. There are still things that are not understandable to humans. So there must be something or someone that makes these things happen. During the modern era, philosophy focused on pragmatism, idealism and ...
Plato and Aristotle
... • Substance is that which stands alone • It is independent being; a horse, a tree, and a human are all substances • Secondary substances are what Aristotle called the species and genus to which a thing belongs, and these are less real • He also claimed that forms are real but that they cannot exist ...
... • Substance is that which stands alone • It is independent being; a horse, a tree, and a human are all substances • Secondary substances are what Aristotle called the species and genus to which a thing belongs, and these are less real • He also claimed that forms are real but that they cannot exist ...
RealistsvsNominalists
... 4. Abaelard is now ready to answer Porphyry’s questions. a. Are Universals real entities existing independently of the mind that conceives them? Abaelard: Universal terms refer to reality. They do not refer to nothing at all as the Nominalists maintain. Yet in a certain sense universals exists only ...
... 4. Abaelard is now ready to answer Porphyry’s questions. a. Are Universals real entities existing independently of the mind that conceives them? Abaelard: Universal terms refer to reality. They do not refer to nothing at all as the Nominalists maintain. Yet in a certain sense universals exists only ...
trilogy 三部曲 obscure = delphic 隐晦的 Idealism 唯心主义 entity 实体
... The Critique of Pure Reason/ The Critique of Practical Reason/ The Critique of Judgement In Kant's critique of pure reason, he thought our minds never come into direct contact with ultimate reality. Because of the way our senses work, and because our brains are prefitted with various concepts and fi ...
... The Critique of Pure Reason/ The Critique of Practical Reason/ The Critique of Judgement In Kant's critique of pure reason, he thought our minds never come into direct contact with ultimate reality. Because of the way our senses work, and because our brains are prefitted with various concepts and fi ...
Kant`s Epistemology
... rules that we use to constitute our experience, namely, that we shall always interpret our experience of [sensible] objects [as being] in space, external to us, and material.” Robert C. Solomon, Introducing Philosophy, p. 215 ...
... rules that we use to constitute our experience, namely, that we shall always interpret our experience of [sensible] objects [as being] in space, external to us, and material.” Robert C. Solomon, Introducing Philosophy, p. 215 ...
Morality and Practical Reason: Kant
... • Kant begins by saying that what is ultimately good is a good will. And a good will, in turn, is the will that exercises pure practical reason • What we will, that is, what we try to do, is wholly within our control. And reason serves the purpose of instructing our will in our duty. “The notion of ...
... • Kant begins by saying that what is ultimately good is a good will. And a good will, in turn, is the will that exercises pure practical reason • What we will, that is, what we try to do, is wholly within our control. And reason serves the purpose of instructing our will in our duty. “The notion of ...
Forms.
... To resolve this problem, Plato formalized the classic view of idealism in his doctrine of Forms. ...
... To resolve this problem, Plato formalized the classic view of idealism in his doctrine of Forms. ...
Transcendentalism
... English Romanticism, and Indian spirituality/Hinduism. ● Knowledge is not based on experience or dogma but comes from within. ● The inner essence of the individual is the root of all meaningful knowledge. ● Organized religion and institutions corrupt mankind. (Similar to Rousseau’s caustic critique ...
... English Romanticism, and Indian spirituality/Hinduism. ● Knowledge is not based on experience or dogma but comes from within. ● The inner essence of the individual is the root of all meaningful knowledge. ● Organized religion and institutions corrupt mankind. (Similar to Rousseau’s caustic critique ...
Greek Philosophy - HCC Learning Web
... - “Man is the measure of all things.” - people see themselves as the standard of beauty, or judge other things in relation to themselves - “sophists” = skilled debaters can defeat rational arguments – PLATO DISAGREED, SAYING THERE IS OBJECTIVE REALITY ...
... - “Man is the measure of all things.” - people see themselves as the standard of beauty, or judge other things in relation to themselves - “sophists” = skilled debaters can defeat rational arguments – PLATO DISAGREED, SAYING THERE IS OBJECTIVE REALITY ...
plato n aristotle
... there must be standards that are more conventional. The Forms, the dialectic about Justice, and the subordination of everything else to the Form of the Good all reflect his view against relativism and skepticism. For Aristotle, though, such a problem never existed. One reason why could be because Pl ...
... there must be standards that are more conventional. The Forms, the dialectic about Justice, and the subordination of everything else to the Form of the Good all reflect his view against relativism and skepticism. For Aristotle, though, such a problem never existed. One reason why could be because Pl ...
Bertrand Russell. The World of Universals [The Problems of
... about it, taking care not to use any characteristic which it does not share with other triangles. The beginner, in order to avoid error, often finds it useful to draw several triangles, as unlike each other as possible, in order to make sure that his reasoning is equally applicable to all of them. B ...
... about it, taking care not to use any characteristic which it does not share with other triangles. The beginner, in order to avoid error, often finds it useful to draw several triangles, as unlike each other as possible, in order to make sure that his reasoning is equally applicable to all of them. B ...
Philosophical axioms of
... • The (simplistic) model developed in class is designed to contrast the mainstream Western tradition with the presentation of most Chinese approaches in this course. It entails 5 “axioms” that grow out of the Greek commitment to philosophy as a quest for knowledge based on Reason. What is “Reason?” ...
... • The (simplistic) model developed in class is designed to contrast the mainstream Western tradition with the presentation of most Chinese approaches in this course. It entails 5 “axioms” that grow out of the Greek commitment to philosophy as a quest for knowledge based on Reason. What is “Reason?” ...
Realism PP - Kirsten English Home
... At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirtyseven ...
... At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirtyseven ...