PDF - UNT Digital Library
... unite and give rise to the concrete. Thus the multiplicity of things and human beings is produced. In their ceaseless successions the two elements of yin and yang constitute the great principle of the universe. 7 Because ch’i has inexhaustible power within it, it is always in an unceasing process of ...
... unite and give rise to the concrete. Thus the multiplicity of things and human beings is produced. In their ceaseless successions the two elements of yin and yang constitute the great principle of the universe. 7 Because ch’i has inexhaustible power within it, it is always in an unceasing process of ...
1 - General Guide To Personal and Societies Web Space at Oxford
... In cases like this, there is a potential danger of conflating reasons that do not bear on the evaluation with those that do. Thus, one might be tempted to deny that the friend’s good fortune is enviable, if envy would be imprudent or immoral. But, quite independently of this danger of conflation, ca ...
... In cases like this, there is a potential danger of conflating reasons that do not bear on the evaluation with those that do. Thus, one might be tempted to deny that the friend’s good fortune is enviable, if envy would be imprudent or immoral. But, quite independently of this danger of conflation, ca ...
Constructing and Representing Reality: Hegel and the Making of
... vice versa; hence, history signifies the rise and progress of human consciousness. Auerbach also shared Hegel’s view that the art of mimesis produces an image of a reality, in contrast to Plato, who thought a work of art is a resemblance opposed to reality. This paper analyzes the influence of Hegel ...
... vice versa; hence, history signifies the rise and progress of human consciousness. Auerbach also shared Hegel’s view that the art of mimesis produces an image of a reality, in contrast to Plato, who thought a work of art is a resemblance opposed to reality. This paper analyzes the influence of Hegel ...
Knowledge and the curriculum - Brunel University Research Archive
... curricular knowledge, it cannot act as the ultimate arbiter on questions of knowledge. The main unease when everything becomes sociologised and when everything is seen as a social construction, is that the idea of knowledge itself begins to disappear, so that we end up with a universe full of opinio ...
... curricular knowledge, it cannot act as the ultimate arbiter on questions of knowledge. The main unease when everything becomes sociologised and when everything is seen as a social construction, is that the idea of knowledge itself begins to disappear, so that we end up with a universe full of opinio ...
Introduction - Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
... experienced as being. Hence, if one wishes to describe anything truly, his task is to tell what it is experienced as being’.8 Dewey goes on to use the example of describing a horse. The descriptions of a horse-trader, a jockey, a zoologist, etc., will of course vary, with both congruencies and diver ...
... experienced as being. Hence, if one wishes to describe anything truly, his task is to tell what it is experienced as being’.8 Dewey goes on to use the example of describing a horse. The descriptions of a horse-trader, a jockey, a zoologist, etc., will of course vary, with both congruencies and diver ...
A Survey of Mediaeval Philosophy, Version 2.0
... beginning with a backslash is a FancyFont code). Some I just erased without knowing what they were for. All of the files were cleaned up with one macro, and some of them have been further doctored with additional macros I wrote later and additional hand editing. This explains why some are quite neat ...
... beginning with a backslash is a FancyFont code). Some I just erased without knowing what they were for. All of the files were cleaned up with one macro, and some of them have been further doctored with additional macros I wrote later and additional hand editing. This explains why some are quite neat ...
Being and MacGuffin - Crisis and Critique
... spelled out, but rather to its absolute emptiness and meaninglessness, which is far more difficult to come to terms with than any deep hidden sense. One of the hardest things to understand is that there is nothing to understand. Nevertheless this insight holds many consequences. Yet the remark, as f ...
... spelled out, but rather to its absolute emptiness and meaninglessness, which is far more difficult to come to terms with than any deep hidden sense. One of the hardest things to understand is that there is nothing to understand. Nevertheless this insight holds many consequences. Yet the remark, as f ...
William James - Pragmatism - Collin College Faculty Website Directory
... To avoid one misunderstanding at least, let me say that there is no logical connexion between pragmatism, as I understand it, and a doctrine ...
... To avoid one misunderstanding at least, let me say that there is no logical connexion between pragmatism, as I understand it, and a doctrine ...
THE MANY GODS OBJECTION TO PASCAL`S WAGER
... draws his account of maximal implausibility from the difference in epistemic merit between those hypotheses that “enjoy the backing of a living tradition” and those that do not.11 These claims, he believes, allow for a defense of an “ecumenical” version of the Wager, a defense that establishes the p ...
... draws his account of maximal implausibility from the difference in epistemic merit between those hypotheses that “enjoy the backing of a living tradition” and those that do not.11 These claims, he believes, allow for a defense of an “ecumenical” version of the Wager, a defense that establishes the p ...
What`s So Queer About Morality? One of the currently available
... seems to be simply that nothing in the world (besides morality, if it exists) is both objective and prescriptive. That said, it seems that the naturalist moral realist can appeal to things like biological or proper functions and biological or proper function statements as a way of deflecting the for ...
... seems to be simply that nothing in the world (besides morality, if it exists) is both objective and prescriptive. That said, it seems that the naturalist moral realist can appeal to things like biological or proper functions and biological or proper function statements as a way of deflecting the for ...
What Does the Scientist of Man Observe?
... the ideas of the memory are much more lively and strong than those of the imagination, ... the former faculty paints its objects in more distinct colours, than any which are employ’d by the latter. When we remember any past event, the idea of it flows in upon the mind in a forcible manner; whereas i ...
... the ideas of the memory are much more lively and strong than those of the imagination, ... the former faculty paints its objects in more distinct colours, than any which are employ’d by the latter. When we remember any past event, the idea of it flows in upon the mind in a forcible manner; whereas i ...
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... KNOWING THE LIMITS — A WISDOM OF IGNORANCE For Confucius, knowledge simply begins with honesty in self-knowing. He said to one of his pupils, “Zilu, shall I teach you what it is to know? When you know something, you say so — it is because you know it, when you don’t know something, you should say it ...
... KNOWING THE LIMITS — A WISDOM OF IGNORANCE For Confucius, knowledge simply begins with honesty in self-knowing. He said to one of his pupils, “Zilu, shall I teach you what it is to know? When you know something, you say so — it is because you know it, when you don’t know something, you should say it ...
CHANGES IN BOLZANO’S DEFINITION OF MATHEMATICS
... 2.2. Mathematics without intuitions: a truly conceptual science. A constant feature of Bolzano’s anti-Kantianism is the refusal to grant intuitions any role in mathematics: the latter is a merely conceptual science. In the Appendix to Beyträge, where Bolzano makes his critique to Kant, concepts and ...
... 2.2. Mathematics without intuitions: a truly conceptual science. A constant feature of Bolzano’s anti-Kantianism is the refusal to grant intuitions any role in mathematics: the latter is a merely conceptual science. In the Appendix to Beyträge, where Bolzano makes his critique to Kant, concepts and ...
Notes on Epistemology
... II. Second Objection: The power of analyzing the assents is either a power of arriving at truth or it is not. If it is not, it will be of no avail to employ it in investigating the spontaneous assents; for by its use we shall learn nothing about them. If it is a power of arriving at truth, then you ...
... II. Second Objection: The power of analyzing the assents is either a power of arriving at truth or it is not. If it is not, it will be of no avail to employ it in investigating the spontaneous assents; for by its use we shall learn nothing about them. If it is a power of arriving at truth, then you ...
‘Boghossian’s Blind Reasoning’, Conditionalization, and Thick Concepts. A Functional Model Olga Ramírez
... 1.2. Williams, Williamson and the problem of ratification Against the inferentialist position, Williamson (2003, 2009) has been claiming that one can understand a concept without actually being willing to infer according to the rules that the inferentialist sees the concept to be constituted by. He ...
... 1.2. Williams, Williamson and the problem of ratification Against the inferentialist position, Williamson (2003, 2009) has been claiming that one can understand a concept without actually being willing to infer according to the rules that the inferentialist sees the concept to be constituted by. He ...
Ph 205 Historical Introduction to Philosophy
... Reason: How can we explain the existence of evil in a world created by a good God? Augustine’s Moral Theory: What is true happiness & how can we obtain it? ...
... Reason: How can we explain the existence of evil in a world created by a good God? Augustine’s Moral Theory: What is true happiness & how can we obtain it? ...
The Evidence of the Senses
... The point of the disjunctive conception is that if one undergoes an experience that belongs on the ‘good’ side of the disjunction, that warrants one in believing—indeed presents one with an opportunity to know—that things are as the experience reveals them as being. When one’s perceptual faculties ‘ ...
... The point of the disjunctive conception is that if one undergoes an experience that belongs on the ‘good’ side of the disjunction, that warrants one in believing—indeed presents one with an opportunity to know—that things are as the experience reveals them as being. When one’s perceptual faculties ‘ ...
Ought and Reality - Scandinavian Studies in Law
... Hägerström was addressing a cultivated and enlightened audience which were rather shocked to listen to the newly appointed professor’s lecture which was understood to announce “that there is and cannot be any scientifically established morality” (M p. 7). This implies a rejection of Boström’s view t ...
... Hägerström was addressing a cultivated and enlightened audience which were rather shocked to listen to the newly appointed professor’s lecture which was understood to announce “that there is and cannot be any scientifically established morality” (M p. 7). This implies a rejection of Boström’s view t ...
06_chapter 2
... natural scientists when they use induction is to infer from observed to unobserved matters of fact and in particular , prediction of inference to the future. It has generally been thought that the Laws of Natural sciences are the laws of causal connection and that the problem of ampliative induction ...
... natural scientists when they use induction is to infer from observed to unobserved matters of fact and in particular , prediction of inference to the future. It has generally been thought that the Laws of Natural sciences are the laws of causal connection and that the problem of ampliative induction ...
abstracts
... only by itself; that is, the will enjoys the liberty of spontaneity. Whereas indifference constitutes the “lowest grade” of freedom for Descartes, the will is freer to the extent that it is not indifferent and freest when it is impelled by clear and distinct perceptions (CSM 2:40). §2 considers Des ...
... only by itself; that is, the will enjoys the liberty of spontaneity. Whereas indifference constitutes the “lowest grade” of freedom for Descartes, the will is freer to the extent that it is not indifferent and freest when it is impelled by clear and distinct perceptions (CSM 2:40). §2 considers Des ...
Le Paradoxe de Newcomb
... impossible. Controversy between one-boxers and two-boxers persists because the reasoning of each side depends upon paying selective attention to certain constraints on the puzzle. Either answer can be shown to be correct by attending to certain constraints and ignoring others. In order to establish ...
... impossible. Controversy between one-boxers and two-boxers persists because the reasoning of each side depends upon paying selective attention to certain constraints on the puzzle. Either answer can be shown to be correct by attending to certain constraints and ignoring others. In order to establish ...
Act Naturally - Integral Program
... that is the faculty of self-improvement- a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties, and which in man is inherent in the species as much as in the individual” (Rousseau 88). For Vico, the accumulation of human experience passed on from generation t ...
... that is the faculty of self-improvement- a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties, and which in man is inherent in the species as much as in the individual” (Rousseau 88). For Vico, the accumulation of human experience passed on from generation t ...
VIRTUE IS KNOWLEDGE, MCDOWELL AND ARISTOTLE
... mind, let us first give a brief sketch of it, in order to say what non-cognitivism is and to lay out its broad scope. What is said about it here is necessarily cursory and brief, and moreover, the interest which it will be attended with in this paper is mostly practical: how does non-cognitivism inf ...
... mind, let us first give a brief sketch of it, in order to say what non-cognitivism is and to lay out its broad scope. What is said about it here is necessarily cursory and brief, and moreover, the interest which it will be attended with in this paper is mostly practical: how does non-cognitivism inf ...
Aristippos - dieter huber
... Acting accordingly is part of the art of living, and it does not come of itself but instead requires conscious effort and attention. One may be sceptical with regard to how much conscious control of one’s own mental orientation toward reason is possible, but one should make the effort nonetheless, f ...
... Acting accordingly is part of the art of living, and it does not come of itself but instead requires conscious effort and attention. One may be sceptical with regard to how much conscious control of one’s own mental orientation toward reason is possible, but one should make the effort nonetheless, f ...
Science and Spirituality - Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc.
... of the spiritual goal); Science and Religion, etc. I had an opportunity to attend one in a series of conferences held under the auspices of the National Institute of Advancement of Science, Bangalore. In the absence of any un-resolvable controversies between Science and Religion from the Hindu persp ...
... of the spiritual goal); Science and Religion, etc. I had an opportunity to attend one in a series of conferences held under the auspices of the National Institute of Advancement of Science, Bangalore. In the absence of any un-resolvable controversies between Science and Religion from the Hindu persp ...