Why ethics is hard: or some of the reasons why
... think) clearly false for a quite different reason, namely that at least some facts are neither physical facts nor supervenient on physical facts: 2 + 2 = 4, for instance. Maybe physicalism is still false or unpersuasive even if we except mathematical facts from its scope: for example, maybe the thes ...
... think) clearly false for a quite different reason, namely that at least some facts are neither physical facts nor supervenient on physical facts: 2 + 2 = 4, for instance. Maybe physicalism is still false or unpersuasive even if we except mathematical facts from its scope: for example, maybe the thes ...
Freedom and Universality: Hegel`s Republican Conception of
... understanding of modernity. By this I mean that Hegel stands at the apex of a tradition of thought that saw the modern social world as defined by a kind of reason that allowed the individual to reach a higher conceptual grasp of himself and the social world. The nature of this rational understanding ...
... understanding of modernity. By this I mean that Hegel stands at the apex of a tradition of thought that saw the modern social world as defined by a kind of reason that allowed the individual to reach a higher conceptual grasp of himself and the social world. The nature of this rational understanding ...
the tension between aristotle_s theories
... similes and metaphors, all used to explain the most difficult doctrinal points33: the unity of body and soul is conceived as the unity of a circle and its tangent at a point34, and as the unity of a wax tablet and the image stamped upon it35. Concerning the body's instrumental relationship to the so ...
... similes and metaphors, all used to explain the most difficult doctrinal points33: the unity of body and soul is conceived as the unity of a circle and its tangent at a point34, and as the unity of a wax tablet and the image stamped upon it35. Concerning the body's instrumental relationship to the so ...
A Critique of Descartes` Mind-Body Dualism
... substance, (mind), which has thinking as its essence and material substance (body), with extension as its essence. Mind and body are therefore, two kinds of substance, each of which is distinctly different, and can exist independent of each other. With Descartes’ establishment of his soul or mind as ...
... substance, (mind), which has thinking as its essence and material substance (body), with extension as its essence. Mind and body are therefore, two kinds of substance, each of which is distinctly different, and can exist independent of each other. With Descartes’ establishment of his soul or mind as ...
Conscience-Egoism-Kant
... Kant brought the notion of respect (Achtung) to the center of moral philosophy for the first time. To respect people is to treat them as ends in themselves. He sees people as autonomous, i.e., as giving the moral law to themselves. The opposite of respecting people is treating them as mere means to ...
... Kant brought the notion of respect (Achtung) to the center of moral philosophy for the first time. To respect people is to treat them as ends in themselves. He sees people as autonomous, i.e., as giving the moral law to themselves. The opposite of respecting people is treating them as mere means to ...
Introduction: Varieties of Disjunctivism
... she makes, from this reason, to p. Exactly how we are to understand the idea of noninferential justification is another matter; but one consequence is clear: that one sees that p is not ‘‘something . . . of which one can assure oneself independently of the claim’’ that p is so. This ‘‘flouts an idea ...
... she makes, from this reason, to p. Exactly how we are to understand the idea of noninferential justification is another matter; but one consequence is clear: that one sees that p is not ‘‘something . . . of which one can assure oneself independently of the claim’’ that p is so. This ‘‘flouts an idea ...
maimon and deleuze: the viewpoint of internal genesis and the
... categories” (A 287/B 343). Kant insists that our human understanding is discursive and not intuitive. It relies on something given in the senses, that is, a spatio-temporal manifold of intuition to which it can relate its categories. If we abstracted from sensibility, that is, the manner through whi ...
... categories” (A 287/B 343). Kant insists that our human understanding is discursive and not intuitive. It relies on something given in the senses, that is, a spatio-temporal manifold of intuition to which it can relate its categories. If we abstracted from sensibility, that is, the manner through whi ...
In the history of philosophy, Francis Bacon is credited with the
... hearing, they need to be articulated in a propositional form and many of these complaints and demands are largely ineffable. In other words, they cannot be articulated in a propositional format and therefore what is needed in order to obtain social justice is for implicit knowledge to be given a hea ...
... hearing, they need to be articulated in a propositional form and many of these complaints and demands are largely ineffable. In other words, they cannot be articulated in a propositional format and therefore what is needed in order to obtain social justice is for implicit knowledge to be given a hea ...
PLATO: THE SEVENTH LETTER_4
... I hear too that he [Dionysius] has since written on the subjects in which I instructed him at that time, as if he were composing a handbook of his own which differed entirely from the instruction he received. Of this I know nothing. I do know, however, that some others have written on these same sub ...
... I hear too that he [Dionysius] has since written on the subjects in which I instructed him at that time, as if he were composing a handbook of his own which differed entirely from the instruction he received. Of this I know nothing. I do know, however, that some others have written on these same sub ...
Is Structural Spacetime Realism Relationism in Disguise
... This interpretation of ontic structural realism seems to be shared by structural realists like Esfeld (2007), Esfeld and Lam (2006): since ontic structural realists cannot be radically instrumentalist about the referential import of models, they must redescribe all ontological claims of moderns sci ...
... This interpretation of ontic structural realism seems to be shared by structural realists like Esfeld (2007), Esfeld and Lam (2006): since ontic structural realists cannot be radically instrumentalist about the referential import of models, they must redescribe all ontological claims of moderns sci ...
SPIS TREŚCI
... contemporaries and successors, like Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz who internalize this Cartesian shift in thinking, seem less inclined to ascribe validity to the imagination.6 Spinoza’s remarks are paradigmatic: “Whence may also see how easily men may fall into grave errors through not distin ...
... contemporaries and successors, like Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz who internalize this Cartesian shift in thinking, seem less inclined to ascribe validity to the imagination.6 Spinoza’s remarks are paradigmatic: “Whence may also see how easily men may fall into grave errors through not distin ...
The Hollow of Being. What can we learn from Maurice Merleau
... Put under the perspective of the difference of subject and object this primacy of an original unity of Being turns into a primacy of the object, into an interest in that which is beyond subject, language, and science and that defies their orderly arrangements, an interest in “the unmotivated upsurge o ...
... Put under the perspective of the difference of subject and object this primacy of an original unity of Being turns into a primacy of the object, into an interest in that which is beyond subject, language, and science and that defies their orderly arrangements, an interest in “the unmotivated upsurge o ...
Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Rationalism
... internal critique of rationalism. In asking what conception of reason is at work in the Enlightenment, Jacobi is the first to say that philosophers of the Enlightenment have their own presuppositions and to put in question the truth of their system. This questioning opens up into a comparison betwee ...
... internal critique of rationalism. In asking what conception of reason is at work in the Enlightenment, Jacobi is the first to say that philosophers of the Enlightenment have their own presuppositions and to put in question the truth of their system. This questioning opens up into a comparison betwee ...
Ethics of terminology
... Signs that do not seek the truth? • Not all phenomena that are commonly considered as signs are interested in their truth. • If the interpretation has some other normative criterion of success than truth (like practical applicability, effectiveness, novelty, ‘beauty’, entertainment value, etc.) or n ...
... Signs that do not seek the truth? • Not all phenomena that are commonly considered as signs are interested in their truth. • If the interpretation has some other normative criterion of success than truth (like practical applicability, effectiveness, novelty, ‘beauty’, entertainment value, etc.) or n ...
INTELLECTUAL AUTONOMY
... intellect. It is unlikely that we can autonomously make a choice unless the beliefs upon which the choice is based are autonomous. This point does not depend upon any particular view of autonomy, but only on the assumption that choices depend upon beliefs. If it is good that acts are autonomous, at ...
... intellect. It is unlikely that we can autonomously make a choice unless the beliefs upon which the choice is based are autonomous. This point does not depend upon any particular view of autonomy, but only on the assumption that choices depend upon beliefs. If it is good that acts are autonomous, at ...
Mimesis, Eros, and Mania
... with the ethos of unprecedented originality claimed by, say, aesthetic modernity. True, Plato was important in a more positive sense for thinkers like Schelling and Schopenhauer, and poets like Coleridge and Shelley. True also, eros and mania have variously been resurrected in aesthetic modernity, i ...
... with the ethos of unprecedented originality claimed by, say, aesthetic modernity. True, Plato was important in a more positive sense for thinkers like Schelling and Schopenhauer, and poets like Coleridge and Shelley. True also, eros and mania have variously been resurrected in aesthetic modernity, i ...
Against the Idols of the Age
... false proposition for the evidently true one, the more willing he is to believe that everyone is as bad as himself, or to belittle the human species in general. (Darwinians call the latter ‘bridging the gap between man and the animals.’) In commenting on other philosophers, he is similarly acidic: N ...
... false proposition for the evidently true one, the more willing he is to believe that everyone is as bad as himself, or to belittle the human species in general. (Darwinians call the latter ‘bridging the gap between man and the animals.’) In commenting on other philosophers, he is similarly acidic: N ...
PATOČKA`S CONCEPTION OF THE SUBJECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
... tion,” to give them “an existence independent of a spirit.xii” Does this mean that a spirit, in order to be, has to be perceived? This is the difficulty. As Berkeley remarks, “A spirit is … [an] active being ... Hence there can be no idea formed of a soul or spirit; for all ideas whatever being pass ...
... tion,” to give them “an existence independent of a spirit.xii” Does this mean that a spirit, in order to be, has to be perceived? This is the difficulty. As Berkeley remarks, “A spirit is … [an] active being ... Hence there can be no idea formed of a soul or spirit; for all ideas whatever being pass ...
johannes bronkhorst trv murti`s reason
... of Reason as a faculty which follows its own rules. Like Hegel he maintains that progress is only possible through a dialectical movement, in which the next stage is reached on the basis of an earlier opposition: Hegel's thesis and antithesis. It is important to emphasise that Murti does not in all ...
... of Reason as a faculty which follows its own rules. Like Hegel he maintains that progress is only possible through a dialectical movement, in which the next stage is reached on the basis of an earlier opposition: Hegel's thesis and antithesis. It is important to emphasise that Murti does not in all ...
Dialectic and Dialogue in Plato: Revisiting the Image of "Socrates
... questions, by leading discussions, by helping students to raise their minds up from a state of understanding and appreciating less to a state of understanding and appreciating more” (p. 29). The “Socratic method” in education, which presupposes the view of Socrates-as-teacher, “refers to someone who ...
... questions, by leading discussions, by helping students to raise their minds up from a state of understanding and appreciating less to a state of understanding and appreciating more” (p. 29). The “Socratic method” in education, which presupposes the view of Socrates-as-teacher, “refers to someone who ...
The Futility of any Anti-Metaphysical Position
... a matter of fact be the guideline for the incomplete one. In sum, philosophy is the plan of the universe; science is part of this plan” (Ibid. 60). This submission of Ortega Y’ Gasset is reiterated by Etienne Gilson who opines that since “metaphysics aims at transcending all particular knowledge, no ...
... a matter of fact be the guideline for the incomplete one. In sum, philosophy is the plan of the universe; science is part of this plan” (Ibid. 60). This submission of Ortega Y’ Gasset is reiterated by Etienne Gilson who opines that since “metaphysics aims at transcending all particular knowledge, no ...
KANT S THEORY OF MORAL MOTIVATION
... Although I might wish to be 'altogether free' (4:428) from my inclinations, as a finite being, I cannot be. In order to be properly motivated to follow the moral law I must therefore be aware of the range of my possible motives of acting and make sure that my volition is morally good. As Kant explai ...
... Although I might wish to be 'altogether free' (4:428) from my inclinations, as a finite being, I cannot be. In order to be properly motivated to follow the moral law I must therefore be aware of the range of my possible motives of acting and make sure that my volition is morally good. As Kant explai ...
The Pythagorean Symbolism in Plato`s Philebus
... and their theory of division. It sets the tone for the remainder of the dialogue and imposes a structured argument on the discussion of pleasure, initiated by Philebus’ assertion that it is the Good. According to Socrates, all phenomena characterised by grades of intensity, e.g. pleasure and pain, b ...
... and their theory of division. It sets the tone for the remainder of the dialogue and imposes a structured argument on the discussion of pleasure, initiated by Philebus’ assertion that it is the Good. According to Socrates, all phenomena characterised by grades of intensity, e.g. pleasure and pain, b ...
The Philosopher and the Sage: Plato and Lao
... characteristic of philosophers outside of the ideal city. In fact, the cosmic model that the philosopher follows itself suggests that the process of generation, ordering, and perfecting is always ongoing, for if the process were ever completed, the unlimited would be completely abolished and with it ...
... characteristic of philosophers outside of the ideal city. In fact, the cosmic model that the philosopher follows itself suggests that the process of generation, ordering, and perfecting is always ongoing, for if the process were ever completed, the unlimited would be completely abolished and with it ...
Appearance properties
... A worry about the conjunction of views of appearance properties on which they are dispositions to produce experiences with certain phenomenal characters with the view that phenomenal character is to be explained in terms of perceptual representation of appearance properties. What we seem to get is t ...
... A worry about the conjunction of views of appearance properties on which they are dispositions to produce experiences with certain phenomenal characters with the view that phenomenal character is to be explained in terms of perceptual representation of appearance properties. What we seem to get is t ...