PLATO`S THEORY OF LOVE IN THE LYSIS: A DEFENCE*
... Lysis as an important Platonic work. Perhaps one of the most important aspects of recent Platonic studies has emerged out of the attempt to study Plato not only as a philosopher but as a literary artist. Foremost among the writers viewing Plato in this manner was the late Hans-Georg Gadamer, who dem ...
... Lysis as an important Platonic work. Perhaps one of the most important aspects of recent Platonic studies has emerged out of the attempt to study Plato not only as a philosopher but as a literary artist. Foremost among the writers viewing Plato in this manner was the late Hans-Georg Gadamer, who dem ...
The Role of Happiness in Kant`s Ethics - Aporia
... wills.”8 Kant gives the example of someone who seeks after riches because he thinks it will make him happy, only to find that his pursuit actually results in unhappiness, because of the anxiety, envy, and intrigue that come with it. Another example is someone who seeks after knowledge, only to disco ...
... wills.”8 Kant gives the example of someone who seeks after riches because he thinks it will make him happy, only to find that his pursuit actually results in unhappiness, because of the anxiety, envy, and intrigue that come with it. Another example is someone who seeks after knowledge, only to disco ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Being, Beings, and Truth
... So, for Heidegger, phenomenological “description” becomes interpretive, or hermeneutic. One grasps being-as-a-whole only by zeroing-in on its integral parts (such as Dasein), which provide a foothold for an interpretive, rather than a pure and presuppositionless understanding of being. To complicat ...
... So, for Heidegger, phenomenological “description” becomes interpretive, or hermeneutic. One grasps being-as-a-whole only by zeroing-in on its integral parts (such as Dasein), which provide a foothold for an interpretive, rather than a pure and presuppositionless understanding of being. To complicat ...
Essence and Modality
... singleton exists. Granted that it is necessary that the singleton exists if Socrates does, it follows that it is necessary that Socrates belongs to the singleton if Socrates exists. But then Socrates essentially belongs to the singleton, which is the conclusion we wished to avoid. The modal account ...
... singleton exists. Granted that it is necessary that the singleton exists if Socrates does, it follows that it is necessary that Socrates belongs to the singleton if Socrates exists. But then Socrates essentially belongs to the singleton, which is the conclusion we wished to avoid. The modal account ...
An Aristotelian View of Marx`s Method Nathaniel Cline William
... “[t]he speculative philosophy of Aristotle simply means the direction of thought on all kinds of objects, thus transforming these into thoughts; hence, in being thoughts, they exist in truth. The meaning of this is not, however, that natural objects have thus themselves the power of thinking, but as ...
... “[t]he speculative philosophy of Aristotle simply means the direction of thought on all kinds of objects, thus transforming these into thoughts; hence, in being thoughts, they exist in truth. The meaning of this is not, however, that natural objects have thus themselves the power of thinking, but as ...
Ethics Background on useful readings Asterisks below mark works
... English moral discourse, *including* both (i) modus ponens reasoning and (ii) ascriptions of truth and falsity to verbalisations of moral judgments. Explain the point that there are more places to insert a negation in “John thinks that stealing is wrong” than there are in any standard expressivist a ...
... English moral discourse, *including* both (i) modus ponens reasoning and (ii) ascriptions of truth and falsity to verbalisations of moral judgments. Explain the point that there are more places to insert a negation in “John thinks that stealing is wrong” than there are in any standard expressivist a ...
B.A. PHILOSOPHY PR OGRAMME UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT (CUCBCSS -2014 admn.) (I SEMESTER)
... wisdom’. The term science comes from the Latin word ‘scire’ which means ‘to know’. The distinction between philosophy and science is not absolute. However, there are some differences between them in terms of methods and concerns. i) Philosophy is the basic discipline that enters into all areas of hu ...
... wisdom’. The term science comes from the Latin word ‘scire’ which means ‘to know’. The distinction between philosophy and science is not absolute. However, there are some differences between them in terms of methods and concerns. i) Philosophy is the basic discipline that enters into all areas of hu ...
Schopenhauer and Buddhism - What-Buddha
... causality. In his extensive Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy, at the end of WWR I, Schopenhauer pointed out that Kant’s conception of the whole problem still remained too strongly influenced by the typically European, Aristotelian and Scholastic tradition, and that he was unable to renounce the i ...
... causality. In his extensive Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy, at the end of WWR I, Schopenhauer pointed out that Kant’s conception of the whole problem still remained too strongly influenced by the typically European, Aristotelian and Scholastic tradition, and that he was unable to renounce the i ...
Substantive Syllogisms - Scholarship at UWindsor
... Treatment of the syllogism as a basic form of inference is something found to be widespread, even today, in the post twentieth century which saw the entrenchment of classical propositional logic and the appearance of various post-classical logics. A survey of logic texts seems to reveal that the aut ...
... Treatment of the syllogism as a basic form of inference is something found to be widespread, even today, in the post twentieth century which saw the entrenchment of classical propositional logic and the appearance of various post-classical logics. A survey of logic texts seems to reveal that the aut ...
Hegel`s Phenomenology of Spirit Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
... appears as nature given to our understanding, but nature is transitory and therefore thought thinks nature in terms of unity with the infinite. This creative unity of nature and the infinite is not a conceptual abstraction but is God (and must also be defined as Spirit since it is neither an externa ...
... appears as nature given to our understanding, but nature is transitory and therefore thought thinks nature in terms of unity with the infinite. This creative unity of nature and the infinite is not a conceptual abstraction but is God (and must also be defined as Spirit since it is neither an externa ...
DOC - University of Chicago Philosophy Department
... of light: they are based on “structures of illumination” (p. 65), such as intuition, intentionality or comprehension. Sight and touch tended to have absolute primacy in the philosophical tradition, where “to be” means thus to be visible and graspable (p. 67). The immediate consequence of this “diur ...
... of light: they are based on “structures of illumination” (p. 65), such as intuition, intentionality or comprehension. Sight and touch tended to have absolute primacy in the philosophical tradition, where “to be” means thus to be visible and graspable (p. 67). The immediate consequence of this “diur ...
-1- HUSSERL`S DISCOVERY OF PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE
... doctrine of the phenomenological reduction, by showing that even if the empirical world and the empirical ego are put out of action, there would still be a domain left over for philosophical investigation, just as their would still be a domain of logical necessity. The way in which the elements in ...
... doctrine of the phenomenological reduction, by showing that even if the empirical world and the empirical ego are put out of action, there would still be a domain left over for philosophical investigation, just as their would still be a domain of logical necessity. The way in which the elements in ...
The Moral Theories of Kant and Hume
... same in every rational being is the foundation of what is deemed to be a perfect form of moral community. The ground of self-esteem in critical morality, however, not only does not oppose one to others but affirms something which, Kant holds, is identically realized in all rational beings. In contra ...
... same in every rational being is the foundation of what is deemed to be a perfect form of moral community. The ground of self-esteem in critical morality, however, not only does not oppose one to others but affirms something which, Kant holds, is identically realized in all rational beings. In contra ...
Fall 2015 - The American Philosophical Association
... those relations. Mukerji hence lines up the distinction between Kantian idealism and Humean realism with the neo-Hegelian distinction between holism and atomism. Things . . . do not exist at first in separation from each other so that all connections between them would be mere fortuitous generalizat ...
... those relations. Mukerji hence lines up the distinction between Kantian idealism and Humean realism with the neo-Hegelian distinction between holism and atomism. Things . . . do not exist at first in separation from each other so that all connections between them would be mere fortuitous generalizat ...
65 Lecture 4 The Character of the Confucian System In our last
... and Yijing Commentaries as cosmology-centered and therefore exclude them. The character of the Confucian system is that although each of the books in the system only features one idea, it did not stop with that idea. When the ancients spoke they were not deliberately creating a system. But in the C ...
... and Yijing Commentaries as cosmology-centered and therefore exclude them. The character of the Confucian system is that although each of the books in the system only features one idea, it did not stop with that idea. When the ancients spoke they were not deliberately creating a system. But in the C ...
1929 Davos Disputation - The Dallas Philosophers Forum
... Second Round: Cassirer briefly defended Cohen and his own commitment to mathematical natural science, then proceeded to attack positions Heidegger presented in Being and Time: Cassirer denounced Heidegger’s description of human finitude, arguing that symbolic imagination and Kant’s Categorical Imper ...
... Second Round: Cassirer briefly defended Cohen and his own commitment to mathematical natural science, then proceeded to attack positions Heidegger presented in Being and Time: Cassirer denounced Heidegger’s description of human finitude, arguing that symbolic imagination and Kant’s Categorical Imper ...
Neo-Fregeanism and Quantifier Variance
... way. First, the issues at stake in the about whether ‘the number of Fs’ is a singular term will simply reappear in debate about whether the left-hand side of instances of the biconditional satisfy semantic compositionality and penetrability by quantifiers. For neo-Fregeans, all it takes for somethin ...
... way. First, the issues at stake in the about whether ‘the number of Fs’ is a singular term will simply reappear in debate about whether the left-hand side of instances of the biconditional satisfy semantic compositionality and penetrability by quantifiers. For neo-Fregeans, all it takes for somethin ...
Bob`s Lecture Notes for Week 1
... determine them, because he held a kantian, rather than a cartesian concept of concepts.) This, I think, is (one important component of) the Hegelian position. As we will see, Hegel is also a holist about concepts. Individual concepts are to be understood in terms of their function within an extended ...
... determine them, because he held a kantian, rather than a cartesian concept of concepts.) This, I think, is (one important component of) the Hegelian position. As we will see, Hegel is also a holist about concepts. Individual concepts are to be understood in terms of their function within an extended ...
Syllogism - University of Windsor
... Treatment of the syllogism as a basic form of inference is something found to be widespread, even today, in the post twentieth century which saw the entrenchment of classical propositional logic and the appearance of various post-classical logics. A survey of logic texts seems to reveal that the aut ...
... Treatment of the syllogism as a basic form of inference is something found to be widespread, even today, in the post twentieth century which saw the entrenchment of classical propositional logic and the appearance of various post-classical logics. A survey of logic texts seems to reveal that the aut ...
Morality and Virtue In Poetry and Philosophy
... characters in the Iliad and of the poet himself will be most transparent if the behaviour of the characters and the plot of the poem are considered as a whole. This means that the investigation of what a hero says, what ethical terms he uses, may not reveal much of his character. As the ethical pers ...
... characters in the Iliad and of the poet himself will be most transparent if the behaviour of the characters and the plot of the poem are considered as a whole. This means that the investigation of what a hero says, what ethical terms he uses, may not reveal much of his character. As the ethical pers ...
Behold the Non-Rabbit: Kant, Quine, Laruelle
... the theme of individuation but only in order to use it as a lens through which to focus on the way in which the relation between theory and experience is understood by these three thinkers. By 'indiviuuation' I mean the problem that can be summarised in the question: how is it that something comes t ...
... the theme of individuation but only in order to use it as a lens through which to focus on the way in which the relation between theory and experience is understood by these three thinkers. By 'indiviuuation' I mean the problem that can be summarised in the question: how is it that something comes t ...
Theoretical Reason and Practical Reason for Kant and Tabataba`i
... metaphysic crisis in his time and he had tried to find a solution for that. Theoretical reason for Tabataba’i is a reason that judges about the truth of things and their existence and nonexistence and their inherent qualities, whether they are in the realm of human behavior or not. Theoretical reaso ...
... metaphysic crisis in his time and he had tried to find a solution for that. Theoretical reason for Tabataba’i is a reason that judges about the truth of things and their existence and nonexistence and their inherent qualities, whether they are in the realm of human behavior or not. Theoretical reaso ...
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... Therefore, we may have an acute dilemma for the ethical framework of Immanuel Kant.11 If Kant conflates supererogation with one’s moral duty, Kant’s theory may be marked as “severely impoverished” (Baron 1987, 238). On the other hand, there may be some philosophical approach to salvaging Kant’s eth ...
... Therefore, we may have an acute dilemma for the ethical framework of Immanuel Kant.11 If Kant conflates supererogation with one’s moral duty, Kant’s theory may be marked as “severely impoverished” (Baron 1987, 238). On the other hand, there may be some philosophical approach to salvaging Kant’s eth ...
12 Substances
... be, and which persists in the result” (I.8 192a31). But if matter is the subject that persists through change, then it has the feature that Aristotle said at Categories 4a10 was “most distinctive” of substances. And since matter is also the primary subject of predication (“the predicates other than ...
... be, and which persists in the result” (I.8 192a31). But if matter is the subject that persists through change, then it has the feature that Aristotle said at Categories 4a10 was “most distinctive” of substances. And since matter is also the primary subject of predication (“the predicates other than ...