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... “Herodotus would probably have placed himself in this same tradition, as a theoros wandering the world in search of knowledge.”14 Later fourth-century authors such as Plato, Xenophon, and Isocrates then tried to appropriate the meaning of “philosophy” for their own purposes. Whatever meanings they t ...
... “Herodotus would probably have placed himself in this same tradition, as a theoros wandering the world in search of knowledge.”14 Later fourth-century authors such as Plato, Xenophon, and Isocrates then tried to appropriate the meaning of “philosophy” for their own purposes. Whatever meanings they t ...
aiming at virtue in plato
... moral rules, containing only non-evaluative terms, that determine which actions are virtuous and which vicious. Indeed, for many contemporary scholars, it is an advantage of the ancients that they do not fall into what is seen as the trap of trying to supply determining principles, but instead focus ...
... moral rules, containing only non-evaluative terms, that determine which actions are virtuous and which vicious. Indeed, for many contemporary scholars, it is an advantage of the ancients that they do not fall into what is seen as the trap of trying to supply determining principles, but instead focus ...
THE PHILOSOPHIES OF HISTORY OF HERDER AND
... empty and disconnected from the real world. Instead, the course of history is to be seen as an organic whole that unfolds through a dialectical process, rather than a constant flux that must be reined in by an imposed universal. Herder and Hegel are sometimes viewed as heralds of the Romantic era th ...
... empty and disconnected from the real world. Instead, the course of history is to be seen as an organic whole that unfolds through a dialectical process, rather than a constant flux that must be reined in by an imposed universal. Herder and Hegel are sometimes viewed as heralds of the Romantic era th ...
Epistemological Vs - Birkbeck, University of London
... But why all this creative reconstruction, all this make believe? The stimulation of his sensory receptors is all the evidence anybody has had to go on, ultimately, in arriving at his picture of the world. Why not just see how this construction really proceeds? Why not settle for psychology! (Quine ( ...
... But why all this creative reconstruction, all this make believe? The stimulation of his sensory receptors is all the evidence anybody has had to go on, ultimately, in arriving at his picture of the world. Why not just see how this construction really proceeds? Why not settle for psychology! (Quine ( ...
Hegel, Nietzsche and the Beyond Within Life by Michael Harry
... ultimately, a radically present reality, accessible to the knowing subject through mediation, or the terms of Reason. ...
... ultimately, a radically present reality, accessible to the knowing subject through mediation, or the terms of Reason. ...
On Reasons to Live Justifiably: In Support of a Humean
... rightly because she has a reason to live with others on justifiable terms, I argue that this answer is unsatisfying according to Scanlon’s own criteria of success. However, by utilizing others of his arguments, I also am able to show that he could accept (and I think should accept) the ‘complex’ vie ...
... rightly because she has a reason to live with others on justifiable terms, I argue that this answer is unsatisfying according to Scanlon’s own criteria of success. However, by utilizing others of his arguments, I also am able to show that he could accept (and I think should accept) the ‘complex’ vie ...
Was Pyrrho the Founder of Skepticism?
... testimony is the oldest important first-hand source, but he represents one specific tradition. When we move on to other traditions, we can learn about Pyrrho as a skeptic (Timon, Antigonus, Diogenes Laertius, Sextus, Numenius in Eusebius). The Peripatetic Aristocles refers to Timon’s ...
... testimony is the oldest important first-hand source, but he represents one specific tradition. When we move on to other traditions, we can learn about Pyrrho as a skeptic (Timon, Antigonus, Diogenes Laertius, Sextus, Numenius in Eusebius). The Peripatetic Aristocles refers to Timon’s ...
DAMIAN ILODIGWE OAKESHOTT`S CRITIQUE OF SOVEREIGNTY
... and truth is not co-extensive with the bound of reason.9 In other words logic cannot impose itself on life but must allow itself to be guided by the inherent template of life.10 Thus it emerges that pressed to the limit, political realities–like all existential realities, are ridden with ambiguities ...
... and truth is not co-extensive with the bound of reason.9 In other words logic cannot impose itself on life but must allow itself to be guided by the inherent template of life.10 Thus it emerges that pressed to the limit, political realities–like all existential realities, are ridden with ambiguities ...
Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth
... non-rational part of our constitution. So for Cudworth’s TEIM, moral rationalism is the view that we grasp morality through our understanding of necessary propositions, and moral sentimentalism is the view that our grasp of morality is based at least in part on some other aspect of our constitution. ...
... non-rational part of our constitution. So for Cudworth’s TEIM, moral rationalism is the view that we grasp morality through our understanding of necessary propositions, and moral sentimentalism is the view that our grasp of morality is based at least in part on some other aspect of our constitution. ...
“Moral Perfectionism” or Emerson`s “Moral Sentiment”?
... selfhood. Thus, very explicitly, “Self-Reliance”: We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom ...
... selfhood. Thus, very explicitly, “Self-Reliance”: We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom ...
The Theaetetus as a Superior Apology.
... ranks of the sophists. Plato’s audience was familiar with such men who proclaimed they had attained some truth and sought to propagate it (Cooper xix). In the Apology, Socrates seeks to differentiate himself from sophists by claiming he has no knowledge (22c). This is why he believes the Delphic ora ...
... ranks of the sophists. Plato’s audience was familiar with such men who proclaimed they had attained some truth and sought to propagate it (Cooper xix). In the Apology, Socrates seeks to differentiate himself from sophists by claiming he has no knowledge (22c). This is why he believes the Delphic ora ...
Hume on Geometry and Infinite Divisibility in the Treatise
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... 1238 Social Sciences and Humanities Building, Davis CA 95616-8673 USA. ernail: [email protected] ...
Scholastic Qualities, Primary and Secondary
... and other qualities. Eustachius a Sancto Paulo puts the first idea quite clearly in his early seventeenth-century textbook: “these qualities are called primary because from their blending (temperie) results the nature of a mixed body, and when this blending is dissolved, the mixed body is necessarily ...
... and other qualities. Eustachius a Sancto Paulo puts the first idea quite clearly in his early seventeenth-century textbook: “these qualities are called primary because from their blending (temperie) results the nature of a mixed body, and when this blending is dissolved, the mixed body is necessarily ...
Schopenhauer`s Theory of Justice
... but little or nothing about his philosophy. If pressed, many would identify him as a precursor of some aspects of fascism or Hitlerism, and perhaps he might have been, but his philosophy was not. The truth is that we would all be much better off if we knew something about his philosophy, but forgot ...
... but little or nothing about his philosophy. If pressed, many would identify him as a precursor of some aspects of fascism or Hitlerism, and perhaps he might have been, but his philosophy was not. The truth is that we would all be much better off if we knew something about his philosophy, but forgot ...
METAPHORS IN LEIBNIZ`S PHILOSOPHY
... Let us consider these hypotheses in turn. In his well-known work on formal languages, Leibniz follows the predominant tendency of his time, which views precise definitions of all terms as a sine qua non for rigorous scientific and philosophical discourse, thereby minimizing the use of tropes therein ...
... Let us consider these hypotheses in turn. In his well-known work on formal languages, Leibniz follows the predominant tendency of his time, which views precise definitions of all terms as a sine qua non for rigorous scientific and philosophical discourse, thereby minimizing the use of tropes therein ...
Univocity and Analogy: A Comparative Study of Gilbert
... Read in this way, Heidegger's project does share the importance of analogous being with Aquinas. It would be a dreadful mistake, however, to say that he is a Thomist. Whereas Aquinas unifies his analogous understanding of being by appealing to the absolute contingency of the created order upon its C ...
... Read in this way, Heidegger's project does share the importance of analogous being with Aquinas. It would be a dreadful mistake, however, to say that he is a Thomist. Whereas Aquinas unifies his analogous understanding of being by appealing to the absolute contingency of the created order upon its C ...
Merleau-Ponty`s transcendental theory of perception - SAS
... There is, furthermore, the obvious difference of Merleau-Ponty from the other phenomenologists, that Merleau-Ponty pays close attention to psychological science, and to its detail, rather than just referring in wholly general, critical terms to the very idea of empirical psychology. It is true that ...
... There is, furthermore, the obvious difference of Merleau-Ponty from the other phenomenologists, that Merleau-Ponty pays close attention to psychological science, and to its detail, rather than just referring in wholly general, critical terms to the very idea of empirical psychology. It is true that ...
actions-products
... conception is associated with notorious problems in that it identifies propositions that are necessarily true or necessarily false.3 The second conception avoids such problems by reflecting (to an extent) in the meaning of the sentence itself the syntactic structure of the sentence as well as the wa ...
... conception is associated with notorious problems in that it identifies propositions that are necessarily true or necessarily false.3 The second conception avoids such problems by reflecting (to an extent) in the meaning of the sentence itself the syntactic structure of the sentence as well as the wa ...
Recovering Play: On the Relationship Between Leisure and
... was that new forms of technology, with machines replacing humans, would decrease work and increase leisure. Philosophers like John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx envisioned a leisure society where material abundance would reduce the need for busy workdays and free up time for more authentic—creative and ...
... was that new forms of technology, with machines replacing humans, would decrease work and increase leisure. Philosophers like John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx envisioned a leisure society where material abundance would reduce the need for busy workdays and free up time for more authentic—creative and ...
Getting Priority Straight
... idea, these explanations thereby confer ontological sparsity. The priority theorist holds that, since the existence and features of raindrops can be explained solely by reference to the existence and features of other things, the world is no more ontologically lush for containing raindrops than it i ...
... idea, these explanations thereby confer ontological sparsity. The priority theorist holds that, since the existence and features of raindrops can be explained solely by reference to the existence and features of other things, the world is no more ontologically lush for containing raindrops than it i ...
6 S Being and Being Grounded
... adds that this claim follows from the principle that nothing comes to be without reason.11 While Leibniz seems to think that the principle of sufficient reason, together with the principle of contradiction, holds for all true propositions, he distinguishes the scope of what depends upon it from the ...
... adds that this claim follows from the principle that nothing comes to be without reason.11 While Leibniz seems to think that the principle of sufficient reason, together with the principle of contradiction, holds for all true propositions, he distinguishes the scope of what depends upon it from the ...
Giambattista Vico`s Idea Of "Progress": The Collapse Of Reason
... Vico was diligent about explaining who had influenced his writing; he acknowledged those thinkers that had set his mind into motion. Early on he was introduced to both Aristotle and Plato, and though he found great use in Aristotle's syllogisms to bridge two ideas, he ultimately found Plato and his ...
... Vico was diligent about explaining who had influenced his writing; he acknowledged those thinkers that had set his mind into motion. Early on he was introduced to both Aristotle and Plato, and though he found great use in Aristotle's syllogisms to bridge two ideas, he ultimately found Plato and his ...
Entitlement, Justification, and the Bootstrapping
... One way to prohibit bootstrapping, then, would be to deny the possibility of basic justification. This move would be especially appealing to the philosopher who holds that the concept of justification centers on the idea of being receptive to the reasons one has and using them to shape one’s doxasti ...
... One way to prohibit bootstrapping, then, would be to deny the possibility of basic justification. This move would be especially appealing to the philosopher who holds that the concept of justification centers on the idea of being receptive to the reasons one has and using them to shape one’s doxasti ...
The Problem of Nonexistence: Truthmaking or
... it allows for a predicate ‘Professor x was an expert on Tarot’ to be generated by removing ‘Dummett’ from ‘Professor Dummett was an expert on tarot’. But it does not make any sense to predicate this of an object, as can be seen by completing the predicate with some other phrase that picks out Dummet ...
... it allows for a predicate ‘Professor x was an expert on Tarot’ to be generated by removing ‘Dummett’ from ‘Professor Dummett was an expert on tarot’. But it does not make any sense to predicate this of an object, as can be seen by completing the predicate with some other phrase that picks out Dummet ...
Why did Hume call his Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals
... (xxii, quoting GG), yet in the end he merely concludes: ‘It is better to read Hume in the Enquiries than not to read him at all’ (p. xxxi). Grose had claimed earlier that Hume had apparently given up deep thinking for pleasant and successful writing, remarking that ‘few men of letters have been at h ...
... (xxii, quoting GG), yet in the end he merely concludes: ‘It is better to read Hume in the Enquiries than not to read him at all’ (p. xxxi). Grose had claimed earlier that Hume had apparently given up deep thinking for pleasant and successful writing, remarking that ‘few men of letters have been at h ...