Examining Different Ethical Systems In this session we will be
... telling a lie, cannot be known to be right or wrong until the consequences of that action are understood (someone getting fired). A deontological system, on the other hand, applies moral rules to action types and judges the rightness or wrongness of a particular action according to how it falls unde ...
... telling a lie, cannot be known to be right or wrong until the consequences of that action are understood (someone getting fired). A deontological system, on the other hand, applies moral rules to action types and judges the rightness or wrongness of a particular action according to how it falls unde ...
Rationalist Epistemology
... • Locke did not apply Ockham’s razor vigorously enough. Berkeley applies Ockham’s razor to Locke’s notion of substance. • Experience is the source of most knowledge (except knowledge of self and knowledge of God). So Berkeley is an empiricist, but with an interesting idealist twist. ...
... • Locke did not apply Ockham’s razor vigorously enough. Berkeley applies Ockham’s razor to Locke’s notion of substance. • Experience is the source of most knowledge (except knowledge of self and knowledge of God). So Berkeley is an empiricist, but with an interesting idealist twist. ...
EMPIRICISM John Locke`s Radical Empiricism Contents Ideas
... This notice by our senses, though not so certain as demonstration, yet may be called knowledge, and proves the existence of things without us.” “I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things which he sees and feels. At least, he that can doubt so ...
... This notice by our senses, though not so certain as demonstration, yet may be called knowledge, and proves the existence of things without us.” “I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things which he sees and feels. At least, he that can doubt so ...
x - unbc
... because the apple is still there when we look at it again, most of us believe it has what philosophers call a “mind-independent” basis of existence, which is the matter it is made of ...
... because the apple is still there when we look at it again, most of us believe it has what philosophers call a “mind-independent” basis of existence, which is the matter it is made of ...
Are We Really So Modern - Northampton Community College
... Renaissance, “the history of philosophy is more the history of a sharply inquisitive cast of mind than the history of a sharply defined discipline.” You might say that philosophy is what we call thought in its first, molten state, before it has had a chance to solidify into a scientific discipline, ...
... Renaissance, “the history of philosophy is more the history of a sharply inquisitive cast of mind than the history of a sharply defined discipline.” You might say that philosophy is what we call thought in its first, molten state, before it has had a chance to solidify into a scientific discipline, ...
January 30 Reading - Are We Really So Modern
... Some were professionals: Baruch Spinoza ground lenses for optical equipment; John Locke was a doctor and a diplomat. And some were literary writers, like David Hume, who was better known in his lifetime for his “History of England” than for his philosophical works. Usually, they overlapped several ...
... Some were professionals: Baruch Spinoza ground lenses for optical equipment; John Locke was a doctor and a diplomat. And some were literary writers, like David Hume, who was better known in his lifetime for his “History of England” than for his philosophical works. Usually, they overlapped several ...
Some Notes on the Philosophy of Science
... I. The Problem of Induction We saw in Hume’s Enquiry the classic presentation of the Problem of Induction. Hume’s question was simply: What justification do we have for the beliefs that (a) the future will resemble the past and (b) similar powers will be conjoined with similar sensible effects? (cf. ...
... I. The Problem of Induction We saw in Hume’s Enquiry the classic presentation of the Problem of Induction. Hume’s question was simply: What justification do we have for the beliefs that (a) the future will resemble the past and (b) similar powers will be conjoined with similar sensible effects? (cf. ...
IV. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel‘s Philosophy of Religion
... philosophical self-adoration. Human reason cannot explain its own existence; therefore, it cannot encompass itself and its other within a system of philosophy. • The beginning is world, not reason. Reason is only one aspect of world. ...
... philosophical self-adoration. Human reason cannot explain its own existence; therefore, it cannot encompass itself and its other within a system of philosophy. • The beginning is world, not reason. Reason is only one aspect of world. ...
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13
... history of philosophy and the world itself, often described as a progression in which each successive movement emerges as a solution to the contradictions inherent in the preceding movement. For example, the French Revolution for Hegel constitutes the introduction of real individual political freedo ...
... history of philosophy and the world itself, often described as a progression in which each successive movement emerges as a solution to the contradictions inherent in the preceding movement. For example, the French Revolution for Hegel constitutes the introduction of real individual political freedo ...
Epistemology 1
... VI. The Timaeus: the only dialogue concerning natural science—contains a theory of creation VII. The Critias: discusses the ideal agrarian state projected onto the earliest days of Athens VIII. The Hemocrates: describes the degeneration from the original ideal state to the present IX. The Laws: (la ...
... VI. The Timaeus: the only dialogue concerning natural science—contains a theory of creation VII. The Critias: discusses the ideal agrarian state projected onto the earliest days of Athens VIII. The Hemocrates: describes the degeneration from the original ideal state to the present IX. The Laws: (la ...
Normative Theories of Ethics
... • Egoists cannot act honestly, be gracious and helpful to others, or otherwise promote others’ interests. – Egoism, however, requires us to do whatever will best further our own interests, and doing this sometimes requires us to advance the interests of others. ...
... • Egoists cannot act honestly, be gracious and helpful to others, or otherwise promote others’ interests. – Egoism, however, requires us to do whatever will best further our own interests, and doing this sometimes requires us to advance the interests of others. ...
the value in a story
... Here is an apparently irremovable obstacle of principle in the way of the project for this book. Biography, naturally, is possible, and may serve as “encouragement.” But taking lessons from individual cases is exactly the opposite of what we should do. A single life may illustrate or exemplify a vir ...
... Here is an apparently irremovable obstacle of principle in the way of the project for this book. Biography, naturally, is possible, and may serve as “encouragement.” But taking lessons from individual cases is exactly the opposite of what we should do. A single life may illustrate or exemplify a vir ...
Forms.
... “real?” If someone were to say that the world was NOT real, what would he mean? What would we understand that he was saying? ...
... “real?” If someone were to say that the world was NOT real, what would he mean? What would we understand that he was saying? ...
Ethics Paper
... couldn’t even survive if we didn’t. We treat farmers as means to supply us with food, builders as means to provide us with a place to stay instructors as means to help us get an education. What he is saying is that we shouldn’t treat others as means only. We should deal with others in ways such that ...
... couldn’t even survive if we didn’t. We treat farmers as means to supply us with food, builders as means to provide us with a place to stay instructors as means to help us get an education. What he is saying is that we shouldn’t treat others as means only. We should deal with others in ways such that ...
WESTPHAL FROM START TO FINISH
... True religion is still clothed in particular ideas and practices, although these are no guarantee of true religion. In other words, Religious Experience is more important than Religious Knowledge or Belief., ...
... True religion is still clothed in particular ideas and practices, although these are no guarantee of true religion. In other words, Religious Experience is more important than Religious Knowledge or Belief., ...
A Filosofie II
... statements are essentially uninformative tautologies. If a statement is synthetic, its truth value can only be determined by relying upon observation and experience. Its truth value cannot be determined by relying solely upon logic or examining the meaning of the words involved. (All men are arrogan ...
... statements are essentially uninformative tautologies. If a statement is synthetic, its truth value can only be determined by relying upon observation and experience. Its truth value cannot be determined by relying solely upon logic or examining the meaning of the words involved. (All men are arrogan ...
The Westphal text A3
... Hegel is too much the speculative thinker to be satisfied with either Kant’s reduction of religion to morality or Schleiermacher’s reduction to feeling. Religion must be the knowledge of God, and while Hegel finds Kant’s theology unconvincing, he finds Schleiermacher’s, to which he is more sympathet ...
... Hegel is too much the speculative thinker to be satisfied with either Kant’s reduction of religion to morality or Schleiermacher’s reduction to feeling. Religion must be the knowledge of God, and while Hegel finds Kant’s theology unconvincing, he finds Schleiermacher’s, to which he is more sympathet ...
Universals - The Metaphysicist
... that are abstracted from and found in all particular horses. The terminology is a bit confusing because Plato regarded these Ideas as “real” where today we regard the material things as real and the universals, which are purely abstract and immaterial, as ideal. The great problem of the universals h ...
... that are abstracted from and found in all particular horses. The terminology is a bit confusing because Plato regarded these Ideas as “real” where today we regard the material things as real and the universals, which are purely abstract and immaterial, as ideal. The great problem of the universals h ...
Philosophy in Lincoln-‐Douglas Debate
... important for a debater to understand what it takes to qualify as truth for their given philosopher, as well as their opponents philosopher. If a debater is advocaDng an empiricist such as Locke, Ho ...
... important for a debater to understand what it takes to qualify as truth for their given philosopher, as well as their opponents philosopher. If a debater is advocaDng an empiricist such as Locke, Ho ...
Descartes’ Skeptical Observations
... This piece of bee’s wax: tastes sweet, smells flowery; feels hard and cold, squeezes when I press it, makes sound when I tap it. I hold it near the fire: taste is gone; smell evaporates; color changes, shape is gone; size increases, makes no sound when tapped. Yet I know it is the same wax. So my kn ...
... This piece of bee’s wax: tastes sweet, smells flowery; feels hard and cold, squeezes when I press it, makes sound when I tap it. I hold it near the fire: taste is gone; smell evaporates; color changes, shape is gone; size increases, makes no sound when tapped. Yet I know it is the same wax. So my kn ...
History of Philosophy
... “Subjectivity of will, as a complete phase, is in its turn a whole which, by its very nature, must also have objectivity. Freedom can at first realize itself only in the subject, as it is the true material for this realization. But this concrete manifestation of will, which we have called subjectiv ...
... “Subjectivity of will, as a complete phase, is in its turn a whole which, by its very nature, must also have objectivity. Freedom can at first realize itself only in the subject, as it is the true material for this realization. But this concrete manifestation of will, which we have called subjectiv ...
continental rationalism and British empiricism
... ideas of red, sweet, crisp; from which we form the complex idea of apple, which, when compared with other ideas, gives rise to even more abstract ideas of fruit, taste, and nutrition. ...
... ideas of red, sweet, crisp; from which we form the complex idea of apple, which, when compared with other ideas, gives rise to even more abstract ideas of fruit, taste, and nutrition. ...
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON BA EXAMINATION 2011 PHILOSOPHY
... 11. Can one plausibly maintain that all our moral beliefs are false? 12. Can there be cases of free action where the agent could not have done otherwise? 13. ‘Morality is a matter of feeling, not knowing.’ Discuss. 14. Is an ethical naturalist bound also to be a subjectivist about ethical value? 15 ...
... 11. Can one plausibly maintain that all our moral beliefs are false? 12. Can there be cases of free action where the agent could not have done otherwise? 13. ‘Morality is a matter of feeling, not knowing.’ Discuss. 14. Is an ethical naturalist bound also to be a subjectivist about ethical value? 15 ...
Rationalism
... Church beliefs cast into doubt, Copernicus & Galileo challenged religious/scientific truths ...
... Church beliefs cast into doubt, Copernicus & Galileo challenged religious/scientific truths ...
German idealism
German idealism was a speculative philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was a reaction from Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and was closely linked with both Romanticism and the revolutionary politics of the Enlightenment. The most notable thinkers in the movement were Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, while Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Karl Leonhard Reinhold and Friedrich Schleiermacher also made major contributions.