ARISTOTLE'S PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN LIFE Sotshangane
... hand, is the result of habit, from which it has actually got its name, being a slight modification of the word . ethos', which means a character. The ethical aspect of any man appears through the development of his or her characte~. A character makes it obvious that none of the moral virtues arises ...
... hand, is the result of habit, from which it has actually got its name, being a slight modification of the word . ethos', which means a character. The ethical aspect of any man appears through the development of his or her characte~. A character makes it obvious that none of the moral virtues arises ...
Simplicity - Heythrop College Publications
... the mystery of the human soul primarily as an explanatory problem and not an essential feature of our erotic everyday life. However, it is possible to adopt an analogical middle path between the extremes of naive BBC4 journalist, who promise us to ‘unlock the secret of the human soul’, and sophistic ...
... the mystery of the human soul primarily as an explanatory problem and not an essential feature of our erotic everyday life. However, it is possible to adopt an analogical middle path between the extremes of naive BBC4 journalist, who promise us to ‘unlock the secret of the human soul’, and sophistic ...
Rationalism - LabTec-CS
... “All bachelors are called Kevin” is true, I would need to go and find out by asking them or conducting a survey. In this sense, innate ideas are a type of a priori knowledge. To know that they are true, we do not need to conduct a survey, perform an experiment, etc. – they are just true. However, al ...
... “All bachelors are called Kevin” is true, I would need to go and find out by asking them or conducting a survey. In this sense, innate ideas are a type of a priori knowledge. To know that they are true, we do not need to conduct a survey, perform an experiment, etc. – they are just true. However, al ...
IS THERE ANY REAL RIGHT OR WRONG
... result of chemical reactions. We are like a marionette whose actions are beyond its control. What moral value does a marionette or its movements have? xi And clearly, such a being would not be morally responsible for any of its actions. It is critical to note what I am not saying. I am not saying th ...
... result of chemical reactions. We are like a marionette whose actions are beyond its control. What moral value does a marionette or its movements have? xi And clearly, such a being would not be morally responsible for any of its actions. It is critical to note what I am not saying. I am not saying th ...
The Logical Argument is not Bankrupt
... we think an omnipotent being could not actualize some possible worlds? Take the following example. We have a situation S* where Smith is significantly free to either lie to his wife about his speeding ticket or tell the truth about his ticket. Obviously, God would want Smith to tell his wife the tru ...
... we think an omnipotent being could not actualize some possible worlds? Take the following example. We have a situation S* where Smith is significantly free to either lie to his wife about his speeding ticket or tell the truth about his ticket. Obviously, God would want Smith to tell his wife the tru ...
PDF, 120kb - Early Modern Texts
... are perfectly alike. And this seems to have led him to another of his grand principles, which he calls the identity of indiscernibles—·the thesis that if x is in every way exactly like y then x is y, or that two things cannot be exactly alike in every way·. When the principle of sufficient reason ha ...
... are perfectly alike. And this seems to have led him to another of his grand principles, which he calls the identity of indiscernibles—·the thesis that if x is in every way exactly like y then x is y, or that two things cannot be exactly alike in every way·. When the principle of sufficient reason ha ...
The Apology and Crito
... 5. Obviously people harm good people all the time! How can Socrates deny this? This seems surprising...but on Socrates' view a person becomes good by virtue of having knowledge, moreover, knowledge is something one can never be deprived of once one has it. Beat me, rob me, etc., and my knowledge rem ...
... 5. Obviously people harm good people all the time! How can Socrates deny this? This seems surprising...but on Socrates' view a person becomes good by virtue of having knowledge, moreover, knowledge is something one can never be deprived of once one has it. Beat me, rob me, etc., and my knowledge rem ...
Stanisław Judycki
... In the second sense we interpret ‘perfection’ as a maximal realization of potentialities that belong to some object but this object does not need to be susceptible to any moral or aesthetic assessment. In every-day life it very often happens that we are talking about objects or things more or less p ...
... In the second sense we interpret ‘perfection’ as a maximal realization of potentialities that belong to some object but this object does not need to be susceptible to any moral or aesthetic assessment. In every-day life it very often happens that we are talking about objects or things more or less p ...
Intro to Philosophy
... If someone were to claim that there is an elephant in your living room, we could prove or disprove the claim by going into your living room, looking around, and, on the basis of our perceptions, discovering whether there is an elephant there or not. And the result of our investigation -- i.e., our ...
... If someone were to claim that there is an elephant in your living room, we could prove or disprove the claim by going into your living room, looking around, and, on the basis of our perceptions, discovering whether there is an elephant there or not. And the result of our investigation -- i.e., our ...
Truth and Meaning
... them. You need, at least, to know how they look. A mental symbol does not contain any information about how cows look, and so it is not what psychologists would call a concept. You need to deploy your knowledge of cows in order to recognize a cow. It is your knowledge of cows, including tacit knowle ...
... them. You need, at least, to know how they look. A mental symbol does not contain any information about how cows look, and so it is not what psychologists would call a concept. You need to deploy your knowledge of cows in order to recognize a cow. It is your knowledge of cows, including tacit knowle ...
Prelude
... ethical aspects of the problem of the inescapable self in Chapter 3, on altruism, and Chapter 4, on objectivity. Another aspect of the problem of the inescapable self comes into view in Chapter 4. Descartes’s retreat into the citadel of the certainties of self-consciousness not only puts everything ...
... ethical aspects of the problem of the inescapable self in Chapter 3, on altruism, and Chapter 4, on objectivity. Another aspect of the problem of the inescapable self comes into view in Chapter 4. Descartes’s retreat into the citadel of the certainties of self-consciousness not only puts everything ...
God - Royal Institute Philosophy
... A second attribute which has been argued for is omniscience, meaning that God is allknowing; a prevalent interpretation of this being that God knows all true propositions (statements) or every proposition that it is logically possible to know. If we are to understand God as the perfect being, then i ...
... A second attribute which has been argued for is omniscience, meaning that God is allknowing; a prevalent interpretation of this being that God knows all true propositions (statements) or every proposition that it is logically possible to know. If we are to understand God as the perfect being, then i ...
Maimonides on Free Will - The Metaphysical Society of America
... the world. In fact, he Guide conceals its deepest meaning from the reader who has not been initiated into philosophy. The perplexed, as defined by Maimonides, are confronted with two sources of authority, the Torah and wisdom They are faced with what some might call an “existential crisis,” a choice ...
... the world. In fact, he Guide conceals its deepest meaning from the reader who has not been initiated into philosophy. The perplexed, as defined by Maimonides, are confronted with two sources of authority, the Torah and wisdom They are faced with what some might call an “existential crisis,” a choice ...
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... since the dawn of the modern era. It is so engrained in our culture, that the sentence “to find a scientific explanation” usually means “to point to an antecedent situation, which ...
... since the dawn of the modern era. It is so engrained in our culture, that the sentence “to find a scientific explanation” usually means “to point to an antecedent situation, which ...
What is Transcendentalism?
... "Transcendentalism" meant. I couldn't figure out what the central idea was that held all those authors and poets and philosophers together so that they deserved this categorical name, Transcendentalists. And so, if you're at this page because you're having difficulty: you're not alone. Here's what I ...
... "Transcendentalism" meant. I couldn't figure out what the central idea was that held all those authors and poets and philosophers together so that they deserved this categorical name, Transcendentalists. And so, if you're at this page because you're having difficulty: you're not alone. Here's what I ...
God and Physics: From Hawking to Avicenna
... Carl Sagan, in his introduction to A Brief History of Time, argues that Hawking’s cosmology shows us “a universe with no edge in space, no beginning or end in time, and nothing for a Creator to do.”19 One of the more prolific writers on current cosmology is John Barrow, professor of astronomy at th ...
... Carl Sagan, in his introduction to A Brief History of Time, argues that Hawking’s cosmology shows us “a universe with no edge in space, no beginning or end in time, and nothing for a Creator to do.”19 One of the more prolific writers on current cosmology is John Barrow, professor of astronomy at th ...
The Concept Of Soul Or Self In Vedanta
... the sages of the Upanishads. Max Müller, in his Three Lectures on the Vedanta Philosophy, gives his opinion as to why this supreme wisdom about healthy human living was not available to the Greeks, or to the Medieval or modern philosophers: "But if it seem strange to you that the old Indian philosop ...
... the sages of the Upanishads. Max Müller, in his Three Lectures on the Vedanta Philosophy, gives his opinion as to why this supreme wisdom about healthy human living was not available to the Greeks, or to the Medieval or modern philosophers: "But if it seem strange to you that the old Indian philosop ...
Summa Theologicae
... > If happiness lies in created goods, then it cannot be our end goal because created goods are not perfect goods > Happiness is the perfect good that satiates all desires; if this is otherwise then there should be something beyond happiness and it would not be our end goal ...
... > If happiness lies in created goods, then it cannot be our end goal because created goods are not perfect goods > Happiness is the perfect good that satiates all desires; if this is otherwise then there should be something beyond happiness and it would not be our end goal ...
Plato and Vedanta
... contemporary of the Buddha, Mahavira and Confucius. Human culture was being developed and the basic ideas that have shaped human destiny ever since were being formulated. It is my view th at Plato's thinking hos influenced religious and social thinking in every part of the globe. " He hos always bee ...
... contemporary of the Buddha, Mahavira and Confucius. Human culture was being developed and the basic ideas that have shaped human destiny ever since were being formulated. It is my view th at Plato's thinking hos influenced religious and social thinking in every part of the globe. " He hos always bee ...
Chapter 2: You are what you do Key Terms Agent
... Naturalism was first coined in 1903 and is the one, if not the most, widely held philosophy today. It sees the material universe as a unified system and believes everything in it is shaped by physical, biological, psychological, social and environmental processes. You can think of it like a chain; e ...
... Naturalism was first coined in 1903 and is the one, if not the most, widely held philosophy today. It sees the material universe as a unified system and believes everything in it is shaped by physical, biological, psychological, social and environmental processes. You can think of it like a chain; e ...
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... natures, and therefore excludes supernatural causes and events. Whether Ibn Rushd believes that miracles really do happen, or are only said to happen for the sake of common believers, they will by definition not fall within the realm of scientific, Aristotelian discourse: ‘it is necessary to say abo ...
... natures, and therefore excludes supernatural causes and events. Whether Ibn Rushd believes that miracles really do happen, or are only said to happen for the sake of common believers, they will by definition not fall within the realm of scientific, Aristotelian discourse: ‘it is necessary to say abo ...
Metaphor and Analogy in Mathematics*
... (Recall the move from N to Z as a source of exponents as another instance of metaphor). Thus whenever we see a- 2 for example, we transfer the meaning of the other side, giving force to Polya's injunction, "Go back to the definitions" [Pol ya, 1948]. The second use is more worthy of the same theorem ...
... (Recall the move from N to Z as a source of exponents as another instance of metaphor). Thus whenever we see a- 2 for example, we transfer the meaning of the other side, giving force to Polya's injunction, "Go back to the definitions" [Pol ya, 1948]. The second use is more worthy of the same theorem ...
Divine Injunction
... “Kant himself in a later work, and many other thinkers, have argued from the existence of the moral law to a lawgiver, God. This argument has also been used: The moral law is objective. In what, then, does it reside? Certainly not in the physical world. Nor only in the minds of men. An ethical propo ...
... “Kant himself in a later work, and many other thinkers, have argued from the existence of the moral law to a lawgiver, God. This argument has also been used: The moral law is objective. In what, then, does it reside? Certainly not in the physical world. Nor only in the minds of men. An ethical propo ...
MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Philo 12) - Law, Politics, and Philosophy
... pity towards a certain person, for example. Or why in some circumstances should we denounce the acts of a certain person and claim that he is evil. These said accounts attempts to explain why we feel these things and make these moral judgments about them. Although there are numerous accounts that ex ...
... pity towards a certain person, for example. Or why in some circumstances should we denounce the acts of a certain person and claim that he is evil. These said accounts attempts to explain why we feel these things and make these moral judgments about them. Although there are numerous accounts that ex ...
Meaning of life
The meaning of life, or the answer to the question ""What is the meaning of life?"", is a philosophical and spiritual conception of the significance of living or existence in general. The question seeking the meaning of life can also be expressed in different forms, such as ""What should I do?"", ""Why are we here?"", ""What is life all about?"", and ""What is the purpose of existence?"" or even ""Does life exist at all?"" There have been a large number of proposed answers to these questions from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. The search for life's meaning has produced much philosophical, scientific, and theological speculation throughout history.The meaning of life as we perceive it is derived from our philosophical and religious contemplation of, and scientific inquiries about existence, social ties, consciousness, and happiness. Many other issues are also involved, such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, the existence of one or multiple gods, conceptions of God, the soul, and the afterlife. Scientific contributions focus primarily on describing related empirical facts about the universe, exploring the context and parameters concerning the 'how' of life. Science also studies and can provide recommendations for the pursuit of well-being and a related conception of morality. An alternative, humanistic approach poses the question ""What is the meaning of my life?""