CHAPTER-IV PROBLEM OF GOD AND THE ABSOLUTE
... alternatives. If there is an Absolute of that essential sort, then it is meaningless to support that there might instead have been an Absolute of some other some what different nature or essence. When we make enquiry with our imperfect insight into modality, we find that there are alternative Absolu ...
... alternatives. If there is an Absolute of that essential sort, then it is meaningless to support that there might instead have been an Absolute of some other some what different nature or essence. When we make enquiry with our imperfect insight into modality, we find that there are alternative Absolu ...
liberty university school of divinity a non-voluntarist theory
... morality depends upon the will of God as promulgated by divine commands.”4 Ockham’s theory is the standard way of understanding Divine Command Theory by theists and non-theists alike. When faced with the Euthyphro Dilemma, any formulation of Divine Command Theory must overcome two particular theolo ...
... morality depends upon the will of God as promulgated by divine commands.”4 Ockham’s theory is the standard way of understanding Divine Command Theory by theists and non-theists alike. When faced with the Euthyphro Dilemma, any formulation of Divine Command Theory must overcome two particular theolo ...
Giambattista Vico`s Idea Of "Progress": The Collapse Of Reason
... work, The New Science of Giambattista Vico. Culling from the four authors, Vico attempted to explain the manner in which the scientific laws of history and humanistic particulars could and should be brought together. The book tried to define history as a social science in every sense of what defined ...
... work, The New Science of Giambattista Vico. Culling from the four authors, Vico attempted to explain the manner in which the scientific laws of history and humanistic particulars could and should be brought together. The book tried to define history as a social science in every sense of what defined ...
Ph 205 Historical Introduction to Philosophy
... Aristotle’s Metaphysics: PHR pH. 76-82 What is change? † PHR pR. 70-74 (Physics & Metaphyics) 10. Mon., Oct. 2 Aristotle’s Moral PHR pH. 82-89 Theory: What is the end † PHR pR. 74-84 (On the Soul & or purpose of life? ...
... Aristotle’s Metaphysics: PHR pH. 76-82 What is change? † PHR pR. 70-74 (Physics & Metaphyics) 10. Mon., Oct. 2 Aristotle’s Moral PHR pH. 82-89 Theory: What is the end † PHR pR. 74-84 (On the Soul & or purpose of life? ...
Modaaliteoria
... In nature there is nothing contingent, but all things have been determined from the necessity of the divine nature to exist and produce an effect in a certain way.i In recent Spinoza scholarship, much less attention has been paid to Spinoza's proof of necessitarianism than to the consistency of his ...
... In nature there is nothing contingent, but all things have been determined from the necessity of the divine nature to exist and produce an effect in a certain way.i In recent Spinoza scholarship, much less attention has been paid to Spinoza's proof of necessitarianism than to the consistency of his ...
GIVING UP YOUR PLACE IN HISTORY. AND JEWISH THOUGHT
... ontology” (Levinas 1991:13) and it is only from this primordial understanding of time, of the historicity that one is yourself, that world history or cosmic history could be understood.5 Initially Levinas was extremely exited about the interpretative possibilities of this philosophy: literally every ...
... ontology” (Levinas 1991:13) and it is only from this primordial understanding of time, of the historicity that one is yourself, that world history or cosmic history could be understood.5 Initially Levinas was extremely exited about the interpretative possibilities of this philosophy: literally every ...
Two Meanings of Disenchantment
... this-worldly perspective (see, e.g., Heidegger 1971, 89–142). Such reasoning makes no sense from the perspective of modern science. Not only is the non-existence of God unverifiable, but, even if it could be established, no logical deductions could be concluded from such non-existence. Yet to admit ...
... this-worldly perspective (see, e.g., Heidegger 1971, 89–142). Such reasoning makes no sense from the perspective of modern science. Not only is the non-existence of God unverifiable, but, even if it could be established, no logical deductions could be concluded from such non-existence. Yet to admit ...
Ethical Encounter - sikkim university library
... done. Then what is at issue in that way of speaking is neither simply object-related nor simply subject-related. And it cannot be understood as a combination of those two possibilities. To speak of the meaning of what was done prescinds from that division.9 I shall bring what I mean by that into cle ...
... done. Then what is at issue in that way of speaking is neither simply object-related nor simply subject-related. And it cannot be understood as a combination of those two possibilities. To speak of the meaning of what was done prescinds from that division.9 I shall bring what I mean by that into cle ...
A Survey of Mediaeval Philosophy, Version 2.0
... into WordPerfect codes. Many transferred nicely. Some of them are still in the text (anything beginning with a backslash is a FancyFont code). Some I just erased without knowing what they were for. All of the files were cleaned up with one macro, and some of them have been further doctored with addi ...
... into WordPerfect codes. Many transferred nicely. Some of them are still in the text (anything beginning with a backslash is a FancyFont code). Some I just erased without knowing what they were for. All of the files were cleaned up with one macro, and some of them have been further doctored with addi ...
Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Second Edition
... course, but the matter is, at most, controversial for us. Aristotle would have found it absurd and, in a way, he would have been right. I try to reclaim the wondrousness of it for philosophical reflection. The encounters I mark are dramatic. Holland did not have such occasions in mind when he spoke o ...
... course, but the matter is, at most, controversial for us. Aristotle would have found it absurd and, in a way, he would have been right. I try to reclaim the wondrousness of it for philosophical reflection. The encounters I mark are dramatic. Holland did not have such occasions in mind when he spoke o ...
PDF - UNT Digital Library
... Because ch’i has inexhaustible power within it, it is always in an unceasing process of movement. The moving power of ch’i is due to the yin-yang principle intrinsic to ch’i rather than caused by external intelligence. Yin and yang are neither material stuff nor the principles of our mind, but are t ...
... Because ch’i has inexhaustible power within it, it is always in an unceasing process of movement. The moving power of ch’i is due to the yin-yang principle intrinsic to ch’i rather than caused by external intelligence. Yin and yang are neither material stuff nor the principles of our mind, but are t ...
(Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy)
... an uncritical acceptance of social norms; it denies us the freedom to think for ourselves on moral issues. Another problem is that we all belong to various overlapping groups. I am part of a specific nation, state, city, and neighborhood; and I am also part of various family, professional, religious ...
... an uncritical acceptance of social norms; it denies us the freedom to think for ourselves on moral issues. Another problem is that we all belong to various overlapping groups. I am part of a specific nation, state, city, and neighborhood; and I am also part of various family, professional, religious ...
in defense of the primacy of the virtues
... N RECENT DECADES THERE HAS BEEN a great deal of interest in virtue ethics, broadly construed. There are, of course, many different such theories, and some dispute over what conditions a theory must meet to qualify as a virtue ethics.1 In what follows, I respond to a set of basic objections to a para ...
... N RECENT DECADES THERE HAS BEEN a great deal of interest in virtue ethics, broadly construed. There are, of course, many different such theories, and some dispute over what conditions a theory must meet to qualify as a virtue ethics.1 In what follows, I respond to a set of basic objections to a para ...
Deplatonising the Celestial Hierarchy. Peter John Olivi`s - Hal-SHS
... study for central philosophical issues, from spaciality and temporality to cognition and language. The interest they attracted cannot be solely explained by the various metaphysical subtleties provided by their bodiless, unchanging and ever-operating intellectual nature. Beyond the wealth of paradox ...
... study for central philosophical issues, from spaciality and temporality to cognition and language. The interest they attracted cannot be solely explained by the various metaphysical subtleties provided by their bodiless, unchanging and ever-operating intellectual nature. Beyond the wealth of paradox ...
Roman Stoicism
... thing that sets us apart from the animals, man’s highest good and ultimate function must involve not just reason, but reasoning at the highest level. This, Aristotle calls ‘virtue’, from which he goes on to build a theory of ethics based on the doctrine of the mean and practical wisdom, and which co ...
... thing that sets us apart from the animals, man’s highest good and ultimate function must involve not just reason, but reasoning at the highest level. This, Aristotle calls ‘virtue’, from which he goes on to build a theory of ethics based on the doctrine of the mean and practical wisdom, and which co ...
A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages
... something on Aquinas, for example, might consult it regardless of the specificity of his or her interests. A topically arranged volume tends to be used only by those interested in the topics the volume covers. Fourth, there is a matter of depth; essays devoted to particular authors can go deeper than ...
... something on Aquinas, for example, might consult it regardless of the specificity of his or her interests. A topically arranged volume tends to be used only by those interested in the topics the volume covers. Fourth, there is a matter of depth; essays devoted to particular authors can go deeper than ...
Document
... whether summum bonum consisted in riches or bodily delights, or virtue, or contemplation? And they might have as reasonably disputed, whether the best relish were to be found in apples, plums, or nuts; and have divided themselves into sects upon it. For as pleasant tastes depend not on the things th ...
... whether summum bonum consisted in riches or bodily delights, or virtue, or contemplation? And they might have as reasonably disputed, whether the best relish were to be found in apples, plums, or nuts; and have divided themselves into sects upon it. For as pleasant tastes depend not on the things th ...
Phenomenology of Eros.indd
... altogether, or to talk at such an abstract distance from it that the problem of particular experience does not occur. We could then find ourselves on the level of the transcendental ego or of a neutral Dasein, not yet belonging to either sex, who, as Levinas teasingly says, is never hungry. This ter ...
... altogether, or to talk at such an abstract distance from it that the problem of particular experience does not occur. We could then find ourselves on the level of the transcendental ego or of a neutral Dasein, not yet belonging to either sex, who, as Levinas teasingly says, is never hungry. This ter ...
Overview - Course Materials
... It’s important to note that formal knowledge cannot be derived from the empirical world. We will see this again and again in the Grounding. We will not be able to derive universal laws applicable to all rational beings from the empirical world. This is the mistake the Kant sees in a number of ethica ...
... It’s important to note that formal knowledge cannot be derived from the empirical world. We will see this again and again in the Grounding. We will not be able to derive universal laws applicable to all rational beings from the empirical world. This is the mistake the Kant sees in a number of ethica ...
FROM FICTION TO PHRONÉSIS A critical dialogue with Martha
... I share my concern to acknowledge the above mentioned characteristics as important aspects of our human ethical existence with many thinkers, of which the most prominent one is undoubtedly Aristotle. In his Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle gives great priority to the fact that we have unique value syste ...
... I share my concern to acknowledge the above mentioned characteristics as important aspects of our human ethical existence with many thinkers, of which the most prominent one is undoubtedly Aristotle. In his Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle gives great priority to the fact that we have unique value syste ...
Kant`s Account of Moral Education
... The second problem is that the idea of education, as it is usually understood, implies the possibility of influencing someone else’s processes of learning. According to Kant’s view, however, the human self can only be seen as free if it is not influenced by empirical causes, that is, if it stands ou ...
... The second problem is that the idea of education, as it is usually understood, implies the possibility of influencing someone else’s processes of learning. According to Kant’s view, however, the human self can only be seen as free if it is not influenced by empirical causes, that is, if it stands ou ...
The Key to Theosophy - Canadian Theosophical Association
... must remain a riddle; for in the world mental as in the world spiritual each man must progress by his own efforts. The writer cannot do the reader's thinking for him, nor would the latter be any the better off if such vicarious thought were possible. The need for such an exposition as the present ha ...
... must remain a riddle; for in the world mental as in the world spiritual each man must progress by his own efforts. The writer cannot do the reader's thinking for him, nor would the latter be any the better off if such vicarious thought were possible. The need for such an exposition as the present ha ...
PLATO: THE SEVENTH LETTER_4
... it evidently differs in its nature from the real circle and from the aforementioned three. Of all d these four, understanding approaches nearest in affinity and likeness to the fifth entity, while the others are more remote from it. The same doctrine holds good in regard to shapes and surfaces, bot ...
... it evidently differs in its nature from the real circle and from the aforementioned three. Of all d these four, understanding approaches nearest in affinity and likeness to the fifth entity, while the others are more remote from it. The same doctrine holds good in regard to shapes and surfaces, bot ...
history of western philosophy_unit2_2012_draft2
... in postulating (as do the Parsees today,) two ultimate principles that of light, Ormuzd, and that of darkness, Ahriman. The evil in the world is the work of Ahriman, who is ever in ...
... in postulating (as do the Parsees today,) two ultimate principles that of light, Ormuzd, and that of darkness, Ahriman. The evil in the world is the work of Ahriman, who is ever in ...
Phaedo
... the truth in a 'mystery.' Or (2) rather, because he is not his own property, but a possession of the gods, and has no right to make away with that which does not belong to him. But why, asks Cebes, if he is a possession of the gods, should he wish to die and leave them? For he is under their protect ...
... the truth in a 'mystery.' Or (2) rather, because he is not his own property, but a possession of the gods, and has no right to make away with that which does not belong to him. But why, asks Cebes, if he is a possession of the gods, should he wish to die and leave them? For he is under their protect ...
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?""