Leo Tolstoy`s View of Religion and the Philosophy of Daisaku Ikeda
... oneself. Until you find God within yourself, you will nowhere find him,”33 Ikeda pointed out Tolstoy’s affinity with Buddhist teachings, saying that it is reminiscent of “the Buddhist view of the human being—the view that Buddhahood is immanent within the life of each individual.”34 Both their views ...
... oneself. Until you find God within yourself, you will nowhere find him,”33 Ikeda pointed out Tolstoy’s affinity with Buddhist teachings, saying that it is reminiscent of “the Buddhist view of the human being—the view that Buddhahood is immanent within the life of each individual.”34 Both their views ...
modern western philosophy BA PHILOSOPHY VI SEMESTER
... a whole in which room will be found for such of the values of art, morality, and religion as can be shown to be consonant with the established results of scientific investigation. But it is necessary to disclose facts as they may be, and to learn to live as well as possible in the light of this know ...
... a whole in which room will be found for such of the values of art, morality, and religion as can be shown to be consonant with the established results of scientific investigation. But it is necessary to disclose facts as they may be, and to learn to live as well as possible in the light of this know ...
SPIS TREŚCI
... poem Theogony as a trickster, one who seeks to challenge the wisdom of almighty Zeus by attempting to usurp his authority and free humanity from the dictates of the gods. In one instance, Prometheus steals the fire from Hephaestos, the crippled blacksmith of the gods, hiding it in a fennel stalk and ...
... poem Theogony as a trickster, one who seeks to challenge the wisdom of almighty Zeus by attempting to usurp his authority and free humanity from the dictates of the gods. In one instance, Prometheus steals the fire from Hephaestos, the crippled blacksmith of the gods, hiding it in a fennel stalk and ...
the fragility of consciousness: lonergan and the postmodern concern
... between objects and the intentional acts by which they are "known" sensitively or intellectually. If we prescindfromLocke's nominalism, it becomes clear that Locke is interested not in the metaphysical paraphernalia of substantial forms or souls with their relevant faculties or accidents but in cons ...
... between objects and the intentional acts by which they are "known" sensitively or intellectually. If we prescindfromLocke's nominalism, it becomes clear that Locke is interested not in the metaphysical paraphernalia of substantial forms or souls with their relevant faculties or accidents but in cons ...
Kant`s History of Ethics
... heteronomous moral principles are mainly to modern moral philosophers. It is true that Epicurus and the Stoics are mentioned regarding two of the six kinds of principle, but from Kant’s lectures we learn (perhaps to our surprise) that strictly speaking no ancient ethical theory was primarily oriente ...
... heteronomous moral principles are mainly to modern moral philosophers. It is true that Epicurus and the Stoics are mentioned regarding two of the six kinds of principle, but from Kant’s lectures we learn (perhaps to our surprise) that strictly speaking no ancient ethical theory was primarily oriente ...
Ethics of terminology
... No examples of signs where both interpreter and utterer are absent e.g. natural signs are not signs until they are considered as signs ...
... No examples of signs where both interpreter and utterer are absent e.g. natural signs are not signs until they are considered as signs ...
Kant`s Pre-Critical Proof for God`s Existence
... Kant continued to lecture his entire academic career. It both criticizes and critically appropriates elements from that tradition in an attempt to work out a better theory of possibility than that on offer in those books. The failure of Kant (and his successors down to the twentieth century) to jus ...
... Kant continued to lecture his entire academic career. It both criticizes and critically appropriates elements from that tradition in an attempt to work out a better theory of possibility than that on offer in those books. The failure of Kant (and his successors down to the twentieth century) to jus ...
heraclitean critique of kantian and enlightenment ethics through the
... irrefutability of the Heraclitean notion of universal becoming or the transitory nature of all things, admitting the impossibility of positing a totally persistent and self-conscious subject. The major Heraclitean doctrine of panta rhei makes it impossible to conduct philosophical inquiry by assumin ...
... irrefutability of the Heraclitean notion of universal becoming or the transitory nature of all things, admitting the impossibility of positing a totally persistent and self-conscious subject. The major Heraclitean doctrine of panta rhei makes it impossible to conduct philosophical inquiry by assumin ...
ABSOLUTE - Polskie Towarzystwo Tomasza z Akwinu
... perfect Person, the fullness of Truth and Love, an absolute being different from the world (transcendent), and not subject to the condition of the world. The Church Fathers in the first centuries of Christianity developed a metaphysical interpretation of the revealed truths about the person, single, ...
... perfect Person, the fullness of Truth and Love, an absolute being different from the world (transcendent), and not subject to the condition of the world. The Church Fathers in the first centuries of Christianity developed a metaphysical interpretation of the revealed truths about the person, single, ...
ethical egoism - Westmont homepage server
... unraveling the whole fabric of morality. If our ultimate principles are arbitrary, they say, if those principles came out of thin air, then anyone can hold any principle he pleases. Unless moral assertions are statements of fact about the world and either true or false, we can’t claim that any man i ...
... unraveling the whole fabric of morality. If our ultimate principles are arbitrary, they say, if those principles came out of thin air, then anyone can hold any principle he pleases. Unless moral assertions are statements of fact about the world and either true or false, we can’t claim that any man i ...
An Essay on the Beautiful
... to all who desire to penetrate into the depths of this divine wisdom. From the exalted nature of his genius, he was called Intellect by his contemporaries, and is said to have composed his books under the influence of divine illumination. Porphyry relates, in his life, that he was four times united ...
... to all who desire to penetrate into the depths of this divine wisdom. From the exalted nature of his genius, he was called Intellect by his contemporaries, and is said to have composed his books under the influence of divine illumination. Porphyry relates, in his life, that he was four times united ...
a paradox of virtue
... rightness. However, as it is often suggested, if a moral agent always tries to act in order to maximize happiness, it is likely that this would actually lead to the failure to maximize happiness. In response to this, it is argued that utilitarianism should be taken only as a theory concerning the cr ...
... rightness. However, as it is often suggested, if a moral agent always tries to act in order to maximize happiness, it is likely that this would actually lead to the failure to maximize happiness. In response to this, it is argued that utilitarianism should be taken only as a theory concerning the cr ...
Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals
... human conditions? And how could laws for •our will be held to be laws for •the will of any rational being (and valid for us only because we are such beings), if they were merely empirical and didn’t arise a priori from pure though practical reason? One couldn’t do worse by morality than drawing it f ...
... human conditions? And how could laws for •our will be held to be laws for •the will of any rational being (and valid for us only because we are such beings), if they were merely empirical and didn’t arise a priori from pure though practical reason? One couldn’t do worse by morality than drawing it f ...
hindu ethics
... attention. It may be said without exaggeration that none of the questions treated in modern European ethical works have yet been raised. There is no discussion of the moral end; there are no problems arising out of seemingly conflicting duties, nor regarding the relation of the individual to society ...
... attention. It may be said without exaggeration that none of the questions treated in modern European ethical works have yet been raised. There is no discussion of the moral end; there are no problems arising out of seemingly conflicting duties, nor regarding the relation of the individual to society ...
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
... argument, which is the keystone that allows the system of real necessity to close in upon itself. Such a refusal enjoins us to maintain that there is no legitimate demonstration that a determinate entity should exist unconditionally. We might also add in passing that such a refusal of dogmatism furn ...
... argument, which is the keystone that allows the system of real necessity to close in upon itself. Such a refusal enjoins us to maintain that there is no legitimate demonstration that a determinate entity should exist unconditionally. We might also add in passing that such a refusal of dogmatism furn ...
Surfaciality
... workroom in Lisbon, in much confusion and containing a profusion of fictional, aesthetic, philosophical, political, sociological and autobiographical writings, in addition to a large quantity of verse. As only 5000 of these manuscripts have been published, less than a fifth, there may well be some s ...
... workroom in Lisbon, in much confusion and containing a profusion of fictional, aesthetic, philosophical, political, sociological and autobiographical writings, in addition to a large quantity of verse. As only 5000 of these manuscripts have been published, less than a fifth, there may well be some s ...
Was Berkeley an Ethical Egoist
... become ill: the pleasure will be replaced by pain; and if one regularly eats enough ice cream over an extended period of time, the medical types tell us it will lead to heart disease and death. Insofar as an egoist ought to maximize her own interests (pleasures), preference ought to be given to acti ...
... become ill: the pleasure will be replaced by pain; and if one regularly eats enough ice cream over an extended period of time, the medical types tell us it will lead to heart disease and death. Insofar as an egoist ought to maximize her own interests (pleasures), preference ought to be given to acti ...
A reply on Spinoza`s behalf
... answer, at least, was affirmative, as Michael Forster observes; yet the relation is more complex. To understand the relation between Spinoza’s ethical philosophy and Christianity, we must invoke his distinction between the free and those who are yet in bondage to the passions – that is, between genuin ...
... answer, at least, was affirmative, as Michael Forster observes; yet the relation is more complex. To understand the relation between Spinoza’s ethical philosophy and Christianity, we must invoke his distinction between the free and those who are yet in bondage to the passions – that is, between genuin ...
The Hans India: How Happy is Happiness
... based on a GNH impact statement. The concept requires that all plans answer eight different parametres physical, mental and spiritual health; time-balance; social and community vitality; cultural vitality; education; living standards; good governance; and ecological vitality. Although the GNH framew ...
... based on a GNH impact statement. The concept requires that all plans answer eight different parametres physical, mental and spiritual health; time-balance; social and community vitality; cultural vitality; education; living standards; good governance; and ecological vitality. Although the GNH framew ...
A Tension in Pragmatist and Neo
... Brandom’s normative “inferentialist” semantics, developed from Sellars, will be aware of at least one sophisticated contemporary pragmatist way in which to work out the latter idea – that is, the idea that the intentional contents of our thoughts “is to be interpreted in terms of what we are prepare ...
... Brandom’s normative “inferentialist” semantics, developed from Sellars, will be aware of at least one sophisticated contemporary pragmatist way in which to work out the latter idea – that is, the idea that the intentional contents of our thoughts “is to be interpreted in terms of what we are prepare ...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
... possible world that contains only a single item: a stunning Vermeer painting. Leave aside any doubts you might have about whether paintings can be good in a world without viewers, and accept for the sake of argument that this painting has aesthetic value in that world. It seems intuitively plausible ...
... possible world that contains only a single item: a stunning Vermeer painting. Leave aside any doubts you might have about whether paintings can be good in a world without viewers, and accept for the sake of argument that this painting has aesthetic value in that world. It seems intuitively plausible ...
Divine Origin of Gender
... affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronouncedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and is accompanied by a certain detachment.11 It is interesting that she would have arrived at such a conclusion using motherhood as the primar ...
... affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronouncedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and is accompanied by a certain detachment.11 It is interesting that she would have arrived at such a conclusion using motherhood as the primar ...
Epistemology Dehumanized
... merely believe, that God exists, yet recognize that we do not. So we look for “evidences” of his existence. In the courtroom, a verdict of guilt or innocence may be mandatory, though neither guilt nor innocence is self-evident or made evident by anything that is selfevident. So we look for something ...
... merely believe, that God exists, yet recognize that we do not. So we look for “evidences” of his existence. In the courtroom, a verdict of guilt or innocence may be mandatory, though neither guilt nor innocence is self-evident or made evident by anything that is selfevident. So we look for something ...
Blaise Pascal. (1623-1662). His Religious Philosophy
... us to know what is meant by the words motion, number, space. Without stopping for useless definitions, it penetrates into the very nature, and discovers the wonderful properties, of these three things, "which," says Pascal, speaking as a true Cartesian, "comprise the whole universe." But if we try t ...
... us to know what is meant by the words motion, number, space. Without stopping for useless definitions, it penetrates into the very nature, and discovers the wonderful properties, of these three things, "which," says Pascal, speaking as a true Cartesian, "comprise the whole universe." But if we try t ...
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?""