Engaging Socrates by Joel Alden Schlosser
... to the apparently subdued conversation. Perhaps most famously, in particular for North American audiences, Jacques-Louis David’s “The Death of Socrates” shows Socrates undeterred from his dramatic discoursing – one hand raised to emphasize a point while the other grasps the hemlock – near death but ...
... to the apparently subdued conversation. Perhaps most famously, in particular for North American audiences, Jacques-Louis David’s “The Death of Socrates” shows Socrates undeterred from his dramatic discoursing – one hand raised to emphasize a point while the other grasps the hemlock – near death but ...
aiming at virtue in plato
... SV does not by itself rule in or out any non-evaluatively described actiontype, and it says nothing about how to determine what the virtuous action actually is, which is precisely Cleitophon’s complaint. I thus distinguish between establishing the supreme aim of an agent’s action (which is the funct ...
... SV does not by itself rule in or out any non-evaluatively described actiontype, and it says nothing about how to determine what the virtuous action actually is, which is precisely Cleitophon’s complaint. I thus distinguish between establishing the supreme aim of an agent’s action (which is the funct ...
The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory
... People who have governmental roles sometimes make decisions about controversial social issues, such as the morality of capital punishment or the justice of the tax system. All of us who live in democratic societies need to make decisions about such issues if we intend to vote responsibly. Moral phil ...
... People who have governmental roles sometimes make decisions about controversial social issues, such as the morality of capital punishment or the justice of the tax system. All of us who live in democratic societies need to make decisions about such issues if we intend to vote responsibly. Moral phil ...
THE PHILOSOPHIES OF HISTORY OF HERDER AND
... the Christ Himself had in mind (“render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s” [Luke, 20:25]), but represents the natural evolution of ideas that were first revealed long ago, that have taken on many forms across history, and that invariably will ...
... the Christ Himself had in mind (“render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s” [Luke, 20:25]), but represents the natural evolution of ideas that were first revealed long ago, that have taken on many forms across history, and that invariably will ...
Hegel, Nietzsche and the Beyond Within Life by Michael Harry
... Far from realising the inherently meaningful nature of the human world, the result of the Hegelian revolution is nihilism. The discussion of Nietzsche's notion of nihilism turns on his distinction between the 'other-worldly' nihilism inherent in the transcendent dualist world view, and the radical n ...
... Far from realising the inherently meaningful nature of the human world, the result of the Hegelian revolution is nihilism. The discussion of Nietzsche's notion of nihilism turns on his distinction between the 'other-worldly' nihilism inherent in the transcendent dualist world view, and the radical n ...
Writing Duty: Religion, Obligation and Autonomy in George Eliot and
... George Eliot. Allen Dunn‟s ready assistance and patient guidance have been essential in shaping and executing project, and are also greatly appreciated in pursuing a plurality of problems, critical and philosophical. I would also like to thank Amy Billone, whose interests and encouragement have been ...
... George Eliot. Allen Dunn‟s ready assistance and patient guidance have been essential in shaping and executing project, and are also greatly appreciated in pursuing a plurality of problems, critical and philosophical. I would also like to thank Amy Billone, whose interests and encouragement have been ...
The Theaetetus as a Superior Apology.
... As I will explain, the account is not a defense of the historical Socrates, but the character that Plato fashions within his dramatic timeline. But I argue a stronger defense of that character exists in the Platonic corpus. Plato’s Theaetetus is a more effective defense of Socrates than the Apology ...
... As I will explain, the account is not a defense of the historical Socrates, but the character that Plato fashions within his dramatic timeline. But I argue a stronger defense of that character exists in the Platonic corpus. Plato’s Theaetetus is a more effective defense of Socrates than the Apology ...
socrates the cosmopolitan
... Throughout the rest of the dialogue, Socrates argues for a quite different picture of virtue. Socratic virtue is the sort of expertise which the Athenian assembly rejects; it requires knowledge of what is good and bad (especially for the soul), not the skills that bring conventional power. This subt ...
... Throughout the rest of the dialogue, Socrates argues for a quite different picture of virtue. Socratic virtue is the sort of expertise which the Athenian assembly rejects; it requires knowledge of what is good and bad (especially for the soul), not the skills that bring conventional power. This subt ...
Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth
... then—according to Cudworth’s TEIM—that mental item must originate in some 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 mo ...
... then—according to Cudworth’s TEIM—that mental item must originate in some 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 mo ...
thackeray the satirist - Rice Scholarship Home
... So it comes about that this great man has little t o say about the things that are eternal, much to say of the things of a season. A good deal of the difficulty with which his characters have to contend is money difficulty. T h e heroic and tragic books in literature are not usually woven out of the ...
... So it comes about that this great man has little t o say about the things that are eternal, much to say of the things of a season. A good deal of the difficulty with which his characters have to contend is money difficulty. T h e heroic and tragic books in literature are not usually woven out of the ...
- SOAS Research Online
... account of language and has been seen by some to play a central role in epistemology and even metaphysics3’. Metaphor is no longer considered as an ornament important only in poetics and rhetoric which can be substituted for literal language without any loss of meaning; rather metaphor has a cogniti ...
... account of language and has been seen by some to play a central role in epistemology and even metaphysics3’. Metaphor is no longer considered as an ornament important only in poetics and rhetoric which can be substituted for literal language without any loss of meaning; rather metaphor has a cogniti ...
new Nietzsche
... Nietzsche's biography is uninspiring, to say the least. Nonetheless, this subject appears to have been the principal source of inspiration for the tiresome array of books that has followed him. The situation changed, however, with the publication of Heidegger's two-volume study, in which Nietzsche f ...
... Nietzsche's biography is uninspiring, to say the least. Nonetheless, this subject appears to have been the principal source of inspiration for the tiresome array of books that has followed him. The situation changed, however, with the publication of Heidegger's two-volume study, in which Nietzsche f ...
Walker Percy and the Magic of Naming
... and medical doctor – naming was the secret to unlocking the mystery of human beings. Arising from the uniquely human capacity for “symbol-mongering,” naming is the crossing of the symbolic threshold from animal to human. Naming is a joyful, powerful event – from our first naming to every symbolic ac ...
... and medical doctor – naming was the secret to unlocking the mystery of human beings. Arising from the uniquely human capacity for “symbol-mongering,” naming is the crossing of the symbolic threshold from animal to human. Naming is a joyful, powerful event – from our first naming to every symbolic ac ...
Dharma - Esamskriti
... our contacts with the world outside, we will have to rediscover our true dharma. The Self is realized only when we have withdrawn our false identification with the body, mind and intellect. Due to a clinging attachment to these vehicles, we are today expressing in our existence the dharma of these m ...
... our contacts with the world outside, we will have to rediscover our true dharma. The Self is realized only when we have withdrawn our false identification with the body, mind and intellect. Due to a clinging attachment to these vehicles, we are today expressing in our existence the dharma of these m ...
Is Kierkegaard correct in thinking that there is such a thing as `the
... suspended, at least temporarily. When a student is suspended from school, her right to attend classes is forfeited. Secondly, a temporal suspension does not require the thing suspended to be preserved in something higher. One can be suspended from school without one’s education being preserved elsew ...
... suspended, at least temporarily. When a student is suspended from school, her right to attend classes is forfeited. Secondly, a temporal suspension does not require the thing suspended to be preserved in something higher. One can be suspended from school without one’s education being preserved elsew ...
Eastern Flames In The Mind On Fire: A Study Of
... This work will be an example of Schwab’s and Dunston’s views rather than Said’s, because Emerson examined the eastern works in order to show the west a new way of thinking that would elevate their knowledge. In fact, Emerson’s enthusiasm with eastern works connotes a favorable perspective of Orient ...
... This work will be an example of Schwab’s and Dunston’s views rather than Said’s, because Emerson examined the eastern works in order to show the west a new way of thinking that would elevate their knowledge. In fact, Emerson’s enthusiasm with eastern works connotes a favorable perspective of Orient ...
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
... THE SECOND DISCUSSION: The Refutation of their Theory of the Incorruptibility of the World and of Time and Motion THE THIRD DISCUSSION: The demonstration of their confusion in saying that God is the agent and the maker of the world and that the world in His product and act, and the demonstration tha ...
... THE SECOND DISCUSSION: The Refutation of their Theory of the Incorruptibility of the World and of Time and Motion THE THIRD DISCUSSION: The demonstration of their confusion in saying that God is the agent and the maker of the world and that the world in His product and act, and the demonstration tha ...
ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ CONTEXTUALIZING LATE GREEK PHILOSOPHY
... large well-known historical figures. Around some, layers of legend had already accumulated and it was the biographer's task to make what he could of an inherited tradition of mixed historical and meta-historical elements. Pythagoras (c.570-480 BC) and his disciple Apollonius of Tyana, who lived in t ...
... large well-known historical figures. Around some, layers of legend had already accumulated and it was the biographer's task to make what he could of an inherited tradition of mixed historical and meta-historical elements. Pythagoras (c.570-480 BC) and his disciple Apollonius of Tyana, who lived in t ...
Kierkegaard`s Ethic of Love: Divine Commands and Moral Obligations
... usually designated virtues. In due course I will consider the relation of moral obligations to some of the other dimensions of the ethical life, since there are important connections between obligations and such topics as the good, for example. Nonetheless, moral obligations are themselves a signifi ...
... usually designated virtues. In due course I will consider the relation of moral obligations to some of the other dimensions of the ethical life, since there are important connections between obligations and such topics as the good, for example. Nonetheless, moral obligations are themselves a signifi ...
Towart 1 - Personal.psu.edu
... other positions. He analyzes it in this way: “Instead of antithesis (that some things are true and their opposite untrue), truth and moral rightness will be found in the flow of history, a synthesis of them. . . . Today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our ...
... other positions. He analyzes it in this way: “Instead of antithesis (that some things are true and their opposite untrue), truth and moral rightness will be found in the flow of history, a synthesis of them. . . . Today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our ...
ABSOLUTE TRUTH AS CONTRASTED WITH
... other positions. He analyzes it in this way: “Instead of antithesis (that some things are true and their opposite untrue), truth and moral rightness will be found in the flow of history, a synthesis of them. . . . Today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our ...
... other positions. He analyzes it in this way: “Instead of antithesis (that some things are true and their opposite untrue), truth and moral rightness will be found in the flow of history, a synthesis of them. . . . Today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our ...
2.1.1 Spinoza on the extreme subtlety called “possibility”
... that both viewed aims as determined by actual end-points, i.e., ex post facto. We’ll also see that the metaphysical reason for this sameness of end views was a shared beginning, or “principle”, about the non-separateness of essences. For Aristotle, as we saw, this led not merely to the non-separaten ...
... that both viewed aims as determined by actual end-points, i.e., ex post facto. We’ll also see that the metaphysical reason for this sameness of end views was a shared beginning, or “principle”, about the non-separateness of essences. For Aristotle, as we saw, this led not merely to the non-separaten ...
Theoretical Reason and Practical Reason for Kant and Tabataba`i
... A comparative look at these two great thinkers, from west and east, is very important because both are philosophy of ethics and have a new idea and innovation about practical reason and its relation with theoretical reason. Division of reason into theoretical and practical and also the way of their ...
... A comparative look at these two great thinkers, from west and east, is very important because both are philosophy of ethics and have a new idea and innovation about practical reason and its relation with theoretical reason. Division of reason into theoretical and practical and also the way of their ...
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... situation. For others, eschatology played a vital function in defining their philosophical positions. This work explores the use of eschatology in three twentieth century philosophers: Martin Heidegger, Nicolai Berdyaev, and Hans Blumenberg. While there have been other philosophers who have addresse ...
... situation. For others, eschatology played a vital function in defining their philosophical positions. This work explores the use of eschatology in three twentieth century philosophers: Martin Heidegger, Nicolai Berdyaev, and Hans Blumenberg. While there have been other philosophers who have addresse ...
Eschatology in a Secular Age - Scholar Commons
... situation. For others, eschatology played a vital function in defining their philosophical positions. This work explores the use of eschatology in three twentieth century philosophers: Martin Heidegger, Nicolai Berdyaev, and Hans Blumenberg. While there have been other philosophers who have addresse ...
... situation. For others, eschatology played a vital function in defining their philosophical positions. This work explores the use of eschatology in three twentieth century philosophers: Martin Heidegger, Nicolai Berdyaev, and Hans Blumenberg. While there have been other philosophers who have addresse ...
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?""