Fall 2015 - The American Philosophical Association
... neo-Hegelian distinction between holism and atomism. Things . . . do not exist at first in separation from each other so that all connections between them would be mere fortuitous generalizations; on the contrary, their existence has no intelligible meaning except in relation to each other. What we ...
... neo-Hegelian distinction between holism and atomism. Things . . . do not exist at first in separation from each other so that all connections between them would be mere fortuitous generalizations; on the contrary, their existence has no intelligible meaning except in relation to each other. What we ...
modern western philosophy BA PHILOSOPHY VI SEMESTER
... necessity is to know things as they are. The spirit of modern philosophy is individualistic, while those of both ancient and medieval philosophy were, in different ways, inclined to be institutional. A modern thinker is an individualist in the sense that he makes experiments for himself, verifies hy ...
... necessity is to know things as they are. The spirit of modern philosophy is individualistic, while those of both ancient and medieval philosophy were, in different ways, inclined to be institutional. A modern thinker is an individualist in the sense that he makes experiments for himself, verifies hy ...
PDF - Berkeley Buddhist studies
... little objectionable in approaching Yogācāra, or indeed most any Abhidharma system, as phenomenology. But the use of the term by scholars of Buddhism is intended to carry more weight. Today there are at least two discrete but complementary usages in play. The first is anthropological: it is a clai ...
... little objectionable in approaching Yogācāra, or indeed most any Abhidharma system, as phenomenology. But the use of the term by scholars of Buddhism is intended to carry more weight. Today there are at least two discrete but complementary usages in play. The first is anthropological: it is a clai ...
The origin of concepts and the nature of knowledge revision boo
... causation, God, morality and the self. Hume’s two arguments for concept empiricism: 1) When we analyse our thoughts or ideas—however complex or elevated they are—we always find them to be made up of simple ideas that were copied from earlier feelings or sensations. Even ideas that at first glance se ...
... causation, God, morality and the self. Hume’s two arguments for concept empiricism: 1) When we analyse our thoughts or ideas—however complex or elevated they are—we always find them to be made up of simple ideas that were copied from earlier feelings or sensations. Even ideas that at first glance se ...
Session 1 Rationalism –v
... from Ancient Greece • Reasoning is (largely) a public activity involving rhetoric and debate • An effort to distinguish (and exclude) bad arguments (e.g. identifying “fallacies”) • Good argument results in good decisions • Argument seen to lead from known (i.e. agreed) truths to conclusions… • …whic ...
... from Ancient Greece • Reasoning is (largely) a public activity involving rhetoric and debate • An effort to distinguish (and exclude) bad arguments (e.g. identifying “fallacies”) • Good argument results in good decisions • Argument seen to lead from known (i.e. agreed) truths to conclusions… • …whic ...
Bataille Versus Theory - Gary Sauer
... building on such traditional notions, he has deployed his own set concepts from the basis of whim (which he saw as the opposite of specialization). His attacks against philosophy strike it as a genera before the complexities and specialties of epistemology, ontology, philosophy of language, etc. mud ...
... building on such traditional notions, he has deployed his own set concepts from the basis of whim (which he saw as the opposite of specialization). His attacks against philosophy strike it as a genera before the complexities and specialties of epistemology, ontology, philosophy of language, etc. mud ...
Can Activist Scholars Learn Research Methods from Rumi
... The philosopher-poet traditions in the East deliberately broke with the language of scholars to make philosophy accessible to ordinary people through combinations of poetry and stories. Rumi was accused by his peers of hanging out too much with ‘the tailors, the cloth-sellers and the petty shopkeepe ...
... The philosopher-poet traditions in the East deliberately broke with the language of scholars to make philosophy accessible to ordinary people through combinations of poetry and stories. Rumi was accused by his peers of hanging out too much with ‘the tailors, the cloth-sellers and the petty shopkeepe ...
Microsoft Word - AC, Introduction, Cogprints
... a and b are not one and the same entity, mustn’t they needs be two different ones? But a closer look easily shows us that this is by no means invariably the case. For although it has been made evident by prominent possible-worlds theorists that we have to assume an ‘intermundane’ or ‘trans-word’ num ...
... a and b are not one and the same entity, mustn’t they needs be two different ones? But a closer look easily shows us that this is by no means invariably the case. For although it has been made evident by prominent possible-worlds theorists that we have to assume an ‘intermundane’ or ‘trans-word’ num ...
Between Probability and Certainty
... questions – but I will attempt, in this book, to come to a rather different way of thinking about justification. Some of the views that I’ll defend – or at least take seriously – might strike some as obviously wrong. An example might be the view that we can, sometimes, be justified in believing thin ...
... questions – but I will attempt, in this book, to come to a rather different way of thinking about justification. Some of the views that I’ll defend – or at least take seriously – might strike some as obviously wrong. An example might be the view that we can, sometimes, be justified in believing thin ...
Introduction: the growth of ignorance?
... able to keep an eye on them, rather than them remaining in the hills where no one could easily check what they were up to. Such instances abound; and several are documented in the essays below. However, the problems are not simply the failure to achieve sustainable development, or that technologica ...
... able to keep an eye on them, rather than them remaining in the hills where no one could easily check what they were up to. Such instances abound; and several are documented in the essays below. However, the problems are not simply the failure to achieve sustainable development, or that technologica ...
3. The Union of Energy and Consciousness - Serena Roney
... 8 consciousnesses transform into various wisdoms as we reach enlightenment. This I like! The ultimate magic! What I really like about these Yogic and Buddhist concepts is that thinkingmind, awareness and consciousness are clearly separate faculties. Mind is the tool by which we become aware of the s ...
... 8 consciousnesses transform into various wisdoms as we reach enlightenment. This I like! The ultimate magic! What I really like about these Yogic and Buddhist concepts is that thinkingmind, awareness and consciousness are clearly separate faculties. Mind is the tool by which we become aware of the s ...
hindu ethics
... outset. Moreover, even a complete lack of sympathy with the motive here acknowledged need not diminish a reader’s interest in following an honest and careful attempt to bring the religions of India into comparison with the religion which to-day is their only possible rival, and to which they largely ...
... outset. Moreover, even a complete lack of sympathy with the motive here acknowledged need not diminish a reader’s interest in following an honest and careful attempt to bring the religions of India into comparison with the religion which to-day is their only possible rival, and to which they largely ...
In the history of philosophy, Francis Bacon is credited with the
... admired) and place them into one coherent conversation. Here I have in mind thinkers such as Sandra Lee Bartky, Eli Clare, Antonio Gramsci, Audre Lorde, Herbert Marcuse, and many more. Given that I am largely sympathetic to the overall project of this book and I believe that it adds a nuanced approa ...
... admired) and place them into one coherent conversation. Here I have in mind thinkers such as Sandra Lee Bartky, Eli Clare, Antonio Gramsci, Audre Lorde, Herbert Marcuse, and many more. Given that I am largely sympathetic to the overall project of this book and I believe that it adds a nuanced approa ...
this PDF file
... bound by shared concepts, recognizable rituals, cosmology, shared textual resources, pilgrimage to sacred sites and the questioning of authority. It includes Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism among other denominations. Hinduism is the world's third largest religion, after Christianity and Islam, wi ...
... bound by shared concepts, recognizable rituals, cosmology, shared textual resources, pilgrimage to sacred sites and the questioning of authority. It includes Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism among other denominations. Hinduism is the world's third largest religion, after Christianity and Islam, wi ...
From: prabhu To: cyriljohn@vsnl
... “preserver.” Shiva is said to be “the destroyer,” the one who annihilates the illusions of the ego and therefore gains liberation into ultimate reality: While of course many Hindu deities are associated with different paths of yoga and meditation, in Shiva the art of meditation takes its most absolu ...
... “preserver.” Shiva is said to be “the destroyer,” the one who annihilates the illusions of the ego and therefore gains liberation into ultimate reality: While of course many Hindu deities are associated with different paths of yoga and meditation, in Shiva the art of meditation takes its most absolu ...
Rishis[Seers or Sages] - Hindu World Astrology
... subordination to words and pictures, comes to pass. Words are in reality, like tools or magnifying glasses of various focal powers. In the hands of intelligent people, they can, become tools which facilitate ‘seeing’, which will then give us a clearer vision into the things they are intended to poin ...
... subordination to words and pictures, comes to pass. Words are in reality, like tools or magnifying glasses of various focal powers. In the hands of intelligent people, they can, become tools which facilitate ‘seeing’, which will then give us a clearer vision into the things they are intended to poin ...
My Slides - Thatmarcusfamily.org
... forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility of the thing, and though we indulge ourselves in the full scope of an imagination not regulated by reason to make out that poor possibility, yet the upshot of all is that there are certain unknown ideas in the mind of God; for t ...
... forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility of the thing, and though we indulge ourselves in the full scope of an imagination not regulated by reason to make out that poor possibility, yet the upshot of all is that there are certain unknown ideas in the mind of God; for t ...
this PDF file
... in their responses to scepticism? It is not that the one or the other provides a “solution” to the problem so much as they both show different ways in which the problem can be experienced, understood, and thereby “worked through” (though not entirely dissolved). Film and philosophy, audiovisually an ...
... in their responses to scepticism? It is not that the one or the other provides a “solution” to the problem so much as they both show different ways in which the problem can be experienced, understood, and thereby “worked through” (though not entirely dissolved). Film and philosophy, audiovisually an ...
The Problem of Substance in Metaphysics
... substance is God, since it is only God that requires no other being than himself to exist. Whatever name Descartes gives to the three kinds of substances postulated by Descartes, Spinoza argues that they are all the same names for God. The totality of reality, he observes have two attributes: matter ...
... substance is God, since it is only God that requires no other being than himself to exist. Whatever name Descartes gives to the three kinds of substances postulated by Descartes, Spinoza argues that they are all the same names for God. The totality of reality, he observes have two attributes: matter ...
John Locke and the Changing Ideal of Scientific Knowledge
... If chemical substances are defined and classified solely in terms of their phenomenal properties or "accidents" and if there is no reason to assume that our conceptions of things correspond to reality, our knowledge of chemical substances will not necessarily be knowledge of their real essences. In ...
... If chemical substances are defined and classified solely in terms of their phenomenal properties or "accidents" and if there is no reason to assume that our conceptions of things correspond to reality, our knowledge of chemical substances will not necessarily be knowledge of their real essences. In ...
Ionian Philosophers
... with the intuitive apprehension of all those that are absolutely simple, attempt to ascend to the knowledge of all other by precisely similar steps.” d. Rule VIII: “If in the matters to be examined we come to a step in the series of which our understanding is not sufficiently well able to have an in ...
... with the intuitive apprehension of all those that are absolutely simple, attempt to ascend to the knowledge of all other by precisely similar steps.” d. Rule VIII: “If in the matters to be examined we come to a step in the series of which our understanding is not sufficiently well able to have an in ...
History of Philosophy2
... particular “present” within spirit (in the progress of humanity). For example, Cartesian philosophy is the full and adequate expression of a mechanistic view of nature, current at the time of Descartes. However, his philosophy is insufficient to fully explain later organic chemistry. In a way, we ca ...
... particular “present” within spirit (in the progress of humanity). For example, Cartesian philosophy is the full and adequate expression of a mechanistic view of nature, current at the time of Descartes. However, his philosophy is insufficient to fully explain later organic chemistry. In a way, we ca ...
Science and Spirituality - Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc.
... instance, The Templeton Foundation has been very active in arranging workshops on the subject in various universities, inviting participation of scholars from all over the world, and also in rendering financial assistance for the introduction of courses at the university level. I was invited to pres ...
... instance, The Templeton Foundation has been very active in arranging workshops on the subject in various universities, inviting participation of scholars from all over the world, and also in rendering financial assistance for the introduction of courses at the university level. I was invited to pres ...
philosophical anthropology: ernst cassirer, max
... necessary to clarify and reinterpret certain key terms involved. Suffice it to say at the moment that at least the terms metaphysics and cultural are apparently not taken in the same light by Cassirer and Scheler. Let us first present Cassirer, then Scheler, then Fang. The Cassirerian Approach The o ...
... necessary to clarify and reinterpret certain key terms involved. Suffice it to say at the moment that at least the terms metaphysics and cultural are apparently not taken in the same light by Cassirer and Scheler. Let us first present Cassirer, then Scheler, then Fang. The Cassirerian Approach The o ...