Class #1
... What is true love? – Is beauty a matter of fact or a matter of taste? – Is there a God? – What do I want to do with my life? – What is the purpose of art? – Is there a difference between health and beauty? – Do I want to be beautiful? – Is everything I think I know true? -- Is lying always wrong? - ...
... What is true love? – Is beauty a matter of fact or a matter of taste? – Is there a God? – What do I want to do with my life? – What is the purpose of art? – Is there a difference between health and beauty? – Do I want to be beautiful? – Is everything I think I know true? -- Is lying always wrong? - ...
What is Philosophy, Anyway?
... The best place to start in our attempt to define philosophy is with the etymology of the word itself. Most people are aware that the term is derived from two Greek words: philo (love) and sophia (wisdom). Philosophy, then, literally means “the love of wisdom.” We each have a sense of what love means ...
... The best place to start in our attempt to define philosophy is with the etymology of the word itself. Most people are aware that the term is derived from two Greek words: philo (love) and sophia (wisdom). Philosophy, then, literally means “the love of wisdom.” We each have a sense of what love means ...
The Upanishadic Vision of the Human
... ◦ In this sense, Brahman is reality at it’s most basic, the fundamental metaphysical category. ◦ The world is at the same time one eternal and unchanging whole and a constantly changing individuated plurality. ...
... ◦ In this sense, Brahman is reality at it’s most basic, the fundamental metaphysical category. ◦ The world is at the same time one eternal and unchanging whole and a constantly changing individuated plurality. ...
An introduction to philosophy
... Questions about the theory of forms • Do we need the idea of “a perfect form of equality” to explain how we understand what equality is? • What are these forms? How many of them are there? • How do material objects participate in the forms? • How can there be a form of whiteness without something t ...
... Questions about the theory of forms • Do we need the idea of “a perfect form of equality” to explain how we understand what equality is? • What are these forms? How many of them are there? • How do material objects participate in the forms? • How can there be a form of whiteness without something t ...
A Filosofie II
... Daniel Denett (1996) – theory of stances, similar to “perspektivism” (developed by Friedrich Nietzsche. All ideations take place from particular perspectives. There are many possible conceptual schemes, or perspectives in which judgment of truth or value can be made. No way of seeing the world can b ...
... Daniel Denett (1996) – theory of stances, similar to “perspektivism” (developed by Friedrich Nietzsche. All ideations take place from particular perspectives. There are many possible conceptual schemes, or perspectives in which judgment of truth or value can be made. No way of seeing the world can b ...
Can Philosophy Serve a High Purpose
... That is to say, we distinguish between the activity of formulating hypotheses, and the activity of displaying the logical relationship of these hypotheses and defining the symbols which occur in them. It is of no importance whether we call one who is engaged in the latter activity a philosopher or a ...
... That is to say, we distinguish between the activity of formulating hypotheses, and the activity of displaying the logical relationship of these hypotheses and defining the symbols which occur in them. It is of no importance whether we call one who is engaged in the latter activity a philosopher or a ...
Change for the Better: Conceptual Engineering and the Task of
... practitioner of “conceptual engineering”. What we aim at “when we investigate the structures that shape our view of the world,” he observes, is an understanding of “what would happen for better or worse if changes were made”. The implication is that if we arrive at the conviction that those structur ...
... practitioner of “conceptual engineering”. What we aim at “when we investigate the structures that shape our view of the world,” he observes, is an understanding of “what would happen for better or worse if changes were made”. The implication is that if we arrive at the conviction that those structur ...
Yvonne Förster - InterCultural Philosophy
... embodiment that combine phenomenological approaches and neuroscientific results. In this field the question of interculturality is quite intimidating. Approaching texts from Buddhist or other eastern traditions means being confronted with a variety of languages that cannot be understood if one has n ...
... embodiment that combine phenomenological approaches and neuroscientific results. In this field the question of interculturality is quite intimidating. Approaching texts from Buddhist or other eastern traditions means being confronted with a variety of languages that cannot be understood if one has n ...
What is Philosophy?
... Philosophy is thinking hard about the most difficult problems that there are. And you might think scientists do that too, but there’s a certain kind of question whose difficulty can’t be resolved by getting more empirical evidence. It requires an untangling of presuppositions: figuring out that our ...
... Philosophy is thinking hard about the most difficult problems that there are. And you might think scientists do that too, but there’s a certain kind of question whose difficulty can’t be resolved by getting more empirical evidence. It requires an untangling of presuppositions: figuring out that our ...
Pleonastic Possible Worlds References
... The standard semantics for the modal fragment of natural languages can only be correct if there is more than one possible world. The nature and existence of possible worlds is thus of fundamental importance for such a semantics. The paper develops an account of possible worlds in the spirit of the p ...
... The standard semantics for the modal fragment of natural languages can only be correct if there is more than one possible world. The nature and existence of possible worlds is thus of fundamental importance for such a semantics. The paper develops an account of possible worlds in the spirit of the p ...
Language sometimes is deceptive
... For example, there are a number of philosophical traditions and topics that I have so little understanding of, that it makes me wonder just what we share as philosophers. Some philosophy journals and books contain far more mathematical and logical symbols than they do prose, and many philosophers wo ...
... For example, there are a number of philosophical traditions and topics that I have so little understanding of, that it makes me wonder just what we share as philosophers. Some philosophy journals and books contain far more mathematical and logical symbols than they do prose, and many philosophers wo ...
philosophy as a second order discipline
... resolve puzzles in order to aid our understanding of phenomena so as enable humans deal better with the phenomena in question. It may also be inferred from the way Milesian philosophers practiced philosophy that philosophy is a discipline in which reasons are adduced for any position held. In it, ra ...
... resolve puzzles in order to aid our understanding of phenomena so as enable humans deal better with the phenomena in question. It may also be inferred from the way Milesian philosophers practiced philosophy that philosophy is a discipline in which reasons are adduced for any position held. In it, ra ...
Are We Really So Modern - Northampton Community College
... Scripture made Spinoza arguably the father of Biblical criticism. A more unexpected corollary of Spinoza’s pantheism is that it eliminates the possibility of free will, or of contingency of any kind. After all, if everything is God, and God is absolute, then there is no way that anything could happe ...
... Scripture made Spinoza arguably the father of Biblical criticism. A more unexpected corollary of Spinoza’s pantheism is that it eliminates the possibility of free will, or of contingency of any kind. After all, if everything is God, and God is absolute, then there is no way that anything could happe ...
January 30 Reading - Are We Really So Modern
... What is matter made of? Is there a God, and, if so, what kind of being is he? These were the questions that animated the philosophers discussed by Gottlieb, starting with Descartes. Born in 1596, Descartes was what at the time would have been called a “natural philosopher,” or what we would call a s ...
... What is matter made of? Is there a God, and, if so, what kind of being is he? These were the questions that animated the philosophers discussed by Gottlieb, starting with Descartes. Born in 1596, Descartes was what at the time would have been called a “natural philosopher,” or what we would call a s ...
transcendentalism
... Do you see the moods of nature? What is the role of nature in your life? What is meant by an individual’s spiritual side? How would you define it? Is there a connection between the individual’s spirit and nature? • What is the connection? • What does it mean to know something intuitively? ...
... Do you see the moods of nature? What is the role of nature in your life? What is meant by an individual’s spiritual side? How would you define it? Is there a connection between the individual’s spirit and nature? • What is the connection? • What does it mean to know something intuitively? ...
Plato and Aristotle
... thing belongs, and these are less real • He also claimed that forms are real but that they cannot exist independently of the particular substance ...
... thing belongs, and these are less real • He also claimed that forms are real but that they cannot exist independently of the particular substance ...
Pursuing Wisdom
... before.” For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him; which also Yama allows, and says, “Choose the third boon, O Nachiketas!” Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist. ...
... before.” For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him; which also Yama allows, and says, “Choose the third boon, O Nachiketas!” Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist. ...
Chapter 17 The Baroque
... Thomas Hobbes presented the idea that only matter exists, thus supporting the philosophy of materialism. This view of the universe and mankind as machines spread in the scientific world. All that exists is predetermined, whether by the machine or by God. This is called determinism, in which there is ...
... Thomas Hobbes presented the idea that only matter exists, thus supporting the philosophy of materialism. This view of the universe and mankind as machines spread in the scientific world. All that exists is predetermined, whether by the machine or by God. This is called determinism, in which there is ...
Handout - John Provost, PhD
... Epicurus also had no interest in science for theoretical reasons. Science was only helpful in helping us free ourselves from fear of the gods. That is, if science could offer us a natural explanation for something that had once been attributed to the gods, than it was good. But if it offered us seve ...
... Epicurus also had no interest in science for theoretical reasons. Science was only helpful in helping us free ourselves from fear of the gods. That is, if science could offer us a natural explanation for something that had once been attributed to the gods, than it was good. But if it offered us seve ...
International Seminar on "Science, Vedanta and
... that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.” Schrodinger fully acknowledges Sankara's view that Brahman is associated with a certain power called Maya to which belongs the appearance of the entire world. … Schro ...
... that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.” Schrodinger fully acknowledges Sankara's view that Brahman is associated with a certain power called Maya to which belongs the appearance of the entire world. … Schro ...
2. Scientific Renaissance in the sixteenth century: Renewing ancient
... history of ideas by reference to the social and political context in which those ideas were promoted. Three stereotypes about Science: 1. Science proceeds by genius who makes unexpected discoveries. 2. Scientists are autonomous agents working outside social-cultural context 3. Science is itself is v ...
... history of ideas by reference to the social and political context in which those ideas were promoted. Three stereotypes about Science: 1. Science proceeds by genius who makes unexpected discoveries. 2. Scientists are autonomous agents working outside social-cultural context 3. Science is itself is v ...
Transition Year Philosophy
... • Philosophy questions the opinions that you are exposed to on a daily basis, from family, friends, teachers, society and the media • You are essentially concerned with the development of your own identity – this is central to philosophy ...
... • Philosophy questions the opinions that you are exposed to on a daily basis, from family, friends, teachers, society and the media • You are essentially concerned with the development of your own identity – this is central to philosophy ...
Early Greek Philosophy
... A Greek nobleman from Ephesus who proposed another candidate as the basic element: fire. Heraclitus was not simply proposing an alternative to Thales’ water and Anaximenes's air. He wished to call attention to what he thought was the essential feature of reality, namely, that it is ceaselessly chang ...
... A Greek nobleman from Ephesus who proposed another candidate as the basic element: fire. Heraclitus was not simply proposing an alternative to Thales’ water and Anaximenes's air. He wished to call attention to what he thought was the essential feature of reality, namely, that it is ceaselessly chang ...