The Self and Its World: Husserlian Contributions to a Metaphysics of
... points of convergence between contemporary philosophy and contemporary science (in early 20th century). I would then offer a kind of hermeneutics of the Relativity Theory and the Indeterminacy Principle in the light of Husserl’s discussion of the Crisis of the European Rationality vis-à-vis his appe ...
... points of convergence between contemporary philosophy and contemporary science (in early 20th century). I would then offer a kind of hermeneutics of the Relativity Theory and the Indeterminacy Principle in the light of Husserl’s discussion of the Crisis of the European Rationality vis-à-vis his appe ...
`Spaces` in Mathematics, Physics, Subjectivity, and Historiography
... surrounding/neighbourhood/environment is always “Umgebung”.) ...
... surrounding/neighbourhood/environment is always “Umgebung”.) ...
Redefining Philosophy through Assimilation
... Since originality cannot mean creative-ness ex nihilo, formative influences are sought, and then the original and the merely influential are defined in difference from one another.17 ...
... Since originality cannot mean creative-ness ex nihilo, formative influences are sought, and then the original and the merely influential are defined in difference from one another.17 ...
On the Theory and Practice of Intercultural Philosophy
... the country of the Nechrei, are mine to a man: they live according to my laws, and are respected by all their neighbours; and the manner of their death is truly wonderful.”12 In a later visit to the Greeks, Philosophy is “received [...] without enthusiasm”13 except among seven ...
... the country of the Nechrei, are mine to a man: they live according to my laws, and are respected by all their neighbours; and the manner of their death is truly wonderful.”12 In a later visit to the Greeks, Philosophy is “received [...] without enthusiasm”13 except among seven ...
History of Philosophy2
... Phenomenology of Spirit, a system of philosophy that is absolutely True cannot leave anything out; otherwise it would not be absolute. Even “error” must be included in such a system. In fact, it is these past “errors” that are historically incorporated into the holistic view of philosophy that Hegel ...
... Phenomenology of Spirit, a system of philosophy that is absolutely True cannot leave anything out; otherwise it would not be absolute. Even “error” must be included in such a system. In fact, it is these past “errors” that are historically incorporated into the holistic view of philosophy that Hegel ...
THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS AND SOCRATES
... us. It is necessary for life to breathe it. It fills the sky, and upon it floats the earth. If air was the candidate of Anaximenes to be the basic stuff of reality, then he was still left with the problem of explaining how all things come from and return to air, and how all things are forms of air. ...
... us. It is necessary for life to breathe it. It fills the sky, and upon it floats the earth. If air was the candidate of Anaximenes to be the basic stuff of reality, then he was still left with the problem of explaining how all things come from and return to air, and how all things are forms of air. ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... Matters of fact can not hold a priori P Kant, following Hume, urged that a priori arguments which purport to conclude that something exists are inappropriate. P Logic, which procedes apriori, should make no existence assertions according to Hume and Kant P We generally construct logic to tell us abo ...
... Matters of fact can not hold a priori P Kant, following Hume, urged that a priori arguments which purport to conclude that something exists are inappropriate. P Logic, which procedes apriori, should make no existence assertions according to Hume and Kant P We generally construct logic to tell us abo ...
Microsoft Word - AC, Introduction, Cogprints
... Now at first sight this may seem strange indeed. For if we have an entity a and an entity b, and if 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 ...
... Now at first sight this may seem strange indeed. For if we have an entity a and an entity b, and if 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 ...
A Realist Theory of Science
... empirical realism, and thus to the concept of the ‘empirical world’. For the transcendental realist this concept embodies a sequence of related philosophical mistakes. The first consists in the use of the category of experience to define the world. This involves giving what is in effect a particul ...
... empirical realism, and thus to the concept of the ‘empirical world’. For the transcendental realist this concept embodies a sequence of related philosophical mistakes. The first consists in the use of the category of experience to define the world. This involves giving what is in effect a particul ...
Friendship - The University of Sydney
... 2) This perception of existing is, in itself, pleasant (edys). 3) There is an equivalence between being and living, between awareness of oneʼs existing and awareness of oneʼs living. This is decidedly an anticipation of the Nietzschean thesis according to which: “Being: we have no other experience ...
... 2) This perception of existing is, in itself, pleasant (edys). 3) There is an equivalence between being and living, between awareness of oneʼs existing and awareness of oneʼs living. This is decidedly an anticipation of the Nietzschean thesis according to which: “Being: we have no other experience ...
1 Graham Priest. One: Being an investigation into the Unity of
... But there’s no doubting gluon theory’s precedents in Eastern philosophy, and in the final third of One Priest explores neighboring themes in Buddhist thought. In particular, Priest explicates and defends the Buddhist doctrine that everything is ‘empty’: nothing has ‘selfnature’—i.e., an individual e ...
... But there’s no doubting gluon theory’s precedents in Eastern philosophy, and in the final third of One Priest explores neighboring themes in Buddhist thought. In particular, Priest explicates and defends the Buddhist doctrine that everything is ‘empty’: nothing has ‘selfnature’—i.e., an individual e ...
Artikel voor `de HTV` "Man is actually chaos"
... its distinctive qualities. Only in the twentieth century was early Romanticism perceived as an artistically and philosophically distinct undertaking, which anticipated and sometimes inspired avant-gardist attitudes that arose only much later. Walter Benjamin already perceived and elaborated the rel ...
... its distinctive qualities. Only in the twentieth century was early Romanticism perceived as an artistically and philosophically distinct undertaking, which anticipated and sometimes inspired avant-gardist attitudes that arose only much later. Walter Benjamin already perceived and elaborated the rel ...
Leibniz Discourse 8
... physical phenomena, which he does not endorse, and using it to develop a metaphysics. Appealing to telos in one’s metaphysics is totally different from appealing to it in one’s physics. For Leibniz, a metaphysics with teleologically characterized substances supports a physics that can proceed with m ...
... physical phenomena, which he does not endorse, and using it to develop a metaphysics. Appealing to telos in one’s metaphysics is totally different from appealing to it in one’s physics. For Leibniz, a metaphysics with teleologically characterized substances supports a physics that can proceed with m ...
African Philosophy
... critical analysis. It is argued therefore that because the subject matter and method of philosophy involve a rigorous process of critical analysis of concepts, issues, and problems, these dogmatic cultural beliefs and worldviews cannot be considered philosophical in the technical sense. To say that ...
... critical analysis. It is argued therefore that because the subject matter and method of philosophy involve a rigorous process of critical analysis of concepts, issues, and problems, these dogmatic cultural beliefs and worldviews cannot be considered philosophical in the technical sense. To say that ...
Session 4: Doing philosophy: fallacies
... Introduction to Philosophy Doing Philosophy: Fallacies Subtypes of the ad hominem fallacy Poisoning the well – presenting adverse information about a target person with the intention of discrediting everything that the target person says. Appeal to motive – dismissing an idea by questioning the mot ...
... Introduction to Philosophy Doing Philosophy: Fallacies Subtypes of the ad hominem fallacy Poisoning the well – presenting adverse information about a target person with the intention of discrediting everything that the target person says. Appeal to motive – dismissing an idea by questioning the mot ...
65 Lecture 4 The Character of the Confucian System In our last
... Commentaries they lump them with Dong Zhongshu, calling them cosmology-centered. Their attitude is based on Kant’s thought, but did Kant himself totally ignore ontological questions as they do? As a matter of fact, even though Kant himself in his Metaphysics of Morals dealt with morality and did no ...
... Commentaries they lump them with Dong Zhongshu, calling them cosmology-centered. Their attitude is based on Kant’s thought, but did Kant himself totally ignore ontological questions as they do? As a matter of fact, even though Kant himself in his Metaphysics of Morals dealt with morality and did no ...
The Principles of History RGCollingwood and
... dignity and the deprivation of meaning and purpose it seems to imply. Thus Collingwood has a certain sympathy for the philosophy of Hegel, at least he does not reject him wholesale as many modern analytic philosophers do. In particular he grants that Hegel did get some things right, and that his ide ...
... dignity and the deprivation of meaning and purpose it seems to imply. Thus Collingwood has a certain sympathy for the philosophy of Hegel, at least he does not reject him wholesale as many modern analytic philosophers do. In particular he grants that Hegel did get some things right, and that his ide ...
- UTK-EECS
... pp. 188–95), and so Marsilio Ficino and his followers found little difficulty in crafting a Hermetic philosophy, which they considered to be consistent with Christianity (Yates 1964, ch. VI). It is the theoretical and practical core of the magical philosophy, but let us consider its relation to mode ...
... pp. 188–95), and so Marsilio Ficino and his followers found little difficulty in crafting a Hermetic philosophy, which they considered to be consistent with Christianity (Yates 1964, ch. VI). It is the theoretical and practical core of the magical philosophy, but let us consider its relation to mode ...
Chapter 8 - Barbara Gail Montero
... Will we ever solve the mind-body problem? Will we ever understand how the Dijin of consciousness arises out of entirely physical processes in the brain? Some philosophers—the Cartesian dualists from Chapter 2—say that we know the solution to the mind-body problem: the mind, including consciousness, ...
... Will we ever solve the mind-body problem? Will we ever understand how the Dijin of consciousness arises out of entirely physical processes in the brain? Some philosophers—the Cartesian dualists from Chapter 2—say that we know the solution to the mind-body problem: the mind, including consciousness, ...
What is Hindu Spirituality
... is the regnant philosophy of our times. The Hindu texts provide a more homespun example, that of chewing the betel. The betel nut is gray in color; it is usually placed on a green leaf with a slight touch of white lime and then consumed as a post-prandial refreshment. Once in the mouth, however, it ...
... is the regnant philosophy of our times. The Hindu texts provide a more homespun example, that of chewing the betel. The betel nut is gray in color; it is usually placed on a green leaf with a slight touch of white lime and then consumed as a post-prandial refreshment. Once in the mouth, however, it ...
Philosophy, Spoken Word, Written Text and Beyond
... vestigations dated January 1945 there appears what at first might be taken as a personal comment on his unsuccessful attempt to produce a coherent piece of writing: It was my intention at first to bring all this together in a book whose form I pictured differently at different times. But the essenti ...
... vestigations dated January 1945 there appears what at first might be taken as a personal comment on his unsuccessful attempt to produce a coherent piece of writing: It was my intention at first to bring all this together in a book whose form I pictured differently at different times. But the essenti ...
9/5/2006 - University of Pittsburgh
... model provided by the forms of understanding distinctive of the natural sciences. But the sciences of the late nineteenth century, from which the pragmatists took their cue, were very different from those that animated the first enlightenment. The philosophical picture that emerged of the rational c ...
... model provided by the forms of understanding distinctive of the natural sciences. But the sciences of the late nineteenth century, from which the pragmatists took their cue, were very different from those that animated the first enlightenment. The philosophical picture that emerged of the rational c ...
Performance Philosophy: Figures of Doing
... ‘theatrical’ and/or ‘performative turn’: particularly in the work of Alain Badiou, Hélène Cixous, François Laruelle and Jacques Rancière. Notorious – almost certainly mistakenly or at least simplistically – for its anti-theatrical prejudice, its distrust of theatre as the art of appearances and ill ...
... ‘theatrical’ and/or ‘performative turn’: particularly in the work of Alain Badiou, Hélène Cixous, François Laruelle and Jacques Rancière. Notorious – almost certainly mistakenly or at least simplistically – for its anti-theatrical prejudice, its distrust of theatre as the art of appearances and ill ...
Against Fantology - Buffalo Ontology Site
... referring expressions—‘F’, ‘G’, ‘R’, etc., and ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, etc.—so reality must consist of exactly two correspondingly different kinds of entity: the general (properties, concepts) and the particular (things, objects). We describe the historical influence of this view, and also show how standard ...
... referring expressions—‘F’, ‘G’, ‘R’, etc., and ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, etc.—so reality must consist of exactly two correspondingly different kinds of entity: the general (properties, concepts) and the particular (things, objects). We describe the historical influence of this view, and also show how standard ...
aristotle`s division of theoretical sciences1
... From the above-mentioned and as a summary, it follows that wisdom is a science that: i.) deals with the utmost universal, and ii.) deals with the first causes and principles, with which is knowable in high degree, and, iii.) given its particular category, concerns to the divinity. Not being a produc ...
... From the above-mentioned and as a summary, it follows that wisdom is a science that: i.) deals with the utmost universal, and ii.) deals with the first causes and principles, with which is knowable in high degree, and, iii.) given its particular category, concerns to the divinity. Not being a produc ...