The Double-Edged Sword of Reason The Scholar`s Predicament
... European Journal of Social Theory 2(3) that the ‘pure pleasure’ postulated by the Kantian critique of judgment has ‘impure conditions of possibility’, namely the autonomization of the artistic field, on the one hand, and the monopolization of social positions conducive to the acquisition of the ‘cul ...
... European Journal of Social Theory 2(3) that the ‘pure pleasure’ postulated by the Kantian critique of judgment has ‘impure conditions of possibility’, namely the autonomization of the artistic field, on the one hand, and the monopolization of social positions conducive to the acquisition of the ‘cul ...
The Problem of Substance in Metaphysics
... will certainly be different from the universal kind of substance to be proposed by Spinoza and Leibniz. SUBSTANCE IN THE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS During the Modern Period, there emerged an intense interest in the problem of substance. Descartes defined substance as that which exists requirin ...
... will certainly be different from the universal kind of substance to be proposed by Spinoza and Leibniz. SUBSTANCE IN THE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS During the Modern Period, there emerged an intense interest in the problem of substance. Descartes defined substance as that which exists requirin ...
CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS
... when no one asks them, but no longer know it when they are supposed to give an account of it. “Augustine says in the Confessions "quid est ergo tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio".—This could not be said about a question of natural science ("What is the specif ...
... when no one asks them, but no longer know it when they are supposed to give an account of it. “Augustine says in the Confessions "quid est ergo tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio".—This could not be said about a question of natural science ("What is the specif ...
read - daniel tarr
... 'misknowledge' by applying criticism to the conceptual knots of the day.” (p.2) The level of sophistication of the application varied according to the sophistication of the ‘philosophical knots’, resulting in a critical metaphysics (Vaibhasika) as treatment of native realism (Vaisesika), a critical ...
... 'misknowledge' by applying criticism to the conceptual knots of the day.” (p.2) The level of sophistication of the application varied according to the sophistication of the ‘philosophical knots’, resulting in a critical metaphysics (Vaibhasika) as treatment of native realism (Vaisesika), a critical ...
My Slides - Thatmarcusfamily.org
... 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 this, if anything, is all that I conceive to be meant by occasion with regard to God. And t ...
... 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 this, if anything, is all that I conceive to be meant by occasion with regard to God. And t ...
Philosophy as a Private Language
... As there are various interpretations and criticisms of Wittgenstein’s private language argument, it is necessary to both explain how it is construed for the purpose of this thesis, and defend the interpretation from charges of incoherence or vacuity. Some commentators regard Wittgenstein’s remarks o ...
... As there are various interpretations and criticisms of Wittgenstein’s private language argument, it is necessary to both explain how it is construed for the purpose of this thesis, and defend the interpretation from charges of incoherence or vacuity. Some commentators regard Wittgenstein’s remarks o ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... P Kant: existence is too thin to be a real predicate. P We do not add anything to a concept by claiming that it exists. P The real and possible thalers must have the same number of thalers in order that the concept match its object. P So, we do not add thalers when we mention that the thalers exist. ...
... P Kant: existence is too thin to be a real predicate. P We do not add anything to a concept by claiming that it exists. P The real and possible thalers must have the same number of thalers in order that the concept match its object. P So, we do not add thalers when we mention that the thalers exist. ...
reply to Tracy Llanera - Keele Research Repository
... portrayed it as obviously bad for them, but it was its inability to provide positive evaluative guidance – because, in my view, it is not evaluative at all – which was the real worry. So nihilism needed to be overcome; or at least, we needed to learn how to live with it. Perhaps, as Nietzsche though ...
... portrayed it as obviously bad for them, but it was its inability to provide positive evaluative guidance – because, in my view, it is not evaluative at all – which was the real worry. So nihilism needed to be overcome; or at least, we needed to learn how to live with it. Perhaps, as Nietzsche though ...
Philosophy 35
... and philosophers. Galileo, who believed the earth revolved around the sun (against the Church’s view that the entire universe revolved around the earth) was imprisoned his whole life for spreading views that went against the church! Although Descartes was involved in thinking up new ideas about the ...
... and philosophers. Galileo, who believed the earth revolved around the sun (against the Church’s view that the entire universe revolved around the earth) was imprisoned his whole life for spreading views that went against the church! Although Descartes was involved in thinking up new ideas about the ...
File - Phinith Philavanh
... One of the earliest British empiricists John Locke born (1632-1704), he was a student at Oxford. Locke’s book that was published in 1690 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding became the foundation to for empiricism. Locke’s concern over Scholastic philosophy in Oxford stress many disagreements and ...
... One of the earliest British empiricists John Locke born (1632-1704), he was a student at Oxford. Locke’s book that was published in 1690 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding became the foundation to for empiricism. Locke’s concern over Scholastic philosophy in Oxford stress many disagreements and ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... Is Plato a Perfect Idealist? thesis are combined which is called synthesis. Synthesis, according to Plato, is closer to truth. To acquire the process of dialectic one must have to maintain critical perspective. He must have knowledge in mathematics and involve in a long period of education. People ...
... Is Plato a Perfect Idealist? thesis are combined which is called synthesis. Synthesis, according to Plato, is closer to truth. To acquire the process of dialectic one must have to maintain critical perspective. He must have knowledge in mathematics and involve in a long period of education. People ...
Imre Lakatos`s Philosophy of Mathematics
... logic), and their negations are self-contradictions. In this case, infallibility of the axioms is given on the same basis as the validity of deduction (i.e. the power of logic), and since logic has some intimate relation to the nature of thinking, mathematics is therefore unquestionably true. But th ...
... logic), and their negations are self-contradictions. In this case, infallibility of the axioms is given on the same basis as the validity of deduction (i.e. the power of logic), and since logic has some intimate relation to the nature of thinking, mathematics is therefore unquestionably true. But th ...
Philosophy Plays
... The Philosophy Plays project was conceived and founded by Edward Spence in 1997 for the primary aim of taking philosophy out of the intellectually-constraining spaces of university classrooms and professional conferences and into the liberating spaces of the public agora, as Socrates did 2,500 years ...
... The Philosophy Plays project was conceived and founded by Edward Spence in 1997 for the primary aim of taking philosophy out of the intellectually-constraining spaces of university classrooms and professional conferences and into the liberating spaces of the public agora, as Socrates did 2,500 years ...
Fourteen pieces on eastern and western philosophy
... and my position in that. There is still a widespread inclination to think that there is an unbridgeable chasm between Eastern and Western philosophy. And a Western bias still is that the East can learn from the West, rather than vice versa, and indeed is doing so, as is exhibited in the spread of te ...
... and my position in that. There is still a widespread inclination to think that there is an unbridgeable chasm between Eastern and Western philosophy. And a Western bias still is that the East can learn from the West, rather than vice versa, and indeed is doing so, as is exhibited in the spread of te ...
Reading Euthyphro
... rational order of the universe must be caused by a super intelligent being, the supreme being of all beings and that must be God who is identified with reason itself. This is the idea held by stoicism that we will study next week. This idea of objectivity implicit in the Euthyphro was developed by P ...
... rational order of the universe must be caused by a super intelligent being, the supreme being of all beings and that must be God who is identified with reason itself. This is the idea held by stoicism that we will study next week. This idea of objectivity implicit in the Euthyphro was developed by P ...
deductive reasoning
... 1. Looked at the origins of philosophy a) Investigated Thales’ metaphysical theory that everything is composed of water. b) Contrasted the rational thinking (logos) of Thales with the mythical thinking (mythos) of his predecessors. 1. Discussed in further detail the similarities and differences betw ...
... 1. Looked at the origins of philosophy a) Investigated Thales’ metaphysical theory that everything is composed of water. b) Contrasted the rational thinking (logos) of Thales with the mythical thinking (mythos) of his predecessors. 1. Discussed in further detail the similarities and differences betw ...
Luc Bovens, `Interview.` In: Epistemology: 5 Questions. Edited by
... obsessing about them. I must disappoint you though—I don’t feel that I have some grand project to complete or some puzzle to solve before I bid farewell to this earthly existence. In future work, I would like to combine my interest in formal epistemology with my interest in policy research. I am pre ...
... obsessing about them. I must disappoint you though—I don’t feel that I have some grand project to complete or some puzzle to solve before I bid farewell to this earthly existence. In future work, I would like to combine my interest in formal epistemology with my interest in policy research. I am pre ...
Philosophy as Wisdom of Love
... East, this philosophical impulse was inseparable from the evolutionary spiritual impulse for selfrealization, which defined the office of philosophy in the East as the Way of Realization. Therefore, such eminent esoteric schools of Eastern thought as Yogacara, Madhyamika, rDzogs-chen, Vedanta, Samkh ...
... East, this philosophical impulse was inseparable from the evolutionary spiritual impulse for selfrealization, which defined the office of philosophy in the East as the Way of Realization. Therefore, such eminent esoteric schools of Eastern thought as Yogacara, Madhyamika, rDzogs-chen, Vedanta, Samkh ...
philosophical anthropology: ernst cassirer, max
... The only valid view of human nature approved and adopted by Cassirer is a functional one. For Cassirer: Man’s outstanding characteristic, his distinguishing mark, is not his metaphysical or physical nature—but his work. It is this work, it is the system of human activities, which defines and determi ...
... The only valid view of human nature approved and adopted by Cassirer is a functional one. For Cassirer: Man’s outstanding characteristic, his distinguishing mark, is not his metaphysical or physical nature—but his work. It is this work, it is the system of human activities, which defines and determi ...
Preface to Lying, Misleading and What is Said
... from these two discussions can shed light on puzzling and problematic examples/. It is, as I’ve said, a new and somewhat experimental sort of undertaking. It undoubtedly suffers from all the flaws of new and experimental endeavours. My main hope is that, for all its flaws, it may offer a new and fru ...
... from these two discussions can shed light on puzzling and problematic examples/. It is, as I’ve said, a new and somewhat experimental sort of undertaking. It undoubtedly suffers from all the flaws of new and experimental endeavours. My main hope is that, for all its flaws, it may offer a new and fru ...
The Emergence of Conventionalism - Philsci
... is fairly well known. In 1934 Quine gave at Harvard three talks on Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language which were quite favorable to conventionalism. But within two years, he wrote "Truth by Convention", which is highly critical of conventionalism.to The case of Wittgenstein is more complex and less ...
... is fairly well known. In 1934 Quine gave at Harvard three talks on Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language which were quite favorable to conventionalism. But within two years, he wrote "Truth by Convention", which is highly critical of conventionalism.to The case of Wittgenstein is more complex and less ...
No. 7 Ralph Nelson
... Now not only does Strauss want to return to ancient natural right, and proposes such a return as a solution to the impasse in which modern political philosophy has left us, but it would appear that there is little that is new in modern political philosophy, little that ...
... Now not only does Strauss want to return to ancient natural right, and proposes such a return as a solution to the impasse in which modern political philosophy has left us, but it would appear that there is little that is new in modern political philosophy, little that ...
1 - David Papineau
... Here is what I am going to do in this paper. In the next two sections I shall flesh out the idea that philosophy consists of synthetic theories. In section 4 I shall qualify this thesis to accommodate the normative and mathematical elements in philosophy. Section 5 will explain how a priori knowled ...
... Here is what I am going to do in this paper. In the next two sections I shall flesh out the idea that philosophy consists of synthetic theories. In section 4 I shall qualify this thesis to accommodate the normative and mathematical elements in philosophy. Section 5 will explain how a priori knowled ...
Aztec Philosophy - University Press of Colorado
... thus consists of the Nahuas’ understanding of the nature, structure, and constitution of reality.4 Because one cannot adequately understand Nahua theology, religion, and ritual as well as ethical, political, epistemological, and aesthetic thinking and activity without first understanding Nahua metap ...
... thus consists of the Nahuas’ understanding of the nature, structure, and constitution of reality.4 Because one cannot adequately understand Nahua theology, religion, and ritual as well as ethical, political, epistemological, and aesthetic thinking and activity without first understanding Nahua metap ...
History of philosophy in Poland
The history of philosophy in Poland parallels the evolution of philosophy in Europe in general. Polish philosophy drew upon the broader currents of European philosophy, and in turn contributed to their growth. Among the most momentous Polish contributions were made, in the thirteenth century, by the Scholastic philosopher and scientist Witelo, and, in the sixteenth century, by the Renaissance polymath Nicolaus Copernicus.Subsequently, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth partook in the intellectual ferment of the Enlightenment, which for the multi-ethnic Commonwealth ended not long after the partitions and political annihilation that would last for the next 123 years, until the collapse of the three partitioning empires in World War I.The period of Messianism, between the November 1830 and January 1863 Uprisings, reflected European Romantic and Idealist trends, as well as a Polish yearning for political resurrection. It was a period of maximalist metaphysical systems.The collapse of the January 1863 Uprising prompted an agonizing reappraisal of Poland's situation. Poles gave up their earlier practice of ""measuring their resources by their aspirations,"" and buckled down to hard work and study. ""[A] Positivist,"" wrote the novelist Bolesław Prus' friend, Julian Ochorowicz, was ""anyone who bases assertions on verifiable evidence; who does not express himself categorically about doubtful things, and does not speak at all about those that are inaccessible.""The twentieth century brought a new quickening to Polish philosophy. There was growing interest in western philosophical currents. Rigorously trained Polish philosophers made substantial contributions to specialized fields—to psychology, the history of philosophy, the theory of knowledge, and especially mathematical logic. Jan Łukasiewicz gained world fame with his concept of many-valued logic and his ""Polish notation."" Alfred Tarski's work in truth theory won him world renown.After World War II, for over four decades, world-class Polish philosophers and historians of philosophy such as Władysław Tatarkiewicz continued their work, often in the face of adversities occasioned by the dominance of a politically enforced official philosophy.The phenomenologist Roman Ingarden did influential work in esthetics and in a Husserl-style metaphysics; his student Karol Wojtyła acquired a unique influence on the world stage as Pope John Paul II.