God and Physics: From Hawking to Avicenna
... Quantum physics seems to provide a loophole to the age-old assumption that ‘you can’t get something from nothing.’ Physicists are now talking about the ‘self-creating universe’: a cosmos that erupts into existence spontaneously, much as a subnuclear particle sometimes pops out of nowhere in certain ...
... Quantum physics seems to provide a loophole to the age-old assumption that ‘you can’t get something from nothing.’ Physicists are now talking about the ‘self-creating universe’: a cosmos that erupts into existence spontaneously, much as a subnuclear particle sometimes pops out of nowhere in certain ...
From Aristotle`s Ousia to Ibn Sina`s Jawhar
... it usually has been attributed to Avicenna. Historically speaking, the idea can be traced back to Aristotle. In some of his works, Aristotle makes a distinction between “what a thing is” and “that it is”. For example, in his Posterior Analytics, he says: “But what a man is and that a man is are diff ...
... it usually has been attributed to Avicenna. Historically speaking, the idea can be traced back to Aristotle. In some of his works, Aristotle makes a distinction between “what a thing is” and “that it is”. For example, in his Posterior Analytics, he says: “But what a man is and that a man is are diff ...
Leibniz Discourse 8
... In Discourse 9, Leibniz says there are only two ways things get created or annihiliated, and that is through either: A) God’s creation or annihilation of the individual monads. B) Coming together of existing monads to create a larger compound or the dissolution of the compound by the scattering of m ...
... In Discourse 9, Leibniz says there are only two ways things get created or annihiliated, and that is through either: A) God’s creation or annihilation of the individual monads. B) Coming together of existing monads to create a larger compound or the dissolution of the compound by the scattering of m ...
nothingness.plato.stanford.edu
... shadows and extraneous matter in holes; but these are contaminants rather than constituents. If there are souls or Cartesian minds, then they will also qualify as immaterial, concrete entities. Although they do not ...
... shadows and extraneous matter in holes; but these are contaminants rather than constituents. If there are souls or Cartesian minds, then they will also qualify as immaterial, concrete entities. Although they do not ...
Thomas Hobbes: Apologist for Absolutism
... discovered that blood circulated through the human body. Hobbes was also a superb classicist. His translation of the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, the first in English, is still read today. The English Civil War made Hobbes a political philosopher and inspired him to write Leviatha ...
... discovered that blood circulated through the human body. Hobbes was also a superb classicist. His translation of the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, the first in English, is still read today. The English Civil War made Hobbes a political philosopher and inspired him to write Leviatha ...
meth-XI
... moderate—Trade and Literature. These were they, which, after the dismemberment of the old Roman world, gradually reduced the conquerors and the conquered at once into several nations and a common Christendom. The natural law of increase and the instincts of family may produce tribes, and under rare ...
... moderate—Trade and Literature. These were they, which, after the dismemberment of the old Roman world, gradually reduced the conquerors and the conquered at once into several nations and a common Christendom. The natural law of increase and the instincts of family may produce tribes, and under rare ...
Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Introduction
... respect, but their needs are nevertheless completely different. And it is precisely the same with property relations. Even the serf has property, but it is coupled with obligations which render another person the joint owner of it. If, however, we define property in terms of thought, it of course fo ...
... respect, but their needs are nevertheless completely different. And it is precisely the same with property relations. Even the serf has property, but it is coupled with obligations which render another person the joint owner of it. If, however, we define property in terms of thought, it of course fo ...
existentialist philosophies and political decline
... This emotional experience, or crisis situation, is the fundamental assertion of the school. Divergence among the existentialists begins with its assessment. All agree that itis the instrument which lifts the existent being from the caterory of Everyman. Kierkegaard saw it as containing the conversio ...
... This emotional experience, or crisis situation, is the fundamental assertion of the school. Divergence among the existentialists begins with its assessment. All agree that itis the instrument which lifts the existent being from the caterory of Everyman. Kierkegaard saw it as containing the conversio ...
Efforts to Explain all Existence
... that any question of why things exist could be answered by stating how long they have done so (and in particular by saying that they have done so for infinitely long, 'so that existence at each instant can be explained by existence at the preceding instant'). But Leibniz's point could instead be tha ...
... that any question of why things exist could be answered by stating how long they have done so (and in particular by saying that they have done so for infinitely long, 'so that existence at each instant can be explained by existence at the preceding instant'). But Leibniz's point could instead be tha ...
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 ...
The Contemporary Relevance of Aristotle`s Thought
... it is especially the genetical aspect of his approach that has attracted the interest of biologists. One of these, M. Delbrück, has seen Aristotle’s concept of a form, which guides the development of the embryo without existing as a material part of it, as anticipating the discovery of DNA.7 In fact ...
... it is especially the genetical aspect of his approach that has attracted the interest of biologists. One of these, M. Delbrück, has seen Aristotle’s concept of a form, which guides the development of the embryo without existing as a material part of it, as anticipating the discovery of DNA.7 In fact ...
-BECOMING X1 - artykuły innych autorów
... never reached." This is important as showing that such theistic utterances belong for Hegel in philosophy, whatever his not very well observed reservations about use of the name "God" there. Spinoza has an "Oriental view of the unity of substance" from which Hegel here distances himself, despite his ...
... never reached." This is important as showing that such theistic utterances belong for Hegel in philosophy, whatever his not very well observed reservations about use of the name "God" there. Spinoza has an "Oriental view of the unity of substance" from which Hegel here distances himself, despite his ...
Landscape and Dwelling Lars Botin PhD, MA Ass. Professor
... understandings. In this sense landscapes are often characterized by being made of cultural strata that to some extent resembles historical and natural geological strata. There is a clear distinction and dialectics between nature and landscape, where nature is both encompassing and engulfed in landsc ...
... understandings. In this sense landscapes are often characterized by being made of cultural strata that to some extent resembles historical and natural geological strata. There is a clear distinction and dialectics between nature and landscape, where nature is both encompassing and engulfed in landsc ...
Averroes - The Incoherence of the Incoherence
... seem that Metaphysics, being the basis of all knowledge and having as its subject the ultimate principles of things, should possess, according to Aristotle, the highest evidence and that God, as being the highest principle, should stand at the beginning of the system, as in Spinoza. In fact, Aristot ...
... seem that Metaphysics, being the basis of all knowledge and having as its subject the ultimate principles of things, should possess, according to Aristotle, the highest evidence and that God, as being the highest principle, should stand at the beginning of the system, as in Spinoza. In fact, Aristot ...
Anaxagoras 500 - 428, came to Athens in 480
... Common ground between Orphicism (worship of Dionysius) and Pythagoreanism: both organized into communities with initiations, etc; both posited the transmigration of souls— that the soul is the important part of man, not the imprisoning body. Not essentially a political group, but involved in politic ...
... Common ground between Orphicism (worship of Dionysius) and Pythagoreanism: both organized into communities with initiations, etc; both posited the transmigration of souls— that the soul is the important part of man, not the imprisoning body. Not essentially a political group, but involved in politic ...
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 ...
Metaphysics
... a. Prime matter is found in all material things and is the basis of change. b. Prime matter never exist as such– as bare prime matter– but always in conjunction with form, which is the formalizing or characterizing factor. c. In the sense that prime matter cannot exist by itself, apart from form, i ...
... a. Prime matter is found in all material things and is the basis of change. b. Prime matter never exist as such– as bare prime matter– but always in conjunction with form, which is the formalizing or characterizing factor. c. In the sense that prime matter cannot exist by itself, apart from form, i ...
VKS Synoptic Prese
... Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274) wrote in the ‘Summa Theologia’, of five ways in which God’s existence can be demonstrated. These are: The argument for an unmoved mover The argument for an uncaused cause The argument from contingency The argument from gradation The argument from teleology It is the firs ...
... Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274) wrote in the ‘Summa Theologia’, of five ways in which God’s existence can be demonstrated. These are: The argument for an unmoved mover The argument for an uncaused cause The argument from contingency The argument from gradation The argument from teleology It is the firs ...
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13
... so he becomes acquainted with himself. Feuerbach shows that in every aspect God corresponds to some feature or need of human nature. "If man is to find contentment in God," he claims, "he must find himself in God." Thus God is nothing else than man: he is, so to speak, the outward projection of man ...
... so he becomes acquainted with himself. Feuerbach shows that in every aspect God corresponds to some feature or need of human nature. "If man is to find contentment in God," he claims, "he must find himself in God." Thus God is nothing else than man: he is, so to speak, the outward projection of man ...
The Critique of Scholastic Language in Renaissance Humanism
... - “if we all profess a Latin logic, words will have the meaning established by Latin practice and usage, not our own. (...) Indeed, I should very much like to hear from these men: if they were to teach dialectic in Spanish or French, which is as feasible as in Latin or Greek, would they make up rule ...
... - “if we all profess a Latin logic, words will have the meaning established by Latin practice and usage, not our own. (...) Indeed, I should very much like to hear from these men: if they were to teach dialectic in Spanish or French, which is as feasible as in Latin or Greek, would they make up rule ...
Sartre and the Existentialist Vision of the Human
... metaphysical speculation. ◦ The metaphysical tradition has been dominated by philosophies of ‘essence.’ ...
... metaphysical speculation. ◦ The metaphysical tradition has been dominated by philosophies of ‘essence.’ ...
Classical Chinese Philosophies - Fort Thomas Independent Schools
... Criticisms of Heraclitus: If all of existence is made from one substance, then the concept of change is false. Change is an illusion. How can change exist? How can something that is not become something that is? Something either is or is not. Only one path is available for us to speak of “The ...
... Criticisms of Heraclitus: If all of existence is made from one substance, then the concept of change is false. Change is an illusion. How can change exist? How can something that is not become something that is? Something either is or is not. Only one path is available for us to speak of “The ...
Here - BasicIncome.com
... then, existent beings which are contingent and as such do not contain a sufficient reason and explanation in themselves for what they are. There must, therefore, be existent a being which explains them, and at the same time is its own sufficient reason and explanation; that is to say, a being who, a ...
... then, existent beings which are contingent and as such do not contain a sufficient reason and explanation in themselves for what they are. There must, therefore, be existent a being which explains them, and at the same time is its own sufficient reason and explanation; that is to say, a being who, a ...
Skepticism
... major premise, “All men are mortal”—can be proved only by a complete induction. But the complete induction involves a knowledge of the conclusion—“Socrates is a mortal.” For we cannot say, that all men are mortal unless we already know that Socrates is mortal. The Syllogism is, therefore, an instanc ...
... major premise, “All men are mortal”—can be proved only by a complete induction. But the complete induction involves a knowledge of the conclusion—“Socrates is a mortal.” For we cannot say, that all men are mortal unless we already know that Socrates is mortal. The Syllogism is, therefore, an instanc ...
Being
Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing objective and subjective features of reality and existence. Anything that partakes in being is also called a ""being"", though often this use is limited to entities that have subjectivity (as in the expression ""human being""). So broad a notion has inevitably been elusive and controversial in the history of philosophy, beginning in western philosophy with attempts among the pre-Socratics to deploy it intelligibly.As an example of efforts in recent times, Martin Heidegger (who himself drew on ancient Greek sources) adopted German terms like Dasein to articulate the topic. Several modern approaches build on such continental European exemplars as Heidegger, and apply metaphysical results to the understanding of human psychology and the human condition generally (notably in the Existentialist tradition).By contrast, in mainstream Analytical philosophy the topic is more confined to abstract investigation, in the work of such influential theorists as W. V. O. Quine, to name one of many. One most fundamental question that continues to exercise philosophers is put by William James: ""How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.""