Aristotle and the Early Stoics on Moral Responsibility
... considers animals and children to be capable of voluntary action (though not of choice and deliberation, or virtue), so they would also be responsible for what they voluntarily do. Or does Aristotle mean merely that voluntariness is one necessary condition for responsibility? Part of the problem ind ...
... considers animals and children to be capable of voluntary action (though not of choice and deliberation, or virtue), so they would also be responsible for what they voluntarily do. Or does Aristotle mean merely that voluntariness is one necessary condition for responsibility? Part of the problem ind ...
The Problem of Substance in Metaphysics
... Epochs in philosophy, reveals that the problem of substance has been a thing of concern through the ages to the present time. The first group of philosophers to trace the substratum of all reality were the Pre-Socratic philosophers. Although their attempt might be considered unsophisticated (certain ...
... Epochs in philosophy, reveals that the problem of substance has been a thing of concern through the ages to the present time. The first group of philosophers to trace the substratum of all reality were the Pre-Socratic philosophers. Although their attempt might be considered unsophisticated (certain ...
Sameness and Referential Opacity in Aristotle Francis Jeffry
... modern notion of identity to being something we would not wish.to call 'identity' at alJ.l In the Topics, an early work, we find hints of something we would recognize (although Aristotle is still claimed to have a "weak grip" on the concept); in Metaphysics V (late) we can find only a series of pron ...
... modern notion of identity to being something we would not wish.to call 'identity' at alJ.l In the Topics, an early work, we find hints of something we would recognize (although Aristotle is still claimed to have a "weak grip" on the concept); in Metaphysics V (late) we can find only a series of pron ...
On Aristotle and Economics
... Accident is what happens to a substance either immediately (an economic good is bought) or in a mediated way (through another accident/s: an economic good suffers depreciation). Accidents are in substances (a price of an economic good) or in other accidents – thanks to substance (expectations about ...
... Accident is what happens to a substance either immediately (an economic good is bought) or in a mediated way (through another accident/s: an economic good suffers depreciation). Accidents are in substances (a price of an economic good) or in other accidents – thanks to substance (expectations about ...
Heidegger - tools analysis
... with scholarly thoroughness: Dr. Harman has read every published volume of the Gesamtausgabe in the original German, and puts that knowledge to rigorous use with both scholarly thoroughness and originality of thought. Tool-Being provides, in three well-structured chapters, a thorough unpacking of tw ...
... with scholarly thoroughness: Dr. Harman has read every published volume of the Gesamtausgabe in the original German, and puts that knowledge to rigorous use with both scholarly thoroughness and originality of thought. Tool-Being provides, in three well-structured chapters, a thorough unpacking of tw ...
The different meanings of `being` according to Aristotle and
... 4. Being as actuality and being as potentiality correspond, in this last case, to an ontological consideration at the "transcendental" level. We are dealing hence with a progressive approach from the mind to reality itself: fro1n the ens secunlhfln rationenl (on kata logon) to the ens secunlhun nat~ ...
... 4. Being as actuality and being as potentiality correspond, in this last case, to an ontological consideration at the "transcendental" level. We are dealing hence with a progressive approach from the mind to reality itself: fro1n the ens secunlhfln rationenl (on kata logon) to the ens secunlhun nat~ ...
Friendship - The University of Sydney
... chimera of the moderns—nor of any relation between subjects: rather, existing itself is divided, it is non-identical to itself: the I and the friend are the two faces—or the two poles—of this con-division. 5) The friend is, for this reason, another self, a heteros autos. In its Latin translation, al ...
... chimera of the moderns—nor of any relation between subjects: rather, existing itself is divided, it is non-identical to itself: the I and the friend are the two faces—or the two poles—of this con-division. 5) The friend is, for this reason, another self, a heteros autos. In its Latin translation, al ...
Metaphysics as the First Philosophy
... level. It is in Metaphysics G where Aristotle introduces being qua being, but we also find some detailed discussion in Metaphysics K. Perhaps the most illustrative passage for our current purposes comes from Metaphysics E: One might indeed raise the question whether first philosophy is universal, or ...
... level. It is in Metaphysics G where Aristotle introduces being qua being, but we also find some detailed discussion in Metaphysics K. Perhaps the most illustrative passage for our current purposes comes from Metaphysics E: One might indeed raise the question whether first philosophy is universal, or ...
CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS
... Dasein is always ‘ahead of itself’ (sich voraus) > projects itself onto possibilities of existence. Authenticity is to be oneself, i.e. to choose consciously for certain possibilities of existence. To exist inauthentically > the possibilities of existence are determined by the One or They (das ...
... Dasein is always ‘ahead of itself’ (sich voraus) > projects itself onto possibilities of existence. Authenticity is to be oneself, i.e. to choose consciously for certain possibilities of existence. To exist inauthentically > the possibilities of existence are determined by the One or They (das ...
Hokchhay Tann Philosophy 101 Topic: Analysis of contemporary
... In Aristotle’s world, communication means to actually interact with each other face-to-face since there was no medium of communication. So when friends do not meet up with one another after a long time, their friendship weakens and fades away. In our contemporary society, which has thousands mediums ...
... In Aristotle’s world, communication means to actually interact with each other face-to-face since there was no medium of communication. So when friends do not meet up with one another after a long time, their friendship weakens and fades away. In our contemporary society, which has thousands mediums ...
ARISTOTLEAN VIRTUE AND CONTEMPORARY PUNISHMENT
... Harm done in ignorance which is due to intoxication or negligence is blameworthy, and the ascription of responsibility is proper because of that blameworthiness.40 Although this Aristotelian concept might not seem consistent with his earlier theory of the preclusion of punishment without voluntarin ...
... Harm done in ignorance which is due to intoxication or negligence is blameworthy, and the ascription of responsibility is proper because of that blameworthiness.40 Although this Aristotelian concept might not seem consistent with his earlier theory of the preclusion of punishment without voluntarin ...
Curd, Ch. 2
... Diogenes Laertius says that Anaximander was sixty-four years old in 547/6 BCE, and this dating agrees with the ancient reports that say that Anaximander was a pupil or follower of Thales. He was said to have been the first person to construct a map of the world, to have set up a gnomon at Sparta, an ...
... Diogenes Laertius says that Anaximander was sixty-four years old in 547/6 BCE, and this dating agrees with the ancient reports that say that Anaximander was a pupil or follower of Thales. He was said to have been the first person to construct a map of the world, to have set up a gnomon at Sparta, an ...
ARISTOTLE'S PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN LIFE Sotshangane
... we will be able to find true human happiness, flourishing, and weilbeing (eudaemonia), not by pursuing excessive accumulation of material goods, but by "taking care of our soul" first and foremost through the right kind of Aristotle's philosophy of human life. On this account, doing unethical acts i ...
... we will be able to find true human happiness, flourishing, and weilbeing (eudaemonia), not by pursuing excessive accumulation of material goods, but by "taking care of our soul" first and foremost through the right kind of Aristotle's philosophy of human life. On this account, doing unethical acts i ...
Martin Heidegger, Off the Beaten Track
... is his thematic preoccupation with “one occurrence: (the thought) that in the history of Western thinking, right from the beginning, beings have been thought in regard to being, but the truth of being has remained unthought” (p.159). It is this thought of originary truth that Off the beaten track tr ...
... is his thematic preoccupation with “one occurrence: (the thought) that in the history of Western thinking, right from the beginning, beings have been thought in regard to being, but the truth of being has remained unthought” (p.159). It is this thought of originary truth that Off the beaten track tr ...
Leibniz Discourse 8
... 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 monads. It also follows that a substance cannot begin except by creation, nor come to an end except by annihilation; a ...
... 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 monads. It also follows that a substance cannot begin except by creation, nor come to an end except by annihilation; a ...
WhatIsAPet
... this topic that we are able to determine why humans seem to be the only creatures capable of being “pet owners.” For Aristotle, “All lifeless things are moved by something else” (Aristotle and Ackrill 233). Essentially, electric animals are non-living, and living entities are “ensouled.” By “ensoule ...
... this topic that we are able to determine why humans seem to be the only creatures capable of being “pet owners.” For Aristotle, “All lifeless things are moved by something else” (Aristotle and Ackrill 233). Essentially, electric animals are non-living, and living entities are “ensouled.” By “ensoule ...
ARISTOTLE`S THEORY OF TRUTH
... one and the same is able to receive contraries’ (Categories 4a 10). But are not statements and beliefs like this in that numerically one and the same statement or belief is true or false? If the statement ‘Professor Carnap is flying to the moon’ is true, after he has reached the moon this statem ent ...
... one and the same is able to receive contraries’ (Categories 4a 10). But are not statements and beliefs like this in that numerically one and the same statement or belief is true or false? If the statement ‘Professor Carnap is flying to the moon’ is true, after he has reached the moon this statem ent ...
Capitalism and Morality
... individual in meeting his or her ultimate goal or end, happiness. Lastly, once decided which action will best fit the end, the individual voluntarily engages in the action. Once discussing how a man may act in a morally responsible and proper way, Aristotle furthers his discussion of moral action b ...
... individual in meeting his or her ultimate goal or end, happiness. Lastly, once decided which action will best fit the end, the individual voluntarily engages in the action. Once discussing how a man may act in a morally responsible and proper way, Aristotle furthers his discussion of moral action b ...
Aristotle and the Problem of Human Knowledge
... If philosophy begins in wonder, it also begins in a sense of discontent. The person who wonders and is perplexed regards himself as ignorant (oietai agnoein; 982b18). Thus, philosophizing began in an attempt to escape from ignorance (pheugein tên agnoian; 982b20).9 Our restlessness is such that our ...
... If philosophy begins in wonder, it also begins in a sense of discontent. The person who wonders and is perplexed regards himself as ignorant (oietai agnoein; 982b18). Thus, philosophizing began in an attempt to escape from ignorance (pheugein tên agnoian; 982b20).9 Our restlessness is such that our ...
Philosophers for the City: Aristotle and the Telos of Education
... In fact, its goal is “to secure leisure and the good things that are enjoyed in leisure”; thus political life is work or occupation.53 The life of the politician is not the life of the philosopher. Though the political ruler does indeed require leisure in order to act, the political actions to which ...
... In fact, its goal is “to secure leisure and the good things that are enjoyed in leisure”; thus political life is work or occupation.53 The life of the politician is not the life of the philosopher. Though the political ruler does indeed require leisure in order to act, the political actions to which ...
Body and soul Michael Lacewing Plato In his work, the Phaedo
... something that can, under certain conditions, be alive. The very idea of a body (as distinct from a physical object), then, depends on the idea of living. And it is this account – of what it is to live – that the soul provides. The soul exists as the organizing principle of the body. It is very diff ...
... something that can, under certain conditions, be alive. The very idea of a body (as distinct from a physical object), then, depends on the idea of living. And it is this account – of what it is to live – that the soul provides. The soul exists as the organizing principle of the body. It is very diff ...
Aristotle`s Physics: a Physicist`s Look - Philsci
... Aristotle’s physics [1–3] does not enjoy good press. It is commonly called “intuitive”, and at the same time “blatantly wrong”. For instance, it is commonly said to state that heavier objects fall faster when every high-school kid should know they fall at the same speed. (Do they??) Science, we also ...
... Aristotle’s physics [1–3] does not enjoy good press. It is commonly called “intuitive”, and at the same time “blatantly wrong”. For instance, it is commonly said to state that heavier objects fall faster when every high-school kid should know they fall at the same speed. (Do they??) Science, we also ...
Metaphysics of Motion
... This objective good is, for Aristotle, the perfect order and proper functioning of the cosmos. God is himself this order (logos); he is an eternal mind or rather an eternal act of thinking that comprehends the order of everything. Aristotle posits at the heart of the cosmos a full, unending activity ...
... This objective good is, for Aristotle, the perfect order and proper functioning of the cosmos. God is himself this order (logos); he is an eternal mind or rather an eternal act of thinking that comprehends the order of everything. Aristotle posits at the heart of the cosmos a full, unending activity ...
Text - UT College of Liberal Arts - The University of Texas at Austin
... exerted absolutely no influence until it was rediscovered early in this century. Saccheri points out that the proofs of the statements of non-implication customary in the traditional, Aristotelian logic, presuppose the existence of predicates, such as man and animal in the above argument for the non ...
... exerted absolutely no influence until it was rediscovered early in this century. Saccheri points out that the proofs of the statements of non-implication customary in the traditional, Aristotelian logic, presuppose the existence of predicates, such as man and animal in the above argument for the non ...
three logicians: aristotle, saccheri, frege
... exerted absolutely no influence until it was rediscovered early in this century. Saccheri points out that the proofs of the statements of non-implication customary in the traditional, Aristotelian logic, presuppose the existence of predicates, such as man and animal in the above argument for the non ...
... exerted absolutely no influence until it was rediscovered early in this century. Saccheri points out that the proofs of the statements of non-implication customary in the traditional, Aristotelian logic, presuppose the existence of predicates, such as man and animal in the above argument for the non ...