The Best of Best Paul Kurtz` philosophy of humanism
... is hard to find common ground. Secularism, adapted to cultural differences, i.e. multisecularism, might be a more viable strategy to strive for than outspoken atheistic humanism. In a secular society people can enjoy their personal delusions, as long as they don‟t harm others. The problem with Kurt ...
... is hard to find common ground. Secularism, adapted to cultural differences, i.e. multisecularism, might be a more viable strategy to strive for than outspoken atheistic humanism. In a secular society people can enjoy their personal delusions, as long as they don‟t harm others. The problem with Kurt ...
Simmel and Weber as ideal- typical founders of sociology
... professional backgrounds, Simmel and Weber differ above all in their style. The Simmelian spirit is the ‘esprit de finesse’, the spirit of subtlety, refinement, tact, delicacy and perceptivity. It contrasts rather agreeably with Weber’s ‘esprit de sérieux’, his stern and rigorous scientific ‘spirit ...
... professional backgrounds, Simmel and Weber differ above all in their style. The Simmelian spirit is the ‘esprit de finesse’, the spirit of subtlety, refinement, tact, delicacy and perceptivity. It contrasts rather agreeably with Weber’s ‘esprit de sérieux’, his stern and rigorous scientific ‘spirit ...
Simmel and Weber as ideal- typical founders of sociology
... professional backgrounds, Simmel and Weber differ above all in their style. The Simmelian spirit is the ‘esprit de finesse’, the spirit of subtlety, refinement, tact, delicacy and perceptivity. It contrasts rather agreeably with Weber’s ‘esprit de sérieux’, his stern and rigorous scientific ‘spirit ...
... professional backgrounds, Simmel and Weber differ above all in their style. The Simmelian spirit is the ‘esprit de finesse’, the spirit of subtlety, refinement, tact, delicacy and perceptivity. It contrasts rather agreeably with Weber’s ‘esprit de sérieux’, his stern and rigorous scientific ‘spirit ...
D. C. Schindler Plato`s Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness
... are at their best are they infallible. Schindler’s response to this textual anomaly is to give Thrasymachus sufficient credit to recognize that he cannot assent to Cleitophon’s option without becoming bankrupt of power. To my mind, however, Schindler would do well to meditate on the fact that Thrasy ...
... are at their best are they infallible. Schindler’s response to this textual anomaly is to give Thrasymachus sufficient credit to recognize that he cannot assent to Cleitophon’s option without becoming bankrupt of power. To my mind, however, Schindler would do well to meditate on the fact that Thrasy ...
The4 - Homestead
... structure of this idea or sense of the absolute is constructed and what religious functions it appears to possess or imply in its religious context? At the same time let me show that a general isomorphism is preserved between these two traditions, that textual evidence can be found to support this c ...
... structure of this idea or sense of the absolute is constructed and what religious functions it appears to possess or imply in its religious context? At the same time let me show that a general isomorphism is preserved between these two traditions, that textual evidence can be found to support this c ...
Touch, Communication, Community: Jean
... conscious experiencing of the shared world), being-with may be understood, for our purposes, as an empirical signifier. It is an expression used in Nancy’s philosophical vocabulary to call attention to what is essential to (what are the key features of) human conscious awareness of the conditions of ...
... conscious experiencing of the shared world), being-with may be understood, for our purposes, as an empirical signifier. It is an expression used in Nancy’s philosophical vocabulary to call attention to what is essential to (what are the key features of) human conscious awareness of the conditions of ...
Science and Spirituality - Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc.
... cessfully practiced without a proper understanding of its underlying philosophy, particularly outside of India because of the absence of the weight of its tradition and the scarcity of knowledgeable people who can serve as guides. However, pursuing the analysis based on our new experience, we sudde ...
... cessfully practiced without a proper understanding of its underlying philosophy, particularly outside of India because of the absence of the weight of its tradition and the scarcity of knowledgeable people who can serve as guides. However, pursuing the analysis based on our new experience, we sudde ...
"Kant, Naturphilosophie, and Oersted`s Discovery of
... of the roots of Oersted’s discovery. Whereas others have argued that it was Oersted’s devotion to Naturphilosophie that resulted in his discovery, I shall argue that it was his deeply rooted acceptance of certain Kantian docrines, and his explicit rejection of central doctrines of Naturphilosophie, ...
... of the roots of Oersted’s discovery. Whereas others have argued that it was Oersted’s devotion to Naturphilosophie that resulted in his discovery, I shall argue that it was his deeply rooted acceptance of certain Kantian docrines, and his explicit rejection of central doctrines of Naturphilosophie, ...
THE LEGACY OF AHITĀGNI RAJWADE
... literature and the arts, Western philosophy and modern science. Following a dominant strand of the Indian philosophical tradition, most of his publications were presented in an exegetical or commentarial mode. However, this format should not be taken to indicate an absence of original thinking and i ...
... literature and the arts, Western philosophy and modern science. Following a dominant strand of the Indian philosophical tradition, most of his publications were presented in an exegetical or commentarial mode. However, this format should not be taken to indicate an absence of original thinking and i ...
Act Naturally - Integral Program
... Rousseau comes to the conclusion that inequality succeeded in establishing itself in stages through the history of man: “If we follow the progress of inequality in these different revolutions, we shall find that the establishment of law and the right of property was the first stage, the institutions ...
... Rousseau comes to the conclusion that inequality succeeded in establishing itself in stages through the history of man: “If we follow the progress of inequality in these different revolutions, we shall find that the establishment of law and the right of property was the first stage, the institutions ...
Spirituality and Biblical Hermeneutics The Challenge of Ricoeur`s
... All this concerns a rather formal distinction between the discourses of philosophy and theology. There is, however, a third element, that goes a step further than a formal delineation of discourses. Philosophy, at least Ricoeur’s philosophy is directed to developing L’homme capable, capable man. Thi ...
... All this concerns a rather formal distinction between the discourses of philosophy and theology. There is, however, a third element, that goes a step further than a formal delineation of discourses. Philosophy, at least Ricoeur’s philosophy is directed to developing L’homme capable, capable man. Thi ...
What Does Biological Science Provide for Contemporary Philosophy?
... According to Mayr, physical science represented by the classical mechanics first grew after the modern scientific revolution. At that time, however, biology was still in the stage of germination. And it had not developed until the middle of nineteenth century. Consequently, the ideas and methods of ...
... According to Mayr, physical science represented by the classical mechanics first grew after the modern scientific revolution. At that time, however, biology was still in the stage of germination. And it had not developed until the middle of nineteenth century. Consequently, the ideas and methods of ...
Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon
... has nothing to do with it” (A:12). But even in the domain of theoretical reason, philosophy fares not much better, since theoretical reason, especially in the guise of philosophical metaphysics, is also really subservient to values. Nietzsche, pointing to the Stoic metaphysics of nature, observes th ...
... has nothing to do with it” (A:12). But even in the domain of theoretical reason, philosophy fares not much better, since theoretical reason, especially in the guise of philosophical metaphysics, is also really subservient to values. Nietzsche, pointing to the Stoic metaphysics of nature, observes th ...
Commonsense concepts of phenomenal consciousness: Does
... robots as having some agency but little experience. These data seem to sit well with a view that claims that phenomenal states must be realized neurally while non-phenomenal states need not be so understood. After all, God doesn’t have a body (I assume) and an ordinary robot has the wrong sort of bo ...
... robots as having some agency but little experience. These data seem to sit well with a view that claims that phenomenal states must be realized neurally while non-phenomenal states need not be so understood. After all, God doesn’t have a body (I assume) and an ordinary robot has the wrong sort of bo ...
Altruistic emotional motivation: An argument in
... We have seen that PE is a variety of motivational monism. This demanding aspect of the theory has led most advocates of PA to search for counterexamples, particular actions or types of action that cannot be convincingly explained in egoistic terms. Indeed, PE could be proven false by showing that at ...
... We have seen that PE is a variety of motivational monism. This demanding aspect of the theory has led most advocates of PA to search for counterexamples, particular actions or types of action that cannot be convincingly explained in egoistic terms. Indeed, PE could be proven false by showing that at ...
Between Probability and Certainty
... risk of error than we would in believing this on the basis of the statistical evidence. As such, the risk minimisation conception straightforwardly predicts that the latter belief should be more justified than the former. Yet this would seem to be the very opposite of the truth. Maybe there is nothi ...
... risk of error than we would in believing this on the basis of the statistical evidence. As such, the risk minimisation conception straightforwardly predicts that the latter belief should be more justified than the former. Yet this would seem to be the very opposite of the truth. Maybe there is nothi ...
From Number Mysticism to the Maßformel:
... To our ears, such attempts to rationalize mystic experience seem to resemble merely an aberration of language. Within the obscurity of such number mysticism we can, however, find thought figures related to numerical series that inspired Fechner to develop his Maßformel. “I was dazzled with these ide ...
... To our ears, such attempts to rationalize mystic experience seem to resemble merely an aberration of language. Within the obscurity of such number mysticism we can, however, find thought figures related to numerical series that inspired Fechner to develop his Maßformel. “I was dazzled with these ide ...
Metaphysics as the First Philosophy
... So, what is the science of being qua being? First, it should be noted that it is not “being qua being” that is the subject of first philosophy – the subject is “being”, which is studied “qua being” (being as it is in itself) (Cohen 2009). This is to contrast first philosophy with (natural) science, ...
... So, what is the science of being qua being? First, it should be noted that it is not “being qua being” that is the subject of first philosophy – the subject is “being”, which is studied “qua being” (being as it is in itself) (Cohen 2009). This is to contrast first philosophy with (natural) science, ...
Bernard Lonergan on a Catholic Liberal Arts Education
... say they do. In his 1972 Method in Theology, Lonergan extended his analysis to scholarly historical methods of understanding and how they can be functionally linked to theological methods. In his work Lonergan traces the dynamic method of the human spirit unfolding through the basic levels of experi ...
... say they do. In his 1972 Method in Theology, Lonergan extended his analysis to scholarly historical methods of understanding and how they can be functionally linked to theological methods. In his work Lonergan traces the dynamic method of the human spirit unfolding through the basic levels of experi ...
Business Ethics and Early Modern French Philosophy at the
... The social thinker François Marie Charles Fourier (1772–1837) influenced the political and social philosophy of the time by strongly criticizing the suppression of workers and the proletariat by capitalistic industrial society. Fourier defended a utopian socialism together with Claude Henri de Sain ...
... The social thinker François Marie Charles Fourier (1772–1837) influenced the political and social philosophy of the time by strongly criticizing the suppression of workers and the proletariat by capitalistic industrial society. Fourier defended a utopian socialism together with Claude Henri de Sain ...
Scholar`s Session on David Wood - Vanderbilt College of Arts and
... confronting philosophy today, after humanism, is to think through our relation to our own animality and to the natural conditions from which we emerge but that remain perennially at the margins of our reflective grasp. I will suggest that the language of alterity misleads David’s efforts here to thi ...
... confronting philosophy today, after humanism, is to think through our relation to our own animality and to the natural conditions from which we emerge but that remain perennially at the margins of our reflective grasp. I will suggest that the language of alterity misleads David’s efforts here to thi ...
Naturalism in Philosophy www.AssignmentPoint.com Naturalism in
... With the exception of pantheists—who believe that Nature and God are one and the same thing—theists challenge the idea that nature contains all of reality. According to some theists, natural laws may be viewed as so-called secondary causes of god(s). ...
... With the exception of pantheists—who believe that Nature and God are one and the same thing—theists challenge the idea that nature contains all of reality. According to some theists, natural laws may be viewed as so-called secondary causes of god(s). ...
Princeton University Press 2009. xv + 525 pages $99.95 (cloth ISBN
... victory can be secured by mendacious, violent, or wholly self-regarding means… (He) says in effect that the true foundation of any agents’ own security, victories, greatness, and glory is respect for justice, since this is the foundation of stable order in all human relationships: public or private, ...
... victory can be secured by mendacious, violent, or wholly self-regarding means… (He) says in effect that the true foundation of any agents’ own security, victories, greatness, and glory is respect for justice, since this is the foundation of stable order in all human relationships: public or private, ...
A Conceptual Framework for Postmodernism
... complex. Along with a cultural postmodernism, it consists of a philosophicaltheoretical (actually the Method) component known as deconstruction, where it is possible to note linguistic (Derrida), epistemological (Lyotard), social (Deleuze, Guattari, Baudrillard), and power-political (Foucault) aspec ...
... complex. Along with a cultural postmodernism, it consists of a philosophicaltheoretical (actually the Method) component known as deconstruction, where it is possible to note linguistic (Derrida), epistemological (Lyotard), social (Deleuze, Guattari, Baudrillard), and power-political (Foucault) aspec ...