Durkheim vs. Bergson? The Hidden Roots of Postmodern Theory
... of both Durkheimian and Bergsonian thought is a profound criticism of the various kinds of materialism that were in the ascendant in French intellectual culture in the Third Republic, at least partially as a direct result of the very constitution of the Republic, in the context of a deep anxiety tha ...
... of both Durkheimian and Bergsonian thought is a profound criticism of the various kinds of materialism that were in the ascendant in French intellectual culture in the Third Republic, at least partially as a direct result of the very constitution of the Republic, in the context of a deep anxiety tha ...
On Worldviews and Philosophy
... convinced that worldviews can be identified as “mediators” between faith commitment and “all other modes of human experience.” By speaking of “modes of experience” Olthuis phrases this central thesis in a style and terminology reminiscent of the philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd. However, as far as I ca ...
... convinced that worldviews can be identified as “mediators” between faith commitment and “all other modes of human experience.” By speaking of “modes of experience” Olthuis phrases this central thesis in a style and terminology reminiscent of the philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd. However, as far as I ca ...
Sound Not Light: Levinas and the Elements of Thought
... way can we understand this excessive and overflowing quality of the face? The question is a significant one. Indeed, we would argue that it is, in fact, through this point that we are brought to see how Levinas’ account of the face has import beyond what can be said only about our relations with oth ...
... way can we understand this excessive and overflowing quality of the face? The question is a significant one. Indeed, we would argue that it is, in fact, through this point that we are brought to see how Levinas’ account of the face has import beyond what can be said only about our relations with oth ...
Explanation as orgasm and the drive for causal
... scientists these young children seemed to organize the world in terms of the underlying causal powers of objects and to seek explanations of new causal relations. Causal maps and computation: Could theories be Bayes nets? One question about the theory theory has always been whether there is any per ...
... scientists these young children seemed to organize the world in terms of the underlying causal powers of objects and to seek explanations of new causal relations. Causal maps and computation: Could theories be Bayes nets? One question about the theory theory has always been whether there is any per ...
Journal - Vassar Philosophy
... Team 10’s ideas of a true and ethical architecture are coherent with Levinas’s critique of ontology, which requires that the human subject be conceived not as a primitive unattached being, but rather as a dependent agent whose self-understanding is hostage to the inexhaustible demand that others exe ...
... Team 10’s ideas of a true and ethical architecture are coherent with Levinas’s critique of ontology, which requires that the human subject be conceived not as a primitive unattached being, but rather as a dependent agent whose self-understanding is hostage to the inexhaustible demand that others exe ...
5 derrida`s critique of husserl and the philosophy of presence
... The notion of transcendental consciousness, as well, is nothing more than the immediate self-presence of this waking life, the realm of what is primordially “my own.” By contrast, the concepts of empirical, worldly, corporeal, etc., stand opposed to this realm of self-present ownness. They constitut ...
... The notion of transcendental consciousness, as well, is nothing more than the immediate self-presence of this waking life, the realm of what is primordially “my own.” By contrast, the concepts of empirical, worldly, corporeal, etc., stand opposed to this realm of self-present ownness. They constitut ...
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
... argument, which is the keystone that allows the system of real necessity to close in upon itself. Such a refusal enjoins us to maintain that there is no legitimate demonstration that a determinate entity should exist unconditionally. We might also add in passing that such a refusal of dogmatism furn ...
... argument, which is the keystone that allows the system of real necessity to close in upon itself. Such a refusal enjoins us to maintain that there is no legitimate demonstration that a determinate entity should exist unconditionally. We might also add in passing that such a refusal of dogmatism furn ...
Richard Bernstein, “Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: An Overview.”
... fundamental attitudes of philosophers toward opposing positions. Consider, for example, Karl Popper's horror at what he takes to be the rampant growth of subjectivism and relativism today. According to Popper, this is not simply an innocent epistemological deviation but an error that opens the flood ...
... fundamental attitudes of philosophers toward opposing positions. Consider, for example, Karl Popper's horror at what he takes to be the rampant growth of subjectivism and relativism today. According to Popper, this is not simply an innocent epistemological deviation but an error that opens the flood ...
The Self
... order to see the bare reality itself.” This clearly is neither Sellars’ nor Quine’s conception of philosophy, and you can see why. They understand philosophy to be governed by the same rules as science. There is no method available to do the reality stripping Duhem attributes to philosophical aims. ...
... order to see the bare reality itself.” This clearly is neither Sellars’ nor Quine’s conception of philosophy, and you can see why. They understand philosophy to be governed by the same rules as science. There is no method available to do the reality stripping Duhem attributes to philosophical aims. ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... 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 about the relations among statements, not ...
... 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 about the relations among statements, not ...
My Slides - Thatmarcusfamily.org
... P For Berkeley, only God can be taken as the true cause of my ideas. P An all-powerful God could have no use for an intermediate instrument. P “Though we do the utmost we can to secure the belief of matter, though, when reason forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility o ...
... P For Berkeley, only God can be taken as the true cause of my ideas. P An all-powerful God could have no use for an intermediate instrument. P “Though we do the utmost we can to secure the belief of matter, though, when reason forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility o ...
BL5-13 - Additional Information
... is the first and most obvious distinction between his system and that of Aristotle, I shall say little. This, with all other similar attempts to render that an object of the sight which has no relation to sight, has been already sufficiently exposed by the younger Reimarus, Maasz, and others, as out ...
... is the first and most obvious distinction between his system and that of Aristotle, I shall say little. This, with all other similar attempts to render that an object of the sight which has no relation to sight, has been already sufficiently exposed by the younger Reimarus, Maasz, and others, as out ...
Karin Dahlberg
... Sweden. Our research and research education is epistemologically built upon inseparable from this body and this world. The ontological world and body which we find at the core of the subject are not the world or body as idea, but on the one hand the world itself contracted into a comprehensive grasp ...
... Sweden. Our research and research education is epistemologically built upon inseparable from this body and this world. The ontological world and body which we find at the core of the subject are not the world or body as idea, but on the one hand the world itself contracted into a comprehensive grasp ...
DERRIDA/CIXOUS, CIXOUS/DERRIDA Prof. Claire Colebrook
... wrote philosophy and died. This approach to a philosopher’s life, when we are doing philosophy, is in accord with the body of Derrida’s own work. Derrida will attend to seemingly irrelevant textual details, such as metaphor, example, excuse, misquotation or sounds, but he makes little mention of bio ...
... wrote philosophy and died. This approach to a philosopher’s life, when we are doing philosophy, is in accord with the body of Derrida’s own work. Derrida will attend to seemingly irrelevant textual details, such as metaphor, example, excuse, misquotation or sounds, but he makes little mention of bio ...
is discontinuous bergsonism possible?
... AGATHOS: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences ...
... AGATHOS: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences ...
Anzai Masahiro
... What are the oppositions that cause the disease of modern civilization?For example, global destruction of nature are caused by the opposition between human being and nature.The most serious opposition is a kind of division.global endless civil wars are caused by the gap between rich and poor people ...
... What are the oppositions that cause the disease of modern civilization?For example, global destruction of nature are caused by the opposition between human being and nature.The most serious opposition is a kind of division.global endless civil wars are caused by the gap between rich and poor people ...
Bataille Versus Theory - Gary Sauer
... operation, but as an inner experience from which everything else This knowledge of death is in no way an understanding or compre of death; it is only the certainty that death will some day consume knowledge of mortality. Death cannot be regarded as an object of knowledge because it cannot be managed ...
... operation, but as an inner experience from which everything else This knowledge of death is in no way an understanding or compre of death; it is only the certainty that death will some day consume knowledge of mortality. Death cannot be regarded as an object of knowledge because it cannot be managed ...
PDF - Berkeley Buddhist studies
... designed to plumb the depths of consciousness, and that these methodologies can and indeed should be used to augment the third-person methodologies developed in the West. The “laboratory” for Buddhist inner science is the practice of meditation, and the neuroscience and therapeutic effects of Buddhi ...
... designed to plumb the depths of consciousness, and that these methodologies can and indeed should be used to augment the third-person methodologies developed in the West. The “laboratory” for Buddhist inner science is the practice of meditation, and the neuroscience and therapeutic effects of Buddhi ...
philosophical skepticism at the end of the 20th century
... in France. We are dealing with a thinker – Emil Cioran – who speaks about philosophy, writing, birth, life, death, suicide, history, civilization, God, etc. in a skeptical manner, even if it`s a moderate skeptical one. It is a solitary phenomenon, and also a surprising one, totally against the optim ...
... in France. We are dealing with a thinker – Emil Cioran – who speaks about philosophy, writing, birth, life, death, suicide, history, civilization, God, etc. in a skeptical manner, even if it`s a moderate skeptical one. It is a solitary phenomenon, and also a surprising one, totally against the optim ...
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 ...
connectedness
... neither out of themselves, 2. nor out of something else, 3. nor out of both, 4. nor without a cause. (tetralemma: a figure in Ancient Greek and Eastern logic with four possibilities.) This kind of tetralemma refutes the four modern views of reality as above mentioned. This shows that Kumarajiva/Naga ...
... neither out of themselves, 2. nor out of something else, 3. nor out of both, 4. nor without a cause. (tetralemma: a figure in Ancient Greek and Eastern logic with four possibilities.) This kind of tetralemma refutes the four modern views of reality as above mentioned. This shows that Kumarajiva/Naga ...
A short paragraph from the laboratory
... art of film. This was not an ideal situation, especially since I had started working in a new way. I had felt that the essay film form was an oasis of possibilities, and I wanted to see how it related to my idea of “film as thinking”, which is also the title of my doctoral project in artistic resear ...
... art of film. This was not an ideal situation, especially since I had started working in a new way. I had felt that the essay film form was an oasis of possibilities, and I wanted to see how it related to my idea of “film as thinking”, which is also the title of my doctoral project in artistic resear ...
"Meat Thinks" Talk Notes
... In Passions of the Soul, he writes “I had clearly ascertained that the part of the body in which the soul exercises its functions immediately is in nowise the heart, nor the whole of the brain, but merely the most inward of all its parts, to wit, a certain very small gland which is situated in the m ...
... In Passions of the Soul, he writes “I had clearly ascertained that the part of the body in which the soul exercises its functions immediately is in nowise the heart, nor the whole of the brain, but merely the most inward of all its parts, to wit, a certain very small gland which is situated in the m ...
PHI 110 Lecture 16 1 Hello and welcome to what will be the first of
... believed that there simply must be a way to demonstrate the rationality of our beliefs, especially in the external world and in objective truth. And so he simply pressed on. He said, “Well, Descartes failed but I’m going to try even harder.” He produced an even more elaborate project than Descartes’ ...
... believed that there simply must be a way to demonstrate the rationality of our beliefs, especially in the external world and in objective truth. And so he simply pressed on. He said, “Well, Descartes failed but I’m going to try even harder.” He produced an even more elaborate project than Descartes’ ...
Aztec Philosophy - University Press of Colorado
... philosophy] is so similar to Western philosophy that it makes no distinctive contribution and effectively disappears; or it is so different that its credentials to be genuine philosophy will always be in doubt.”12 Either way, Western philosophers think and speak for all humanity. This view is not co ...
... philosophy] is so similar to Western philosophy that it makes no distinctive contribution and effectively disappears; or it is so different that its credentials to be genuine philosophy will always be in doubt.”12 Either way, Western philosophers think and speak for all humanity. This view is not co ...
French philosophy
French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern philosophy by René Descartes, to 20th century existentialism, phenomenology and structuralism.