Philosophy as Quest - Oregon State University
... in the world. Religions provide conceptual blueprints that describe how the world (all of existence) works and what modes of living fit with that picture of reality (e.g. follow God’s plan, obey the will of Allah, harmonize with the Tao, tread the eight-fold path, etc.) Philosophy also serves to pro ...
... in the world. Religions provide conceptual blueprints that describe how the world (all of existence) works and what modes of living fit with that picture of reality (e.g. follow God’s plan, obey the will of Allah, harmonize with the Tao, tread the eight-fold path, etc.) Philosophy also serves to pro ...
Gilles Deleuze: What is the creative act?
... of this creator, this space, the hand that comes directly from them. Only the hand can effectively make connections between one part of space and another. Bresson is certainly the greatest filmmaker to have reintroduced tactile values into film. Not only because he knows how to take excellent shots ...
... of this creator, this space, the hand that comes directly from them. Only the hand can effectively make connections between one part of space and another. Bresson is certainly the greatest filmmaker to have reintroduced tactile values into film. Not only because he knows how to take excellent shots ...
Microsoft Word - AC, Introduction, Cogprints
... experience, cannot properly be said to coincide or differ numerically –, we have to unearth the hidden logical structure of ordinary-language identity statements and their denegations. So the logico-linguistic propaedeutic offered in the first three of the following papers, written in 2005–2006, sho ...
... experience, cannot properly be said to coincide or differ numerically –, we have to unearth the hidden logical structure of ordinary-language identity statements and their denegations. So the logico-linguistic propaedeutic offered in the first three of the following papers, written in 2005–2006, sho ...
FORMAL METHODS AND SCIENCE IN PHILOSOPHY
... interested in evaluating certain counterfactuals not as sentences broadly of natural language, but more narrowly as propositions concerning only the connections between possibilities warranted by particular scientific theories. It is clear that many scientific theories do describe with mathematical ...
... interested in evaluating certain counterfactuals not as sentences broadly of natural language, but more narrowly as propositions concerning only the connections between possibilities warranted by particular scientific theories. It is clear that many scientific theories do describe with mathematical ...
Modern Western Philosophy
... 18. Which one of the following statements adequately sums up Descartes’ philosophy? (a) Mind and matter are two aspects of the same reality (b) The world is made of two radically different kinds of substance, mind and matter. (c) Matter alone is real and mind is only an illusion. (d) Mind creates ma ...
... 18. Which one of the following statements adequately sums up Descartes’ philosophy? (a) Mind and matter are two aspects of the same reality (b) The world is made of two radically different kinds of substance, mind and matter. (c) Matter alone is real and mind is only an illusion. (d) Mind creates ma ...
Film, Philosophy and the Imagination
... In the phenomenological reduction one needs to strip away the theoretical or scientific conceptions and thematizations that overlay the phenomenon one wishes to study, and which prevents one from seeing the phenomenon in a non-abstracting manner. The Epoche is the moment in which we break free from ...
... In the phenomenological reduction one needs to strip away the theoretical or scientific conceptions and thematizations that overlay the phenomenon one wishes to study, and which prevents one from seeing the phenomenon in a non-abstracting manner. The Epoche is the moment in which we break free from ...
The Plight of Aesthetics in Iran
... and revealed theology, or, in other words, between the quintessence of Falsafa, on the one hand, and the speculation of Kalām, on the other. The study of the ways in which this confrontation took place in the Islamic culture of the Middle Ages may shed light on the contemporary debate on the relati ...
... and revealed theology, or, in other words, between the quintessence of Falsafa, on the one hand, and the speculation of Kalām, on the other. The study of the ways in which this confrontation took place in the Islamic culture of the Middle Ages may shed light on the contemporary debate on the relati ...
Translation and greening!
... in different domains from culture to politics of the day. A real in actu way of experimenting philosophy. But the act of translating by itself can be a resistance that gives rise to new forms of living without trying to do what Paul de Man calls “thematization”. This way translating evades all teleo ...
... in different domains from culture to politics of the day. A real in actu way of experimenting philosophy. But the act of translating by itself can be a resistance that gives rise to new forms of living without trying to do what Paul de Man calls “thematization”. This way translating evades all teleo ...
`Among contemporaries the most exciting thinker, masterful
... Ryle noted an alarming tendency towards unintelligibility, even in Heidegger’s early work. But at the time phenomenology was not sharply separated from other philosophy, either on the continent or in the Anglo-American tradition. Husserl, for instance, was carefully studied by Bertrand Russell. Phen ...
... Ryle noted an alarming tendency towards unintelligibility, even in Heidegger’s early work. But at the time phenomenology was not sharply separated from other philosophy, either on the continent or in the Anglo-American tradition. Husserl, for instance, was carefully studied by Bertrand Russell. Phen ...
On the Theory and Practice of Intercultural Philosophy
... without the violence of a particular structure. It is about a new cul‐ ture of philosophising. Several questions that are inseparable from this new culture arise naturally: What obstacles may hinder a peaceful meeting and constructive exchange between cultures, systems of thought, ...
... without the violence of a particular structure. It is about a new cul‐ ture of philosophising. Several questions that are inseparable from this new culture arise naturally: What obstacles may hinder a peaceful meeting and constructive exchange between cultures, systems of thought, ...
Ethan Frome - Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
... ‚subject,‛ or ‚human being,‛ all of which he thought carried undesirable baggage from earlier philosophy. Heidegger explained his choice of ‚Da-sein‛ by defining it as follows: ‚Da-sein means being projected into Nothing.‛3 Ignoring the ‚Nothing‛ for now, it is the being projected that is Da-sein—no ...
... ‚subject,‛ or ‚human being,‛ all of which he thought carried undesirable baggage from earlier philosophy. Heidegger explained his choice of ‚Da-sein‛ by defining it as follows: ‚Da-sein means being projected into Nothing.‛3 Ignoring the ‚Nothing‛ for now, it is the being projected that is Da-sein—no ...
Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture
... philosophy emerged from the attempt by African nationalists or freedom fighters to develop a new, and possibly, unique political theory, based on African traditional socialism and family hood (2009, 4). This is an ideological conception. Pantaleon Iroegbu in a broader sense says that African philoso ...
... philosophy emerged from the attempt by African nationalists or freedom fighters to develop a new, and possibly, unique political theory, based on African traditional socialism and family hood (2009, 4). This is an ideological conception. Pantaleon Iroegbu in a broader sense says that African philoso ...
Session 4: Doing philosophy: fallacies
... Introduction to Philosophy Doing Philosophy: Fallacies Subtypes of the ad hominem fallacy Poisoning the well – presenting adverse information about a target person with the intention of discrediting everything that the target person says. Appeal to motive – dismissing an idea by questioning the mot ...
... Introduction to Philosophy Doing Philosophy: Fallacies Subtypes of the ad hominem fallacy Poisoning the well – presenting adverse information about a target person with the intention of discrediting everything that the target person says. Appeal to motive – dismissing an idea by questioning the mot ...
Deconstruction, Feminism and Discourse Theory
... equality as a matter of concern for women alone. They treat it as problem facing humanity in general. But there are several complex challenges feminist movements face in today’s world. For instance, class differences and race discriminations add new dimensions to the fundamental issue of gender disc ...
... equality as a matter of concern for women alone. They treat it as problem facing humanity in general. But there are several complex challenges feminist movements face in today’s world. For instance, class differences and race discriminations add new dimensions to the fundamental issue of gender disc ...
Details - Indian Council of Philosophical Research
... Brahman. In the construction of the grand-narrative of Brahman, even discursive thought (as reflection too) is avoided The knowledge (or Jnāna) acquired at the stage of realizing the Brahman is not equivalent to the discursive or logical thought- It is beyond it. The rituals (or karmas) that were ce ...
... Brahman. In the construction of the grand-narrative of Brahman, even discursive thought (as reflection too) is avoided The knowledge (or Jnāna) acquired at the stage of realizing the Brahman is not equivalent to the discursive or logical thought- It is beyond it. The rituals (or karmas) that were ce ...
Vol 3 - Whitwell - Essays on the Origins of Western Music
... passions.22 We will cite, as an example, only those associated with Love. These observations, and many others that would take too long to report, have led me to conclude that when the understanding thinks of some object of love, this thought forms an impression in the brain which directs the animal ...
... passions.22 We will cite, as an example, only those associated with Love. These observations, and many others that would take too long to report, have led me to conclude that when the understanding thinks of some object of love, this thought forms an impression in the brain which directs the animal ...
History of Philosophy2
... circular, and deepening, like a spiral, where the endpoint is already pre-conceived intuitively at the beginning. The development between beginning and end must be seen as one of enrichment, of struggle, and above all, as free. To get the point across, Hegel, in his Introduction, refers to Aristotle ...
... circular, and deepening, like a spiral, where the endpoint is already pre-conceived intuitively at the beginning. The development between beginning and end must be seen as one of enrichment, of struggle, and above all, as free. To get the point across, Hegel, in his Introduction, refers to Aristotle ...
Transcendentalism
... In the same year, transcendentalism became a coherent movement with the founding of the Transcendental Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 8, 1836, by prominent New England intellectuals including George Putnam, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Henry Hedge. From 1840, the group publishe ...
... In the same year, transcendentalism became a coherent movement with the founding of the Transcendental Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 8, 1836, by prominent New England intellectuals including George Putnam, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Henry Hedge. From 1840, the group publishe ...
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The Poetics of Philosophy [A Reading of Plato]
... notably, Jacques Derrida and his notion of differance and Alan F. Blum’s Theorizing, which, inspired by Leo Strauss, argued for the Platonic dialogue as the paradigm of social inquiry, and, preceding and being a seminal influence, Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, with its notion of Sein and Dasein ...
... notably, Jacques Derrida and his notion of differance and Alan F. Blum’s Theorizing, which, inspired by Leo Strauss, argued for the Platonic dialogue as the paradigm of social inquiry, and, preceding and being a seminal influence, Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, with its notion of Sein and Dasein ...
Reviews
... tends to place less reliance on scripture than do many other religious traditions. His discussion (108-9) of some of the factors responsible for this state of affairs seems accurate enough. But his focus on scholasticism may have led him to overlook one factor that seems to belong here: surely the r ...
... tends to place less reliance on scripture than do many other religious traditions. His discussion (108-9) of some of the factors responsible for this state of affairs seems accurate enough. But his focus on scholasticism may have led him to overlook one factor that seems to belong here: surely the r ...
Wittgenstein World History Name: E. Napp Date: Biographical
... finished the book that was later published as Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. In the preface he announced that he considered himself to have found ‘on all essential points’ the solution to the problems of philosophy. ‘The truth of the thoughts that are here communicated,’ he wrote, ‘seems to me unas ...
... finished the book that was later published as Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. In the preface he announced that he considered himself to have found ‘on all essential points’ the solution to the problems of philosophy. ‘The truth of the thoughts that are here communicated,’ he wrote, ‘seems to me unas ...
The Problem of Substance in Metaphysics
... the substratum of all reality were the Pre-Socratic philosophers. Although their attempt might be considered unsophisticated (certainly in our time) and lifeless (water, air, fire etc), they responded to an important question that would continue to be one of the primary concerns of the enterprise of ...
... the substratum of all reality were the Pre-Socratic philosophers. Although their attempt might be considered unsophisticated (certainly in our time) and lifeless (water, air, fire etc), they responded to an important question that would continue to be one of the primary concerns of the enterprise of ...
A Critique of Descartes` Mind-Body Dualism
... each of which is distinctly different, and can exist independent of each other. With Descartes’ establishment of his soul or mind as existing independent and distinct from his body, the seed of Cartesian dualism was thus sowed. The thrust of the matter now is, and here lies the Cartesian mind-body q ...
... each of which is distinctly different, and can exist independent of each other. With Descartes’ establishment of his soul or mind as existing independent and distinct from his body, the seed of Cartesian dualism was thus sowed. The thrust of the matter now is, and here lies the Cartesian mind-body q ...
Action research, stories and practical philosophy
... action. This action will vary dependant on our positions within our educational systems but the action aims to support those teachers who strive to engage with the complex educational problems involved in working and teaching young people at risk of exclusion from education. Secondly such a ‘narrati ...
... action. This action will vary dependant on our positions within our educational systems but the action aims to support those teachers who strive to engage with the complex educational problems involved in working and teaching young people at risk of exclusion from education. Secondly such a ‘narrati ...
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.