Nietzsche`s critique of past philosophers
... Nietzsche agues that our values support a particular kind of life, one in which we can achieve a maximum feeling of power. If philosophical beliefs rest on values, and values are expressions of power, then philosophical beliefs are also, indirectly, an expression of power. How are philosophers’ valu ...
... Nietzsche agues that our values support a particular kind of life, one in which we can achieve a maximum feeling of power. If philosophical beliefs rest on values, and values are expressions of power, then philosophical beliefs are also, indirectly, an expression of power. How are philosophers’ valu ...
Luc Bovens, `Interview.` In: Epistemology: 5 Questions. Edited by
... But the challenge remained whether we could give a precise account of what it means for one story to be more coherent than another. I became wary of even the sufficiency condition for pairs of propositions that we had laid out in the Mind 2000 article, and before the article went into print I insist ...
... But the challenge remained whether we could give a precise account of what it means for one story to be more coherent than another. I became wary of even the sufficiency condition for pairs of propositions that we had laid out in the Mind 2000 article, and before the article went into print I insist ...
Contemplation of the Variety of the World
... do not see why Phillips or anyone else should see conditions of understanding in this way at all. Of course our religious and ethical perspectives differ in many ways, and sometimes these differences and distances between us are so huge that we do not understand what others do and say. But there are ...
... do not see why Phillips or anyone else should see conditions of understanding in this way at all. Of course our religious and ethical perspectives differ in many ways, and sometimes these differences and distances between us are so huge that we do not understand what others do and say. But there are ...
Eleven Reasons Why Philosophy is Important
... highly speculative areas of philosophy involving the nature of reality, mental causation, the nature of mathematics, the nature of morality, and controversial applied ethics involves a great deal of knowledge. In particular, we can realize that certain hypotheses are untenable even when we have no w ...
... highly speculative areas of philosophy involving the nature of reality, mental causation, the nature of mathematics, the nature of morality, and controversial applied ethics involves a great deal of knowledge. In particular, we can realize that certain hypotheses are untenable even when we have no w ...
What is Philosophy? Minds and Machines
... • Being critical about a certain belief means to think about that belief, and to decide whether to accept it, reject it, or suspend judgment on that belief. • Thus, you consider alternative beliefs, and you make arguments for or against any of those beliefs to figure out whether the original belief ...
... • Being critical about a certain belief means to think about that belief, and to decide whether to accept it, reject it, or suspend judgment on that belief. • Thus, you consider alternative beliefs, and you make arguments for or against any of those beliefs to figure out whether the original belief ...
What is Philosophy?
... • Being critical about a certain belief means to think about that belief, and to decide whether to accept it, reject it, or suspend judgment on that belief. • Thus, you consider alternative beliefs, and you make arguments for or against any of those beliefs to figure out whether the original belief ...
... • Being critical about a certain belief means to think about that belief, and to decide whether to accept it, reject it, or suspend judgment on that belief. • Thus, you consider alternative beliefs, and you make arguments for or against any of those beliefs to figure out whether the original belief ...
Descartes` Three Proofs of God
... senses considered as sources of truth (AT 7.32).1 Hence, he concludes that he knows for certain only that he is a thinking thing. What else does he know? Recall that Descartes makes a distinction between things which are undoubted, and things which are indubitable (AT 7.36). A belief’s being dubitab ...
... senses considered as sources of truth (AT 7.32).1 Hence, he concludes that he knows for certain only that he is a thinking thing. What else does he know? Recall that Descartes makes a distinction between things which are undoubted, and things which are indubitable (AT 7.36). A belief’s being dubitab ...
Does Comparative Philosophy have a Fusion Future? Responses
... the Buddhists' ultimate concern, could not be) a philosophical conception about which we may calmly converse in sovereign detachment will indicate that we are at the gateway to an understanding of it." 14 Modern philosophy is decidedly text-centered, but Buddhist texts are not primarily philosophica ...
... the Buddhists' ultimate concern, could not be) a philosophical conception about which we may calmly converse in sovereign detachment will indicate that we are at the gateway to an understanding of it." 14 Modern philosophy is decidedly text-centered, but Buddhist texts are not primarily philosophica ...
-1- HUSSERL`S DISCOVERY OF PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE
... hence no lack of givenness, and so we can safely begin our philosophy here. It is only “through a reduction, which we wish to call phenomenological reduction, that I attain an absolute givenness,” bereft of any transcendence at all.9 He says that even if I put myself, the world, and my experience of ...
... hence no lack of givenness, and so we can safely begin our philosophy here. It is only “through a reduction, which we wish to call phenomenological reduction, that I attain an absolute givenness,” bereft of any transcendence at all.9 He says that even if I put myself, the world, and my experience of ...
Trying to keep philosophy honest
... philosophers whose work is inspired by his as forming their own enclave. In the leading journals of the field, one would rarely find a work, say, by Quine or Davidson, or a work written in their spirit, reviewed by someone from a Wittgensteinian tradition, while it is quite common for philosophers, ...
... philosophers whose work is inspired by his as forming their own enclave. In the leading journals of the field, one would rarely find a work, say, by Quine or Davidson, or a work written in their spirit, reviewed by someone from a Wittgensteinian tradition, while it is quite common for philosophers, ...
Pragmatism and Humanism: Bergson as a reader of - PUC-SP
... sense that it is the satisfaction of the necessities of life. The structure of reality is, therefore, patterned after utilitarian criterions, forasmuch the assuring of the means of survival is its first function. Thenceforth the parallelism with the instinct, that does not have, however, the flexibi ...
... sense that it is the satisfaction of the necessities of life. The structure of reality is, therefore, patterned after utilitarian criterions, forasmuch the assuring of the means of survival is its first function. Thenceforth the parallelism with the instinct, that does not have, however, the flexibi ...
Performance Philosophy: Figures of Doing
... as the only living being capable, as much on account of his posture as anything else, of transcending his embodiment in a “lofty thought” understood to justify his dominance over all other forms of life. It reads: “While the other animals are bent downward, looking at the ground, man was given an u ...
... as the only living being capable, as much on account of his posture as anything else, of transcending his embodiment in a “lofty thought” understood to justify his dominance over all other forms of life. It reads: “While the other animals are bent downward, looking at the ground, man was given an u ...
CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS
... when no one asks them, but no longer know it when they are supposed to give an account of it. “Augustine says in the Confessions "quid est ergo tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio".—This could not be said about a question of natural science ("What is the specif ...
... when no one asks them, but no longer know it when they are supposed to give an account of it. “Augustine says in the Confessions "quid est ergo tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio".—This could not be said about a question of natural science ("What is the specif ...
Process Ontology in Early American Pragmatism, Buddhism, and
... Let us turn our attention to Zen Buddhist ontology, as I shall introduce and offer explanations for a couple of key aspects that are comparable to Native positions. First, let me say that what I am about to do is somewhat artificial in the sense that a true understanding of Buddhist ontology require ...
... Let us turn our attention to Zen Buddhist ontology, as I shall introduce and offer explanations for a couple of key aspects that are comparable to Native positions. First, let me say that what I am about to do is somewhat artificial in the sense that a true understanding of Buddhist ontology require ...
Masses of Formal Philosophy `Interview`
... It’s something of a platitude that philosophy is concerned with foundations, although some platitudes are actually true, especially here in my adopted town of Canberra. So whereas a physicist asks about the chance that a given atom decays in some period of time, or a chemist asks about the chemical ...
... It’s something of a platitude that philosophy is concerned with foundations, although some platitudes are actually true, especially here in my adopted town of Canberra. So whereas a physicist asks about the chance that a given atom decays in some period of time, or a chemist asks about the chemical ...
Rationalism - LabTec-CS
... This debate has been part of philosophy for a long time. On the one hand are those who claim that our knowledge of the world comes from experience and the information that we receive through our senses: these are called Empiricists. They would view the law of gravity as being dependent on observatio ...
... This debate has been part of philosophy for a long time. On the one hand are those who claim that our knowledge of the world comes from experience and the information that we receive through our senses: these are called Empiricists. They would view the law of gravity as being dependent on observatio ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... human bodies belong to the first and mental events and states belong to the second. The first kind of world is publicly observable while the second is not. The second is wholly private. These two worlds are antagonistic to each other. But in spite of their antagonism there is interaction between the ...
... human bodies belong to the first and mental events and states belong to the second. The first kind of world is publicly observable while the second is not. The second is wholly private. These two worlds are antagonistic to each other. But in spite of their antagonism there is interaction between the ...
Philosophy 100 Lecture 12 Minds and bodies
... • Your body is physical and your mind is mental, so they are distinct. • Reincarnation and life after death… ...
... • Your body is physical and your mind is mental, so they are distinct. • Reincarnation and life after death… ...
Descartes, Mathematics and Music
... unification of algebra and geometry. But this single insight by no means suggests that all sciences can be brought into a single unity or that the only truths worth having are those that have mathematical certainty. For Maritain, this is the "sin" of Descartes, the vain effort to "reduce all the spe ...
... unification of algebra and geometry. But this single insight by no means suggests that all sciences can be brought into a single unity or that the only truths worth having are those that have mathematical certainty. For Maritain, this is the "sin" of Descartes, the vain effort to "reduce all the spe ...
The Method – Analysis and Criticisms
... First, who is to say that when I find reasons to doubt something that I am right? Suppose I am someone who doubts that Pythagoras’ theorem is true of all right-angled triangles. I doubt but my doubts are misguided. Second, who is to say that when I find that I cannot doubt something that I am right? ...
... First, who is to say that when I find reasons to doubt something that I am right? Suppose I am someone who doubts that Pythagoras’ theorem is true of all right-angled triangles. I doubt but my doubts are misguided. Second, who is to say that when I find that I cannot doubt something that I am right? ...
Study Guide: René Descartes
... claim that we know that certain religious claims are true), this sort of skeptic argues that these beliefs do not qualify as knowledge. Again, there are many ways in which these beliefs might turn out to be false. Skepticism often involves presenting skeptical alternatives for the beliefs it chall ...
... claim that we know that certain religious claims are true), this sort of skeptic argues that these beliefs do not qualify as knowledge. Again, there are many ways in which these beliefs might turn out to be false. Skepticism often involves presenting skeptical alternatives for the beliefs it chall ...
Prelude
... ethical aspects of the problem of the inescapable self in Chapter 3, on altruism, and Chapter 4, on objectivity. Another aspect of the problem of the inescapable self comes into view in Chapter 4. Descartes’s retreat into the citadel of the certainties of self-consciousness not only puts everything ...
... ethical aspects of the problem of the inescapable self in Chapter 3, on altruism, and Chapter 4, on objectivity. Another aspect of the problem of the inescapable self comes into view in Chapter 4. Descartes’s retreat into the citadel of the certainties of self-consciousness not only puts everything ...
Virtuism: Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Virtue
... One: What is Virtuism? What is Virtuism? Virtuism first started in the mid-1980’s as an aesthetic philosophy that also reflected on ethics and metaphysics. It states that acts of virtue produce the aesthetic experience, and this fact was one proof of the objective value of living a virtuous life. T ...
... One: What is Virtuism? What is Virtuism? Virtuism first started in the mid-1980’s as an aesthetic philosophy that also reflected on ethics and metaphysics. It states that acts of virtue produce the aesthetic experience, and this fact was one proof of the objective value of living a virtuous life. T ...
PHI 110 Lecture 6 1 Today we`re gonna start a number of lectures
... Today we’re gonna start a number of lectures on two thinkers who reject the idea of personhood and of personal identity. We’re gonna spend two lectures on each thinker. What I want to do today is I just sort of want to set things up. I want to talk a little bit about the direction from which this li ...
... Today we’re gonna start a number of lectures on two thinkers who reject the idea of personhood and of personal identity. We’re gonna spend two lectures on each thinker. What I want to do today is I just sort of want to set things up. I want to talk a little bit about the direction from which this li ...
The Emergence of Conventionalism - Philsci
... implicit definition, holism and conceptual relativity, all of which can be linked to Poincare's writings (even if not under those very names) have become central to philosophy. This essay explores the impact of some of these notions on twentieth century philosophy of science. In addition to inspirat ...
... implicit definition, holism and conceptual relativity, all of which can be linked to Poincare's writings (even if not under those very names) have become central to philosophy. This essay explores the impact of some of these notions on twentieth century philosophy of science. In addition to inspirat ...
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.