The Relevance of Kant's Objection to Anselm's Ontological Argument
... well – the object simply fails to exist there. So the object would have no greatness there either. Then (2) could be true without it being possible that an object has some properties (such as omniscience and omnipotence) while lacking existence. I want instead to focus on (1), the assumption that Go ...
... well – the object simply fails to exist there. So the object would have no greatness there either. Then (2) could be true without it being possible that an object has some properties (such as omniscience and omnipotence) while lacking existence. I want instead to focus on (1), the assumption that Go ...
The Value Question in Metaphysics
... What is true is one thing, what we want, or take to be bad, another. If our preferences or value beliefs do influence our beliefs, this is an epistemic vice, something to resist. Wishful thinking is a constant danger, disinterested belief often an achievement. There might, however, be ways in which v ...
... What is true is one thing, what we want, or take to be bad, another. If our preferences or value beliefs do influence our beliefs, this is an epistemic vice, something to resist. Wishful thinking is a constant danger, disinterested belief often an achievement. There might, however, be ways in which v ...
A Vedantic Study Of "Cosmic Consciousness"
... b~t truthfully many of Hinduism's adherents are non- dualistic. The teachings VIew multiple manifestations or personalities of the one Bralimam, God. Hindus are essentially monists and they distinguish one unity with the personal Gods as different aspects of only One Supreme Being, the" Brahman", wh ...
... b~t truthfully many of Hinduism's adherents are non- dualistic. The teachings VIew multiple manifestations or personalities of the one Bralimam, God. Hindus are essentially monists and they distinguish one unity with the personal Gods as different aspects of only One Supreme Being, the" Brahman", wh ...
On the first episode of a television parody of the dominant style of
... certainties of modernity, themselves mimicking the theological absolutes they meant to supercede, continue quite unceremoniously to collapse. Truth has indeed seemed not only elusive but uninteresting--or rather, merely interested. So the tedium seems to have been characterized among thinking people ...
... certainties of modernity, themselves mimicking the theological absolutes they meant to supercede, continue quite unceremoniously to collapse. Truth has indeed seemed not only elusive but uninteresting--or rather, merely interested. So the tedium seems to have been characterized among thinking people ...
modern western philosophy BA PHILOSOPHY VI SEMESTER
... a whole in which room will be found for such of the values of art, morality, and religion as can be shown to be consonant with the established results of scientific investigation. But it is necessary to disclose facts as they may be, and to learn to live as well as possible in the light of this know ...
... a whole in which room will be found for such of the values of art, morality, and religion as can be shown to be consonant with the established results of scientific investigation. But it is necessary to disclose facts as they may be, and to learn to live as well as possible in the light of this know ...
File - History of Western Philosophy
... the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.” • Half empty is half full • Money is good and evil • “Living and dead are the same, so are awake and asleep, young and old.” • “Out of discord comes the most beautiful harmony.” • The Logos is the Dao, the Way • It is harmon ...
... the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.” • Half empty is half full • Money is good and evil • “Living and dead are the same, so are awake and asleep, young and old.” • “Out of discord comes the most beautiful harmony.” • The Logos is the Dao, the Way • It is harmon ...
Advaita Vedanta
... them, do not satisfy their necessities. A man must have not only faith, but intellectual faith too".[web 7] Vivekananda emphasized samadhi as a means to attain liberation.[22] Yet this emphasis is not to befound in the Upanishads nor with Shankara.[23] For Shankara, meditation and Nirvikalpa Samadhi ...
... them, do not satisfy their necessities. A man must have not only faith, but intellectual faith too".[web 7] Vivekananda emphasized samadhi as a means to attain liberation.[22] Yet this emphasis is not to befound in the Upanishads nor with Shankara.[23] For Shankara, meditation and Nirvikalpa Samadhi ...
making sense of divine simplicity
... Again, here is a passage from Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles: In every simple thing, its being and that which it is are the same. For if the one were not the other, simplicity would be removed. As we have shown, however, <;:;od is absolutely simple. Hence, in God, being good is not anything distinc ...
... Again, here is a passage from Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles: In every simple thing, its being and that which it is are the same. For if the one were not the other, simplicity would be removed. As we have shown, however, <;:;od is absolutely simple. Hence, in God, being good is not anything distinc ...
"Meat Thinks" Talk Notes
... Wetness is an emergent property of water. Consciousness is an emergent property of brains. ...
... Wetness is an emergent property of water. Consciousness is an emergent property of brains. ...
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
... necessarily. The critique of ideologies, which ultimately always consists in demonstrating that a social situation which is presented as inevitable is actually contingent, is essentially indissociable from the critique of metaphysics, the latter being understood as the illusory manufacturing of nece ...
... necessarily. The critique of ideologies, which ultimately always consists in demonstrating that a social situation which is presented as inevitable is actually contingent, is essentially indissociable from the critique of metaphysics, the latter being understood as the illusory manufacturing of nece ...
ABSOLUTE - Polskie Towarzystwo Tomasza z Akwinu
... it will judge and condemn" (Diels-Kranz 12 B 66). For Heraclitus there is only one wisdom: to recognize the reason (logos) which rules and permeates all. Thus the logos designates a rule by which all things become reality, and a law that is common to all things and rules all. Thus it contains ration ...
... it will judge and condemn" (Diels-Kranz 12 B 66). For Heraclitus there is only one wisdom: to recognize the reason (logos) which rules and permeates all. Thus the logos designates a rule by which all things become reality, and a law that is common to all things and rules all. Thus it contains ration ...
Knowledge and Reality in the Vedanta School with emphasis on
... perspective of the other philosophical views. No doubt, It would have been worthwhile to compare Shankara's views with those of Muslim or Western philosophers particularly with emphasis on their approaches towards the oneness of being, or compare Shankara's Advaita (undetermined non dualism) with th ...
... perspective of the other philosophical views. No doubt, It would have been worthwhile to compare Shankara's views with those of Muslim or Western philosophers particularly with emphasis on their approaches towards the oneness of being, or compare Shankara's Advaita (undetermined non dualism) with th ...
Van de Laar, Tjeerd
... Some time ago I got introduced to the philosophy of mind of Max Velmans1. At first I had a hard time understanding his so called reflexive monism in which he combines an epistemological dualism with an ontological (dual-aspect) monism. Soon I got quite enthousiastic about Velmans’ theory, especially ...
... Some time ago I got introduced to the philosophy of mind of Max Velmans1. At first I had a hard time understanding his so called reflexive monism in which he combines an epistemological dualism with an ontological (dual-aspect) monism. Soon I got quite enthousiastic about Velmans’ theory, especially ...
Levine, Michael P., "Pantheism, Ethics and Ecology." Environmental
... contractarianism, Kantian views etc. Some Utilitarians etc. might disagree, but they might not. They could simply deny that pantheism is true. It is unlikely, however, that the committed theist, utilitarian etc. would, or can, agree that pantheism offers a better basis for an environmental ethic tha ...
... contractarianism, Kantian views etc. Some Utilitarians etc. might disagree, but they might not. They could simply deny that pantheism is true. It is unlikely, however, that the committed theist, utilitarian etc. would, or can, agree that pantheism offers a better basis for an environmental ethic tha ...
Ghasem Kakaie IBN `ARABI`S GOD, ECKHART`S GOD: GOD OF
... Pantheism is regarded as a philosophical approach to the problem of God. Though its origin may be mystical, in the last analysis, it is deemed to be a philosophical view. Many thinkers with various attitudes have been considered to be pantheist. To gather all of them under the same title is extremel ...
... Pantheism is regarded as a philosophical approach to the problem of God. Though its origin may be mystical, in the last analysis, it is deemed to be a philosophical view. Many thinkers with various attitudes have been considered to be pantheist. To gather all of them under the same title is extremel ...
Approach of Hinduism to Its Scriptures
... Naiyāyikas in this regard is well-known. According to the Mīmāṁskas, the Vedas are eternal, apauruṣeya. not creation of any person. The Ṛṣis of the Veda are not the creators, not the authors of the Mantras; they only discovered the same (Ṛṣayo mantradraṣṭādraḥ). ″We Hindus″, says Sri Chandrasekharen ...
... Naiyāyikas in this regard is well-known. According to the Mīmāṁskas, the Vedas are eternal, apauruṣeya. not creation of any person. The Ṛṣis of the Veda are not the creators, not the authors of the Mantras; they only discovered the same (Ṛṣayo mantradraṣṭādraḥ). ″We Hindus″, says Sri Chandrasekharen ...
Kant`s Critique of the Ontological Argument: FAIL
... existence is not a predicate or a property in the case of God. 10 According to Kant, the notion of existence adds nothing to the concept of a thing by way of increased meaning or information. Thus, the substantive content of my concept of a hundred thalers (which I am imagining to exist in my pocket ...
... existence is not a predicate or a property in the case of God. 10 According to Kant, the notion of existence adds nothing to the concept of a thing by way of increased meaning or information. Thus, the substantive content of my concept of a hundred thalers (which I am imagining to exist in my pocket ...
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION G581
... Language when applied to God is equivocal. By saying what God is not we can arrive in a limited way to an understanding. Influential in Judaism Origins Plotinus used this method to describe form of the good where he argued could be known through secret knowledge. Good is separate from the world ...
... Language when applied to God is equivocal. By saying what God is not we can arrive in a limited way to an understanding. Influential in Judaism Origins Plotinus used this method to describe form of the good where he argued could be known through secret knowledge. Good is separate from the world ...
Problems Of Metaphysical Philosophy
... question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues in metaphysics which border on human existence and influence our daily existence. We say these problems are recurrent in the sense that they ...
... question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues in metaphysics which border on human existence and influence our daily existence. We say these problems are recurrent in the sense that they ...
Rene Descartes
... It turns out, though, that one resilient belief remains. If deluded by illusion, led astray by a dream, or deceived by a demon, Descartes nevertheless cannot doubt that he himself exists. This is the first certainty of the Meditations, the anchor or foundation on which the Cartesian project depends: ...
... It turns out, though, that one resilient belief remains. If deluded by illusion, led astray by a dream, or deceived by a demon, Descartes nevertheless cannot doubt that he himself exists. This is the first certainty of the Meditations, the anchor or foundation on which the Cartesian project depends: ...
A Philosophical Background for Masonic Symbolism
... frame of reference for starting to understand the intentions of our founders. “Speculative Masonry”, in the sense that we understand the term today, seems to appear first in the early-to-mid-seventeenth century. This is the period that marks the end of the Renaissance in England and Northern Europe, ...
... frame of reference for starting to understand the intentions of our founders. “Speculative Masonry”, in the sense that we understand the term today, seems to appear first in the early-to-mid-seventeenth century. This is the period that marks the end of the Renaissance in England and Northern Europe, ...
God, Matter, and Information: Towards a Stoicizing Logos Christology
... functions also as the informational resource of creation, while the “Holy Spirit” is the divine energy that also energizes the world of the living. There is not only a formal parallel between the three irreducible modes of divine being and the triad of matter as mass, information and energy. From a ...
... functions also as the informational resource of creation, while the “Holy Spirit” is the divine energy that also energizes the world of the living. There is not only a formal parallel between the three irreducible modes of divine being and the triad of matter as mass, information and energy. From a ...
Russell`s Neutral Monism
... Philosophy emphasizes the intersection of physics and psychology at the level of elementary data and has neither a separate class of data or a different kind of relation among them to investigate. Philosophy proceeds apace with science, and by using its results is able to reformulate certain traditi ...
... Philosophy emphasizes the intersection of physics and psychology at the level of elementary data and has neither a separate class of data or a different kind of relation among them to investigate. Philosophy proceeds apace with science, and by using its results is able to reformulate certain traditi ...
A Critique of Descartes` Mind-Body Dualism
... most difficult to explain. Reverting to common sense experience, he explained away the interaction as human daily experience in his correspondence to Arnauld on July 29, 1648, as follows: That the mind, which is incorporeal, can set the body in motion – this is something which is shown to us not by ...
... most difficult to explain. Reverting to common sense experience, he explained away the interaction as human daily experience in his correspondence to Arnauld on July 29, 1648, as follows: That the mind, which is incorporeal, can set the body in motion – this is something which is shown to us not by ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... P Rowe takes this approach: magicans and God are things which may or may not exist. P Many contemporary philosophers think that such a claim, though, is selfcontradictory. P We’ll need more logic than we can do here to fully evaluate the contemporary situation. ...
... P Rowe takes this approach: magicans and God are things which may or may not exist. P Many contemporary philosophers think that such a claim, though, is selfcontradictory. P We’ll need more logic than we can do here to fully evaluate the contemporary situation. ...
Monism
Monism is the view that attributes oneness or singleness (Greek:μόνος) to a concept (e.g. existence). Substance monism is the philosophical view that a variety of existing things can be explained in terms of a single reality or substance. Another definition states that all existing things go back to a source which is distinct from them (e.g. in Neoplatonism everything is derived from The One). This is often termed priority monism, and is the view that only one thing is ontologically basic or prior to everything else.Another distinction is the difference between substance and existence monism, or stuff monism and thing monism. Substance monism posits that only one kind of stuff (e.g. matter or mind) exists, although many things may be made out of this stuff. Existence monism posits that, strictly speaking, there exists only a single thing (e.g. the universe), which can only be artificially and arbitrarily divided into many things.