Polkinghorne and Cartwright on Pluralism and Metaphysics
... fundamental laws. Unlike a previous generation of empiricists, though, Cartwright’s philosophy of science does not shy away from metaphysics. The metaphysical view that arises from her work has emerged through several books, and is found most explicitly developed in Dappled World (1999). At the outs ...
... fundamental laws. Unlike a previous generation of empiricists, though, Cartwright’s philosophy of science does not shy away from metaphysics. The metaphysical view that arises from her work has emerged through several books, and is found most explicitly developed in Dappled World (1999). At the outs ...
Dharma with Moksha during classical Indian philosophy: Its
... as in our great epic Mahabharata it is mentioned,’ dharma is that which holds the people of universe. Dharma in the wider sense is the world –order or the code of laws that binds together human beings. Universal peace and harmony are the fruit of universal presentation of dharma. Dharma if destroyed ...
... as in our great epic Mahabharata it is mentioned,’ dharma is that which holds the people of universe. Dharma in the wider sense is the world –order or the code of laws that binds together human beings. Universal peace and harmony are the fruit of universal presentation of dharma. Dharma if destroyed ...
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY LECTURE THALES, HERACLITUS
... Parmenides’s denial of plurality in favor of monism is a denial of both the existence of many individual things and different features of a thing or several things. His argument for this is the most difficult to decipher from his writings. But there are several ways building on Parmenides’s denial o ...
... Parmenides’s denial of plurality in favor of monism is a denial of both the existence of many individual things and different features of a thing or several things. His argument for this is the most difficult to decipher from his writings. But there are several ways building on Parmenides’s denial o ...
Slide 1
... If He is ineffable or indescribable, then how is it that people have sought to give accounts of Him within religious texts throughout the years? One answer is to say that we can take a negative approach and only say what God is not. To some (like the Jews), God is even too holy to be named; and perh ...
... If He is ineffable or indescribable, then how is it that people have sought to give accounts of Him within religious texts throughout the years? One answer is to say that we can take a negative approach and only say what God is not. To some (like the Jews), God is even too holy to be named; and perh ...
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... sentence “to find a scientific explanation” usually means “to point to an antecedent situation, which existed (or can reasonably be assumed to have existed) in the past, from which the ...
... sentence “to find a scientific explanation” usually means “to point to an antecedent situation, which existed (or can reasonably be assumed to have existed) in the past, from which the ...
The Philosophy of Don Hasdai Crescas: Chapter II Meyer Waxman
... similar manner. we can call the attributes of God positive, especially such as eternity, existence, and unity, and yet they do not imply plurality." I t is true that so far as our conception is concerned we cannot give them a positive content, for that would determine God, and we must use the negati ...
... similar manner. we can call the attributes of God positive, especially such as eternity, existence, and unity, and yet they do not imply plurality." I t is true that so far as our conception is concerned we cannot give them a positive content, for that would determine God, and we must use the negati ...
Spencer Rosenvall Aquinas` Argument Analysis Aquinas was one of
... argument is to further strengthen the belief of the existence of a God, but also his impassibility and immutability. Aquinas’ argument states that in everything that exists, there had to have been a time when it didn’t exist. In other words, everything and anything that exists has a start and end. A ...
... argument is to further strengthen the belief of the existence of a God, but also his impassibility and immutability. Aquinas’ argument states that in everything that exists, there had to have been a time when it didn’t exist. In other words, everything and anything that exists has a start and end. A ...
Contemporary Expressions of Various World Views 1
... viewpoint, even though I take shameless advantage of it when trying to break myself of bad habits. Somehow I've come to associate Skinner with those horrible experiments done on orphaned monkeys, and I probably would have gone on doing so (quite wrongly) if it hadn't been for your bringing him up. T ...
... viewpoint, even though I take shameless advantage of it when trying to break myself of bad habits. Somehow I've come to associate Skinner with those horrible experiments done on orphaned monkeys, and I probably would have gone on doing so (quite wrongly) if it hadn't been for your bringing him up. T ...
Fourteen pieces on eastern and western philosophy
... Buddhism gathered influence. In contrast with the moral and regulatory force of Confucianism, Taoism was against extensive institutional regulation and preferred room for natural impulse. While Confucianism focused on practical things, Taoism better satisfied the urge for an underlying metaphysics. ...
... Buddhism gathered influence. In contrast with the moral and regulatory force of Confucianism, Taoism was against extensive institutional regulation and preferred room for natural impulse. While Confucianism focused on practical things, Taoism better satisfied the urge for an underlying metaphysics. ...
B.A. PHILOSOPHY PR OGRAMME UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT (CUCBCSS -2014 admn.) (I SEMESTER)
... Polytheism is the belief in the plurality of gods. The Vedas, especially the Rig Veda, contain hymns addressing the forces of nature as gods representing the sun, wind, fire, and light. This polytheistic attitude to life reflects a refined abstraction of earlier animistic beliefs. Thus, Vedic polyth ...
... Polytheism is the belief in the plurality of gods. The Vedas, especially the Rig Veda, contain hymns addressing the forces of nature as gods representing the sun, wind, fire, and light. This polytheistic attitude to life reflects a refined abstraction of earlier animistic beliefs. Thus, Vedic polyth ...
Reality and Appearance
... assimilates reality and relates to it. In itself this is a very fascinating area for philosophical enquiry, and some philosophers have been bold enough to explore it. What Greek thought sought in reality is altogether different from this. It was not concerned with representations of reality, with sy ...
... assimilates reality and relates to it. In itself this is a very fascinating area for philosophical enquiry, and some philosophers have been bold enough to explore it. What Greek thought sought in reality is altogether different from this. It was not concerned with representations of reality, with sy ...
Ionian Philosophers
... with the intuitive apprehension of all those that are absolutely simple, attempt to ascend to the knowledge of all other by precisely similar steps.” d. Rule VIII: “If in the matters to be examined we come to a step in the series of which our understanding is not sufficiently well able to have an in ...
... with the intuitive apprehension of all those that are absolutely simple, attempt to ascend to the knowledge of all other by precisely similar steps.” d. Rule VIII: “If in the matters to be examined we come to a step in the series of which our understanding is not sufficiently well able to have an in ...
Divine Injunction
... follows from Anselm’s argument that one can infer the existence of just anything whatever from its mere concept. It only follows that one can do this in a certain special case, for the reasons given in the argument itself. Furthermore, it is not as if we can tell nothing at all about actual existenc ...
... follows from Anselm’s argument that one can infer the existence of just anything whatever from its mere concept. It only follows that one can do this in a certain special case, for the reasons given in the argument itself. Furthermore, it is not as if we can tell nothing at all about actual existenc ...
The Roots of Spinoza`s Metaphysics and
... Spinoza arrived at the economical principle of immanence. All that exists is either an expression of a single, unified substance, or is substance itself. And to return to the principle of ultimacy, this substance, the ground of all earthly beings, may aptly be regarded both as omniscient and omnipot ...
... Spinoza arrived at the economical principle of immanence. All that exists is either an expression of a single, unified substance, or is substance itself. And to return to the principle of ultimacy, this substance, the ground of all earthly beings, may aptly be regarded both as omniscient and omnipot ...
The Ontological Argument. Anselm vs. Descartes
... they employ, their cultural context, and the aim pursued by their arguments place them within different epochs, different lines of thought, at times even partially contradictory ones (given the complexity and ambivalence of Descartes’ attitude towards the scholasticism of his times). Whereas the sch ...
... they employ, their cultural context, and the aim pursued by their arguments place them within different epochs, different lines of thought, at times even partially contradictory ones (given the complexity and ambivalence of Descartes’ attitude towards the scholasticism of his times). Whereas the sch ...
Ontological Argument
... horse (which I can imagine with or without wings). In the case of essential properties, such as triangles and angles etc., they are true necessarily. 2. It is possible not to conceive of God at all (cultures that do not have an idea of God). – Reply: Whenever we do think of God (a perfect being), th ...
... horse (which I can imagine with or without wings). In the case of essential properties, such as triangles and angles etc., they are true necessarily. 2. It is possible not to conceive of God at all (cultures that do not have an idea of God). – Reply: Whenever we do think of God (a perfect being), th ...
A reply on Spinoza`s behalf
... Yet whatever the intrinsic (that is, non-relational!) merits of this argument may be, Spinoza would reject it. While he would certainly agree that relations between distinct substances would be unintelligible, the following of internal properties as consequences from an infinitely powerful essence (v ...
... Yet whatever the intrinsic (that is, non-relational!) merits of this argument may be, Spinoza would reject it. While he would certainly agree that relations between distinct substances would be unintelligible, the following of internal properties as consequences from an infinitely powerful essence (v ...
The Problem of Substance in Metaphysics
... During the Modern Period, there emerged an intense interest in the problem of substance. Descartes defined substance as that which exists requiring nothing else to exists. As such, a substance is that which exists on its own. He proposed three kinds of substances: God, the human mind and matter. Spi ...
... During the Modern Period, there emerged an intense interest in the problem of substance. Descartes defined substance as that which exists requiring nothing else to exists. As such, a substance is that which exists on its own. He proposed three kinds of substances: God, the human mind and matter. Spi ...
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... In the last book of his Republic Plato presents a puzzling myth, which some modern commentators regard as an anticlimactic, while other as a well-suited and illuminating end of the great dialogue. Be that as it may, the Myth of Er remains a fascinating reading, due to both its artistic excellence, a ...
... In the last book of his Republic Plato presents a puzzling myth, which some modern commentators regard as an anticlimactic, while other as a well-suited and illuminating end of the great dialogue. Be that as it may, the Myth of Er remains a fascinating reading, due to both its artistic excellence, a ...
Maimonides on Free Will - The Metaphysical Society of America
... the world. In fact, he Guide conceals its deepest meaning from the reader who has not been initiated into philosophy. The perplexed, as defined by Maimonides, are confronted with two sources of authority, the Torah and wisdom They are faced with what some might call an “existential crisis,” a choice ...
... the world. In fact, he Guide conceals its deepest meaning from the reader who has not been initiated into philosophy. The perplexed, as defined by Maimonides, are confronted with two sources of authority, the Torah and wisdom They are faced with what some might call an “existential crisis,” a choice ...
Grendel BY John gardner
... solipsism is the theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified. In the second chapter, Gardner begins exploring this philosophy through the character of Grendel. He says, “I alone exist…I create the whole universe, blink by blink.” After arriving back in his cave, Grendel say ...
... solipsism is the theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified. In the second chapter, Gardner begins exploring this philosophy through the character of Grendel. He says, “I alone exist…I create the whole universe, blink by blink.” After arriving back in his cave, Grendel say ...
The idea of God in Spinoza`s philosophy
... human experience, and this necessity is laid down in itself and therefore it is possible to say that God is causa sui. But all these demonstrations of God’s existence are doubtable. It tackles a methodological problem, linked with the geometrical demonstration: the logic is perfect, only if the read ...
... human experience, and this necessity is laid down in itself and therefore it is possible to say that God is causa sui. But all these demonstrations of God’s existence are doubtable. It tackles a methodological problem, linked with the geometrical demonstration: the logic is perfect, only if the read ...
Proving God Exists
... God’s Purpose The philosophers have different ideas regarding the role of God in relation to humanity and the world. In chapter five of his Proslogion, Anselm identifies God’s primary role as the creator of all things from nothing. God’s secondary role is to exemplify what is good and just. “Only w ...
... God’s Purpose The philosophers have different ideas regarding the role of God in relation to humanity and the world. In chapter five of his Proslogion, Anselm identifies God’s primary role as the creator of all things from nothing. God’s secondary role is to exemplify what is good and just. “Only w ...
Stanisław Judycki
... aesthetic assessment. In every-day life it very often happens that we are talking about objects or things more or less perfect, which depends on how we assess the degree of realization of their potentialities. ‘Perfection’ as the maximal realization of potentialities belonging to some object I propo ...
... aesthetic assessment. In every-day life it very often happens that we are talking about objects or things more or less perfect, which depends on how we assess the degree of realization of their potentialities. ‘Perfection’ as the maximal realization of potentialities belonging to some object I propo ...
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.