Angelaki Differential cruelty
... model with an extraneously theological framework. Whereas in the passage Aristotle merely rediscovers the Etruscan torture as a metaphysical model of cruelty for the twofold of body–soul, it is only in his mathematical ideas with regard to ontology that Aristotle unfolds the tremendous consequences ...
... model with an extraneously theological framework. Whereas in the passage Aristotle merely rediscovers the Etruscan torture as a metaphysical model of cruelty for the twofold of body–soul, it is only in his mathematical ideas with regard to ontology that Aristotle unfolds the tremendous consequences ...
Romantic Cosmopolitanism: Novalis`s “Christianity or Europe”
... for the future. Rather, the romantic picture of medieval Europe is to evoke poetically the ideal of a re-unification of humanity, a cosmopolitan reunification through “faith and love.” I start with a brief sketch of the contents of “Christianity or Europe.” In order to explain and defend a cosmopoli ...
... for the future. Rather, the romantic picture of medieval Europe is to evoke poetically the ideal of a re-unification of humanity, a cosmopolitan reunification through “faith and love.” I start with a brief sketch of the contents of “Christianity or Europe.” In order to explain and defend a cosmopoli ...
Alfarabi`s Conversion of Plato`s Republic
... Alfarabi, discusses the faculties of the soul and body of humans. A human being, he says, consists of nutritive, perception, appetite, and rational faculties. These faculties arise consecutively. These faculties, again following Plato, consist of a ruling and subordinate parts (auxiliaries). Yet, Al ...
... Alfarabi, discusses the faculties of the soul and body of humans. A human being, he says, consists of nutritive, perception, appetite, and rational faculties. These faculties arise consecutively. These faculties, again following Plato, consist of a ruling and subordinate parts (auxiliaries). Yet, Al ...
Heidegger`s Method: Philosophical Concepts as Formal Indications
... Philosophy Education Society Inc. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Review of Metaphysics. ...
... Philosophy Education Society Inc. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Review of Metaphysics. ...
CLEMENS, JUSTIN Title - Minerva Access
... philosophy's primary category, Truth - with a capital T - is not a plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which i ...
... philosophy's primary category, Truth - with a capital T - is not a plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which i ...
Platonic Meditations: The Work of Alain Badiou
... philosophy's primary category, Truth - with a capital T - is not a plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which i ...
... philosophy's primary category, Truth - with a capital T - is not a plenitude but rather utterly void. Philosophy neither produces nor pronounces Truth; it deploys the category, but does not fill it with any content. As Badiou himself puts it: "who can cite a single philosophical statement of which i ...
Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon
... them. Talk of “practical reason,” Nietzsche says, was “invented precisely for those cases where reason has nothing to do with it” (A:12). But even in the domain of theoretical reason, philosophy fares not much better, since theoretical reason, especially in the guise of philosophical metaphysics, i ...
... them. Talk of “practical reason,” Nietzsche says, was “invented precisely for those cases where reason has nothing to do with it” (A:12). But even in the domain of theoretical reason, philosophy fares not much better, since theoretical reason, especially in the guise of philosophical metaphysics, i ...
A Conception of Philosophical Progress
... of the philosophical enterprise. For example, if I claim that realism is the best position and you claim idealism, relativism, anti-realism or even scepticism is the best position, we cannot resolve the dispute by appealing to ‘the truth of the matter’, as one of the things we are disagreeing about ...
... of the philosophical enterprise. For example, if I claim that realism is the best position and you claim idealism, relativism, anti-realism or even scepticism is the best position, we cannot resolve the dispute by appealing to ‘the truth of the matter’, as one of the things we are disagreeing about ...
`Against Hirose`s Argument for Saving the Greater Number`
... definite answer in this case as to whether two different states of affairs are equally good, or as to which, if either, is better. But does this fact alone give us reason to prefer Hirose’s particular way of using them to mine? I think not. Suppose you are a member of the Admissions Committee of a c ...
... definite answer in this case as to whether two different states of affairs are equally good, or as to which, if either, is better. But does this fact alone give us reason to prefer Hirose’s particular way of using them to mine? I think not. Suppose you are a member of the Admissions Committee of a c ...
Session 1 Rationalism –v
... Often attacks straw men and concludes opposite Tends to ignore process Sometimes just seems premature – e.g. early philosophising about the nature of matter ...
... Often attacks straw men and concludes opposite Tends to ignore process Sometimes just seems premature – e.g. early philosophising about the nature of matter ...
Princeton University Press 2009. xv + 525 pages $99.95 (cloth ISBN
... impression of Machiavelli in readers’ minds—resplendent with his goals, his allegiances, and his methods—she prepares her audience to shake off preconceptions and misunderstandings so that Machiavelli`s philosophy can be judged on its own merits. Three claims about Machiavelli emerged in commentarie ...
... impression of Machiavelli in readers’ minds—resplendent with his goals, his allegiances, and his methods—she prepares her audience to shake off preconceptions and misunderstandings so that Machiavelli`s philosophy can be judged on its own merits. Three claims about Machiavelli emerged in commentarie ...
DERRIDA/CIXOUS, CIXOUS/DERRIDA Prof. Claire Colebrook
... referential manner, one might also say that new sexual relations were possible, and that there was something seductive about theory. Derrida himself suggested this in a number of texts, perhaps most clearly in his essay on Lacan where proper deconstructive reading would require a certain infidelity ...
... referential manner, one might also say that new sexual relations were possible, and that there was something seductive about theory. Derrida himself suggested this in a number of texts, perhaps most clearly in his essay on Lacan where proper deconstructive reading would require a certain infidelity ...
Logos and Forms in Phaedo 96a-102a
... characteristic puns, and then he proceeds to describe how he had expected his new teacher Anaxagoras to make use of Mind as the new, almighty cause. The shape and position of the earth and the sun, the direction and speed of the stars would all find their cause if we were to show that they constitute ...
... characteristic puns, and then he proceeds to describe how he had expected his new teacher Anaxagoras to make use of Mind as the new, almighty cause. The shape and position of the earth and the sun, the direction and speed of the stars would all find their cause if we were to show that they constitute ...
johannes bronkhorst trv murti`s reason
... of Reason as a faculty which follows its own rules. Like Hegel he maintains that progress is only possible through a dialectical movement, in which the next stage is reached on the basis of an earlier opposition: Hegel's thesis and antithesis. It is important to emphasise that Murti does not in all ...
... of Reason as a faculty which follows its own rules. Like Hegel he maintains that progress is only possible through a dialectical movement, in which the next stage is reached on the basis of an earlier opposition: Hegel's thesis and antithesis. It is important to emphasise that Murti does not in all ...
Philosophy as Dependable Analysis:
... statement of the basic idea of Clouser's Christian philosophy before tackling his writings. Well, I hope they have found that in what I have just formulated. If they wish, and without further ado, they may now turn to the annotated bibliography to read his work directly. This essay is not written sp ...
... statement of the basic idea of Clouser's Christian philosophy before tackling his writings. Well, I hope they have found that in what I have just formulated. If they wish, and without further ado, they may now turn to the annotated bibliography to read his work directly. This essay is not written sp ...
The lives of Plato and Socrates - School of Practical Philosophy
... Here we see the ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, over the entrance of which were inscribed the famous precepts—know thyself and measure is all. The temple had a resident prophetess and, for more than a 1000 years royalty and regular citizens came from all over the ancient world seeking guida ...
... Here we see the ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, over the entrance of which were inscribed the famous precepts—know thyself and measure is all. The temple had a resident prophetess and, for more than a 1000 years royalty and regular citizens came from all over the ancient world seeking guida ...
Moral Cultivation and Confucian Character
... Rosemont, has several limitations. First, character is individual-based and presupposes a reified conception of a unified and discrete self. There is for Kupperman a definite individuality to the self that serves as the ground and locus of one’s character development. Role ethics makes no appeal to ...
... Rosemont, has several limitations. First, character is individual-based and presupposes a reified conception of a unified and discrete self. There is for Kupperman a definite individuality to the self that serves as the ground and locus of one’s character development. Role ethics makes no appeal to ...
Microsoft Word - AC, Introduction, Cogprints
... not) we would be free to give up the words ‘noema’ and ‘noematical phenomenon’ as technical terms. In any case these expressions seem to me to be useful by way of a Wittgensteinian ‘ladder’, which can and must be thrown away after it has served its heuristic purpose.13 Hence, in characterising my ow ...
... not) we would be free to give up the words ‘noema’ and ‘noematical phenomenon’ as technical terms. In any case these expressions seem to me to be useful by way of a Wittgensteinian ‘ladder’, which can and must be thrown away after it has served its heuristic purpose.13 Hence, in characterising my ow ...
On Worldviews and Philosophy
... certain awareness of the impact of worldviews on our life and thought. But we will never be able to give a full account of this state of affairs. In a phenomenological description, the only thing we can and should do is give indications of what is involved in having a worldview, much as has been don ...
... certain awareness of the impact of worldviews on our life and thought. But we will never be able to give a full account of this state of affairs. In a phenomenological description, the only thing we can and should do is give indications of what is involved in having a worldview, much as has been don ...
James Warren, Facing Death, Epicurus and his Critics (Book Review)
... death is ambiguous. On his analysis, it could include at least four analytically distinct fears: 1) the fear of being dead (namely, of not existing); 2) the fear that one will die (namely, apprehension about being mortal); 3) the fear of premature death (namely, of dying too young or before one has ...
... death is ambiguous. On his analysis, it could include at least four analytically distinct fears: 1) the fear of being dead (namely, of not existing); 2) the fear that one will die (namely, apprehension about being mortal); 3) the fear of premature death (namely, of dying too young or before one has ...
`Among contemporaries the most exciting thinker, masterful
... finest subsequent work in the humanities. If you are not, he is a dismal windbag, whose influence has been a total disaster, and whose affinity with the Nazis merely indicates the vacuum where, in most other philosophers, there would have been a combination of common sense and rudimentary decency. N ...
... finest subsequent work in the humanities. If you are not, he is a dismal windbag, whose influence has been a total disaster, and whose affinity with the Nazis merely indicates the vacuum where, in most other philosophers, there would have been a combination of common sense and rudimentary decency. N ...
Journal - Vassar Philosophy
... modernism. “Team 10” became the nickname for the younger generation of architects that were meant to revive the CIAM, and the group continued to meet as an independent collective after the CIAM disbanded in 1959 (Risselda). Due to the ambiguous nature of membership and the diverse architects that pa ...
... modernism. “Team 10” became the nickname for the younger generation of architects that were meant to revive the CIAM, and the group continued to meet as an independent collective after the CIAM disbanded in 1959 (Risselda). Due to the ambiguous nature of membership and the diverse architects that pa ...
Ancient Skepticism, for
... penalty, it is assumed that the skeptic will obey.10 Against this, skeptics argue that appearances can go either way (M 11.166). If the skeptic grew up in an environment of rebellious spirit, it may appear to her that resistance against a tyrannical regime is ‘what one does’. This response, however, ...
... penalty, it is assumed that the skeptic will obey.10 Against this, skeptics argue that appearances can go either way (M 11.166). If the skeptic grew up in an environment of rebellious spirit, it may appear to her that resistance against a tyrannical regime is ‘what one does’. This response, however, ...
Philosophy and Humanities
... and meaningful employment. Contrary to popular belief, a philosophy major is one of the best preparations possible for careers in a large number of different areas. An article in the London Times rightly called philosophy the "ultimate 'transferable work skill'" insofar as it prepares students for a ...
... and meaningful employment. Contrary to popular belief, a philosophy major is one of the best preparations possible for careers in a large number of different areas. An article in the London Times rightly called philosophy the "ultimate 'transferable work skill'" insofar as it prepares students for a ...