Plato`s Apology of Socrates: Philosophy, Religion, and the Gods in
... him to change. Judging by Aristophnanes’ prominence in the Apology, it is very likely to be that critique. The recognition that the traditional philosophic approach is insufficiently self-conscious is the beginning of his second sailing. The direct investigation of things can cause what Socrates ca ...
... him to change. Judging by Aristophnanes’ prominence in the Apology, it is very likely to be that critique. The recognition that the traditional philosophic approach is insufficiently self-conscious is the beginning of his second sailing. The direct investigation of things can cause what Socrates ca ...
Notes on Epistemology
... first, a determination to adhere closely to the data and to let them control our speculations; secondly, a willingness to profit by the labors of others, to examine their theories fairly, and to assign our reasons for the judgment we pass upon them. There is one account of epistemology which has att ...
... first, a determination to adhere closely to the data and to let them control our speculations; secondly, a willingness to profit by the labors of others, to examine their theories fairly, and to assign our reasons for the judgment we pass upon them. There is one account of epistemology which has att ...
Entitlement, Justification, and the Bootstrapping
... go well beyond the scope of this paper. Instead, I wish to pursue an alternative view that purports to avoid this shortcoming. Turning back to the view we now considering, the suggestion would be that for any given belief B*, one has justification for B* only if one has other beliefs whose contents ...
... go well beyond the scope of this paper. Instead, I wish to pursue an alternative view that purports to avoid this shortcoming. Turning back to the view we now considering, the suggestion would be that for any given belief B*, one has justification for B* only if one has other beliefs whose contents ...
Logic Notes 2006
... about questions like whether there is a God; what beliefs, if any, one ought to hold with certainty; whether human beings have free will; and whether some actions are wrong in all circumstances. What thinking hard about such questions amounts to will be illustrated in the later parts of the course. ...
... about questions like whether there is a God; what beliefs, if any, one ought to hold with certainty; whether human beings have free will; and whether some actions are wrong in all circumstances. What thinking hard about such questions amounts to will be illustrated in the later parts of the course. ...
predication theory: classical vs modern
... 4. Two groups of pre- Fregean logicians with regard to the new higher predicates Not everybody among the pre- Fregean logicians has been interested in the new higher predicates; the latter are not, after all, the predicates with which "as a rule arguments and inquiries are concerned" (cf. the end o ...
... 4. Two groups of pre- Fregean logicians with regard to the new higher predicates Not everybody among the pre- Fregean logicians has been interested in the new higher predicates; the latter are not, after all, the predicates with which "as a rule arguments and inquiries are concerned" (cf. the end o ...
THE LEGACY OF AHITĀGNI RAJWADE
... order prefigured in the Vedas. In his foreword to Khristantaka (pp. 7-8), Rajwade describes The Antichrist as a book originally written in German by a great modern European sage (mahāmuni) of a Brahmanic disposition (brāhmaṇavṛtti). He then suggests that the Marathi rendition of the book should be r ...
... order prefigured in the Vedas. In his foreword to Khristantaka (pp. 7-8), Rajwade describes The Antichrist as a book originally written in German by a great modern European sage (mahāmuni) of a Brahmanic disposition (brāhmaṇavṛtti). He then suggests that the Marathi rendition of the book should be r ...
Taking reincarnation seriously
... Ved nta and Buddhism. Hick not only considered these to be coherent, but also came to believe that something quite like the Buddhist formulation is probably true. In Death and Eternal Life, for instance, he declares cautiously that ‘There are forms of reincarnation doctrine which may be broadly true ...
... Ved nta and Buddhism. Hick not only considered these to be coherent, but also came to believe that something quite like the Buddhist formulation is probably true. In Death and Eternal Life, for instance, he declares cautiously that ‘There are forms of reincarnation doctrine which may be broadly true ...
THE MANY GODS OBJECTION TO PASCAL`S WAGER
... However, Jordan’s argument, like other appeals to the theological tradition, will carry little weight among nonbelievers. Believers may find in these avenues the means to bar “cooked-up” hypotheses and “philosophers’ fictions” from inclusion within a decision matrix and so see the Wager as a possibl ...
... However, Jordan’s argument, like other appeals to the theological tradition, will carry little weight among nonbelievers. Believers may find in these avenues the means to bar “cooked-up” hypotheses and “philosophers’ fictions” from inclusion within a decision matrix and so see the Wager as a possibl ...
Document
... what is being said about it, claiming it as ‘true,’ and hoping others will be persuaded by such claims, as many a modern critique of rhetoric has argued. Moreover, and stepping back to examine communication at large, language loses its force because it becomes something that can be ‘figured out’ in ...
... what is being said about it, claiming it as ‘true,’ and hoping others will be persuaded by such claims, as many a modern critique of rhetoric has argued. Moreover, and stepping back to examine communication at large, language loses its force because it becomes something that can be ‘figured out’ in ...
Epistemic Reasons II: Basing
... claim cannot be true. Some factualists may go ahead and reject even that claim,9 but doing so is costly. We can switch to abstractionism to avoid this cost, but abstractionists also have problems to solve. Operative reasons ascriptions strike many as factive. “John's reason for going to the party is ...
... claim cannot be true. Some factualists may go ahead and reject even that claim,9 but doing so is costly. We can switch to abstractionism to avoid this cost, but abstractionists also have problems to solve. Operative reasons ascriptions strike many as factive. “John's reason for going to the party is ...
Foucault and Rorty on Truth and Ideology: A
... objections to Marx’s so-called economic determinism. Foucault’s truthobjection was linked to his understanding of modern ‘disciplinary power’ and ‘normalisation’ and the connections these have to the production of knowledge. In one of his provocative claims regarding truth and power, Foucault assert ...
... objections to Marx’s so-called economic determinism. Foucault’s truthobjection was linked to his understanding of modern ‘disciplinary power’ and ‘normalisation’ and the connections these have to the production of knowledge. In one of his provocative claims regarding truth and power, Foucault assert ...
minimalism and truth
... commitment to truth. But this view will deny that possession of the central cognitive notions is to be explained in terms of such platitudes. Analogy: the term “man” figures in the platitude “Bachelors are unmarried men”, but grasping the concept man does not consist inter alia in grasping that pla ...
... commitment to truth. But this view will deny that possession of the central cognitive notions is to be explained in terms of such platitudes. Analogy: the term “man” figures in the platitude “Bachelors are unmarried men”, but grasping the concept man does not consist inter alia in grasping that pla ...
Gandhi, Ahimsa, and the Self
... considerations, exceptions that scandalized many Hindus and Jains. His view is summed up in the surprising qualification that "all killing is not himsa,"13 and his equally provocative imperative that it is better to fight an aggressor than to be a coward. In contrast to the Jain position, Gandhi's a ...
... considerations, exceptions that scandalized many Hindus and Jains. His view is summed up in the surprising qualification that "all killing is not himsa,"13 and his equally provocative imperative that it is better to fight an aggressor than to be a coward. In contrast to the Jain position, Gandhi's a ...
The `normativity of content` thesis is not about the normativity of
... The normativity of belief is the first premise in Boghossian’s argument for CUCA. The thesis holds that a condition for grasping belief attribution is to understand that belief formation is subject to the truth norm of belief, namely, (N): For any p: One ought to believe that p only if p (Boghossia ...
... The normativity of belief is the first premise in Boghossian’s argument for CUCA. The thesis holds that a condition for grasping belief attribution is to understand that belief formation is subject to the truth norm of belief, namely, (N): For any p: One ought to believe that p only if p (Boghossia ...
Advaita Vedanta
... Smṛti, literally "that which is remembered (or recollected)", refers to a specific body of Hindu religious scripture, and is a codified component of Hindu customary law. Post Vedic scriptures such as Ramayana, Mahabharata and traditions of the rules on dharma such as Manu Smriti, Yaagnyavalkya Smrit ...
... Smṛti, literally "that which is remembered (or recollected)", refers to a specific body of Hindu religious scripture, and is a codified component of Hindu customary law. Post Vedic scriptures such as Ramayana, Mahabharata and traditions of the rules on dharma such as Manu Smriti, Yaagnyavalkya Smrit ...
Eschatology in a Secular Age - Scholar Commons
... philosophical achievements and offers an “eschatological metaphysics.” He distinguishes eschatology from teleology arguing against teleology, noting that only a “personalist” eschatology can solve the problems of dualism and objectification. Blumenberg differs from Heidegger and Berdyaev by offering ...
... philosophical achievements and offers an “eschatological metaphysics.” He distinguishes eschatology from teleology arguing against teleology, noting that only a “personalist” eschatology can solve the problems of dualism and objectification. Blumenberg differs from Heidegger and Berdyaev by offering ...
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... philosophical achievements and offers an “eschatological metaphysics.” He distinguishes eschatology from teleology arguing against teleology, noting that only a “personalist” eschatology can solve the problems of dualism and objectification. Blumenberg differs from Heidegger and Berdyaev by offering ...
... philosophical achievements and offers an “eschatological metaphysics.” He distinguishes eschatology from teleology arguing against teleology, noting that only a “personalist” eschatology can solve the problems of dualism and objectification. Blumenberg differs from Heidegger and Berdyaev by offering ...
Reid`s defense of common sense - Scholars Archive
... We must admit to the sceptic that the argument from natural faculties does not yield an unconditional conclusion. It is not a direct proof and it lacks deductive certainty. Although Reid would not have put it this way, we can think of it as being like a relative consistency proof. Mathematicians can ...
... We must admit to the sceptic that the argument from natural faculties does not yield an unconditional conclusion. It is not a direct proof and it lacks deductive certainty. Although Reid would not have put it this way, we can think of it as being like a relative consistency proof. Mathematicians can ...
Pascal`s Wager is a Lie: An Epistemic Interpretation of the
... belief in epistemic arguments for Christianity. In one fragment, Pascal says, “Let us therefore examine all the religions of the world, and see if there be any other than the Christian which is sufficient” (115). In a later note, he concludes, “Therefore I reject all other religions” (222). In enter ...
... belief in epistemic arguments for Christianity. In one fragment, Pascal says, “Let us therefore examine all the religions of the world, and see if there be any other than the Christian which is sufficient” (115). In a later note, he concludes, “Therefore I reject all other religions” (222). In enter ...
PLATO: THE SEVENTH LETTER_4
... at that time, as if he were composing a handbook of his own which differed entirely from the instruction he received. Of this I know nothing. I do know, however, that some others have written on these same subjects, but who they are they know not themselves. One statement at any rate I can make in r ...
... at that time, as if he were composing a handbook of his own which differed entirely from the instruction he received. Of this I know nothing. I do know, however, that some others have written on these same subjects, but who they are they know not themselves. One statement at any rate I can make in r ...
Ethics bedfellows
... These statements (especially the last two) are problematic insofar as they suggest that moves from beliefs about our having intuitions to beliefs in their contents are the sorts of moves that putatively generate intuitively justified beliefs. The fact that one has an intuition that P is not like th ...
... These statements (especially the last two) are problematic insofar as they suggest that moves from beliefs about our having intuitions to beliefs in their contents are the sorts of moves that putatively generate intuitively justified beliefs. The fact that one has an intuition that P is not like th ...
Towart 1 - Personal.psu.edu
... casualty of our time that defies comprehension is the death of truth. By denying absolutes and eradicating all points of reference by which we test veracity, our civilization has entered terra incognita on matters of the greatest importance even for survival.”3 How is it, then, that we understand wh ...
... casualty of our time that defies comprehension is the death of truth. By denying absolutes and eradicating all points of reference by which we test veracity, our civilization has entered terra incognita on matters of the greatest importance even for survival.”3 How is it, then, that we understand wh ...
ABSOLUTE TRUTH AS CONTRASTED WITH
... casualty of our time that defies comprehension is the death of truth. By denying absolutes and eradicating all points of reference by which we test veracity, our civilization has entered terra incognita on matters of the greatest importance even for survival.”3 How is it, then, that we understand wh ...
... casualty of our time that defies comprehension is the death of truth. By denying absolutes and eradicating all points of reference by which we test veracity, our civilization has entered terra incognita on matters of the greatest importance even for survival.”3 How is it, then, that we understand wh ...
history of western philosophy_unit2_2012_draft2
... Indeed, all man’s striving was nothing but an unconscious seeking for Him who alone can put our restless hearts at peace. This love is a dynamic love for it gives force and direction to our ...
... Indeed, all man’s striving was nothing but an unconscious seeking for Him who alone can put our restless hearts at peace. This love is a dynamic love for it gives force and direction to our ...