abstracts
... makes the case the Cartesian will is otiose: ideas are ipso facto affirmative (E2p47s). Charging that Descartes conceives ideas as “mute pictures on a panel” indeed of affirmative judgments, Spinoza reconceives ideas as intrinsically active, that is, as forceful. The Preface to Ethics 5 vividly indi ...
... makes the case the Cartesian will is otiose: ideas are ipso facto affirmative (E2p47s). Charging that Descartes conceives ideas as “mute pictures on a panel” indeed of affirmative judgments, Spinoza reconceives ideas as intrinsically active, that is, as forceful. The Preface to Ethics 5 vividly indi ...
Foundationalism
... S’s belief B is basic =df B is justified and B owes it justification at least in part to something other than S’s other beliefs or the coherence of her belief system, something that is by itself sufficient for B’s justification. However, this characterization rules out what we might call brute basi ...
... S’s belief B is basic =df B is justified and B owes it justification at least in part to something other than S’s other beliefs or the coherence of her belief system, something that is by itself sufficient for B’s justification. However, this characterization rules out what we might call brute basi ...
Dharma as the Philosphy of India
... A thorough understanding of Hindu view of life presupposes a deep cognizance of Purusarthas i.e. Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha.7 The terms may be roughly rendered as ‘duty’ or ‘virtue,’ wealth or material well-being, pleasure and aesthetic satisfaction of desire and final release or salvation. They ...
... A thorough understanding of Hindu view of life presupposes a deep cognizance of Purusarthas i.e. Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha.7 The terms may be roughly rendered as ‘duty’ or ‘virtue,’ wealth or material well-being, pleasure and aesthetic satisfaction of desire and final release or salvation. They ...
Agrippa - Of Occult Philosophy Book3
... called Hieroglyphics, least perchance the writings of this kind should be known to the prophane, which also Apuleius testifies in these words, saying, The sacrifice being ended, from a secret retyred closet he bringeth forth certain books noted with obscure letters, affording compendious words of th ...
... called Hieroglyphics, least perchance the writings of this kind should be known to the prophane, which also Apuleius testifies in these words, saying, The sacrifice being ended, from a secret retyred closet he bringeth forth certain books noted with obscure letters, affording compendious words of th ...
Word format - Robert J. Dunzweiler Memorial Library at IBRI.org
... the text, in the spheres of history, ethics, theology, and the like. The task of Biblical Theology, in a word, is the task of coordinating the scattered results of continuous exegesis into a concatenated whole, whether with reference to a single book of Scripture or to a body of related books or to ...
... the text, in the spheres of history, ethics, theology, and the like. The task of Biblical Theology, in a word, is the task of coordinating the scattered results of continuous exegesis into a concatenated whole, whether with reference to a single book of Scripture or to a body of related books or to ...
Schleiermacher ON RELIGION - The Partially Examined Life
... • The Universe enters you as an uninterrupted flow – In which you see yourself as a part of the whole • Religion is the specifically intentional & emotional reference – to each content of experience; to an infinite whole • Devotion is getting excited at the “streaming in” of this fullness ...
... • The Universe enters you as an uninterrupted flow – In which you see yourself as a part of the whole • Religion is the specifically intentional & emotional reference – to each content of experience; to an infinite whole • Devotion is getting excited at the “streaming in” of this fullness ...
Peter Kreeft-The philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
... Why study Thomas Aquinas? Why am I making these recordings? Why are you listening to them? My professional answer, as a philosopher, is simply that by almost everyone’s admission Aquinas was the most important philosopher for the almost two thousand years between Aristotle and Descartes. But my pers ...
... Why study Thomas Aquinas? Why am I making these recordings? Why are you listening to them? My professional answer, as a philosopher, is simply that by almost everyone’s admission Aquinas was the most important philosopher for the almost two thousand years between Aristotle and Descartes. But my pers ...
Abstract expressionism and the communication
... number of dodos is zero, and so on. And that is inconsistent with the view (cf. Eklund 2007, section 4.1). In response to such worries, Yablo claims that we are not, strictly speaking, engaged in make- ...
... number of dodos is zero, and so on. And that is inconsistent with the view (cf. Eklund 2007, section 4.1). In response to such worries, Yablo claims that we are not, strictly speaking, engaged in make- ...
Reasons and Beliefs
... (especially in his book Practical Reality) that that there is only one notion of a ‘reason’, which we use to answer two questions: one having to do with motivation (why someone acted in a particular way) and one with normativity (whether there was a good reason to act).3 In particular, Dancy’s argum ...
... (especially in his book Practical Reality) that that there is only one notion of a ‘reason’, which we use to answer two questions: one having to do with motivation (why someone acted in a particular way) and one with normativity (whether there was a good reason to act).3 In particular, Dancy’s argum ...
III. The Four Temperaments and the Bible
... Ex 17:1-9 and Num 20:1-13 (cf. Num 21:16). The words that spiritual rock that followed them do not mean that Paul believed the rabbinical legend that a material rock followed the Israelites throughout their journey and that Miriam, above all others, possessed the secret of obtaining the water (cf. G ...
... Ex 17:1-9 and Num 20:1-13 (cf. Num 21:16). The words that spiritual rock that followed them do not mean that Paul believed the rabbinical legend that a material rock followed the Israelites throughout their journey and that Miriam, above all others, possessed the secret of obtaining the water (cf. G ...
Disagreement and the Ethics of Belief
... neither makes prescriptions for what I should believe in the future. Further still, each is concerned with what I should believe now regarding the disputed proposition in question, and with respect to the goal of believing it if it is true and disbelieving it if it is false. Each has the same target ...
... neither makes prescriptions for what I should believe in the future. Further still, each is concerned with what I should believe now regarding the disputed proposition in question, and with respect to the goal of believing it if it is true and disbelieving it if it is false. Each has the same target ...
all about hinduism
... Hinduism does not condemn those who deny God as the creator and ruler of the world, who do not accept the existence of an eternal soul and the state of Moksha or state of liberation. Hinduism does not render the upholders of such views unfit to be recognised as pious and honourable members of the Hi ...
... Hinduism does not condemn those who deny God as the creator and ruler of the world, who do not accept the existence of an eternal soul and the state of Moksha or state of liberation. Hinduism does not render the upholders of such views unfit to be recognised as pious and honourable members of the Hi ...
Science and Spirituality - Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc.
... the votaries of science and the broad spectrum of Christian theologians, ranging all the way from the evangelists who strictly adhere to Biblical literalism, to those who did not hesitate to deviate from such rigid orthodox interpretations. Physicists were considered to be the standard bearers for a ...
... the votaries of science and the broad spectrum of Christian theologians, ranging all the way from the evangelists who strictly adhere to Biblical literalism, to those who did not hesitate to deviate from such rigid orthodox interpretations. Physicists were considered to be the standard bearers for a ...
JACQUES DERRIDA AND JEAN-LUC MARION ON THE (IM
... A thinking which thinks of the truth of Being can no longer be satisfied with metaphysics, though its thinking is not opposed to metaphysics. ...[I]t does not tear up the roots of philosophy. But it digs and ploughs the ground for philosophy. Metaphysics remains the origin of philosophy, but it does ...
... A thinking which thinks of the truth of Being can no longer be satisfied with metaphysics, though its thinking is not opposed to metaphysics. ...[I]t does not tear up the roots of philosophy. But it digs and ploughs the ground for philosophy. Metaphysics remains the origin of philosophy, but it does ...
Do Belief Reports Report Beliefs?
... Compositionality—it holds that the constituents of a ‘that’-clause also refer to linguistic items—but, as with Frege’s view, its denial that they refer to their ordinary referents is a naked violation of Innocence. Historically, the quotationalist-sententialist view seems to have been motivated by a ...
... Compositionality—it holds that the constituents of a ‘that’-clause also refer to linguistic items—but, as with Frege’s view, its denial that they refer to their ordinary referents is a naked violation of Innocence. Historically, the quotationalist-sententialist view seems to have been motivated by a ...
heraclitean critique of kantian and enlightenment ethics through the
... Criticism of the third paralogism of transcendental psychology of the first Critique Kant accepts the irrefutability of the Heraclitean notion of universal becoming or the transitory nature of all things, admitting the impossibility of positing a totally persistent and self-conscious subject. The ma ...
... Criticism of the third paralogism of transcendental psychology of the first Critique Kant accepts the irrefutability of the Heraclitean notion of universal becoming or the transitory nature of all things, admitting the impossibility of positing a totally persistent and self-conscious subject. The ma ...
Forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1996. HOW TO
... is easy to see that non-cognitivism is really a collection or genus of possible positions, sharing the thesis that philosophy is prone to category mistakes of these kinds, but differing in how the categories should be characterised. The familiar semantic and psychological forms are two of the specie ...
... is easy to see that non-cognitivism is really a collection or genus of possible positions, sharing the thesis that philosophy is prone to category mistakes of these kinds, but differing in how the categories should be characterised. The familiar semantic and psychological forms are two of the specie ...
AN ESSAY ON DIVINE COMMAND ETHICS A Dissertation by
... provide continuity of thought among philosophers, we will present the history in a topical approach rather than a chronological one. For example, some philosophers justify a DC version of ethics from a “God as first cause” argument, whereas others approach it from a “laws entail a law- giver” approa ...
... provide continuity of thought among philosophers, we will present the history in a topical approach rather than a chronological one. For example, some philosophers justify a DC version of ethics from a “God as first cause” argument, whereas others approach it from a “laws entail a law- giver” approa ...
A reply on Spinoza`s behalf
... answer, at least, was affirmative, as Michael Forster observes; yet the relation is more complex. To understand the relation between Spinoza’s ethical philosophy and Christianity, we must invoke his distinction between the free and those who are yet in bondage to the passions – that is, between genuin ...
... answer, at least, was affirmative, as Michael Forster observes; yet the relation is more complex. To understand the relation between Spinoza’s ethical philosophy and Christianity, we must invoke his distinction between the free and those who are yet in bondage to the passions – that is, between genuin ...
All About Hinduism - The Divine Life Society
... Hinduism does not condemn those who deny God as the creator and ruler of the world, who do not accept the existence of an eternal soul and the state of Moksha or state of liberation. Hinduism does not render the upholders of such views unfit to be recognised as pious and honourable members of the Hi ...
... Hinduism does not condemn those who deny God as the creator and ruler of the world, who do not accept the existence of an eternal soul and the state of Moksha or state of liberation. Hinduism does not render the upholders of such views unfit to be recognised as pious and honourable members of the Hi ...
INTELLECTUAL AUTONOMY
... Kantian view of autonomy that I should not submit to anything but my rational will, or is it that I should not submit to anything but my rational will? If it is the former, reason is still the primary authority, and there is no explanation for why it should be my will that governs me rather than any ...
... Kantian view of autonomy that I should not submit to anything but my rational will, or is it that I should not submit to anything but my rational will? If it is the former, reason is still the primary authority, and there is no explanation for why it should be my will that governs me rather than any ...
Asian Philosophy (CH. 18 of AP)
... • The positive view of Daoism is that humans and nature are united in a larger whole, the primordial Dao, from which everything originates, and which courses through everything. Human knowledge, at its best, transcends the limits of percepts and concepts and intuits the Dao directly. It is direct an ...
... • The positive view of Daoism is that humans and nature are united in a larger whole, the primordial Dao, from which everything originates, and which courses through everything. Human knowledge, at its best, transcends the limits of percepts and concepts and intuits the Dao directly. It is direct an ...
REASONS FOR THE MITZVOT (PART I)
... then, that intellection results from an encounter that takes place in time and space. The Active Intellect, in contrast, according to its philosophical definition, is the unity of the knowing mind and that which is known. What does this unity mean? This idea of unity is connected to the point that w ...
... then, that intellection results from an encounter that takes place in time and space. The Active Intellect, in contrast, according to its philosophical definition, is the unity of the knowing mind and that which is known. What does this unity mean? This idea of unity is connected to the point that w ...
Truth and Perspectivism
... If Nietzsche is right about the kind of world we live in, then he is justified in claiming that most thoughts or statements we take to be true (e.g. “That leaf is green) cannot correspond to the world. But in one way, Nietzsche seems to be taking too narrow a view of what thought and language presu ...
... If Nietzsche is right about the kind of world we live in, then he is justified in claiming that most thoughts or statements we take to be true (e.g. “That leaf is green) cannot correspond to the world. But in one way, Nietzsche seems to be taking too narrow a view of what thought and language presu ...
SWINB.URNE`S ARGUMENT FROM CONSCIOUSNESS
... losophy of religion iff A's premises (i) add to the probability of its conclusion and (ii) "are known to be true by those who argue about religion.,,4 The second stage in the program is a demonstration that these (six) C-inductive arguments, when combined, yield a good P-inductive argument to the ex ...
... losophy of religion iff A's premises (i) add to the probability of its conclusion and (ii) "are known to be true by those who argue about religion.,,4 The second stage in the program is a demonstration that these (six) C-inductive arguments, when combined, yield a good P-inductive argument to the ex ...