heraclitean critique of kantian and enlightenment ethics through the
... way, through our actions”8 The central themes of Kant’s Groundwork constitute the main principles of Enlightenment ethics some of which are the intrinsic value of human subject, respect of our own humanity finding expression in our respect for that of others, the association of good with free-will a ...
... way, through our actions”8 The central themes of Kant’s Groundwork constitute the main principles of Enlightenment ethics some of which are the intrinsic value of human subject, respect of our own humanity finding expression in our respect for that of others, the association of good with free-will a ...
the liberalism of karl popper
... philosophy. Expounding his claim that Popper’s political thought embodies a form of “epistemological conservatism” which is manifestly inconsistent with the falsificationist ethic of his philosophy of science, Freeman asks rhetorically: “Why shouldn’t utopians defy laws that are only tentative? If a ...
... philosophy. Expounding his claim that Popper’s political thought embodies a form of “epistemological conservatism” which is manifestly inconsistent with the falsificationist ethic of his philosophy of science, Freeman asks rhetorically: “Why shouldn’t utopians defy laws that are only tentative? If a ...
Analyzing Plato`s Arguments
... with a suppressed premise is a real enthymeme, on the other hand, if, and only if, the suppressed premise cannot be supplied by extending the context. In the case of a real enthymeme how does an interpreter choose among the various possibilities? He continues to invoke the principle of charity. If t ...
... with a suppressed premise is a real enthymeme, on the other hand, if, and only if, the suppressed premise cannot be supplied by extending the context. In the case of a real enthymeme how does an interpreter choose among the various possibilities? He continues to invoke the principle of charity. If t ...
1 May 10th, 2011 Aphorism`s Destructive Capacity Towards
... riddled with, “awful seriousness and clumsy insistence.” In The Gay Science aphorism 326, Nietzsche frames theologians and preachers of moral virtues as con-men for positing that life is something difficult to endure. Within this same aphorism Nietzsche also criticizes what he determines to be a sim ...
... riddled with, “awful seriousness and clumsy insistence.” In The Gay Science aphorism 326, Nietzsche frames theologians and preachers of moral virtues as con-men for positing that life is something difficult to endure. Within this same aphorism Nietzsche also criticizes what he determines to be a sim ...
Phenomenal Concepts and the Private Language
... (i) It is conceivable that a being could share all your physical properties and yet not be conscious. (ii) Therefore conscious properties are distinct from any physical properties. Materialist philosophers of mind of course reject this argument. However, in the last twenty years there has been a rad ...
... (i) It is conceivable that a being could share all your physical properties and yet not be conscious. (ii) Therefore conscious properties are distinct from any physical properties. Materialist philosophers of mind of course reject this argument. However, in the last twenty years there has been a rad ...
Transcript of Diane Peters interview with Michael E. Gardiner for this
... to some extent it was. But, more accurately, it came more of out of the realm of personal experience – to wit, I was often bored, in both work and life generally, and this was not merely ‘situational’ boredom (in relation to boring meetings or specific routines or whatever), but a much deeper, if se ...
... to some extent it was. But, more accurately, it came more of out of the realm of personal experience – to wit, I was often bored, in both work and life generally, and this was not merely ‘situational’ boredom (in relation to boring meetings or specific routines or whatever), but a much deeper, if se ...
An Aristotelian View of Marx`s Method Nathaniel Cline William
... “[t]he speculative philosophy of Aristotle simply means the direction of thought on all kinds of objects, thus transforming these into thoughts; hence, in being thoughts, they exist in truth. The meaning of this is not, however, that natural objects have thus themselves the power of thinking, but as ...
... “[t]he speculative philosophy of Aristotle simply means the direction of thought on all kinds of objects, thus transforming these into thoughts; hence, in being thoughts, they exist in truth. The meaning of this is not, however, that natural objects have thus themselves the power of thinking, but as ...
Being and MacGuffin - Crisis and Critique
... with cliffhangers and all. It is Hegel who boldly states that perhaps it is ‘a nothing at all’, empty in itself, that its mystery pertains not to some hidden enigmatic deep meaning that would need to be unearthed and spelled out, but rather to its absolute emptiness and meaninglessness, which is far ...
... with cliffhangers and all. It is Hegel who boldly states that perhaps it is ‘a nothing at all’, empty in itself, that its mystery pertains not to some hidden enigmatic deep meaning that would need to be unearthed and spelled out, but rather to its absolute emptiness and meaninglessness, which is far ...
Learning to Love the End of History
... introduction, labeled Reason in History (Vernunft in der Geschichte)— became the beginning and end of the Hegel canon for non-specialists. The Philosophy of History is not at all a representative work by Hegel, as even the key terms reveal. Terms such as “the world historical individual” play a pivo ...
... introduction, labeled Reason in History (Vernunft in der Geschichte)— became the beginning and end of the Hegel canon for non-specialists. The Philosophy of History is not at all a representative work by Hegel, as even the key terms reveal. Terms such as “the world historical individual” play a pivo ...
PDF version - Studies in the History of Ethics
... distorted or outright falsified. Paradox or not, however, the assertion is unquestionably true. Both Prefaces to the Critique of Pure Reason introduce the project of criticism historically, as a project suited to the present “age of critique” and capable of transforming metaphysics from a random gr ...
... distorted or outright falsified. Paradox or not, however, the assertion is unquestionably true. Both Prefaces to the Critique of Pure Reason introduce the project of criticism historically, as a project suited to the present “age of critique” and capable of transforming metaphysics from a random gr ...
Can Activist Scholars Learn Research Methods from Rumi
... today are familiar with viz., the overwhelming opposition to the invasion of Iraq in the Euro-American world. The impulses for the anti-war protests that erupted everywhere were many but the one slogan that captured the sentiment of anti-war protestors was: ‘No Blood for Oil’. A popular slogan, it w ...
... today are familiar with viz., the overwhelming opposition to the invasion of Iraq in the Euro-American world. The impulses for the anti-war protests that erupted everywhere were many but the one slogan that captured the sentiment of anti-war protestors was: ‘No Blood for Oil’. A popular slogan, it w ...
HERMENEUTICAL PARADOXES IN THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES A. Ladikos
... At the beginning Socrates had carefully stated how he understood the accusation: he is accused of doing wrong, But he has argued th at no man intentiona"y does this. The Socratic paradox that no man intentionally does wrong is therefore presupposed by Socrates' argument. We must remember that Socrat ...
... At the beginning Socrates had carefully stated how he understood the accusation: he is accused of doing wrong, But he has argued th at no man intentiona"y does this. The Socratic paradox that no man intentionally does wrong is therefore presupposed by Socrates' argument. We must remember that Socrat ...
Hegel on Religion and Politics
... consciousness to finally articulate and affirm a content that is truly and concretely universal and absolute. Religion, for Hegel, is concerned both with the representation of the divine or the absolute centered on the interiority of individual, subjective consciousness and with the collective form ...
... consciousness to finally articulate and affirm a content that is truly and concretely universal and absolute. Religion, for Hegel, is concerned both with the representation of the divine or the absolute centered on the interiority of individual, subjective consciousness and with the collective form ...
Redefining Philosophy through Assimilation
... taste of a “new” cheese cake, it inevitably uses some of the “old” ingredients; you cannot make a cheese cake without cheese. Even if no ontological questions are posed, the inquiry into where the word philosophy and its meaning came from entailed, at the time of the entry of Western philosophy into ...
... taste of a “new” cheese cake, it inevitably uses some of the “old” ingredients; you cannot make a cheese cake without cheese. Even if no ontological questions are posed, the inquiry into where the word philosophy and its meaning came from entailed, at the time of the entry of Western philosophy into ...
1 What is Scientific Progress? Lessons from Scientific Practice Moti
... developed similar technology, has similar societies and institutions, uses similar scientific theories, and so forth. Roughly, we’d say they were at the same stage of technological development as we were at the turn of the twentieth century. Now add that the people on each of the planets began in si ...
... developed similar technology, has similar societies and institutions, uses similar scientific theories, and so forth. Roughly, we’d say they were at the same stage of technological development as we were at the turn of the twentieth century. Now add that the people on each of the planets began in si ...
Bill - Kyoo Lee
... Many people believe death to be a terrible thing. After sentenced to death, Socrates did not beg or plead for his fellow Athenians to spare his life. Rather, he considered death as a blessing in disguise. “It is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it ...
... Many people believe death to be a terrible thing. After sentenced to death, Socrates did not beg or plead for his fellow Athenians to spare his life. Rather, he considered death as a blessing in disguise. “It is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it ...
Lecture notes on Immanuel Kant
... It is important to understand that Kant’s method is deductive. It does not involve psychological analysis, which is empirical, at least in the modern sense. Since part of Kant’s task is to discover the faculties of human understanding, it is tempting to refer to Kant’s philosophy as a ‘transcendenta ...
... It is important to understand that Kant’s method is deductive. It does not involve psychological analysis, which is empirical, at least in the modern sense. Since part of Kant’s task is to discover the faculties of human understanding, it is tempting to refer to Kant’s philosophy as a ‘transcendenta ...
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... Confucius (551–479 BCE) and Socrates (469–399, BCE), the greatest thinkers and philosophers of ancient China and Greece, have exerted the greatest influence, respectively, on Eastern and Western thought, particularly, in China and Europe. This influence reflects our fascination with both their chara ...
... Confucius (551–479 BCE) and Socrates (469–399, BCE), the greatest thinkers and philosophers of ancient China and Greece, have exerted the greatest influence, respectively, on Eastern and Western thought, particularly, in China and Europe. This influence reflects our fascination with both their chara ...
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5. Conformism and analytic philosophy[11]
... bringing these paradigms before the mind was not to provide an occasion for critical reflection, but merely to provide models to be imitated. It is against this backdrop, Havelock argues, that we are to understand the direction philosophy took in its early years, from the pre-Socratics through Plato ...
... bringing these paradigms before the mind was not to provide an occasion for critical reflection, but merely to provide models to be imitated. It is against this backdrop, Havelock argues, that we are to understand the direction philosophy took in its early years, from the pre-Socratics through Plato ...
REVIEW David Couzens Hoy, The Time of Our Lives: A Critical
... Here, Hoy aligns with Derrida, against Heidegger, in saying that any distinction between time and temporality is not only difficult, but also a dubious task, as this acknowledges Kant’s transcendental philosophy. Put briefly, Kant makes a distinction between a priori knowledge, which is transcendent ...
... Here, Hoy aligns with Derrida, against Heidegger, in saying that any distinction between time and temporality is not only difficult, but also a dubious task, as this acknowledges Kant’s transcendental philosophy. Put briefly, Kant makes a distinction between a priori knowledge, which is transcendent ...
Tiffany Price Intro to Philosophy Mr. Izrailevsky http://tiffanyprice
... trials and tribulations that are tough to deal with but things do get better. Lao-tzu advises his readers to lean more towards Yin rather than Yang multiple times. This is not surprising because Lao-tzu is known for possibly being a feminist. Earlier in this paper I gave a few examples of Yin and Ya ...
... trials and tribulations that are tough to deal with but things do get better. Lao-tzu advises his readers to lean more towards Yin rather than Yang multiple times. This is not surprising because Lao-tzu is known for possibly being a feminist. Earlier in this paper I gave a few examples of Yin and Ya ...
1 - Valpo Blogs
... equivocation is usually understood to involve a difference in the meanings of individual terms or concepts, and I’m not sure that an adequate account of this difference in meaning can be given by looking to the meanings of terms or concepts alone. Instead, I’m inclined to speak of the claims made, o ...
... equivocation is usually understood to involve a difference in the meanings of individual terms or concepts, and I’m not sure that an adequate account of this difference in meaning can be given by looking to the meanings of terms or concepts alone. Instead, I’m inclined to speak of the claims made, o ...
Session 4: Doing philosophy: fallacies
... Introduction to Philosophy Doing Philosophy: Fallacies Subtypes of the ad hominem fallacy Poisoning the well – presenting adverse information about a target person with the intention of discrediting everything that the target person says. Appeal to motive – dismissing an idea by questioning the mot ...
... Introduction to Philosophy Doing Philosophy: Fallacies Subtypes of the ad hominem fallacy Poisoning the well – presenting adverse information about a target person with the intention of discrediting everything that the target person says. Appeal to motive – dismissing an idea by questioning the mot ...
Hegel on Language and Communication
... subhuman, and the whole process of making a public world in which two "I"s recognize each other as a "We" will have been undermined: since recognition which is not mutual must fail like a sign that only has a private interpretation. This part of the Phenomenology is all about what makes a being huma ...
... subhuman, and the whole process of making a public world in which two "I"s recognize each other as a "We" will have been undermined: since recognition which is not mutual must fail like a sign that only has a private interpretation. This part of the Phenomenology is all about what makes a being huma ...
REASONS FOR THE MITZVOT (PART I)
... followed by intellectual analysis; the conclusions drawn from this analysis are the ideas that man thinks. It turns out, 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 ...
... followed by intellectual analysis; the conclusions drawn from this analysis are the ideas that man thinks. It turns out, 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 ...
Obscurantism
Obscurantism (/ɵbˈskjʊərəntɪsm/) is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known. There are two common historical and intellectual denotations to Obscurantism: (1) deliberately restricting knowledge—opposition to the spread of knowledge, a policy of withholding knowledge from the public; and, (2) deliberate obscurity—an abstruse style (as in literature and art) characterized by deliberate vagueness. The name comes from French: obscurantisme, from the Latin obscurans, ""darkening"".The term obscurantism derives from the title of the 16th-century satire Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum (Letters of Obscure Men), based upon the intellectual dispute between the German humanist Johann Reuchlin and Dominican monks, such as Johannes Pfefferkorn, about whether or not all Jewish books should be burned as un-Christian. Earlier, in 1509, the monk Pfefferkorn had obtained permission from Maximilian I (1486–1519), the Holy Roman Emperor, to incinerate all copies of the Talmud (Jewish law and Jewish ethics) known to be in the Holy Roman Empire (AD 926–1806); the Letters of Obscure Men satirized the Dominican monks' arguments at burning ""un-Christian"" works.In the 18th century, Enlightenment philosophers used the term ""obscurantism"" to denote the enemies of the Enlightenment and its concept of the liberal diffusion of knowledge. Moreover, in the 19th century, in distinguishing the varieties of obscurantism found in metaphysics and theology from the ""more subtle"" obscurantism of the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and of modern philosophical skepticism, Friedrich Nietzsche said: ""The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.""