Philosophy
epub |eng | 2007-12-27 | Author:Confucius [Confucius]

22. Ch'en Ch'eng murdered Duke Chien.[133] Confucius bathed, and went to court and told Duke Ai, saying, Ch'en Heng has murdered his lord: pray, punish him. The Duke said, Tell ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Nicholas Rescher [Rescher, Nicholas]

Rationality 205 The only sort of justification of anything—rationality included—that is worth having at all is a rational one. That presupposition of rationality is not vitiating, not viciously circular, but ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-10-09 | Author:John Stuart Mill [Mill, John Stuart]

* * * PART II. THE LATER SPECULATIONS OF M. COMTE.[22] The appended list of publications contain the materials for knowing and estimating what M. Comte termed his second career, ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Tony Robbin [Robbin, Tony]

Patterns, Crystals, and Projections 71 Fig. 6.12. The threefold, fivefold, and twofold symmetries of the quasicrystal dome (shown at bottom) in elevation. will remain in the philosophical questions they pose ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Walter A. Brogan [Brogan, Walter A.]

104 • Heidegger and Aristotle The difference between being and beings is operative in Aristotle’s philosophy and is really the horizon of his thought, but it is not so clearly ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Michael P. Lynch [Lynch, Michael P.]

Truth as Fiction 109 But (TN) can’t be derived from the purely nonnormative (T). Therefore, contra minimalism, that schema cannot fully capture everything we believe is true of truth. It ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Kevin A. Aho [Aho, Kevin A.]

Life, Logos, and the Poverty of Animals 95 This uniquely human kind of forgetfulness also results in a uniquely human kind of suffering, “anxiety” ( Angst). As we have already ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-18 | Author:Rene Descartes [Descartes, Rene]

PART V I would here willingly have proceeded to exhibit the whole chain of truths which I deduced from these primary but as with a view to this it would ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:William D. Casebeer [Casebeer, William D.]

6750 CH05 UG 4/2/03 6:57 PM Page 112 112 Chapter 5 Deeply ingrained habits are richly structured cognitive acts that we can’t help but engage in. Automaticity is part and ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Susana Nuccetelli [Nuccetelli, Susana]

8 Knowing That One Knows What One Is Talking About Susana Nuccetelli I Twin Earth thought experiments, standardly construed, support the externalist doctrine that the content of propositional attitudes involving ...
( Category: Mental Health January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-18 | Author:Epictetus [Epictetus]

* * * MISCELLANEOUS.—When some person asked him how it happened that since reason has been more cultivated by the men of the present age, the progress made in former ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

"exactly" might seem an overstatement, and it might seem more correct to say that ideas APPROXIMATELY represent impressions. Such modifications of Hume's principle, however, do not affect the problem which ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

In the new creed which controls the government of Russia, while there is much that is very different from the traditional teaching of the West, there are some things that ...
( Category: Humor January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Nicholas Davey [Davey, Nicholas]

146 UNQUIET UNDERSTANDING Nietzsche’s doubts about the ability of words to capture the complexities of actuality are based on two principal arguments: words do not represent the outer world as ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Douglas R. Hofstadter & Daniel C. Dennett [Hofstadter, Douglas R. & Dennett, Daniel C.]

Leiber is wonderfully imaginative about the ways technicians might try to solve this incompatibility problem (and his book contains many more surprises on this score), but in order to tell ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )