History & Surveys
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Norman Kretzmann

64 This introduction of Aquinas’s concept of will is based mainly on ST Ia.80.1; for a similar account, different in some important respects, see the earlier QDV 22.4. 65 For ...
( Category: History & Surveys November 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Don Garrett [Don Garrett]

Altruism and the primacy of the self As was the case with the apparent instances of prudential desire, apparent instances of altruistic desire pose a prima facie threat to Spinoza’s ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:John Cottingham [John Cottingham]

PHILOSOPHICAL OBJECTIONS TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION The demonstration of the truth rule begs the question against the skeptical supposition. That it does beg the question will be apparent, even to ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Vere Chappell [Vere Chappell]

Besides looking forward to a more recent distinction, Locke's distinction between knowledge and belief also looks back to an older one: the Aristotelian distinction between “scientific knowledge” and “opinion.” Knowledge, ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jerome Neu [Jerome Neu]

CRITERIA OF PERVERSION Once one accepts Freud’s view of the complexity of the underlying sexual instinct, the old content criterion for perversion and pathology must be abandoned. As Freud writes, ...
( Category: Behaviorism November 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Patrick Riley [Patrick Riley]

Le passé n'est pour nous qu'un triste souvenir, Le passé est affreux s'il n'est point d'avenir Si la nuit du tombeau détruit l'être qui pense. Mortels, il faut souffrir, Se ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 1992-11-21 | Author:Richard Kraut

NICHOLAS P. WHITE 9 Plato’s metaphysical epistemology I For some time philosophers have thought of epistemology and metaphysics as different branches of philosophy, investigating, respectively, what can be known and ...
( Category: Greek & Roman November 22,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Guyer

III So far, I have only looked at Kant’s discussion of the principle of genera. In so doing, I have gone beyond a mere characterization of this principle in an ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Peter Machamer [Peter Machamer]

Salviati is certain, however, that the darker parts are plains and the brighter ones mountain ranges because “the boundary which separates the light and the dark part makes an even ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Frederick C. Beiser

V Perhaps the greatest internal weakness in Hegel’s organizational scheme is his account of the monarch. Although the monarch’s role is constitutionally narrowly defined, it is also unstable. Hegel defended ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 1985-09-19 | Author:Spinoza, Benedictus de; Curley, Edwin;

You will be able to see from the adjacent figure the demonstration that the angle which the rays coming from different [30] points make on the surface of the eye ...
( Category: History & Surveys September 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:G. W. Leibniz

XXII. Reconciliation of the two methods of explanation, the one using final causes, and the other efficient causes, thus satisfying both those who explain nature mechanically and those who have ...
( Category: History & Surveys September 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-17 | Author:Smith, Justin E. H.;

Dear Professor, Not having received a reply to my initial message several weeks ago, I am taking the liberty of writing to you again, in this long sleepless night in ...
( Category: History & Surveys July 18,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Robinson

Hume Explains “Why” THE REASON WHY EVERYBODY BELIEVES IN CAUSE IS SIMPLE … Causal “necessity” is psychological, not logical. All we ever observe are constant conjunctions in the world, not ...
( Category: Movements July 18,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-05 | Author:Douglas Groothuis [Groothuis, Douglas]

Descartes needed to exorcize the skeptical demon that has haunted the history of philosophy. As far back as we can go, philosophers have wondered not just what can be known ...
( Category: Religious July 11,2016 )