epub |eng | | Author:Appiah, Kwame Anthony

Make-Believe I have been discussing one way of using subjective probability theory. It is important to stress, though, that there are many other ways of thinking about belief, some of ...

epub |eng | 1981-07-15 | Author:MORTIMER J. ADLER

CHAPTER 17 The Goodness of Beauty and the Beauty of Truth IN THE MEDIEVAL CATALOGUE of the transcendental values, truth and goodness are among the six all-encompassing ideas accorded this ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:ALFARABI

Alfarabi’s Access to Plato’s Laws In recent times, scholarly debate over whether Alfarabi expounds Plato’s text or merely an abridged version of it has engendered doubt about the value of ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Nick Land [Land, Nick]

Those of us who have contributed to the new science of cybernetics stand in a moral position which is, to say the least, not very comfortable. We have contributed to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2018-07-26 | Author:Peter Gibson

Willed action Traditional accounts of actions usually say that they originate in the will. The simplest version of this is volitionism, which says that there is nothing more to an ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-03 | Author:Clare Carlisle

11 How to be Anxious ‘I am still very exhausted, but I have almost reached my goal,’ he writes in his journal in November 1848, as he completes The Point ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-20 | Author:Charles R. Embry & Glenn Hughes [Embry, Charles R.]

Reason: The Classic Experience (1974) From Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 12: Published Essays, 1966–1985, ed. Ellis Sandoz (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990), 265–92. [Voegelin recounts in ...

epub |eng | 2018-06-10 | Author:Mikel Burley

Silence speaks: Three glances at the 2013 Gifford Lectures At first glance, Rowan Williams’ Gifford Lectures seemed uncannily close to my own Stanton Lectures. Looking at the first chapter alone, ...

epub |eng | 2018-05-02 | Author:Edith Hall

epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Patrick West

3. Live Dangerously! Safe spaces Ours is an age which puts “safety first”, whether it be through risk assessments at work, the much dreaded and sometimes mythologised “health ‘n’ safety” ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Karl Marx

[THE MEANING OF HUMAN REQUIREMENTS WHERE THERE IS PRIVATE PROPERTY AND UNDER SOCIALISM. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXTRAVAGANT WEALTH AND INDUSTRIAL WEALTH. DIVISION OF LABOUR IN BOURGEOIS SOCIETY] (7) We have ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-25 | Author:Eliot Rosenstock [Rosenstock, Eliot]

epub |eng | | Author:Todd McGowan;

THE ABSENCE OF IDEALISM There are two standard readings of the Philosophy of History, both of which take Hegel as an idealist in the strict sense. The worst of these, ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-31 | Author:James J.S. Foster

Lecture 85th That the system, called the Beltistan, was invented for the purpose of enabling us to comprehend more easily the moral attributes of deity, the origin of evil, and ...

epub |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Epicurus

WAXING AND WANING OF THE MOON The waning of the moon, as well as its subsequent waxing, could be happening because of the manner in which this body rotates or, ...