the philosophy of birds nests

... that the statue’s arm is a part of the lump of bronze, even though it is correct to say that a part of the lump of bronze composes the arm For the part of the lump of bronze which composes the ... identical with it, then, it seems, by analogy with the statue and the lump of bronze, every part of the body must be a part of the person but not every part of the person can be part of the body: that ... just such a conception is one of the principal tasks of metaphysics.3 The point of these remarks is to emphasise there cannot be progress either in the philosophy of mind or in empirical psychology...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... ground between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their vicinity (together with their colours and shapes) And these other ingredients of the perceived scene – or many of them, at any ... from the state of the system’s sensors, which in the case of the human visual system are the retinal surfaces of our eyes At this level of abstraction, then, we may describe the task in terms of ... visual experience of many things other than just a tree and a house and their position relative to one another – things such as the colour and shape of the tree and of the house, the intervening...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... at the philosophy through the critical study of the materials of religion and the effort to meet the needs of their people in terms of today’s orientation are of increasing influence in both the ... could On the other hand, the new synthesis accepts the ethical ideal of concern for all humans; it embraces the democratic faith in the worth of the individual and seeks the welfare of all humanity ... times in his The Battle for the Mind to show the horrors of the Humanist viewpoint As I said in my introduction “Exposing the Moral Majority” in the sixth edition (1982) of The Philosophy of Humanism,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20

... knowledge of the one, so much exceed that of the other?" The reason is, that the mind of the one was active, [Pg 58]while the mind of the other was in a great measure inactive Both saw the objects; ... ultimate end These are the things which it is the business of the Educationist to investigate, and to record for the benefit of the teacher and his art The duty of the teacher, on the other hand, ... unreasonable Soft ground in the valleys compelled them to travel their pack horses right over the hills, and the want of the "Jenny" made them spin their yarn by the hand; but still, the same principle...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... and the laws of thought Then you may verify the hypothesis of pauperism, the hypothesis of inequality of conditions, the hypothesis of universal association, the hypothesis of happiness, the ... OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN AND OF GOD, UNDER THE LAW OF CONTRADICTION, OR A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF PROVIDENCE % The Culpability of Man.—Exposition of the Myth of the Fall % Exposition of ... informed, the pretended proof of the existence of God drawn from the presence of order in the world; I see in it at most only an equation offered to philosophy Between the conception of order and the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... about moral philosophy: Here I think of the tradition of moral philosophy as itself a family of traditions, such as the traditions of the natural law and of the moral sense schools, and of the traditions ... sets the scene by identifying the value of developing the philosophy of international law, addressing some of the main challenges it confronts, and presenting the aims of the volume together ... existence of a rule of recognition (by reference to the customary nature of Article 38 of the ICJ Statute, e.g.).31 The second main critique of the legality of international law concerns the absence of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20

... enter into the object of our investigation; the first the Idea, the second the complex of human passions; the one the warp, the other the woof of the vast arras−web of Universal History The concrete ... view of the principle of Freedom generally The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom; a progress whose development according to the necessity of its ... is the side of its definite existence; the sphere of its formal reality, the sphere of the reverence paid to God To comprehend the absolute connection of this antithesis, is the profound task of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 15:22

... enter into the object of our investigation; the first the Idea, the second the complex of human passions; the one the warp, the other the woof of the vast arras-web of Universal History The concrete ... view of the principle of Freedom generally The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom; a progress whose development according to the necessity of its ... and union of the two is Liberty, G.W.F Hegel, The Philosophy of History, 38 under the conditions of morality in a State We have spoken of the Idea of Freedom as the nature of Spirit, and the absolute...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 15:22

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:02

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:03

... form (i.e., of the essence or of the compound of the form and the matter, or of ), the matter itself But only the parts of the form are parts of the formula and the formula , is of the universal ... as the fonnula is to the thing, so is the part of the fonnula to the part of the thing, the questionis alreadybeing askedwhether the fonnula of the parts must be presentin the fonnula of the ... syllableincludesthat of the letters; for the letters are parts of the fonnula of of the fonn, and not matter, but the segmentsare parts in the sense matter on which the fonn supervenesyet they are nearerthe fonn...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:15

... Christian theology, the discovery of other civilisations, the scientific revolution, the foundational crisis in mathematics and the rise of mathematical logic, evolutionary theory, and the theory of ... comparable to the development of other philosophical fields like philosophy of language, philosophy of biology, or philosophy of mathematics (for an interesting attempt to look at the history of philosophy ... profound transformations in the definition of philosophy of mind, aesthetics and logic Still other questions, like “what is the nature of complexity?”, “what is the nature of life?”, “what is the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:27

... with the electric field switched off Then the field is applied to hasten the rate of fall The two observed terminal velocities of the droplet are combined with the coefficient of viscosity of the ... ingredients of the universe, as if the Author of Nature had written down various things in the Book of the World – the entities, the phenomena, the quantities, the qualities, the laws, the numerical ... and the densities of air and oil These, together with the known value of gravity, and of the electric field, enable one to compute the charge on the drop In repeated experiments the charges on these...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:31

... to the philosophy of language, or as the philosophy of physics is to the metaphysical question as to the nature of the physical world These fields are not of course totally unrelated, but their ... that is, the philosophical study of the nature and significance of the results and methods of scientific psychology This latter discipline is to the philosophy of mind as the philosophy of linguistics ... is often put, that there is a single and universal 'criterion of the mental' If there were no shared feature of all that we attribute to 'the mind', then the project of elucidating the nature of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:27

... when the quest for an ‘ultimate ground of being’ is abandoned; and he goes on to say, in eVect, that the end of metaphysics spells the death of the God of the philosophers, for the God of the ... used in the theology of yesterday have a habit of looking rather outdated today (The same could be said of the scientiWc concepts taken up by theologians in the past—just read some of the prolegomena ... small part because many of us often comment on (and thus show awareness of) the history of the relevant doctrines in the course of our philosophical treatments of them.32 But the objection lingers,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:53

... be proud of what they win because the arguments that they use are ones they themselves have tested in the most intense fires that their minds and those of others could stoke Of course they may ... all theists agree that God has these properties, they also agree as to their status: the first nine of these properties are held by theists to be essential properties of God; the last four of these ... Creator of the World, Creator of Value Revealer, Offerer of Eternal Life 28 53 70 81 PART II THE EXISTENCE OF G OD Arguing for and Against the Existence of God The Ontological Argument The Argument...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:54