... gnosticism; language,
history of the philosophy of; mathematics, history of
the philosophy of; mathematics, problems of the phil-
osophy of; metaphysics, history of; mind, history of the
philosophy of; ... language, history
of the philosophy of; law, history of the philosophy of;
macrocosm and microcosm; materialism; mathemat-
ics, history of the philosophy of; medieval philosop...
... well to the jury of distinguished philosophers who cast an eye
over the initial list of their contemporaries, and then to the thirty advisers in this
matter for the second edition.
Thanks too to ... sad fact that their prize entry, say the Frankfurt School
or the indeterminacy of translation, did not get into the book because the editor
had blundered and earlier assigned...
... projects of their own
and not be engaged in working on just the same issues as
everyone else. The other is an impetus to togetherness—
the desire of philosophers to find companions, to be able
to interact ... occurrences of one of the
terms, the middle term. It is by virtue of relations of the
other two terms to the middle term that the conclusion,
containing the ot...
... structures of society, the role of the
anarchist is to challenge these structures and to demand
their justification prior to accepting them. In accord with
the anarchists’ view of the state as an instrument ... exercise it for the benefit of those below them, and
if they hold offices of authority they are accountable to
those below them and recallable by them. The abolition o...
... explanation
of the polar bear’s whiteness does not refer to the future
camouflaging of the bears, but to the fact that their
past camouflaging led to the natural selection of their
whiteness.
The centrality ... content, or whether the
thesis of the survival of the fittest’ simply collapses into
the empty truism that ‘whatever survives, survives’.
However, there are ways...
... movement
inspired by the critique of Aristotelianism by the French
philosopher Petrus Ramus. The attempt to establish
Lutheran orthodoxy within the Danish Church led to the
elimination of Ramism, and to the dominance ... school which drew on Plato to assert the pri-
macy of mind as ‘senior to the world, and the architect
thereof’. Cudworth’s major work was The Tr...
... which 6 is the value of the
function x × 3 for the argument 2, and 9 is the value of the
same function for the argument 3. The sentence ‘William
defeated Harold’ is the result of completing the expression
‘William ... course,
also the value of the function ‘defeated Harold’ for the
argument ‘William’. In the same way, 6 is not only
the value of the function x ×...
... would
have them do unto you’ (Matthew 7: 12) ; or negatively,
urging that you not do to others what you would not wish
them to do to you, as in the sayings of Confucius or Hillel.
The rule’s all-encompassing ...
tendency to moral myopia. It enjoins listeners to treat
others with the understanding and respect they would
themselves wish to encounter, and above all not to i...
... community is the synthesis of the
two. This last is, in Hegel’s philosophy of history, the final
synthesis, but in other instances, the synthesis of one stage
of the dialectic can serve as the thesis ... the antithesis of being. Being and nothing, how-
ever, are opposites, constantly moving in and apart from
each other; they require to be brought together under the
synthesis,...
... Hobbes, they do not take free will to mean the lib-
erty of the man [to do] what he has the will, desire, or inclin-
ation to do’. Rather, they take free will to refer to some
power within the person ... in the land, however many
years they or their ancestors have lived there. They are
called aliens and may well be persecuted or deported—as
if to vindicate the claim that...