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1939: Philosophy - Archive Article - MSN Encarta Its view, in general, is that philosophers do not actually disagree with each other, because the problems with regard to which they seem to disagree are only pseudo problems resulting from linguistic confusions. Regardless of whether their view concerning philosophical problems is correct, it cannot, however, be said that in practice they have been successful. This view is already well known from his 'The Right and the Good.' But in his more recent book he no longer holds that 'good' has a single meaning; he now maintains that moral good and pleasure are not good in the same sense. encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461501475/1939_Philosophy.html   (1134 words)

Philosophical view   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Philosophical Practitioner Encourages applied philosophical inquiry and practice, whether in philosopher cafes, at home, or with the aid of a philosophical counselor. Pure Philosophical Argument for the Existence of a Supreme Being (consisting of five a priori principles). Journal of Philosophical Logic Journal devoted to philosophical applications of logic, and the philosophical underpinnings of logic. www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Philosophical_view.html   (362 words)

Materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Materialism is the philosophical view that the only thing that can truly be said to 'exist' is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of 'material' and all phenomena are the result of material interactions. According to this view, all that exists is matter and void, and all phenomena are the result of different motions and conglomerations of base material particles called "atoms." De Rerum Natura provides remarkably insightful, mechanistic explanations for phenomena, like erosion, evaporation, wind, and sound, that would not become accepted for more than 1500 years. The view is perhaps best understood in its opposition to the doctrines of immaterial substance applied to the mind historically, and most famously by René Descartes. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Materialism   (651 words)

Magazines In my view, philosophical practice most broadly construed is the application of philosophical insights, systems and methods to the resolution of human problems and the improvement of life generally, through constructive dialogue. It is certainly true that philosophical counselling is not for everyone; one ought to be curious, speculative, pensive, analytical, and inwardly articulate to benefit most from it. In my view, philosophical counselling is analogous to a genus; particular therapeutic approaches, to species belonging to that genus. www.appa.edu /pnsp98.htm   (3294 words)

Wikipedia:Neutral point of view - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia To write from a neutral point of view, one presents controversial views without asserting them; to do that, it generally suffices to present competing views in a way that is more or less acceptable to their adherents, and also to attribute the views to their adherents. We said that the neutral point of view is not, contrary to the seeming implication of the phrase, some actual point of view that is "neutral" or "intermediate" among the different positions. If we are to represent the dispute fairly, we should present competing views in proportion to their representation among experts on the subject, or among the concerned parties. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/neutral_point_of_view   (5373 words)

Philosophical Counselling as a Quest For Wisdom Philosophical self-investigation is a process in which the person rises beyond her self-centred concerns and specific interests and opens herself to the endless horizons of potential understandings of the ground of our being. Philosophical counselling does not deny the validity of psychological understanding and treatment, but rather sees itself as a very different endeavour, not one of treating inner forces in the person, but rather journeying in the domain of ideas. The process of moving back and forth between the philosophical and the personal level and weaving the two into one another unfolds the horizon of ideas or meanings related to the issue, not only those that are already embedded in the counsellee's life, but more importantly those that extend beyond her actual way of being. members.aol.com /arnaudspp/PhilosophyInPractice/Articles/Volume4Articles/Lahav1.htm   (7409 words)

Philosophical view   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) To take the philosophical view in common speech means to observe passion. One problem facing Western scholars with an interest in the indigenous Bon religion of Tibet is that there is a noticable lack of translations of Bon scriptures in the West. Davis bases his view of Keynes's philosophical development primarily on two error filled reviews of the A Treatise on Probability, written by Frank Ramsey in 1922 and 1926,plus Keynes's brief 4 page review of Ramsey's work in the New Statesman in 1931.Da... www.freeglossary.com /Philosophical_view   (344 words)

Amazon.com: Books: Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Philosophical Investigations is at times a strange and often wonderful book that reveals the thought processes of one of history's finest minds. In Philosophical Investigations, a book which became the bible for a whole new way of philosophical thinking (but which he never published in his lifetime), Wittgenstein scrapped all that for the view that language ultimately WAS the world because it contained it. A lot of philosophers today are dissatisfied with what they see as a contemptuous attitude of Wittgenstein towards the traditional method of philosophical inquiry: 1)looking at philosophical problem 2)analyzing it 3)formulating a theory capable of explaining it. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0024288101?v=glance   (3160 words)

James Dye, "Cultural Relativity and the Logic of Philosophy" Philosophical terms are, therefore, always either terms selected from some area of established usage (a “language game”) because they seem to be most suitable for the performance of a philosophical task; or else they are terms which although not having an established use, clarify or otherwise improve upon ideas which are familiar. Philosophical terms are no exception, since they are ordinarily borrowed from situation in which their use is of interest for philosophical purposes, while the use to which they are put in philosophy is never strictly identical. Regardless of what views one may hold concerning the immortality of “souls,” philosophers as human beings are mortal; and regardless of what arguments one may give for the reality of universals, all the institutions, activities, and artifacts that are objects for human consciousness are perishable. sun.soci.niu.edu /~phildept/Dye/Relativity.html   (4830 words)

A Philosophical View of Gay Marriage This is, as much, backed up by the philosophical finding that humans, in general, do not like drastic change, especially if they are in the minority in opposing that change. Philosophically speaking, this argument is supported on the grounds that humans have, throughout their existence, sought prophets and texts to create or reinforce their beliefs. The argument of religion's position is that, if a contradiction to a value held to be absolute - marriage - is upheld by law, they must now doubt the absoluteness of every other view hey hold and seek to reinforce with that prophet or text. www.useless-knowledge.com /articles/apr/aug291.html   (427 words)

Philosophy as a World-View   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The whole history of philosophical thought is, in fact, a struggle between various world-views, a struggle which has often raged so fiercely that people preferred to be burnt at the stake, thrown into prison or condemned to penal servitude rather than betray their chosen cause. Progressive philosophical thought is always in the vanguard, theoretically substantiating the people's right to overthrow their oppressors, to create higher forms of life. Philosophical idealism is not a religion but the road to religion through one of the forms of the complex process of human knowledge. www.marxists.org /reference/archive/spirkin/works/dialectical-materialism/ch01-s02.html   (5023 words)

Peter Suber, "Review of Mason, Philosophical Rhetoric" Philosophical rhetoric works to create the point of view from which the arguments will be seen to be good" (75). A hard-line proponent of the pejorative view would certainly admit this, but use it as symptom of the degenerate state of philosophical inquiry and admonish philosophers to sacrifice their institutional interests and the glory of war for the love of wisdom. His intended audience seems to be the analytic philosophers who have never read these texts with sympathy or attention to their rhetorical (or philosophical) richness (xi, 93, 132). www.earlham.edu /~peters/writing/mason.htm   (2025 words)

Highland View Academy - Educating For Eternity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Highland View Academy is a coeducational secondary school operated by the Chesapeake Conference for the purpose of providing quality Christian-centered education. With this as its philosophical foundation, the school endeavors to provide its pupils with an educational program that leads to a full commitment of their God-given talents to the service of God and humanity. Highland View Academy is committed to Divine guidance as revealed in the Bible and writings of Ellen G. White. www.highlandviewacademy.com   (253 words)

Denver Journal - 5:0301 - Most Moved Mover. A Theology of God's Openness In footnote 32 on page 11 Pinnock hopes that discussions of this view would not be stopped by the gatekeepers of the ETS, but that was not to be, for at those November meetings a majority vote relegated the "open view of God" as outside the boundaries of normative evangelical belief. Chapter three constitutes Pinnock's philosophical defense of the open view although he repeatedly asserts his belief that conventional theism is more driven by philosophy than is the openness view. The membership (gatekeepers) voted that his conclusions were incompatible with an acceptable view of inerrancy, despite his appeals to the contrary.] Pinnock may be too histrionic here (though recall his personal woundedness), but it seems to me his opponents owe evangelicalism more than the mere dismissal from their ranks of Pinnock and his kin. www.denverseminary.edu /dj/articles2002/0300/0301.php   (2457 words)

[No title] Adequately to conceive the accomplishments of the philosophical and post-philosophical traditions, then, requires clarification of their relation and central to this clarification is the rediscovery of traditional philosophical texts in light of their own logic. Thus on Marx's view we have in Hegel's thought an essential tension between the abstract rationality of the state and the particular wills and lives of individuals, a tension which is overcome only through the conceptual subordination of the particular realms to the state. Further, on his view the unity of equality and difference which liberalism seeks can be secured only in a temporary manner and requires the intrusions of an activist Court to rectify the unjust distribution of social goods which necessarily arises from the free pursuits of even good-intentioned individuals. www.mun.ca /animus/2000vol5/peddle5.htm   (15401 words)

Authority (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) The final premise in the philosophical anarchist argument is that it is either practically impossible or at least actually untrue that states can be set up in such a way that they can demand the obedience of all and only those who have consented to their authority. Reasonable consensus views of political authority attempt to find a kind of mean between the extreme individualism of consent theory and the lack of respect for people's opinions of the instrumentalist views. His view is that judges interpret the law by creating a coherent account of as much of the fl letter law as possible and by interpreting that fl letter law in terms of principles that make the law be the best that it can be. plato.stanford.edu /entries/authority   (14158 words)

Guidelines: Philosophical Inquiry Philosophical methods are multiperspectival; that is, philosophy looks at an issue such as the existence of God from more than one perspective. Philosophical methods are critical; that is, philosophy probes, analyzes, and questions positions on issues instead of simply enumerating or assimilating them. Philosophical methods are evaluative; that is, philosophy promotes reasoned and defensible and judgment on issues rather than simply an understanding of them. condor.depaul.edu /~lstudies/domains/pi.htm   (531 words)

What is a world view?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) As an example of how a world view can be achieved, the Principia Cybernetica Project has started to build an evolutionary-systemic world view, which starts from the different concepts and principles developed in cybernetics, systems theory and the theory of evolution. Its world view can be summarized in the form of answers to a list of eternal philosophical questions. The apparently disconnected components of a world view can in fact be understood as part of an encompassing scheme describing the interaction between a system or self and the world or environment. pespmc1.vub.ac.be /WORLVIEW.html   (1144 words)

Flow Research-Market research on flow and temperature products Philosophical statements are often made in a context in which some justification is required for practices within a field of study, when that justification cannot be given by applying the tools of that study itself. Whether a view is a philosophy does not depend on whether it actually does succeed in defining the conceptual structures or in justifying the assumptions of a field of study, but it must at least be intended for this purpose. Since philosophical views are expressed by statements of justification, they often are view about what ought to be the case as a general principle. www.flowresearch.com /intro.htm   (4061 words)

Are there a lot of people who th But, then, as I mentioned, the problem is this--if the view that philosophy is just a matter of opinion is itself a philosophical view (and it has a name--it is called philosophical skepticism), then it seems that it, i.e. But, some skeptics have given arguments for the view that all philosophical views except that of skepticism are just matters of opinion. For maybe our standard in philosophical matters, granted their difficulty and complexity, should not be either "beyond any doubt", or "beyond a reasonable doubt", but simply "by a preponderance of the evidence". personal.stthomas.edu /jdkronen/Sensism.html   (1637 words)

The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis - FARMS Review The authors begin by contrasting their view of the Mormon concept of God with the God of "classical theism." There is a very basic difference between the Mormon view of perfection and the "classical" view. The Mormon view that God is involved in "eternal progression" and that a genuine risk is associated with salvation due to free will (in opposition to Satan's plan, which would have removed all risks) is more consistent with the open view of God. Thus the Father is viewed as the generator and sender, as the source or font of divinity of the Son and the Spirit. farms.byu.edu /display.php?table=review&id=226   (15950 words)

Varieties of Free Will and Determinism Fatalism: the philosophical and sometimes theological doctrine that specific events are fixed in advance (either by God or by some unknown means) although there might be some free play in minor events. Chance (a priori): the philosophical view that the probability of a future occurrence can be calculated from the principles of mathematics. Chance (a posteriori): the philosophical view that the probability of a future occurrence can be calculated from past observations of previous similar occurrences. philosophy.lander.edu /intro/determinism.html   (1473 words)

Philosophical Views of God Philosophical reflection on what is meant by the term "God" and whether such a God exists tries to use rational methods to clarify this problematic situation. The traditional view tends to regard possession of a body as a sign of imperfection; after all, creatures with bodies are subject to disease, suffering, sexual temptation, excessive desire for material possessions, etc. Since God is perfect, they reasoned, God must be bodiless. Before we turn to alternate views, let us consider a final challenge to the traditional philosophical view: Perhaps the analogy on which it seems to be based extrapolates or extends the concept of mind and knowledge beyond all reasonable bounds. www.wku.edu /~jan.garrett/philvws.htm   (4778 words)

ESSAY The eventual goal of this (two part) assignment is for you to write a short essay on a philosophical topic related to one of the areas covered in the course syllabus: Standards of rationality and techniques of rational persuasion, Philosophical Theology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Ethics. Describe explicitly and clearly one philosophical view found "in current events." This is not meant to be a report of what someone wrote or said, but a description of a "live" view and an argument in support of the view. Describe explicitly and clearly one philosophical view found in current events and also describe one pair of arguments on opposite sides of the issue. www4.ncsu.edu /~levin/Courses/s97/phi205/essay.html   (1473 words)

Philosophical Quotations ~ gibbsonline.com A fourth view of the nature of change would be "that the universe consists of non-enduring units which are constantly coming into and going out of existence. Just as the only changes envisaged by the first view are those of alteration of position and arrangement, so on this second view the only changes will be those of generation and annihilation. Jaspers clear respect for all philosophy and philosophers - official or unofficial- the dedication to seeking the truth through openess of communication - and the value significance placed on understanding based on appreciation of personal and collective history are all major contibutory variables in seeking and attaining significant psychological change. www.gibbsonline.com /phil.html   (1964 words)

Richard Rorty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) In light of the view of truth and of meaning that Rorty appropriates from Davidson, his conversationalism is not a matter of giving priority to the subjective over the objective, or to mind's power over world's constraint. This way of stating the lesson, however, appears to leave open the possibility that certain philosophical problems eventually may legitimately be taken seriously--that is, at face value in the sense that they require constructive solutions--provided the assumptions which sustain their formulation stand up to proper critical scrutiny. For Rorty, to legitimate the assumptions on which a philosophical problem is based, would be to establish that the terms we require to pose it are mandatory, that the vocabulary in which we encounter it is in principle inescapable. plato.stanford.edu /entries/rorty   (6106 words)

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