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...ics. Russell guides the reader through his famous distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description and introduces important theories of Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel and others to lay the foundation for philosophical inquiry by general readers and scholars alike. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...g the last twenty years. But most of these books are more concerned with theories on the origin and development of religion than with what, in my h... ...an with what, in my humble opinion, should be the foundation of all such theories-a sct'entijic classijicatio1l of religious phenomena. Is it too p... ...like. May not this be a useful warning that these terms refer only to the theories and not to the facts of religion? On the other hand, the student ... ...d. (,,) His mythological character. (0) A. and other deities. Cc) A. in philosophical and esoteric teach· ing. A (d) Worship of A. (a) HIS MYTHO... ...rahmanaspati, 42, 126 j Suna and Slra= Vayu and A., 12, 445 n. (e) A. IN PHILOSOPHICAL AND ESOTERIC TEACHING. A. is the highest Brahman, 1, 54 sq...

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...human existence and its content is the result of both an existential and a philosophical approach, even when it takes the form of myth and fable. ... ...m one fire to the next, and to one hundred thousand more. An idea that is philosophically or scientifically valid produces a field of energy, on th... ...iar with so far in our history are of four types: mythological, religious, philosophical and scientific. Generally these cosmologies were created in... ...ew that is created by looking at only one type of data, be it religious or philosophical or scientific, produces a view that is fallible. This is th... ... fruit of hypotheses and of research that confirms these hypotheses, or of theories built upon constant observations. 67 We must use this same app... ...ation lies, in my opinion, in the affirmation that it can be demonstrated, philosophically and scientifically, that any event can be brought back to... ... fruit of hypotheses and of research that confirms these hypotheses, or of theories built upon constant observations. What does this mean? When E... ...s, of research to confirm hypotheses or of constant observations on which theories are developed. The first scientist who worked in this manner ... ...finite patience; he observed and observed and he then started building his theories on what he had observed. Many of his theories were very important...

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...he intensely religious ~terest that characteriseS them alL It is, indeed, philosophical; but it is not an academic work of discursive philosophy. It... ...and delicate power. For this reason, though we might call I and Thou a " philosophical-religio1:lB poem", it belongs essentially to no single speci... ...us experience rather than in theological debates and the rise and fall of philosophical schools. It has first and foremost to be judged on its intr... ...In the second place, this new awareness has had far.. reaching efiects on philosophical thought. Hitherto, what we have known about the mutual relat... ... we have known about the mutual relation oj persons has been relegated in theories of knowledge tc a position subordinate to the contemplation of th... ...n which !dealist philosophy has worked. The direct influence of Buber on philosophical thought is nowhere more clea:rly shown than in the work oj ... ...hesis of the ultimate reality of personal relations in its application to theories of the State, of marriage, of family life, and of economics. xi ...

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...s, and we must break free of the mental categories that pertain to the old philosophical and theological models. These models have imprisoned our mi... ...municate news, events, feelings and ideas. Ideas can be banal, scientific, philosophical, religious or of any other type. However, a language can ... ...so contains the various topics from the first Cosmo-Art Laboratories, and “Theories and Axioms of Cosmo-Art” (Italian edition 2004, English edition 2...

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...t in the theory of human knowledge. While, however, some of the pages of Sextus' works would form a possible introduction to certain lines of modern philosophical thought, we cannot carry the analogy farther, for Pyrrhonism as a whole lacked the essential element of all philosophical progress, which is a belief in the possibility of finding and establishing the truth in t...

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...Sextus' works would form a possible introduction to certain lines of modern philosophical thought, we cannot carry the analogy farther, for Pyrrhoni... ...logy farther, for Pyrrhonism as a whole lacked the essential element of all philosophical progress, which is a belief in the possibility of finding ... ...thus be able to comprehend more fully the standpoint from which he regarded philosophical questions. Let us accordingly attempt to give some details... ... small one, and on a subtle and unimportant point; in fact, a difference in philosophical theory, and not in medical practice. [1] Brochard Op. cit... ... and not as a physician. He was classed in later times with Pyrrho, and his philosophical works survived, while his medical writings did not, but ar... ... oldest, we know from its distinct mention in connection with the foundation theories of Pyrrho, by Diogenes. [3] In treating of the subjective reas... ... ideas, desires, and reasoning originate, [8] but simply refers to the two theories of the Dogmatics, which claim on the one hand that it is in the... ...Tropes are empirical, and aim to furnish objective proofs of the foundation theories of Pyrrhonism, while the five are rather rules of thought leadin... ...ay as the appearance of images in a dark room. V. Most philosophers present theories of aetiology which agree with their own individual hypotheses a...

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...out written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska write to: palma@unet.com.mk Philosophical essays and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse... ...f Measurement VI. The Quantum of Continuity VII. Quantum Mechanics and Superstring Theories SPE C U L A T I O NS I. Psychophysics ... ...Theodicy: The Problem of Evil IV. Miracles, Wonders, Signs V. Appendix: Scientific Theories The Author PHYSICS Time A... ...chophysics Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy Superstring and Membrane Theories Return Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy... ...tal power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as well) and the convergence is p... ...d the convergence is precisely where concepts of order and disorder emerge. String theories, for instance, come in numerous versions which describe... ...ese twin notions of simplicity and complexity give rise to numerous theoretical and philosophical complications. Consider life. In human (artifici... ...plications. Return The Decoherence of Measurement Arguably the most intractable philosophical question attached to Quantum Mechanics (QM) is tha... ...rmal state exaggerated. The continuum way of seeing things is totally inapplicable philosophically and practically. There is a continuum of intelli...

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...m, means the theory and school of using paradoxes in literary, artistic, philosophical, scientific creations. 2.3. History: "Paradoxism started as... ...phy, even science. Through experiments one brings new literary, artistic, philosophical or scientific terms, new procedures, methods or even algorit... ...logic thus generalizes: - intuitionistic logic, which supports incomplete theories (for 0<n<100, 0<=t,i,f<=100); - fuzzy logic (for n=100 and i=0, a... ...t generalizes: 7 - the intuitionistic set, which supports incomplete set theories (for 0<n<100, 0<=t,i,f<=100); - the fuzzy set (for n=100 and i=0... ...cause, I think, a whole collective of researchers should pass through all philosophical schools/movements/theses/ideas and extract their positive, ... ...d explores new terms within the framework of avant-garde and experimental philosophical methods under multiple values logics. The research is ... ...nal spectra. C) Characteristics: This mode of thinking: - proposes new philosophical theses, principles, laws, methods, formulas, movements; - re... ...fied as neutrality. K) Delimitation from Other Philosophical Concepts and Theories: 1. Neutrosophy is based not only on analysis of oppositional pro... ... have a catastrophe! P) Neutrosophic Studies and Interpretations of Known Theories, Modes, Views, Processes of Reason, Acts, Concepts in Philosophy....

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... Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com ... ...hor A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existen... ... be saved as a result and there is no other way to save their lives. Despite strong philosophical objections to some of the premises of utilitarian... ... which has the potential to develop into a person with consciousness and free will. Philosophically, no identity can be established between potentia... ...tion advances. Classifying an abortion as murder poses numerous and insurmountable philosophical problems. No one disputes the now common view tha... ...ted in aborting a pregnancy – is a crime against potentialities. If so, what is the philosophical difference between aborting a fetus and destroying... ... the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer I. Overview of Theories of Anarchism Politics, in all its forms, has failed. Th... ...o the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism (postulat... ...fellow humans (the only ones possessed of moral significance). These are called the theories of indirect moral obligations. Thus, it is wrong to tor...

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...his is my conclusion: according to the various theologies and metaphysical theories, in the beginning there was Nothingness on one side and God on th... ...l pleasure. One can experience pleasure in writing poetry, or developing a philosophical theory, or remembering a pleasurable experience in the past... ...oncept of the existence of a transcendental god began with the Greeks on a philosophical level, and then the Jewish people developed it on a religio... ...tely formed from the time of their conception? ANTONIO: You are making a philosophical supposition where there is really only an existential probl...

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...beings like ourselves. The greatest human minds have woven elaborate theories explaining, to the best of our ability, the laws of gravity, the... .... This rather flippant idea of “hitching a ride” on a reality has its philosophical equivalent known as “collapsing the quantum wavefunction”, ...

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...ian state grant, revocable at will. [At the same time it offers] a moral and philosophical jus- tification for fencing in the commons, giving the autho... ...omplished this task of synthe- sis through political negotiation rather than philosophical reasoning—that is, by refashioning the political identity o... ...Macaulay and Condorcet, not just because their thoughts shaped the legal and philosophical traditions in which we now work—though that is particularly... ...se ideas about fair use has much to recommend it, as do the many other grand theories that have been offered to explain the puzzle. And therein lies t... ...y-established hits. But if that is our conclusion, it merely proves that our theories of aesthetics are poorer than the creativity they seek to descri... ... poorer than the creativity they seek to describe. So much the worse for the theories. As Jefferson pointed out, the lines surrounding intellectual pr... ...ted on this point many times, rejecting both labor-based “sweat of the brow” theories of copyright and more expansive visions based on a natural right... ...ps most importantly, a set of mental models, economic nostrums, and property theories that each have a public domain-shaped hole at their center. The ... ...5 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 255 Va.: American Philosophical Society, 1999), 36. While leaving the matter up to Good- ma...

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...was born. Through paradoxist experiments one brings new literary, artistic, philosophical, or scientific terms, new procedures, methods, or even al... ...nformations in science is an old problem not entirely solved by the existing theories of Dempster- Shaffer, Dubois-Prade, Smets, Yager, Zadeh (fuzzy ... ... second half of the 20 th century, several new and interesting mathematical theories have emerged in parallel with the development of computer scie... ...allarme, is an expression of the crisis of the subject (de-constructed, even philosophically in a time near to us, Deridda), a fact that brings a cr... ...s. Every doctrine can be questioned by reference to paradoxical antithetical theories. For example, monotheistic religionists maintain the existence...

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...ramatic and poetical element has become subordinate to the speculative and philosophical. In the development of abstract thought great advances have b... ...ch his doctrine stood to the Eleatic Being or the Megarian good, or to the theories of Aristippus or Antisthenes respecting pleasure. Nor are we able ... ...of knowledge—the one creative or productive, and the other educational and philosophical. Of the creative arts, there is one part purer or more akin t... ...hilosophers. And, borrowing the anal- ogy of pleasure, we may say that the philosophical use of them is purer than the other. Thus we have two arts of... ...the heart and brain of each indi- vidual. But neither must we confound the theories or as- pects of morality with the origin of our moral ideas. These... ...nkers and suc- cessive generations of men. If we ask: Which of these many theories is the true one? we may answer: All of 38 Philebus them—moral se... ...ctically certain. 43 Plato The rule of human life is not dependent on the theories of philosophers: we know what our duties are for the most part bef... ...a word which admits of such an extension can hardly be made the basis of a philosophical system. The exactness which is required in philosophy will no... ... place, arithmetic is of two kinds, one of which is popular, and the other philosophical. PROTARCHUS: How would you distinguish them? SOCRATES: Ther...

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...bian. The whole may also be considered as a satire on those who spin pompous theories out of noth ing. As in the arguments of the Euthydemus and of t... ...ut as the teacher of moral and political virtue; there is no allusion to the theories of sensation which are at tributed to him in the Theaetetus and... ...he characters of men and aspects of the truth, especially of the popular and philosophical aspect; and after many interruptions and detentions by the ... ... I replied, I have always admired, and do now heartily applaud and love your philosophical spirit, and I would gladly comply with your request, if I c... ... any other foreigners who may happen to be in their country, and they hold a philosophical seance un known to strangers; and they themselves forbid t...

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...ce or persons, in the Sophist and Statesman, but we are plunged at once into philosophical discussions; the poetical charm has disappeared, and those ... ...ceives to be even older than Xenophanes (compare Protag.). Still older were theories of two and three principles, hot and cold, moist and dry, which ... ...hesis first of all. (1) If we suppose the universal separation of kinds, all theories alike are swept away; the pa trons of a single principle of res... ...ike have the ground cut from under them; and all creators of the universe by theories of composition and 36 Sophist – Plato division, whether out of ... ...determination is ne gation. Plato takes or gives so much of either of these theories as was necessary or possible in the age in which he lived. In th... ...n his natural facul ties of thought and expression without increas ing his philosophical power. The mind easily be comes entangled among abstractio... ...ences from one another is a barbarism and utterly unworthy of an educated or philosophical mind. THEAETETUS: Why so? STRANGER: The attempt at universa...

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...ld below, and that the living come from them. This he attempts to found on a philosophical assumption that all opposites—e.g. less, greater; weaker, s... ...n all this. And this confusion also leads people into all sorts of erroneous theories about the position and motions of the earth. None of them know h... ...tes and of others when about to die. Another person who takes no part in the philosophical discussion is the excitable Apollodorus, the same who, in t... ...the dismissal of Xanthippe, whose presence would have been out of place at a philosophical discussion, but who returns again with her children to take... ...such an hour. But I had not the plea 41 Plato sure which I usually feel in philosophical discourse (for phi losophy was the theme of which we spoke...

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...ally , and therefore I boldly declare that all these fine systems, all these theories for explaining to mankind their real normal interests, in order ... ...ooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wisea... ...Yes, but here I come to a stop! Gentlemen, you must excuse me for being over philosophical; it’s the result of forty years underground! Allow me to in...

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...ther Paissy began again, laying stress on each word, “according to certain theories only too clearly formulated in the nineteenth century, the Church ... ...e of the rest of our eccentric and paradoxical friend Ivan Fyodorovitch’ s theories.” “Excuse me,” Dmitri cried suddenly; “if I’ve heard aright, crime... ... brain 246 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV of “the contemplative.” They discussed philosophical ques- tions and even how there could have been light on the f... ...ot of nastiness in it, of course…. Of course I can understand that it’ s a philosophical novel and written to advocate an idea….” Kolya was getting mi... ...or instance, are literally denied me simply from my social position.” “Philosophical reflections again?” Ivan snarled malignantly . “God prese... ...ct, with a smattering of education, who had been thrown off his balance by philosophical ideas above his level and certain modern theories of duty , w... ... off his balance by philosophical ideas above his level and certain modern theories of duty , which he learnt in practice from the reckless life of hi... ...ps his father— Fyodor Pavlovitch; and, theoretically, from various strange philosophical conversations with his master’s elder son, Ivan Fyodorovitch,...