After an introductory critique of rationalism and contextualism in ethics, the article makes a case for the uses of example in moral education in a wide sense, suggesting a poetics of ethics.doi:10.1111/1467-9752.00065Lars LvlieJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Journal of Philosophy of Education...
Rationality as ideology: A critique of Critical Rationalism. Unpublished paper presented at the Fortnightly Seminar Series, Department of Philosophy, York University, Downsview, Ontario. Woodhouse, H. R. (1985). Knowledge and educational dependency.Interchange,16(2), 1–16. Google Scholar Download ...
Suicide directly involving only the deceased person is not by itself a criminal offence under Scots Law and has not been in recent history. However, attempting suicide might be a Breach of the peace if it is not done as a private act; this is routinely reported in the case of persons thr...
The Greek Philosophers had an undeniably relevant role in the development of Greek History. Solon who was elected as the archon of Athens in 594 B.C laid the framework of a democratic society. Socrates propounded the ‘test of reason’ as a philosophy of rationalism. “Instead of building on...
This is most prominent in discussions of knowledge, which lay at the basis of the entire philosophy. By itself, the process of knowledge includes interacting with the world and accepting feedback from it, which then helps people make conclusions about how life is. As mentioned previously, ...
Philosophy– the concept of hermeneutics specifically was greatly introduced into human philosophical understanding and argument when philosophy had a glimpse into human experience. It was created at a time when there was a bloom in the search of knowledge and understanding and many scholars derived an...
guidelines function as an intra-systematic syntax that controls the type of life of a trusting population. In so far as they reduce doctrinal values to this function, they are at risk to the same oppositions that are commonly raised in opposition to relativistic means of rationalism and ...
With all the research that has gone into Taoism and its relevance with developments in every imaginable walk of life today, it would be incorrect to observe that the Tao-te-ching of Lao-Tzu is not relevant to modern life. It is a practical guide to those who wish to achieve lasting peac...