The highly abridged remix version provided on this page is an extremely shortened and condensed rendition of the poem. It's various bits and pieces cut and pasted together to give you an overall gist of what the much larger final product is. This abridged version is basically the first canto...
This notion of heart/mind or believing/desiring are, to me, highly flawed attempts to interpret them in a way that still has a chance of being correct in light of contemporary empirical knowledge about the workings of the heart, mind, believing, and desiring. The matter seems more befuddled ...
But the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus. Lazarus had become an object of interest. The large crowd came not only to see Jesus, but also it says on account of Lazarus whom He ...
Appealing for grades in this fashion also strongly indicates that you have a commodity offering. After all, if you had some kind of USP or truly game-changing value proposition, why would you be acting like you were trying to get into Harvard alongside 10,000 other, similar people? Why wou...
he said that there is a fundamental distinction between knowing that something is the case and knowing how to do something. In contrast to knowing how which is considered as ability, knowing that is a kind of relation between thinker and proposition. Ryle believed that knowing how and knowing ...
Cf. Process and Reality, 40 for Whitehead's claim to be 'extending and rigidly applying Hume's principle, that ideas of reflection are derived from actual facts.' See also Finite and Infinite, 231: 'we know things as they condition or affect' our activities; and 17: 'Seeing is believing...
One difference, in some contexts, between thinking and believing, is that ‘I think’ isappropriate for my own judgements, whereas ‘I believe’ is apt for hearsay. Hence ‘Ibelieve your rose garden is beautiful’ is in place prior to seeing it, whereas ‘I think it isbeautiful’ is ...
As a follower of Syrianus, and thus Iamblichus by extension, Proclus places a great emphasis on theurgic practice, believing it to transcend all intellectual endeavors and possess the highest degree of transformative power. Given the prominence of theurgy in post-Iamblichian Neoplatonism, it comes...
As a follower of Syrianus, and thus Iamblichus by extension, Proclus places a great emphasis on theurgic practice, believing it to transcend all intellectual endeavors and possess the highest degree of transformative power. Given the prominence of theurgy in post-Iamblichian Neoplatonism, it comes...