Philosophical Implications of the Size and Age of the Uni(Multi)verse December 15, 2024Science & Philosophy The size (and age) of the universe induces within me both awe and a feeling of incredible insignificance. Here’s what I wrote about the universe some years ago,Continue readingPhilosophi...
Sandra Peterson offers a striking account of that influence: the Pythagorean sympathies of Socrates's interlocutors lead him to defend a conception of philosophy that captures their commitments, but that he himself rejects. Call this the Strong Influence Thesis (SIT). Peterson defends SIT by ...
Martinich, Byrne and Hall, and Smart, none of them specialists in the history of analytic philosophy. Many later reviews, including more extended critical notices, were more negative – for example those by Pincock, Hacker, Beaney, Livingston, and myself, all historians of analytic philosophy. ...
Socrates'metaphysicsaside, it is he who is mistaken about grief. His friends and followers could agree that his death was no loss to him, but what they grieve for is a lossto themselves– they are losing their companion and their teacher.In this respect, thedismissal ofgrief seems to refle...
Socrates believed the best way for people to live was to focus on self-development rather than the pursuit of material wealth.The idea that humans possessed certain virtues formed a common thread in Socrates ’s teachings.These virtues represented the most important qualities a person to have ...
Socrates may also setagainst Gelaokang with "good" and "evil" to describe theancient times there is no concept of the behavior of the. But Socrates on theindividual and national interests consistent point of view is not very clear,not caused Gelaokang debate. As the story about theancient ...
prefigured by the domain of practical activity, this narrator configures the philosophical tradition anew with the hopes of reconfiguring his or her interlocutors by means of a philosophical catharsis.;Philosophy as a form of self-transformation promises to answer Socrates' question: how ...
of his – Schopenhauer’s – view that satisfaction, or otherwise, human happiness, is always negative, that is, it is always preceded by a desire or a wanting which once gratified comes as a relief; i.e., release from the pain of striving, of seeking satisfaction. This is always only...
Socrates had argued – in theEuthydemus, for instance – that thegoodcan be characterized by the fourcardinal virtues. He engaged in countless discussions about the meaning of virtues in practical life examples. Socrateswas aware that he did not have enough knowledge, to definitely describe thegood...
For a discussion of his life and work, see Socrates. solipsism Belief that only I myself and my own experiences are real, while anything else—a physical object or another person—is nothing more than an object of my consciousness. As a philosophical position, solipsism is usually the uni...