PhilosophyAn anthology of approximately 100 articles and essays. Features a student-oriented structure, including clear section introductions.Beauchamp, TomPrentice-HallBeauchamp, T., Feinberg, J. and Smith, J. (ed.) (1989). Philosophy and the human condition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall....
To anticipate, I will argue that philosophical esotericism in all its forms ultimately grows out of a single, enduring problem of the human condition: the fact that we are not pure minds, the essential dualism of “theory” and “praxis,” of reason and its nonrational preconditions. In its ...
The human condition/Transformation July 14, 2024 It’s time for a new story Well, two new stories. The truly important one needs to be authored by us, humanity, if we are to avoid ecological collapse on the planet we share. An act of unity that seems... ...
It’s a combination of sometimes witty, sometimes terrifying exploration of the human condition, and at the same time an antidote to those time management books that tell you how you can maximise your productivity, taking on more and more tasks and completing them efficiently.” Read more... ...
Hermeneutical philosophy, of the Ricoeurian reconstructive mode, rehabilitates text as a powerful device for influencing others and offers us courage to proceed with the human project by developing a way of writing, thinking and behaving that is provisional, affirmative and conciliatory, yet ...
For Aristotle, on the other hand, the principle of good and right was imbedded within each person. Moreover, this principle could be discovered by studying the human nature and could be attained through actual behavior in daily life. >> two major kinds of ends: (1) instrumental ends (...
A life truly worth living is one that is informed and considered so a degree of philosophical insight into the inevitabilities of the human condition is inherently important and such an approach will help us to deal with real personal dilemmas. This book is an accessible, lively and thought-...
根据Stolnitz的理论——这是两种理论中更直接的一种——对一个对象的审美态度是一个无利害地和同情地(sympathetically)关注它的问题,其中无利害地关注它就是除了关注它之外没有任何目的,而同情地关注它就是 "如它自己那样接受它"(accept it on its own terms),让它而不是自己的成见来引导对它的关注(Stolnitz ...
For some time, both philosophy and the proto-psychology of the ancient Greeks largely disappeared in Europe until the Renaissance. During this period, several factors coincided, likely giving the average person more time to reflect on the human experience, as well as an easier route to the work...
seems to require as its very condition the goodwill of the thinkers involved, and this goodwill has traditionally grounded an entire ethics of writing: do not be willfully obscure, do not manipulate source material, do not lie to your readers, mean what you say, and so on. What would com...