Second, if human beings are the product of a continuous process, then they do not have an essential nature, a set of features without which they would fail to be human. Instead, “man has no nature; what he has is history” (Jose Ortega y Gasset in Pinker 2002, 24). If this is r...
施特劳斯认为,政治哲学是哲学的组成部分或一个分支:“哲学”表示处理的方式,本根的和整全的;“政治的”既表示主题又表示功能。(By calling this pursuit political philosophy, we imply that it forms a part of a larger whole: of philosophy; or that political philosophy is a branch of philosophy. In the...
between mathematics and philosophy is anything but clear. Plato thought of mathematics as the paradigm of philosophy, and there is a large overlap between logic, usually thought of as part of philosophy, and mathematics.Why are philosophical issues not amenable to straightforward empirical investigation...
What isPHILOSOPHY? WHY IS THEREANYTHING AT ALL? WHAT MAKES THINGS RIGHT ANDWRONG? DOES GOD EXIST? IN TRYING TO UNDERSTANDTHE FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE, REALITY, ANDEXISTENCE, PHILOSOPHY TACKLES SOME OF THE GREATESTMYSTERIES OF ALL. MANY SUCH QUESTIONS HAVE ...
Of what use is philosophy First it is useful in educational advancement. It is necessary for understanding other disciplines. Only philosophy questions the nature of the concepts used in a discipline and its relation to other disciplines. And through the study of philosophy, one develops sound ...
According to Socrates’ statement—“The unexamined life is not worth living?”—they hold that 4 on the human statement is valuable in itself. Others take their lead from Marx—“The philosophers have only interpreted the world—and view philosophy as an engine of political change, whose ...
Although research on the nature of mathematical beauty is under way in several fields--such as philosophy, psychology and education--there are still many 4 questions. What do we mean by beauty? Is it objective or subjective? Can equations be beautiful in their own right, or must they be ...
"Signs are a kind of growth that has always been present in the forest of philosophy, but it is not a growth that has always been recognized for what it is and for the essential role it plays in enabling the growth of all the rest of the... J Deely - 《Cybernetics & Human Knowing...
用谷歌搜索的结果来开启这本书也许是最为后人类主义的姿态。正如我在2008年夏天所写的那样,如果你在谷歌上搜索“人文主义”(humanism),会得到384万条结果;而搜索“后人类主义”(posthumanism)只能得到将近6.02万条(人文主义显然还好好地存活着,尽管有人说它已经消亡了)。粗略一看你就会发现,尽管在数量上有着差别,...
The question of the relation between humans and nature lies at the foundation of any philosophy. With the daily worsening environmental crisis, we are forced to face this ancient question again. Yet when we put it into the form of 'humans and nature', a metaphysics is already implied and ...