Reading List for PHI356 Philosophical Projects II (Spring 2014)

Reading List for PHI356 Philosophical Projects II (Spring 2014)

Reading List for PHI356 Philosophical Projects II (Spring 2014). Pyrrhonian Scepticism Jimmy Lenman. Sextus Empiricus. 2000. Outlines of Scepticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Jonathan Barnes. 1990. The Toils of Scepticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The Ontological Argument

The Ontological Argument

The Ontological Argument. Revision notes. THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT. Attributed to St Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 11th century. Attempts to prove that God is a necessary being with every positive attribute: infinitely powerful, wise and good.

Lecture Notes 1/11

Lecture Notes 1/11

Lecture Notes 1/11. What is this class? Philosophy, not law. Philosophical reflection on the law. Examples of questions we will ask. Is there a moral duty to obey the law? do you need a duty to obey the law to have a legitimate government? what is the nature of law?

Study Questions on Plato, the Phaedo

Study Questions on Plato, the Phaedo

Study Questions on Plato, The Phaedo. Readings in Ancient Philosophy, 267-319translated by G. M. A. Grube. Prepared by Dr. Jan Garrett. Last modification date: August 22, 2012. 1. What was Socrates' attitude on the morning of his death? (58e-59a).

Chapter XLVI IBN KHALDUN A

Chapter XLVI IBN KHALDUN A

Chapter XLVI IBN KHALDUN A. Ibn Khaldun wrote no major work in fields accepted in the Muslim philosophic tradition, or which he himself considered to be the proper fields of philosophic investigation-logic, mathematics, physics, and metaphysicspolitics.

Autonomy, Community, and Freedom

Autonomy, Community, and Freedom

Animating Ideas of Idealism. A Semantic Sonata in Kant and Hegel. Autonomy, Community, and Freedom. 1. My theme last time was the innovative normative conception of intentionality that lies at the heart of Kant s thought about the mind. He understands.

Postmodernism: Consensus Through Dissention

Postmodernism: Consensus Through Dissention

The Indian Review of World Literature in English, Vol. 2 No.I January, 2006. POSTMODERNISM: CONSENSUS THROUGH DISSENTION. Postmodernism, which took shape between the two world wars at the initial stage, was a Euro-American phenomenon. But in the course.

What Are Our Contemporary Examples of (Imperfect) Panoticism?

What Are Our Contemporary Examples of (Imperfect) Panoticism?

Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984). Penopticism Subjectification. General questions. What are our contemporary examples of (imperfect) panoticism? How do we study subjectivity and subjectification of, say, a character s?

Presentation on Foucault, DP, Panopticism Chapter

Presentation on Foucault, DP, Panopticism Chapter

Presentation on Foucault, DP, Panopticism chapter. Overview of presentation. 1. Bentham s panopticon. 2. theory of panopticism. 3. my evaluation of this picture. 1. Bentham s panopticon as a piece of architecture.

Plato S Ring of Gyges

Plato S Ring of Gyges

Plato s ring of Gyges. Republic c. 380 BCE (Socrates no longer Socrates, now mouthpiece for Plato). The back-story Socrates and Glaucon go to the Piraeus to see the festival. (Parade good but no better than a Thracian parade.) Heading home when stopped.

A Hegelian Model of Legal Concept Determination

A Hegelian Model of Legal Concept Determination

A Hegelian Model of Legal Concept Determination. The Normative Fine Structure of the Judges Chain Novel. Indeterminateness and Rational Authority. The specter of skepticism haunts the philosophy of law. (Or at least, there is a neighborhood of that bustling.

The Trinitarian Self: the Key to the Puzzle of Violence

The Trinitarian Self: the Key to the Puzzle of Violence

The Trinitarian Self: The Key to the Puzzle of Violence. Charles K. Bellinger. Chapter 2. Askesis: Introduction to Soren Søren Kierkegaard. A. Life and Writings. Soren Søren Kierkegaard was born in 1813, in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the seventh child of.

The World As We Know It

The World As We Know It

The World as we Know It. Richard Healey. Albert Einstein thought of physics as the search for the order and harmony of the world a harmony he spoke of in quasi-religious terms. In his theories of relativity he succeeded brilliantly in discerning a hidden.

Background: the Book of Judges

Background: the Book of Judges

Lesson 7: OT: Joshua & Judges. Lesson 7: Judges 11-21. Background material for Lesson 7 (These are some difficult chapters!). The last ten chapters of Judges have to be some of the most depressing in the Bible. You find yourself saying, Why did they put.

Dr. J. Taylormythology Hero Papers Fall 2004

Dr. J. Taylormythology Hero Papers Fall 2004

Dr. J. TaylorMythology Hero Papers Fall 2004. Hero Writing Assignment requirements. The focus of the 4-page paper portion as well as the visual portion of this project will be an application of Joseph Campbell s Hero Cycle to the story of a hero (the.

Greetings from the Desktop Editor

Greetings from the Desktop Editor

Greetings from the Desktop Editor. Dear Friends and Colleagues. I trust you are doing splendidly and enjoying the season of changing colors. Please pardon me for a delay in the distribution of this newsletter.