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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Philosophical Method"”.
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Explication, similarity, and analogy: a defense and application of philosophical method
… “truth in virtue of meaning alone” – could be a philosophically explanatory notion. While his rejection represents a significant philosophical stride in its own right, to which many in the contemporary philosophical scene pay verbal respects, the revolutionary consequences of this insight often …
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Esthétique, affectivité et réflexivité. Essai sur la dimension interculturelle de l'anthropologie existentielle de Jean-Paul Sartre
… of the historical real-life refers to a complex philosophical method inspired by Husserl’s phenomenology, Freud’s psychoanalysis and Marx’s dialectic. It aims at understanding individual’s imaginary and behavior. Using that method, not only are we able to reveal the structure of people’s …
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Reorienting phenomenological method for the critical study of religion
The phenomenological method put forth by Edmund Husserl in Logical Investigations (1900) made its way into several academic disciplines over the last century. What started as a philosophical method of answering metaphysical and ontological questions was soon adopted by Gerardus van der Leeuw in …
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Mathematical warrants, objects and actions in higher school mathematics
… - towards rigour, abstraction, and tluencyusing philosophical method: for each of the three transitions a proposition is presented and arguments are given in favour of that proposition. These arguments employ concepts and results from contemporary English language-medium philosophy and also rely …
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Margaret Cavendish on Inconceivability
… not only threatens to undermine Cavendish's philosophical method; it also calls her opposition to human exceptionalism into question. By asserting that what is inconceivable to her is impossible in nature, Cavendish implies by contraposition that she can conceive of everything that is …
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Freedom in Existence: A Comparative Study of the Poetics of Emily Dickinson and Sohrab Sepehri
… as a means and a stepping-stone towards a methodological and unrestricted method of inquiry into the nature of existence. The purpose of this essay is to emphasize the universality of artistic behavior by conducting a comparative study of two poets, the 19th-century American poet, Emily …
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The Functional Contributions of Consciousness
… consciousness do? My dissertation develops a philosophical method for identifying the functional capacities that conscious experience contributes to information processing systems. My strategy involves systematically consolidating and interpreting a range of psychological and neuroscientific …
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Tragic philosophy and human desire : bringing Nietzsche and Plato into conversation with contemporary ethics.
… for contemporary ethics both in terms of philosophical method and more adequate accounts of human desire. In terms of fullness and lack, an important distinction arises between eros and the will to power that may encourage further discussion.
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The cut that cures therapeutic methods in the Platonic dialogues and the Zhuangzi Neipian
… appropriations into a western and eastern philosophical canon. While the former is consistently allied with a history of philosophical rationalism, the Zhuangzi is often read as a text that symbolizes the great mystical and anti-rationalist traditions of classical China. This is, however, a …
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<i>Academicus ille Augustinus</i>? Augustine’s Rehabilitation of Academic skepticism
… argue that Augustine did not wholly refute this philosophical method, most famously practiced by Cicero and his Greek predecessors, but that he rehabilitated it for the purpose of hiding, defending, and seeking Christian truth. Paradoxically, for Augustine, the proper exercise of Academic …
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Putting the Ghost Back in the Machine: A Defense of Common Sense Dualism
… a presumption toward naturalism has dominated philosophical inquiry. Here, I offer an unapologetic defense this unfashionable view of the self. To do so, I first explain why philosophy should endorse a shift in method away from naturalism and toward common sense philosophy. I then show how, …
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Moral responsibility for character
… abandon the core assumption of virtue ethics. My method is a standard philosophical method of critical analysis and synthesis of philosophical literature. My account consists of two conditions that are both necessary and together sufficient for making attributions of moral responsibility for …
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An investigation into the significant role of adult education among blacks in South Africa : a philosophical perspective
… relationship between a sociological approach and philosophical point of view. This study attempts to emphasize the importance of adult education for Blacks in particular. The researcher decided to state his problem in the form of questions: "Does adult education have any significant role in …
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Toward a More Illuminating View of Religious Language, Religious Truth, and God: Examination of and Critical Reflection on D. Z. Phillips’ Philosophy of Religion
… language, religious truth, and God. Phillips’ philosophical method, or way of doing philosophy is known as descriptive and contemplative. I examine central notions in his philosophy, such as description, contemplation, grammar, neutrality, and possibility. I also discuss scholarly debates on …