The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 17 docx
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 17 docx
... and the gods that gave their names to the seven
days of the week. The ‘gazing Country-man’ who only
observes the ‘outward appearances’ of the clock has a very
different idea of the clock from the ... threat to be cred-
ible, either both parties must know that the person mak-
ing the threat can make good on it, or the one making the
threat must successfully deceive...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 16 docx
... justified.
Chisholm’s commitment to the second of these pre-
suppositions caused him to devote a great deal of time to
the ‘Gettier problem’. His commitment to the third led
him to reject externalist accounts ... passions, and as
these are the only ties of our thoughts, they are really to us
the cement of the universe, and all the operations of the
mind must, in a g...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 29 docx
... veil over the world rather than reveal-
ing it to us. Another sceptical difficulty here derives from
the *argument from illusion.
At the other extreme is the epistemology of reason. The
activities ... to me just now. If this last
were true, we are thrown back to two questions. The first
is whether, and how, the belief about how things seem to
me just now is justified. The...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 31 docx
... accepted the benefits
that the other party conceived of your accepting the bene-
fits as the first stage of an exchange, then you are not
required to pay up, since you didn’t actually agree to the
exchange. ... chiefly with the name of Karl Marx, who
gave the name ‘rate of exploitation’ to the ratio of the
labour time in which the worker produces the capitalist’s
surpl...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 41 docx
... a.m
aci.
*Buddhist philosophy; moral philosophy, history of.
history, history of the philosophy of. Philosophy of his-
tory is generally understood as covering two distinct types
of inquiry. The first of these—commonly ... begins. The outcome of
the conflict is the transformation of the relations of
production to bring them into line with the productive
powers so as to...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 71 docx
... had little to say of ‘feeling’.) He insisted that
having the right passions was essential to the virtuous life.
The Stoics, too, took an interest in emotion on the way
to forming their ethics. ... conclusions
expressing the simplicity of the soul, the personality of the
soul, the immortality of the soul, and the existence of the
external world. In each case, the...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 90 docx
... either
finite or has the same size as the natural numbers, the
smallest infinite set. It is a theorem of standard *set theory,
due to Cantor, that the set of real *numbers is not count-
able—there ... self-affirmation on the part of the powerful,
‘slave morality’ is a reactive morality originating in resent-
ment of the powerful on the part of the powerless. The
qualiti...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 91 docx
... the rabbis felt
that they must affirm the religious unity of their commu-
nity (there were some other similar instances of herem).
Others emphasize the need to reassure the city fathers that
the ... aimed to take the story beyond the Stoics
and Epicureans, where it usually stops, to the end of Greek
philosophy around ad 600, thereby showing its continuity
with the suc...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 102 docx
... in Paris 177 8
French Revolution 178 9
Burke (172 9–97) publishes
Reflections on the Revolution in
France
179 0
Tom Paine (173 7–1809) publishes
The Rights of Man
179 1–2,
The Age of Reason
179 4–5
French ... Terror 179 3, followed by Napoleonic wars
Goethe 174 9–1832
Schiller 175 9–1805
Malthus (176 6–1834) publishes
Essay on the Principle of
Population
179 8
Dalton (176 6...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 107 ppsx
... gnosticism; language,
history of the philosophy of; mathematics, history of
the philosophy of; mathematics, problems of the phil-
osophy of; metaphysics, history of; mind, history of the
philosophy of; ... language, history
of the philosophy of; law, history of the philosophy of;
macrocosm and microcosm; materialism; mathemat-
ics, history of the philosophy of; medie...
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