The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 28 pot
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 28 pot
... local ‘prejudices’ and
customs, which owe their development to historical pecu-
liarities rather than to the exercise of reason. What mat-
ters to the Enlightenment is not whether one is French or
German, ... to sub-
jective opinion, masculinity to femininity, science to
other forms of knowledge and theory, reason to emotion,
the mind to the body, and so on. Further, s...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 1 pot
... In particular, it brings out more of
the great extent to which the book is about contemporary philosophy rather
than the subject’s history.
There are perhaps a dozen established parts of philosophy: ... chosen by the high principle of nose to the grindstone. There are entries
in it, as already noticed, that are owed to their intrinsic interest rather than their
proven place...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 4 pot
... the
aesthetic, centres on the nature of aesthetic responses and
judgements. The philosophy of art and the philosophy
of the aesthetic overlap, without either being clearly sub-
ordinate to the ... or there is,
but reason cannot determine that one is to be preferred to
the other by that standard, then the agent (the will) must be
free to choose either way. If, in...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 8 pot
... head, Aristotle left Athens, lived for a
while in Assos and Mytilene, and then was invited to
return to Macedonia by Philip to tutor Alexander. Aris-
totle returned to Athens in 335 at the age ... history of mathematics and Aristoxenus
wrote on music. Theophrastus and the next head of the
Lyceum, Strato, were independent thinkers, prepared to
criticize Aristotle’s views, and...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 9 pot
... (1918), 179), together
with the facts composed of these atoms. Atomism as a
theory of matter dates back to the ancients. Hume’s atom-
ism is psychological: the ultimate constituents of the
world ... Bailey, The Greek Atomists and Epicurus (Oxford, 1 928) .
atomism, psychological. The view that the ultimate con-
tents of the mind consist in self-standing items owing their
sig...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 11 potx
... has come to be used, perhaps, to put a good face on
the largess of the better-off to the worse-off. It thereby
introduces doubts about the moral value of benevolence.
The question of the moral ... best understood if we
take the primacy of the economic to be an assertion not
about causal influences but about historical tendencies.
The Marxian theory holds that human hi...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 13 pot
... merging the terms between
which they hold into a single thing; moreover, their
togetherness does not seem particularly due to the rela-
tion since they have already (logically speaking) to be
together ... component, then it seems to require to be related
to its terms by fresh relations, and these to be related to
those relations and their terms by further ones, and so on
in...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 15 pot
... George Brett and
later Fulton H. Anderson shaped the philosophy depart-
ment at the University of Toronto into one of the fore-
most places for the study of the history of philosophy.
Canada had ... affected by all parts of the body,
but only by the brain, or perhaps just by one small part of
the brain, namely the part containing the “common
sense”.’ In his later w...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 18 potx
... ‘concrete’,
namely ‘particular’ and ‘non-abstract’, should not be run
together.
The deliberate use of the idea of a concrete universal is
due to Hegel, for whom the ‘I’, the ‘now’, the ‘spirit of ... for the Protestant Reformation,
even to the point of refusing to recognize its contributions
to science the overall effect of change up through the
stages is progressive....
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 20 pot
... interest in the
Hebrew Bible and the political and theological usefulness
of the biblical covenant to Protestant writers together
gave currency to the idea of a founding agreement. Most
of the theoretical ... was part
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire when he was born there
in 1859.) The mathematical logician *Gödel was Austrian.
(The German-speaking part of what is now...