... aesthetics, and so on. In the case of each of these, the book contains a long essay on its history and another on its problems as they now are, by contributors not at all new to them. In the ... 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 in a stern...
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... motion, due to Zeno of Elea. In a race, Achilles can never catch the tortoise, if the tortoise is given a head start. For while Achilles closes the initial gap between them, the tortoise will ... l.p.g. *philosophy, history of centres and departments of. J. Dillon, The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy 34 7–274 BC (Oxford, 20 03) . —— The Middle Platonists 80 BC to...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 4 pot
... 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 case of wrongdoing, there ... 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 clear...
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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 33 5 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...
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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, 1928). atomism, psychological. The view that the ultimate con- tents of the mind consist in self-standing items owing their signi...
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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 ... Knowledge: An Introduction to Barthes, Fou- cault and Althusser (Oxford, 1997). base and superstructure. According to the *historical materialism of Marx and Engels, the...
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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...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 15 pot
... and François de La Mothe le Vayer. In Atheismus Trionfatus (1 631 ), Campanella claimed to expose the argu- ments for atheism in order to refute them the triumph over atheism of the title. But because ... 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...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 18 potx
... York, 19 73) . Alec Nove, The Economics of Feasible Socialism (London, 19 83) . communitarianism. The thesis that the *community, rather than the individual, the state, the nation, or any other entity, ... 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 progre...
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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...
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