The Problems of Philosophers. Kant: The categorical imperative says that actions must be logically consistent if they were to be universalized, in order for them to be moral.
Zeno: Zeno's Paradox says that motion is impossible, because in order to get to something, we would have to traverse an infinite amount of space, since we can keep dividing that space into infinite halves. Hume: Hume's is/ought gap says that we cannot derive an 'ought' from an 'is'. That is, a moral command from a fact in the world. Russell: Bertrand Russell's main project was the derive mathematics, and perhaps even language and meaning, entirely from logic. He largely failed in this project. Descarte: In Meditations Descarte claimed we couldn't believe any of our observations, because it was possible an evil daemon was decieving us with false perceptions. Sartre: Sartre's radical freedom said that one was always free to do otherwise.
Parmenides. Parmenides of Elea (/pɑrˈmɛnɨdiːz əv ˈɛliə/; Ancient Greek: Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. 5th century BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Magna Graecia.
He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem, On Nature, which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides describes two views of reality. In "the way of truth" (a part of the poem), he explains how reality (coined as "what-is") is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform, necessary, and unchanging. In "the way of opinion," he explains the world of appearances, in which one's sensory faculties lead to conceptions which are false and deceitful. Life[edit] On Nature[edit] Parmenides is one of the most significant of the pre-Socratic philosophers.[12] His only known work, conventionally titled On Nature, is a poem which has only survived in fragmentary form.
Proem[edit] The Way of Truth[edit]
How we change what others think, believe, feel and do. Daniel Tutt: Atheism. Warkton, Northamptonshire: Monument by Vangelder, 1775, John Piper, 1964 by Daniel Tutt Difficult Atheism: Tracing the Death of God in Contemporary Continental Thought, by Christopher Watkin, Edinburgh University Press, 224 pp.
Declaring oneself an “atheist” just isn’t what it used to be. Growing numbers of Generation Y prefer to remain agnostic, which is why so many of them go by the “nones“, or state no religious preference. My wife used to work at a large university, and she told me that on standardized tests, many of the students put “human” in the ethnic and racial identity box. The truth is, declaring oneself an atheist is a difficult process, but we’ve lost touch with this difficulty.
Most atheists today that are firm in their convictions tend to be held in trance by the so-called “Four Horsemen of the New Atheism”. At one point in the twentieth century, French philosophy, and by extension most philosophy, didn’t have much to say about atheism. What does this even mean? 1. Philosophy Made Fun. The Big Rethink: Integral Theory. Glossary of Kant's Technical Terms. Searchable Classical literature. Philosophy Pages. Kant on the Web. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Table of Contents. Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics. Free Online Philosophy Dictionary. Humanism. In modern times, humanist movements are typically aligned with secularism, and today "Humanism" typically refers to a non-theistic life stance centred on human agency, and looking to science instead of religious dogma in order to understand the world.[2] Background The word "Humanism" is ultimately derived from the Latin concept humanitas, and, like most other words ending in -ism, entered English in the nineteenth century.
However, historians agree that the concept predates the label invented to describe it, encompassing the various meanings ascribed to humanitas, which included both benevolence toward one's fellow humans and the values imparted by bonae litterae or humane learning (literally "good letters"). In the second century A.D, a Latin grammarian, Aulus Gellius (c. 125– c. 180), complained: Gellius says that in his day humanitas is commonly used as a synonym for philanthropy – or kindness and benevolence toward one's fellow human being. History Predecessors Asia Ancient Greece Types. Philosophy Blog: Only fools tread where the wise fear « A journey into the mind of a philosopher. Philosophy Audio Classes. Nietzsche on Mind and Nature.