February 2019 – PHILOSOPHICAL EGGS

170. Can We Derive and Ought from an Is?

I favor approaches to morality that make reference to human nature like natural law theory (for an overview natural law theory in relation to social justice go here) and natural virtue ethics (for some virtue ethics insights in relation to… Read more ›

February 25, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Morality

deriving an ought from an is, Hume, Natural Law Theory, natural virtue ethics

169. The Omnitemporality of Truth

I think we should embrace what many philosophers take to be a plausible view regarding truth if we are committed to propositions as truth bearers, namely, its omnitemporality: If a proposition is true it is omnitemporally true: it always was,… Read more ›

February 24, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Metaphysics, Truth

Omnitemporality of truth, Richard Taylor, scientific prediction

168. Beware of intellectuals…they need propaganda!

Jacques Ellul, in his book Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (Vintage, 1965), defines propaganda as follows: “Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its… Read more ›

February 24, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Morality, Political Theory, Truth

education and propaganda, intellectuals, Jacques Ellul; Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, propaganda

167. Hume on Causality

Science, for many philosophers and scientists alike, should be firmly committed to using experiments to demonstrate various cause and effect relations. Consider this proposition: “These boys were watching a violent movie and then they went out and acting violently towards… Read more ›

February 23, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Metaphysics

causality, David Hume

166. Love as Power, Part 2: Hegel

In a previous post (here) we considered Thomas Hobbes’ account of how, once hedonism and egoism are embraced, love can quickly become entangled in self-defeating power relations. G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) offers us another way to think about love as power… Read more ›

February 23, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Love, Morality

love, Master/Slave dialectic, power

165. Chance and Law

Can chance without law exist? It doesn’t seem so. It seems we have to appeal to laws to make sense of any chance changes that occur. W. B. Gallie, in his book Peirce and Pragmatism, claims that “the idea of… Read more ›

February 23, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Metaphysics

C. S. Peirce, chance

164. Ficino on God and the Soul

The great Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was, among other things, an Italian renaissance scholar, Catholic priest, humanist philosopher, astrologer, doctor, musician, reviver of Platonism, and the first translator of Plato’s complete extant works into Latin. He was also the head of… Read more ›

February 23, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Metaphysics, Morality, The Soul, Truth

immortality of the soul, Marsilio Ficino

162. William James, Pluralism, and Tragedy

In his essay “What Pragmatism Means” the great American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910) asserts that pragmatism represents the empiricist attitude in both “a more radical and in a less objectionable form than it has ever yet assumed” (see… Read more ›

February 23, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Metaphysics, Morality

pluralism, tragedy, William James

161. Some Notes on Sartre’s Existentialism

Here are some notes on Jean-Paul Sartre’s (1905-1980) Being and Nothingness that continue, on some level, to apply to the world around me more than any other set of philosophical propositions. Sartre argued freedom is a defining characteristic of human… Read more ›

February 23, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Morality, The Soul, Truth

existentialism., hell is other people, masochism, sadism, Sartre

160. Aristotle on our Motivations for Friendship

One question to which Aristotle’s conception of friendship has traditionally given rise is this: is friendship motivated by altruistic motives or egoistic ones? Put differently: when we are engaged in the activity of friendship do we act for the sake… Read more ›

February 23, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Love, Morality

friendship

159. An Overview of the Kantian Sublime

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Introduction We sometimes refer to experiences, things, and even people as sublime. In doing so we try to convey something exalted, overwhelming, astonishing, and even infinite about them. We may also try and express feelings of delight… Read more ›

February 22, 2019 5 Comments

Dwight Goodyear

Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Morality, The Soul

Critique of Judgment, dynamic sublime, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, infinity, John Dennis, John Martin, Jospeh Addison, Kant, mathematical sublime, romantic art, Schelling, Schiller, the sublime, William Wordsworth, Yayoi Kusama

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170. Can We Derive and Ought from an Is?

169. The Omnitemporality of Truth

168. Beware of intellectuals…they need propaganda!

167. Hume on Causality

166. Love as Power, Part 2: Hegel

165. Chance and Law

164. Ficino on God and the Soul

162. William James, Pluralism, and Tragedy

161. Some Notes on Sartre’s Existentialism

160. Aristotle on our Motivations for Friendship

159. An Overview of the Kantian Sublime