June 2019 – PHILOSOPHICAL EGGS

184. Some Common Grounds for Moral Duty and Beauty

Our experiences of beauty and duty appear to be very different. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), in his book Critique of Judgment, argued that judgments of the beautiful must be “disinterested.” This means that we make these judgments (1) without concern for the truth; (2) without… Read more ›

June 22, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Aesthetics, Love, Morality, The Soul, Truth

Art of Creation, Beauty, categorical imperative, Edward Carpenter, Immanuel Kant; Critique of Judgment; beauty; duty; art and morality; Edward Carpenter; The Art of Creation, moral duty

183. A Few Notes on the Correspondence Theory of Truth

Obviously one of the most important general and fundamental questions is: What is truth? This is a difficult question—if only because we tend to assume a certain conception of the truth as we look for the truth about the truth!… Read more ›

June 20, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Truth

correspondence theory of truth

182. John Dewey’s Philosophy of Art

The American philosopher John Dewey (1859-1952) offered a groundbreaking account of art in his Art as Experience (1934). This account, which reorients our understanding of art towards aesthetic experience, forges profound connections with education, democracy, and evolution. In what follows,… Read more ›

June 20, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Aesthetics, Political Theory

Art as Experience; instrumental theory of art; cognitive theory of art; imagination, John Dewey; Democracy and education

181. Can a Determinist Coherently Assert the Truth of Determinism?

Determinism is the view that, given the laws of nature, all events are the necessary effects of previous events. When applying this to systems, one can say that a system is deterministic if there is only one way the system… Read more ›

June 15, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Metaphysics, Morality, Truth

determinism is incoherent, Free will, freedom, Hans Joas, nagation, Sartre

180. St. Augustine and Divine Illumination

In an earlier post (go here) I gave a brief overview of St. Augustine’s (354-430 C.E.) argument for God’s existence from eternal truth in his dialogue On Free Choice of the Will (Macmillan, 1964). Augustine argues that our minds can know truths… Read more ›

June 11, 2019

Dwight Goodyear

Metaphysics, The Soul, Truth

divine illumination, eternal truths, St. Augustine

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184. Some Common Grounds for Moral Duty and Beauty

183. A Few Notes on the Correspondence Theory of Truth

182. John Dewey’s Philosophy of Art

181. Can a Determinist Coherently Assert the Truth of Determinism?

180. St. Augustine and Divine Illumination