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Question posted on May 15, 2013; 1 response
I have heard the saying "the beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms" attributed to Socrates. I can't find a dependable source for this (or for attributing it to anyone else) Can you point me to a source or...
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Question posted on May 9, 2013; no responses
We are Portuguese students and we are discussing the morality of abortion. We have no trouble solving this problem from the utilitarian point of view. What about Kant? According to the second version of the categorical imperative, we are not...
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Question posted on May 9, 2013; 1 response
According to Kant intuitions without concepts are blind. I'm not sure I understand this but suppose the color red is an intuition and the awareness of the color as red or a more rudimentary awareness of the color red is...
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Question posted on April 25, 2013; 1 response
The Symposium seems to be more of an artistic intellectual exercise than a philosophical treatise and philosophers generally see it that way but The Republic is taken literally as a philosophical work. Why is that?...
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Question posted on April 25, 2013; 1 response
In his "Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason", Kant argues that it is possible for people to become moral by following the example of Jesus Christ. How then would he comment on Abraham's actions during the Binding of Isaac?...
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Question posted on April 25, 2013; 1 response
Is it appropriate for philosophers who specialize in specific branches of philosophy to comment on philosophical branches outside their field of training? By analogy, a professional chemist would almost never publish books or articles in computer science. Why then should...
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Question posted on April 25, 2013; 1 response
I am confused about Aristotle's virtue ethics as it applies to Aesop's fable of the boy who cried wolf. Since he was telling the truth the second time, is it actually the townspeople who are behaving immorally by ignoring him?...
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Question posted on April 25, 2013; 1 response
I've read many here who say that everyone alive who thinks critically is a philosopher, not just those who have published academic articles and books. Isn't this a dangerous and incorrect notion since it gives credence to the fact that...
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Question posted on April 25, 2013; no responses
I am a Secondary teacher teaching a topic called 'Reason and Experience', where we look at Locke's view that the mind is a tabula rasa. What I've ended up teaching seems a bit contradictory, as sometimes Locke seems to...
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Question posted on April 11, 2013; 1 response
When Plato wrote The Republic did he ever spell out that he was expressing his own ideas rather than Socrates? Did people ever attribute the ideas in The Republic to Socrates? Did Plato in any way encourage that misunderstanding by...
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Question posted on April 11, 2013; 1 response
I am really fascinated with Hume's discovery that an "ought" cannot be derived from an "is." However, I've also read that the argument of Hume is a failure. My question then is, what can be the most reasonable response to...
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Question posted on April 11, 2013; 1 response
Which top philosophers, Pre-1850, have gone along with David Hume's "Theory of Causation"? Would Descartes be a good example to start with while I'm reading up on the matter?...
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Question posted on April 4, 2013; 2 responses
Would Socrates consider any of the professional academics on this site, who offer themselves for anyone who wants to ask anything, philosophers?...
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Question posted on March 29, 2013; 1 response
Throughout Plato's Republic, he makes alot of claims, that all stem from the question "what is justice", from there the soul to the analogy of the state, to the forms etc, my question is, does Plato actually believe in these...
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Question posted on March 29, 2013; 1 response
How would Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle feel about guns and gun control?...
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Question posted on March 21, 2013; 1 response
A lecturer I met a few weeks ago said to me (among other things) that up to this point no-one has managed to disprove Kant's famous claim that 'we should always treat others as ends in themselves and never as...
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Question posted on March 21, 2013; 1 response
Was wittgenstein an atheist?...
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Question posted on March 21, 2013; 1 response
Has anyone written on the impact (or lack of it) of Descartes on Islamic thought?...
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Question posted on February 14, 2013; 1 response
This quote, "It is harder to give rightly than to receive rightly" hit me in the face with awe but I have no idea what the meaning entails. I have not read Thus Spoke Zarathustra and so I do not...
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Question posted on January 10, 2013; 1 response
When studying Socrates should I read Plato or Xenophon or both?...
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