- A brief account of the history of logic, from the The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (edited by Ted Honderich), OUP 1997, 497-500.
- A biography of Peter Abelard, published in the Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 115, edited by Jeremiah Hackett, Detroit: Gale Publishing, 3-15.
- Philosophy in the Latin Christian West, 750-1050, in A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, edited by Jorge Gracia and Tim Noone, Blackwell 2003, 32-35.
- Ockham wielding his razor!
- Review of The Beatles Anthology, Chronicle Books 2000 (367pp).
- A brief discussion note about Susan James, Passion and Action: The Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.
- Review of St. Thomas Aquinas by Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame Press 1982 (172pp). From International Philosophical Quarterly23 (1983), 227-229.
- Review of William Heytesbury on Maxima and Minima by John Longeway, D.Reidel 1984 (x+201pp). From The Philosophical Review 96 (1987), 146-149.
- Review of That Most Subtle Question by D. P. Henry, Manchester University Press 1984 (xviii+337pp). From The Philosophical Review 96 (1987), 149-152.
- Review of Introduction to the Problem of Individuation in the Early Middle Ages by Jorge Gracia, Catholic University of America Press 1984 (303pp). From The Philosophical Review 97 (1988), 564-567.
- Review of Introduction to Medieval Logic by Alexander Broadie, OUP 1987 (vi+150pp). From The Philosophical Review 99 (1990), 299-302.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
"Critique of Judgment" by Immanuel Kant,1790
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Judgment in general is the faculty of thinking the particular as contained under the universal ; if a judgment brings the particular under a given universal,it is determinant,and if it discovers a universal by which to judge a given particular,it is reflective.
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Taste is the faculty of judging an object by a satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) which is not dependent on any quality of the object itself ;
the satisfaction is a subjective response to the mere representation of the object ;
hence,it is disinterested.
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Even though beauty is subjective,it is universal ;
the beautiful is that which pleases universally because it satisfies the will as if it served a purpose.
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The sublime is found when a formless object is represented as boundless,
even though its totality is present in thought.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
"Critique of practical reason" by Immanuel Kant,1788
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Morality can claim objectivity and universality only by being founded on pure reason itself.
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Moral laws are universal and categorical because of their form,not their empirical content.
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The fundamental law of the pure practical reason is so to act that the maxim of the will could always function as a principle establishing universal law.
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Were it not for the moral law,man could never know himself to be free ;
for man,"thou ought" implies "thou canst".
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The rational postulates of the practical reason are that man is free,that the soul is immortal,and that God exists.
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Morality can claim objectivity and universality only by being founded on pure reason itself.
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Moral laws are universal and categorical because of their form,not their empirical content.
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The fundamental law of the pure practical reason is so to act that the maxim of the will could always function as a principle establishing universal law.
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Were it not for the moral law,man could never know himself to be free ;
for man,"thou ought" implies "thou canst".
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The rational postulates of the practical reason are that man is free,that the soul is immortal,and that God exists.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
"Critique of pure reason" by Immanuel Kant,1781
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To establish the possibility of metaphysics as a science,it must be shown that synthesis a priori truths are possible.
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Synthetic a priori truths are universally and necessarily true -hence a priori-,but their necessity cannot be derived by analysis of the meanings of such truths -hence,they are synthetic-.
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The two sources of knowledge are sensibility and understanding.
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Space and time are the priori forms of sensibility -intuition- ;
we are so constituted that we cannot perceive anything at all except by casting it into the forms of space and time.
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The a priori conditions of our understanding are called the categories of our understanding : the categories
of quantity are unity,plurality,and totality ;
of quality : reality,negation,and limitation ;
of relation : substance and accident,cause and effect,and reciprocity between agent and patient ;
of modality : possibility-impossibility,existence-unexistence,and necessity-contingency.
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The principles of science which serve as presuppositions are synthetic a priori ;
the possibility of such principles is based upon the use of a priori forms of intuition together with the categories of the understanding.
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