Metaphysics

« Plato (427-347 B.C.) stands at the head of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon the wide range of topics that are still discussed by philosophers today under such headings as metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political theory, language, art, love, mathematics, science, and religion » (en) The Cambridge Companion to Plato. 5. ↑ Comme Socrate, Aristote et Théophraste, Platon avait sa définition de la beauté : « le privilège de la

to the very last man.” 48 Candide 49 The conversation lasted some time and turned chiefly on the form of government, their manners, their women, their public diversions, and the arts. At length, Candide, who had always had a taste for metaphysics, asked whether the people of that country had any religion. The old man reddened a little at this question. “Can you doubt it?” said he; “do you take us for wretches lost to all sense of gratitude?” Cacambo asked in a respectful manner what was

modifier le code] Article détaillé : épistémologie. Le vocable d'« épistémologie » remplace celui de philosophie des sciences au début du xxe siècle85. Il s'agit d'un néologisme construit par James Frederick Ferrier, dans son ouvrage Institutes of metaphysics (1854). Le mot est composé sur la racine grecque επιστήμη signifiant « science au sens de savoir et de connaissance » et sur le suffixe λόγος signifiant « le discours ». Ferrier l'oppose au concept antagoniste de l'« agnoiology », ou théorie de

it is to think and experience the world, that is to say imagine it. It is, for Nietzsche the philologist, an axis to understand Ancient Greece. It is also, for the mature Nietzsche, the occasion of a foundation in the archaic civilization of the metaphysic world, that is to say a split in the world. The analysis of the workings of dream interpretation and the production of the becoming world of the dream serves as a model to think about the process of interpretative daily activity. The dream fragments

«Internet, l‘extase et l‘effroi », octobre 1996, p. 37-41. & WILBUR, Shawn P. (1997), An Archeology of Cyberspaces. Virtuality, Community, Identity , in DavidPorter (dir.), Internet Culture, New York, Routledge, p. 8 574 575 HEIM, M., « The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality », New York, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 124 CRANG, M., CRANG P. et MAY J. (dir.), « Virtual Geographies. Bodies, Space and Relations », Londres, Routledge, 1999, p. 3 Page 258 of 375 Zammar, Nisrine. Réseaux Sociaux

intended for the men and women whose most pressing need is for money; who wish to get rich first, and philosophize afterward. It is for those who have, so far, found neither the time, the means, nor the opportunity to go deeply into the study of metaphysics, but who want results and who are willing to take the conclusions of science as a basis for action, without going into all the processes by which those conclusions were reached. It is expected that the reader will take the fundamental statements

conditions of space and time, whereas intellectual knowledge is knowledge of things as they are (sicuti sunt ). [Réf.: Diss. 1770, 2, 4; éd. de l’Akademie: II, p. 292.] The empirical sciences come under the heading of sensitive knowledge, while metaphysics is the prime example of intellectual knowledge. (Ibid., p. 229) On voit se profiler ici la notion d’essence des choses, coutumière à la métaphysique traditionnelle. Il fallait bien que les choses fussent pensées en intension, c’est-à-dire en

Comparative Psychology 17 ( 1934), pp. 47-66. Baylis C. A. "Universals, communicable knowledge, and metaphysics." Journal of Philosophy 48 ( 1951), pp. 636-644. Bedau H. A. Review of Whorf. Philosophy of Science 24 ( 1957), pp. 289293. Bennett Jonathan. "Analytic-synthetic." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 59 ( 1959), pp. 163-188. Bergmann Gustav. "Two types of linguistic philosophy." Review of Metaphysics 5 ( 1952), pp. 417-438. ------ "Intentionality." Archivio di Filosofia 1955, pp. 177-216. Birkhoff

the same individual under the same denomination. » Locke, ibidem, livre II, chapitre XXVII, §29. [159] « It is not true that two substances may be exactly alike and differ only numerically... ». Cité par Benson Mates dans son The Philosophy of Leibniz: Metaphysics and Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 1986, p. 132. [160] « [If] everything that is true of A is true of B, and vice versa, and hence if there is no discernible difference between A and B, then A is identical with B ». Hidé

search for what would make me happy again. I looked into the future and realized that the outside world of riches and material comfort had little to offer me as a means to achieve true and lasting happiness. I started reading books on philosophy and metaphysics. Blessed with a strong and ambitious spirit, I read lots and lots of these books. My inner world was coming alive again and my relationship with the “real world” outside was coming to an end. My promising career in international banking came to