What are the First Principles of Philosophy?
Mar 20, 2020 · Of course, all philosophical systems have first principles, but the difference between one system of philosophy and another is that they have differing first principles. What I am asking is, …
Aristotelian logic: why do “first principles ... - The Philosophy Forum
Aug 5, 2022 · I have recently read a paper about Aristotle’s logic and “first principles” or as he named these: “principia prima”. If you are interested, you can read it here: The Arch of Aristotelian Logic Our …
The science of morality from the bottom-up and ... - The Philosophy …
Jun 13, 2023 · This post describes the status of science of morality investigations, plus my views on how those studies relate to each other, can be expanded on, and can and cannot tell us about right and …
Skepticism as the first principle of philosophy
Jan 19, 2025 · I split this off from the Quine thread because it is more general. Quine's web of belief is very instructive for explaining what happens when skepticism is taken to be the first principle …
"Survival of the Fittest": Its meaning and its ... - The Philosophy Forum
Feb 18, 2023 · We read in Wikipedia: "Survival of the fittest is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection. The biological …
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development & Christian Ethics
Nov 23, 2024 · While working through the possibility of free will (discussed in my previous post), I went over my psychological model again, and also referenced Kohlberg's theory of moral development, …
The End of the Mechanistic Worldview - The Philosophy Forum
Aug 17, 2022 · Yet it utilizes the fruits of Science -- technology; weapons, etc -- while ignoring the free-thinking philosophy underlying its Mechanistic Power over Nature. Perhaps it was the observation …
Midgley vs Dawkins, Nietzsche, Hobbes, Mackie, Rand, Singer...
From Wikipedia: Midgley–Dawkins debate In volume 53 (1978) of Philosophy, the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, J. L. Mackie published an article entitled The Law of the Jungle: Moral …
"Beware of unearned wisdom." - The Philosophy Forum
Aug 30, 2023 · The idea being that true 'wisdom' discerns the commensurate objects of the understanding, such as the first principles of metaphysics. As to whether there are short-cuts to …
The meaning of George Berkeley's "Esse est ... - The Philosophy Forum
Jul 31, 2023 · Bottom Line: Did George Berkeley mean that the existence of the entire world was dependent upon human perception, or divine perception?