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Jan 1, 2023 · In addition to defining key terms, an account of ethical values and personal integrity must explain where ethical values can exist and where they originate; question whether values are ephemeral or enduring, and explain why some values endure while others do not; examine whether there is one greatest ethical value or if there are many values of ...
- james.cook@usafa.edu
Sep 30, 2021 · Knowledge, as a concept, is unspecific in its meaning. A definition of knowledge that encompasses most of its obscure aspects is this: a deep understanding of the links between different concepts, opening the knower’s eye to the universal truth. As unclear as the definition is, there are some pillars on which we can base our distinctions.
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- The First Level: Basic Wisdom
- Self-Knowledge
- The Second Level: Reflective Wisdom
- Knowledge and Understanding
So, how should we organize the rich array of demands on wisdom, satisfying at the same time the usual epistemological desiderata? I propose that we take as our guide the two-level accounts in epistemology, above all the one of Sosa (e.g., Sosa, 2007) combining reliability on the first level with coherence on the second. The idea is that reliability...
Let me now pass to the central kind of knowledge at the basic level, namely self-knowledge. Lao-Tzu teaches us: “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.” Socrates would probably agree, and so would many of his followers. But why is self-knowledge important? Well, I should know myself in order to be able to predict how vario...
At the first level, the relevant cognitive and motivational elements are minimally reflective, in the sense of being made compatible with local, pressing concerns, so that the focus is not purely atomic, nor seriously holistic, but rather “molecular,” taking into account the nearest competitors only. So, phronesis-generated preferences already cont...
We should now place this proposal within the wider virtue-epistemological setting. So, why knowledge, and not just true belief? What about skepticism? There is a skeptical tradition, running from Academic skepticism in antiquity to Montaigne and his disciple (and adopted son) Charron, that claims that a skeptic, at least a moderate skeptic, can be ...
- Nenad Miščević
- vismiscevic@ceu.hu
- 2012
Dec 14, 2021 · The deterministic sciences of psychology, behaviorism, neuroscience, sociology, and politics are incapable of dealing with human values. There is a variety of ethical first principles available for the choosing, including three forms of ethical relativism, Descriptive, Normative, and Metaethical.
Articles. What Is Truth? Richard Oxenberg on the need for an old paradigm, especially in ethics. In the Gospel of John, Jesus says to Pontius Pilate: “I was born and came into the world to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” Pilate famously responds, “What is truth?”
Our contemporary understanding of “truth” is closely aligned with the “correspondence theory of truth,” the idea that “what we believe or say is true if it corresponds to the way things actually are — to the facts.”1 But, how do we know what the facts are? How can you tell a lie from a truth?
Mar 10, 2002 · Knowledge, Truth, and Duty is a collection of fourteen essays by fourteen different authors. As the title indicates, the central topic is epistemic normativity and its relationship to the concepts of knowledge and justification, and to the twin goals of truth-seeking and error avoidance.
