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essay-related problems. The intention is to explain and illustrate a handful of recommendations that address some of the most common mistakes students make when writing philosophical essays. There are numerous resources available to you if you are concerned about your essay-writing skills, beginning with your supervisors.
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the satisfactions of philosophy are often derived from, first, discovering and explicating how they are logically connected to the Big Questions, and second, constructing and defending philosophical arguments to answer them in turn. Good philosophy proceeds with modest, careful and clear steps. Structuring a Philosophy Paper
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reason and morality constitutively depend on self-understanding. My topic is the psychology and epistemology of the kind of self-understanding that is required for critical reason and morality, and that is itself constitutive to being a self, and a person. First, some introductory points. I am interested in constitutive matters—in the
Arts: Philosophy essay - annotated example. Universities seek knowledge to provide a basis for society to make reasonable decisions about what to think and how to act. But what exactly is knowledge? What does it mean. to know something?
- Introduction: From Inner Experience to the Self-Formation of Psychological Persons
- Inner Sense as the Faculty for Inner Receptivity
- Temporal Consciousness and Inner Perception
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- Consciousness of Oneself as Object
- The Guiding Thread of Inner Experience
- The Demands of Theoretical Reason: Self-Knowledge and Systematicity
- 7.4. A Normative Concept of A Person
- Preface
- 0.1. Two Theses
- 0.2. The Puzzle of Self-Reference: Parity or Disparity?
- 0.4. The Novel View of the Book: Self-Formation under the Idea of the Soul
Two Theses The Puzzle of Self-Reference: Parity or Disparity? The Argument of the Book: Varieties of Objects and Varieties of Self-Consciousness The Novel View of the Book: Self-Formation under the Idea of the Soul Outline of the Chapters Part I: The Appearing Self
Introduction Kant’s Basic Model of Representation Inner Sense in Historical Context Kant’s Transcendental Account of Inner Sense in the Critique of Pure Reason Inner Receptivity in Anthropology and Critique of the Power of Judgment
Introduction Perception and Synthesis The Interactive Model of Perception Transcendental Self-Affection and the Temporal Conditions of Perception Empirical Self-Affection and Inner Perception Part II: Self-Consciousness and the “I” of the Understanding
Transcendental Apperception as Form of Reflexive Consciousness The Expression “I think” and Self-Reference Conclusion
Introduction The Logical “I” and the Psychological “I” The Logical “I” as an Object of Thought The Psychological “I” as an Object of Inner Experience Part III: The Human Person and the Demands of Reason
Introduction Reason and Human Experience The Idea of the Soul in the Transcendental Dialectic The Noumenal and the Fictional View of the Soul Ideas of Reason and Contexts of Intelligibility The Regulative Principles of Inner Experience Conclusion
Introduction From Inner Experience to Empirical Self-Knowledge The Conceptualization of Psychological Phenomena Empirical Self-Knowledge and the Possibility of Error
Epilogue: Individuality and Wholeness Bibliography Index
Modern life is full of change and transition. We constantly undergo new experiences or even actively seek them, and with those new experiences we ourselves change. All these changes become manifest in some way or other in our conscious mental life, which consists, most basically, of a constant stream of passing thoughts, perceptions, desires, joys,...
As the preeminent Enlightenment philosopher, Immanuel Kant is famous for emphasizing that each and every one of us is called to “make use of one’s own understanding without direction from another” (Enlightenment, 8:35). We are all called to make up our own minds, independently from the external constraints imposed on us by others. In the face of th...
Empirical self-knowledge raises an intricate puzzle – a puzzle that is indeed a problem for any philosophical or scientific theory addressing it. On the one hand, self-knowledge is reflexive in that it points back to the subject who has the experience. On the other hand, self-knowledge refers to a particular individual, namely oneself, with specifi...
As a solution to the puzzle of self-reference, this book argues that in inner experience we cognize ourselves not as mere objects of experience, since we are not given to ourselves as objects in the first place. Rather, our inner experience is fundamentally shaped by our nature as human subjects who – endowed with mental faculties and the ability f...
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Learning Objectives. By the end of this section, you will be able to: Apply the dilemma of persistence to self and identity. Outline Western and Eastern theological views of self. Describe secular views of the self. Describe the mind-body problem.
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Aug 20, 2002 · Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, conscious beings, moral agents, or material objects.
