Read online A Philosophy of Universality. One of the most durable and intractable issues in the history of philosophy has The abstract "form" of an object, the universal in it, Aristotle called "secondary Philosophy & Theology 21, 1 2 3 AVICENNA AND THE PROBLEM OF According to Avicenna, universality is a contingent attribute of entities that are in This chapter examines two major challenges to Kant's project of providing the foundation for a future metaphysics of morals: the Wolffian universal practical In some quarter there exists a domineering view of philosophy as objective and universal in character. Any philosophical activity that fails to live up to the set. AS a philosophical term, "universal" (katholou). L seems clearly enough to originate with. Aristotle. It does not occur in a technical sense prior to the Aristotelian cal equality contrasts with the universality of Badiou's conception. 1 For their the universal, for philosophy consists of the analysis and examination of. Moral Universalism is the meta-ethical position that there is a universal ethic which applies to all people, regardless of culture, race, sex, religion, nationality, Universality of Science: Historical Validation of a Philosophical Idea. Habib universality of science as a philosophical idea, strongly linked to A key conception in the philosophy of Hegel, that certifies the reality of categories. A category is a synthesis of two opposed abstractions (e.g. Becoming is a The nature of beauty is one of the most fascinating riddles of philosophy. Is it relative or universal? How do we know beauty? In logic, or the consideration of valid arguments, a proposition is said to have universality if it can be conceived as being true in all possible contexts without creating a contradiction. Some philosophers have referred to such propositions as universalizable. There is a tension in all enlightened 'identity politics'. How do we combat discrimination without accepting the premise that there is significant Abstract: This dissertation is a philosophical commentary on the Prussian Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant's Universal Law and Humanity When something is said to be, say, a universal fact, belief, natural response, etc., this distinction applies ONLY to the material universe, or that sphere of But when we apply the universality test to this maxim it becomes clear that if everyone were to act in this fashion, the institution of promising itself would be Article (PDF Available) in Journal of Philosophy of Education to such schools, seeing them as threatening the project of universal inclusion. An awareness of universality is the fruit of a long and patient education. I want to start considering the question: Is the appreciation of beauty culturally universal? I also want to touch on whether it is evolved Excerpts from Onoral O'Neill's entry on "Universalism in Ethics" and David McNaughton's entry on "W. D. Ross" in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Of problems some are universal, others particular. Universal problems are such as Every pleasure is good and No pleasure is good- particular ogist who saw both philosophy and psychology as necessary for an under- standing and cultural universal (though according to Kohlberg's own findings only. putational, current, philosophical ones, and the like. Many new logics were further developed, namely: intuitionistic logic, combinatory logic, linear. that the notions totality (totalität) and abstract universality (abstraktes and beings, is anticipated Hegel's philosophy of dialectical contradiction