Moran, Dermot(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2008-08)
Phenomenology, understood as a philosophy of immanence, has had an ambiguous, uneasy relationship with transcendence, with the wholly other, with the numinous. If phenomenology restricts its evidence to givenness and to ...
Practical reasons figure in both the justification and the causal explanation of action.
It is usually assumed that the agent’s state of believing rather than what they believe must figure in the causal explanation of ...
Casey, Gerard(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2009-09)
Government, the systematic exercise of command by some over others backed by the allegedly legitimate use of violence, requires justification. All government is predicated upon a distinction between rulers and ruled. Who ...
In the debate on the relationship between conceptions of human nature and ethics/politics there are those who view any attempt to ground ethics/politics upon a reasonably 'thick' conception of human nature as illegitimate. ...