Pages

▼
Showing posts with label a priori values. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a priori values. Show all posts
21.10.14

›
Sanhedrin 61a in Tosphot. I have asked on Tosphot that in his approach he is expanding the area of prohibition of bowing (Deuteronomy 17) t...
21.8.14

But seems that numinous value can slip very easily from holiness into its opposite. It would be nice if there was some kind of test for this

›
 Numinous value.    Over-excitement in the service of God. Also we do find that the world of Kabalah deals with a different planes of ex...
5.7.14

Philosophy at its best is vertical.

›
Philosophy at its best is vertical. To explain what this means let me give an example. Take the Pre Socratics. The whole progression of t...
28.6.12

Socrates: And if, I said, the male and female sex appear to differ in their fitness for any art or pursuit, we should say that such pursuit or art ought to be assigned to one or the other of them; but if the difference consists only in women bearing and men begetting children, this does not amount to a proof that a woman differs from a man in respect of the sort of education she should receive; and we shall therefore continue to maintain that our guardians and their wives ought to have the same pursuits.

›
What Socrates is saying here in plain English is that we don't start out thinking men and women are different in ability. We give them ...
21.5.10

a priori values

›
A priori values. Freedom and Reason. Sometimes there comes a person into the world whose purpose is to reveal some a priori value. Or Pres...