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What philosopher regarded the end and purpose of human life to be in relationships with other individuals?
I remember in my undergrad being taught about some philosopher who regarded the whole end and purpose of human existence to be primarily that of relationship with other people. I dont remember if he ...
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How to grasp in romantic relationship the difference of "to be identified with" and "do the identifying"?
I've been doing close reading for my bachelor thesis and I struggle with concept regarding love as union.
To set a little bit of context:
I concentrate specifically on creation and the problematic ...
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States-of-affairs as zero-place analogues of properties and relations?
I've been going slow through the SEP article on intrinsic properties, and came across this intriguing gem:
(The locution ‘state of affairs’ is used differently by different philosophers. Here it is ...
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Grounding without fundamental relations
Philosophers from Leibniz to John Heil have proposed the reduction/elimination of relations to non-relational features of their relata; essentially, they seek to formulate an ontology which does not ...
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Relations between "natural" and "artificial"
When we say "aritificial", we typically mean "created by intelligent being". When we say "natural", we typically mean "created by nature, not by intelligent being".
But then is the human created ...
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Does This Answer The Two Hard Problems – Why Is There Anything? and How Do We Know It?
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I imagine that most philosophers, professional or amateur, must have some kind of personal philosophical view of their preferred ontology/metaphysic, even if it is incomplete. This is mine as ...
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Human relations for the future
If the future had lesser jobs for humans at all would (seems to head that way now like AI,partial self reliance vacuum cleaner, smart car) the world be undoing what it just done?What do I mean?For a ...
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What if we could only "surmount" propositions with lower order properties as their object
This link nicely explains the difference between lower order and higher order properties
First-order properties and relations are those that can only be instantiated by individuals. For example, ...
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In the liar/similar sentences, are the characteristic predicates being used more generally or more particularly, or neither?
Between (1) and (2), it seems like "is true" is more particular in the latter than the former:
The truth predicate ("is true") is a predicate attaching to (interpreted) sentences ...
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Is there any aggregation contains all the relationships between things?
We know there have many relationships between things, such as causal relationship, parallel relationship and so on.
But is there any books or post which describe all the relationship between things?
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If there are abstract cases of space and time, then why wouldn't all the other abstract objects be located inside of them?
As per the SEP article on abstract objects:
Some of the archetypes of abstractness are non-spatiotemporal in a straightforward sense. It makes no sense to ask where the cosine function was last ...
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The philosophy of friendship
I am new to philosophy.
Are there any good writings on what friendship means?
I came across something on
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/friendship/. How good is this website? Is it good for ...
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Beginning of time problems?
Dear philosophy stackexchange,
I'm curious as to whether there have been arguments by philosophers for there being a finite past/future or whether it has always been past/future temporally infinite? ...
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Relational spacetime and simultaneity?
I once asked a similar question but didn't really get the answer or discussion that I was looking for and decided to start clean. Recall that in Galilean (classical) spacetimes its assumed that space-...
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Compositional relations vs definitional relations, always distinct kinds of relations?
Are compositional (mereological) relations always distinct from definitional relations, or can compositional relations be considered definitional relation in some cases? Does this depend on whether we ...
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