“By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.” PhilosophySocialGoalTheoryLogicLegendsConcreteFormalDefiniteBankruptcyAbstaining Book:Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords Source: Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords
“Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts - that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man.” IfsMenWorldPhilosophyFactsHappensUniverseBehindsPracticeLogicHistoricalDenyFactorsFormalAbstractionObjectivityTranscendentalDeceptive Author:Herbert Marcuse
“The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.” PhilosophyPracticeMeditationSittingDown AndFormalEmphasisMeditatingConcentratingSitting Down Author:Frederick Lenz
“Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance of the formalism and by a generous admixture of common sense, as well as a thorough understanding both of the basic concepts and of the technical details of the formal material used. It should not be supposed that the formalism can grind out philosophical results in a manner beyond the capacity of ordinary philosophical reasoning. There is no mathematical substitute for philosophy.” ShouldWellsPhilosophyUsedUnderstandingResultsCommonMaterialsOrdinaryConceptsCapacityToolsPhilosophicalDetailsCommon SenseMathematicalGenerousReasoningLogicalSignificanceSubstitutesInvestigationFormalSensitivityGrindThoroughThorough Understanding Author:Saul Kripke
“I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.” IdeasPhilosophyLiteratureBiasFormalHarvard Author:Robert Darnton
“The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational” MindDoeMadeMatterReasonPhilosophyProblemReligiousCommitmentReasonableIrrationalFormalBizarreReligious Philosophy Book:But Seriously--: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind Source: But Seriously--: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind
“A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Some convictions are conscious while others are unconscious but together they form a consistent picture of reality.” PeopleShouldPhilosophyRealityTogetherFormOrdinaryConsciousFunctionPhilosopherConvictionUnconsciousConsistentFormalOrdinary PeopleWorldview Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical subfields, such as metaphysics, action theory, language, and mind. It is not as though all questions of armchair, traditional epistemology are already settled conclusively, with unanimity or even consensus. We still need to reason our way together to a better view of those issues.” WayNeedsMindStillsReasonPhilosophyActionTogetherLanguageViewsBrainIssuesPsychologyTheoryApproachPhilosophicalIncludingVariousTraditionalRelevantFormalMetaphysicsConsensusCognitiveEpistemologyCognitive ScienceComplementaryArmchairsUnanimityBrain Science Author:Ernest Sosa