Point of view

This chapter discusses how perspectivism is the device through which each one of us, who first and foremost sees the world from his point of view, is able to recognize that precise...

The first chapter introduces the story of Ajax to help illustrate three philosophical positions on shame: the traditional view, the naturalistic view, and the pessimistic view. It ...

This chapter investigates what sexual temperance is. It argues that in Aristotle’s view we find two conceptions of temperance, one stringent and one relaxed, and with gradations in...

Chapter 2 outlines some of the evidence on which the seemingly strong standard view has been based. The early discovery that ventral nerve roots of the spinal cord provide a motor ...

This chapter explores the view—“presentationalism”—that normative sentences and propositions are mind-independently true, but what they represent is not normative. There are no nor...

Chapter 1 contrasts dynamical explanation in the mechanical universe (Wilczek’s “ant’s-eye view of physical reality”) with adynamical explanation in the block universe (Wilczek’s “...

This chapter teaches systematically how acupuncture points are selected and combined to achieve therapeutic goals: balance Yin and Yang, normalize organ function, open blocked ener...

The traditional way of stating the common view of the moral asymmetry between keeping secrets and lying is that keeping secrets is prima facie morally permissible, whereas lying is...