In this article, I will try, first, to critically assess the approaches to liberatory ethics particularly those developed in early modernity, which aimed at deriving an “objectively” grounded liberatory ethics, second, to explore the reasons why today’s liberatory ethics should avoid both the Scylla of “objective” ethics as well as the Charybdis of irrationalist ethics or unbounded moral relati...

The Oriental medical concept of a Heart-mind split has no obvious counterpart in Western medicine. Patients with such a split are often labelled as anxious or depressed, and treated pharmacologically. The author contends that the omission occurs because the split is a fundamental feature of collective consciousness, and an expression of both medicine and scientific rationalism. He goes on to sa...

The standard account of supererogation holds that Liv is not morally required to jump on a grenade, thereby sacrificing her life, save the lives five soldiers. Many proponents defend by appealing moral rationalism about requirement. These same hold Bernie permitted his spare someone mild burn. I argue this position unstable, at least as ordinarily defended. proponent must either reject or endor...

This article offers a perspective on the debate about experts and their value. It considers why expert claims for attention are often regarded as suspect. does so by reflecting work of Arendt, Oakeshott, Scruton. notes that decision makers can easily find themselves in bind - sometimes railing against experts, like those presumed to inhabit an education ‘Blob’ UK at other times seemingly becomi...

There are many different kinds of philosophy. For example, there is Indian philosophy (which has its roots in the ancient body of oral tradition known as the Veda), Islamic philosophy, Japanese philosophy and Chinese philosophy. However, none of these have had any real influence on the scientific tradition in which cognitive science has grown up. That scientific tradition is Western science and...

This paper argues that the current age is best understood as a theological in its normal approach to world one based on high level of abstraction. Theology stands contrast with piety, which derives much more from immediate experience and embodies common sense. The cultural intellectual development Europe West can be terms interaction two distinct modes thinking viewing world, namely theology wa...

throughout the years, philosophers and psychologists have striven to solve the mind-boggling question of learning by juxtaposing the two competing theories, namely, empiricism and rationalism. they have usually opted for one and ruled out the other on the grounds that it cannot account for learning because theoretical and empirical evidence discredits it. since 1965, with the publication of cho...