Question 3: The fourth Thesi s on Peuerbach concerns itsel f with, among other matters, the nature of dialectic understanding. A proper dialectic understanding addresses itself to the immanent contradictions in the real concrete, rather than merely the contradictions between this real concrete and its ideological manisfestations -such as religion. Yes, the self as part of the system of religion...

Nietzsche, throughout his writings, chides other philosophers for not placing their question marks at a deep enough place – for breaking off their inquiries prematurely, rather than pressing their questions all the way to the end, allowing themselves to discover where their questions, if pressed, might eventually lead1. In one of his posthumously published manuscripts, the following series of q...

This paper has three dimensions, historical, theoretical and social. The historical dimension is to show how the Ciceronian system of dialectical argumentation served as a precursor to recent computational models like the Carneades argumentation model. The theoretical dimension is to show concretely how these models reveal the interdependency of rhetoric and logic, and so the interdependency of...

Teleology is a central concept in Hegel's philosophy, but, as is too common in his writing, exactly what he understands under that concept, what role within his philosophy it plays, and how he defends his position remain obscure. Hegel did not come to his position on teleology in a vacuum; it was a topic of major concern to his predecessors as well. Then as now, debate focused both on the quest...