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15 de may. de 2024 · Bernard Williams's original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in these basic conceptions of ethical life.
10 de may. de 2024 · Bernard Williams, at an early point in Shame and Necessity, draws on Homer to dispute Bruno Snell’s account of the classical understanding of action. 1 Countering Snell’s claim that the ancients had no concept of free will and ascribed all actions to fate, Williams points to moments in which Homeric characters actively deliberate about what they should not do, what they should do now, and ...
22 de may. de 2024 · British philosopher Bernard Williams explored the problem of dirty hands in less hyperbolic situations, more the everyday necessities of political life than the extraordinary undertakings of defending one's community from outright destruction: "[I]t is a predictable and probable hazard of public life that there will be these ...
Hace 2 días · Este trabajo hace una presentación general de los debates contemporáneos acerca de los mundos posibles. Luego de explicar cómo es que la semántica de mundos posibles apareció en lógica modal, se discuten brevemente algunas aplicaciones de la noción: (i) la distinción entre nombres propios y descripciones; (ii) el problema mente-cuerpo ...
11 de may. de 2024 · Williams, Bernard. (2008) Shame and Necessity. London: University of California Press, Ltd. Book Google Scholar Wittgenstein, Ludwig. (2001) Philosophical Investigations. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe. Third Edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. [cited as PI] Google Scholar Wyatt, John.
22 de may. de 2024 · Bernard Williams was one of the best-known twentieth century British philosophers. Urging the neglected claims of emotion, motivation and sheer luck in morality, the importance of “internal” as well as “external” reasons, Williams saw the subject of moral philosophy as focused on what is involved in living a whole human life ...
20 de may. de 2024 · Bernard Williams makes this point about impossibilities as predictors in relation to impossibilities in action, or moral incapacities. ‘Foreseeable’ is important, because we are not denying that extreme circumstances may change that, or that one may be suddenly transformed by circumstances and hence, as per our proposal, find something to be possible which was not possible before.
