Reflections
Mental consideration; contemplation;
also a conclusion reached after much thought.
Philosophy
(from the Greek, philosophia; from philos, love; or philia, friendship,
affection, affinity for, attraction toward, + sophos, a sage, a wise one;
or sophia, Wisdom, knowledge, skill, practical wisdom or experience, intelligence)
(Love of Wisdom)
Study Skills
for personal development
Ancient Philosophy's Hardest Question:
Brief History of Western Philosophy Outline:
Ancient Greek Philosophy (Philosophy of the Citizen)
Middle Ages/Religious Philosophy (Philosophy of Christianity)
Political Philosophy (Philosophy of the State)
Modern Philosophy (Philosophy of the Individual/Existential)
Sabbatical Project Fall 2006 and Spring 2007
History of The Idea of Nature in Western Philosophy Outline:
Idea of Nature: History of Western Philosophy
History of Aesthetics in Western Philosophy Outline:
Aesthetics: History of Western Philosophy
History of Ethics in Ancient Western Philosophy Outline:
Ethics: History of Ancient Western Philosophy
History of Ethics in Western Philosophy after the Greeks Outline:
Christianity
St. Augustine
Aquinas
Luther
Machiavelli
Hobbes
Spinoza
New Values
The British
The French
Kant
Hegel
Marx
Kierkegaard
Nietzsche
Dewey
Ross
Sartre
Rawls
Reformers
Utilitarians
Idealist
Modern Moral Philosophy 1600-1800
Schools of modern moral philosophy:
The School of Natural Law
Francisco Suarez: 1548-1617
On Law and God the Lawgiver: 1612
Hugo Grotius: 1583-1645
On the Law of War and Peace: 1625
Samuel Pufendorf: 1632-1688
On the Law of Nature and of Nations: 1672
John Locke: 1632-1704
An Essay Concerning the Understanding: 1690
The Reasonableness of Christianity: 1695
The Modern Sense School
Third Earl of Shaftesbury: 1671-1713
An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit: 1711
Francis Hutcheson: 1694-1746
An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue: 1725
Joseph Butler: 1692-1752
Fifteen Sermons: 1726
David Hume: 1711-1776
A Treatise of Human Nature: 1739-1740
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: 1751
The German Line
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: 1646-1716
Discourse: 1686
Theodicy: 1710
Christian Wolff: 1679-1754
Vernunftige Gedanken von Menschrn Tun und Lassen: 1720
Christian August Crusius: 1715-1775
Anweieisung vernunftig zu Leben: 1774
Immanuel Kant: 1724-1806
Grundlegung: 1785
Critique of Practical Reason: 1788
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: 1770-1831
Philosophy of Right: 1821
The Rational Intuitionists
Samuel Clarke: 1675-1729
Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion: 1705
Richard Price: 1723-1791
A Review of the Principle Questions of Morals: 1758
Thomas Reid: 1710-1796
Essays on the Active Power of the Human Mind: 1788
Whatever Reduces Uncertainty
Is Information.
Power will accrue to those who can handle Information.
From: I seem to Be a Verb, 1970
By Buckminster Fuller, et. al.
A Vehicle In Trust
To bridge the old into the new
Requires strength
To break away from the grasp
Of yesterday which has gone past
To see the new in heritage
Of parents died but still at work
From old foundations long since layed
Repatterned by a child who strayed
To build a vehicle in trust
To carry those who will and must
Break away from us at last
Before their freedom has gone past
Don Hutchison
April 29, 1973
Our New Perspective is Orbital
"What are you doing, Earth, in heaven?
Tell me, what are you doing, Silent Earth?"
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Personal and Organizational Development
Copyright 1978