Miller Moral Differences

Truth, Justice, and Conscience in a World of Conflict
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6276-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 202, 408 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Richard W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction 3

I The Motivation for The Theory of Demonstration 7

II The Approach to the Principles 21

III The Kinds of Principles 36

IV The Subject Genus 50

V The Subordinate Sciences 64

VI Axioms or Common Principles 68

VII Definitions, I: The Per Se 80

VIII Scientific Essences 103

IX Definitions, II: Form and Content 111

X Existence Claims 122

XI Aristotle's Principles and Greek Mathematics 133

XII Aristotle's Demonstrations and Euclid's Elements 144

XIII The Varieties of Demonstration, I: Universal Subject-Attribute Demonstrations 164

XIV The Varieties of Demonstration, II: Application Arguments 177

XV The Varieties of Demonstration, III: Demonstrations of Existence 188

XVI Demonstration of Essence: Another Form of Scientific Proof? 198

XVII Scientific Explanation 209

XVIII Our Knowledge of the Principles 235

Notes 273

Bibliography 309

Index Locorum 321

General Index 335