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Quattro modi della relazione causale

Anche la concezione del rapporto causa/effetto appare innovativa. Shotoku riconosce quattro possibilità di relazione: cumulativa, retributiva, reciproca e affine. Gli esempi vertono sulla pratica spirituale. La causa può avere effetti cumulativi: il continuo esercizio della virtù distoglie dal male. O effetti di retribuzione: la virtù è ricompensata con la felicità. O effetti reciproci: la presenza della virtù stimola a un comportamento spirituale, e viceversa: si fa l’elemosina perché si è virtuosi, si è virtuosi perché si fa l’elemosina. O effetti affini: la pratica della non violenza produce la longevità, un obiettivo altrettanto auspicabile di ciò che lo determina.14 Va notata la divergenza tra questa logica e quella del Grande veicolo indiano.

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#cause #virtue #logic #Buddhism

Induction cannot ground the uniformity of nature

Unless we presuppose some sort of uniformity of nature, the uniformity of nature guaranteed by causality and causation, we have no ground for inductive…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #knowledge #logic #nature #cause

Atheism

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling…

Carl Sagan - Wikipedia #evidence #cause #subjects

Beliefs have no intrinsic features

Mental states such as beliefs are not defined by any intrinsic features, rather they are defined by their causal relations, and these causal relations…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #functionalism #beliefs #cause

Causal interaction between mind and body

What exactly are the relations between the mental and the physical, and in particular how can there be causal relations between them? It seems impossible that…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #mind-body-problem #dualism #cause

Causal reduction without ontological reduction

On the dualist’s conception, consciousness is definitely something over and above its material substrate. Indeed the dualist supposes that the irreducibility…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #reductionism #ontology #consciousness #cause

Causation as one damn thing after another

This felt determination of the mind gives us the conviction that there are necessary connections in nature. But that conviction is nothing but an illusion…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #cause #illusion #nature