著者
朝広 謙次郎
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.23, pp.49-61, 2000-03-31 (Released:2018-04-25)

Our faculties to believe are trustworthy. Thomas Reid's epistemology regards this self-confidence in the belief-faculties as metaprinciple of all the “first principles of contingent truths” (Intellectual Powers, VI. 5.) In this paper I clarify the systematic meaning of trust epistemology by reconsidering Hume's “total scepticism” (Treatise, I, IV, 1). Hume misunderstood his argument. Fallibility of our reasoning faculty does not lead to “total extinction” of our beliefs, but means at most negative “presumption” (Reid) in evaluating our beliefs. Epistemological naturalism (H. O. Mounce) attaches importance to the natural authority of reason, which Hume disregarded. Reid's trust epistemology embodies the consistent version of epistemological naturalism.
著者
高橋 和則
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.23, pp.63-81, 2000-03-31 (Released:2018-04-25)

This paper aims to articulate Edmund Burke's concept of constitution. To articulate it, I suppose that it is necessary to compare it to the concept of constitution in the thought of modern law school. Then, we understand that Edmund Burke's concept of constitution should be recognised in the context of the common law tradition. And it is important to recognise the role of Revolution of 1688. At the same time, I maintain that Edmund Burke grounds the British constitution on the classical natural law.
著者
竹澤 祐丈
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.24, pp.5-19, 2001-03-20 (Released:2018-04-25)

This paper intends to show, initially, that God as the Creator has significant functions in Harrington's preoccupations, altnough articulated differently from the religious enthusiasts amongst his contemporaries, and, then, that His relation with human beings influences to the constitutional arrangements of Harrington: the Bicameral System composed of the Senate Proposing and the Congregation Resolving. Through them, it demonstrated the positive aspects of his religious Component to be defined as a secularly articulated religiosity, and concluded that the understanding of Harrington's religious assumptions pursuing Freedom to Authority was indispensable in order to evaluate comprehensively his thought as a whole.
著者
嘉陽 英朗
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.24, pp.21-35, 2001-03-20 (Released:2018-04-25)
参考文献数
6

In Restoration England, John Evelyn (1620-1706) published, corresponding to the Royal command (King Charles II), Fumifugium, or the Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoke of London Dissipated (1661), now widely appreciated as the first comprehensive monograph on the air pollution. Through his assiduous commitments towards medicine, chemistry, and horticulture, he identified systematically and appropriately the sources and harmful effects of the pollution problems, in no way inferior to the present level of scientific investigations. In this paper, the text itself is analysed fully with some comments, while contextualised into the intellectual milieux of the mid-seventeenth century.
著者
大川 繁則
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.24, pp.37-48, 2001-03-20 (Released:2018-04-25)
参考文献数
3

This paper analyzes Hume's distinction between knowledge and probability in his Treatise. Many scholars believe that this distinction corresponds to the relationship between analytic and synthetic, a priori and a posteriori. However, if we direct our attintion to the concept of resemblance that Hume places in the category of knowledge, this correspondence is harder to see. The fact is, what distinguishes knowledge from probability is whether it is possible to imagine the negative case or not. This distinction is basically psychological but also includes other factors. This paper notes the knowledge of resemblance is equivalent to Wittgenstein's world-picture propositions.
著者
桜井 徹
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.22, pp.37-51, 1999-03-27 (Released:2018-04-25)

Is it possible to regard epistemology as a discipline which is quite independent of social philosophy? This paper focuses on Hume and his precursors, and endeavours to show whether there is any correlation between their empirical theory of knowledge and their social philosophy. Regarding the theorists dealt with in this paper, I would like to submit that the empirical method which may lead to total scepticism about objective knowledge and morality has at least some psychological connection with the idea of the acceptance of existing social institutions.
著者
勢力 尚雅
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.22, pp.53-67, 1999-03-27 (Released:2018-04-25)

This paper attempts to clarify the concept of “the party of humankind” by analysis of the three topics in Hume's moral philosophy. The first is the principle of sympathy and the identity as it regards the passions. The second is the general points of view and the proper point of view. The third is the speculative artifice and the philosophy of common life I intend to suggest that Hume causally explains why we can have and develop the sentiments of humanity and that his defence of morality deeply depends upon his study of human understanding and passions.
著者
板橋 重夫
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.23, pp.21-34, 2000-03-31 (Released:2018-04-25)

In an essay, “Of Tragedy,” Hume tried to solve the problem of why disagreeable passions caused by tragedy should eventually be converted to pleasure. Some scholars interpret that Hume explained this away by the theory of the conversion of passions, instead of the theory of sympathy. This paper argues that Hume applied his principal doctrine of psychological association and his theory of sympathy in its explanation. He also paid attention to the artistry of drama itself, especially the rhetorical skills and its subject matter, which are important to get the spectators' sympathy in the first place.
著者
壽里 竜
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.23, pp.35-48, 2000-03-31 (Released:2018-04-25)

Some scholars believe that Hume used the “anatomist” method in the Treatise, and the “painter” method in the Essays. But the “painter” method in the Essays can be further separated into two methods, “allegory” and “history”. Hume regarded the historical method as a more effective way to appeal to his readers' mind than the allegoric method because the former proved to be useful for refinement of passions. Hume demonstrated this in “Of the rise and progress of the arts and sciences” by arguing that arts and sciences, especially the modern gallantry, had grown historically from such particular passions as curiosity and generosity under different circumstances generated by republics and civilized monarchies.
著者
桑島 秀樹
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.21, pp.21-35, 1998-04-01 (Released:2018-04-25)

The purpose of this paper is two: One is to reveal Burke's aesthetics based upon the double character of both ‘imagination’ and ‘imitation’, giving attention to his parallel of poetry and painting. The other is to point out that ‘obscurity’ and ‘terror’ are the prime and coherent ideas closely related to the Sublime, resulting in his view of the superiority of poetry to painting. I will demonstrate the true image of the young Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry (1757).
著者
板井 広明
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.21, pp.37-50, 1998-04-01 (Released:2018-04-25)

A great deal of effort has been made on Bentham's thought in general. What seems to be lacking, however, is a systematic analysis of Bentham's conception of government in his early times. In this paper, I intend to sketch Bentham's conception of government as the “régime of publicity”. My analytical approaches are based on the ideas in his Fragment and Introduction (IPML). I shall extract a “mutual enlightenment” from his Essays on Political Tactics and “mutual discipline” from his Panopticon. For these concepts reflect relationship between governor and governed, I shall concentrate my attention on analyzing a “pessimistic legislator” and a “progressive public”. When examining some of these, it surely makes sense that Bentham's conception of government as the “régime of publicity” is characterized by “mutual enlightenment” and “mutual discipline”.
著者
三好 潤一郎
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.21, pp.51-63, 1998-04-01 (Released:2018-04-25)
参考文献数
10

J. L. Austin presented an elaborated correspondence theory of truth. His formulation of the truth condition of statements roughly is as follows: a statement is true when the situation to which it is correlated by the demonstrative conventions is of a type of situations with which the sentence used in making it is correlated by the descriptive conventions. Austin uniquely asserts there are various degrees of truth. His truth condition can explain this in two ways. Firstly, the degree of truth is that of a situation's being of a given type. Secondly, it is the position, in the hierarchy of types, of the type which a given situation is of.
著者
近藤 加代子
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.22, pp.21-35, 1999-03-27 (Released:2018-04-25)

Innately free and equal people build a free and equal civil society, though the society is the exclusive state of autonomous proprietors, especially landowners. However there is no contradiction. Because Locke offers two ways, inland improvement and outward colonization. In the former, although the poor can become managing proprietors by borrowing capital, everyone can not do so. Therefore colonizing America in its natural state is very important in Locke's theory of civil society of mono autonomous proprietors.