Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Herodotus, Friedrich Nietzsche and Baron de Montesquieu

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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
If philosophy controls science, then it has to determine its scope, and its value [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: The philosophy that is in control of science must also consider the extent to which science should be allowed to develop; it must determine its value!
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 [1873], 19 [024])
Scientific knowledge is nothing without a prior philosophical 'faith' [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Strictly speaking there is no knowledge [science] without presuppositions; a philosophy, a 'faith', must always be there first of all, for knowledge to win from it a direction, a meaning, a limit, a method, a right to exist.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morals [1887], III.§24)
     A reaction: He sees philosophers as the creators of this faith, and laughs at anyone who tries to set philosophy on a scientific basis.