Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Aristotle, Sphaerus and Jacques Derrida

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
78 Wisdom is scientific and intuitive knowledge of what is by nature most precious [Aristotle]
5248 Wisdom does not study happiness, because it is not concerned with processes [Aristotle]
548 Knowledge chosen for its own sake, rather than for results, is wisdom [Aristotle]
19693 There is practical wisdom (for action), and theoretical wisdom (for deep understanding) [Aristotle, by Whitcomb]
11228 Wisdom seeks explanations, causes, and reasons why things are as they are [Aristotle, by Politis]
1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People
2682 Aristotle thinks human life is not important enough to spend a whole life on it [Nagel on Aristotle]
103 Wise people can contemplate alone, though co-operation helps [Aristotle]
545 It is not much help if a doctor knows about universals but not the immediate particular [Aristotle]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
549 All philosophy begins from wonder, either at the physical world, or at ideas [Aristotle]
21887 Derrida focuses on other philosophers, rather than on science [Derrida]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy
1695 Without extensive examination firm statements are hard, but studying the difficulties is profitable [Aristotle]
1576 If each of us can give some logos about parts of nature, our combined efforts can be impressive [Aristotle]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
609 Philosophy is a kind of science that deals with principles [Aristotle]
624 Absolute thinking is the thinking of thinking [Aristotle]
572 Philosophy has different powers from dialectic, and a different life from sophistry [Aristotle]
21888 Philosophy is just a linguistic display [Derrida]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 4. Divisions of Philosophy
22171 If only natural substances exist, science is first philosophy - but not if there is an immovable substance [Aristotle]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly
2845 Free and great-souled men do not keep asking "what is the use of it?" [Aristotle]
21360 Unobservant thinkers tend to dogmatise using insufficient facts [Aristotle]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation
11242 Wisdom is knowledge of principles and causes [Aristotle]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles
17949 Inquiry is the cause of philosophy [Aristotle]
12038 Translate as 'humans all desire by nature to understand' (not as 'to know') [Aristotle, by Annas]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
21896 Philosophy aims to build foundations for thought [Derrida, by May]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy
559 Even people who go astray in their opinions have contributed something useful [Aristotle]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
112 Most people are readier to submit to compulsion than to argument [Aristotle]
21893 Philosophy is necessarily metaphorical, and its writing is aesthetic [Derrida]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis
22521 Our method of inquiry is to examine the smallest parts that make up the whole [Aristotle]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division
12274 Begin examination with basics, and subdivide till you can go no further [Aristotle]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis
22 Trained minds never expect more precision than is possible [Aristotle]
1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science
76 The object of scientific knowledge is what is necessary [Aristotle]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics
20925 Hermeneutics blunts truth, by conforming it to the interpreter [Derrida, by Zimmermann,J]
20934 Hermeneutics is hostile, trying to overcome the other person's difference [Derrida, by Zimmermann,J]
21892 Interpretations can be interpreted, so there is no original 'meaning' available [Derrida]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 4. Linguistic Structuralism
21895 Structuralism destroys awareness of dynamic meaning [Derrida]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction
8210 Deconstructing philosophy gives the history of concepts, and the repressions behind them [Derrida]
8211 The movement of 'différance' is the root of all the oppositional concepts in our language [Derrida]
6840 Derrida came to believe in the undeconstructability of justice, which cannot be relativised [Derrida, by Critchley]
21934 The idea of being as persistent presence, and meaning as conscious intelligibility, are self-destructive [Derrida, by Glendinning]
21882 Sentences are contradictory, as they have opposite meanings in some contexts [Derrida]
8216 Deconstruction is not neutral; it intervenes [Derrida]
21881 We aim to explore the limits of expression (as in Mallarmé's poetry) [Derrida]
21883 Sincerity can't be verified, so fiction infuses speech, and hence reality also [Derrida]