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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Plato and Immanuel Kant

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
1922 Spiritual qualities only become advantageous with the growth of wisdom [Plato]
14179 The finest branch of wisdom is justice and moderation in ordering states and families [Plato]
354 Wisdom makes virtue and true goodness possible [Plato]
13786 Wisdom is called 'beautiful', because it performs fine works [Plato]
23890 For Plato true wisdom is supernatural [Plato, by Weil]
5540 Cleverness is shown in knowing what can reasonably be asked [Kant]
6200 Wisdom is knowing the highest good, and conforming the will to it [Kant]
21422 Moral self-knowledge is the beginning of all human wisdom [Kant]
1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People
13780 Good people are no different from wise ones [Plato]
2136 Philosophers become as divine and orderly as possible, by studying divinity and order [Plato]
1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated
291 Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato]
1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy
3060 Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books [Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy
21955 My dogmatic slumber was first interrupted by David Hume [Kant]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
162 Can we understand an individual soul without knowing the soul in general? [Plato]
326 For relaxation one can consider the world of change, instead of eternal things [Plato]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy
160 The highest ability in man is the ability to discuss unity and plurality in the nature of things [Plato]
1642 We must fight fiercely for knowledge, understanding and intelligence [Plato]
315 Philosophy is the supreme gift of the gods to mortals [Plato]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
6207 What fills me with awe are the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me [Kant]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent
370 Philosophy is a purification of the soul ready for the afterlife [Plato]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
23767 The winds of the discussion should decide its destination [Plato]
15447 We shouldn't always follow where the argument leads! [Lewis on Plato]
5631 Reason is only interested in knowledge, actions and hopes [Kant]
6184 Consistency is the highest obligation of a philosopher [Kant]
21406 Because there is only one human reason, there can only be one true philosophy from principles [Kant]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
125 Is a gifted philosopher unmanly if he avoids the strife of the communal world? [Plato]
2056 Philosophers are always switching direction to something more interesting [Plato]
5635 In ordinary life the highest philosophy is no better than common understanding [Kant]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
16931 Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic [Kant]
21954 Metaphysics is a systematic account of everything that can be known a priori [Kant]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
7918 Kant turned metaphysics into epistemology, ignoring Aristotle's 'being qua being' [Kant, by Macdonald,C]
21438 Metaphysics might do better to match objects to our cognition (and not start with the objects) [Kant]
16611 You just can't stop metaphysical speculation, in any mature mind [Kant]
5586 The voyage of reason may go only as far as the coastline of experience reaches [Kant]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
21462 It is still possible to largely accept Kant as a whole (where others must be dismantled) [Kant, by Gardner]
5600 Human reason considers all knowledge as belonging to a possible system [Kant]
21457 Reason has two separate objects, morality and freedom, and nature, which ultimately unite [Kant]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science
9752 Kant showed that theoretical reason cannot give answers to speculative metaphysics [Kant, by Korsgaard]
6584 A priori metaphysics is fond of basic unchanging entities like God, the soul, Forms, atoms… [Kant, by Fogelin]
3722 Metaphysics goes beyond the empirical, so doesn't need examples [Kant]
9349 A dove cutting through the air, might think it could fly better in airless space (which Plato attempted) [Kant]
6203 Metaphysics is just a priori universal principles of physics [Kant]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
21408 For any subject, its system of non-experiential concepts needs a metaphysics [Kant]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics
12767 Kant exposed the illusions of reason in the Transcendental Dialectic [Kant, by Fraassen]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division
2086 Understanding mainly involves knowing the elements, not their combinations [Plato]
166 A speaker should be able to divide a subject, right down to the limits of divisibility [Plato]
16123 Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato]
2083 Either a syllable is its letters (making parts as knowable as whole) or it isn't (meaning it has no parts) [Plato]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis
23682 It would be absurd to be precise about the small things, but only vague about the big things [Plato]
9350 Our reason mostly analyses concepts we already have of objects [Kant]
5530 Analysis of our concepts is merely a preparation for proper a priori metaphysics [Kant]
18259 Analysis is becoming self-conscious about our concepts [Kant]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis
1645 The desire to split everything into its parts is unpleasant and unphilosophical [Plato]