Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Dennis Whitcomb, Rdiger Safranski and E.M. Cioran

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated
19608 Wisdom is just the last gasp of a dying civilization [Cioran]
23064 So-called wisdom is just pondering things instead of acting [Cioran]
19695 The devil was wise as an angel, and lost no knowledge when he rebelled [Whitcomb]
1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 1. History of Ideas
19629 A nation gives expression to its sum of values, and is then exhausted [Cioran]
19624 Intelligence only fully flourishes at the end of a historical period [Cioran]
19599 Ideas are neutral, but people fill them with passion and weakness [Cioran]
19631 The history of ideas (and deeds) occurs in a meaningless environment [Cioran]
19645 Some thinkers would have been just as dynamic, no matter when they had lived [Cioran]
1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy
20110 Hegel, Fichte and Schelling wanted to know Kant's thing-in-itself, as ego, or nature, or spirit [Safranski]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
19618 I abandoned philosophy because it didn't acknowledge melancholy and human weakness [Cioran]
19621 Originality in philosophy is just the invention of terms [Cioran]
19607 The mind is superficial, only concerned with the arrangement of events, not their significance [Cioran]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
19638 Metaphysics is a universalisation of physical anguish [Cioran]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
19620 Great systems of philosophy are just brilliant tautologies [Cioran]
23072 Systems are the worst despotism, in philosophy and in life [Cioran]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics
23075 A text explained ceases to be a text [Cioran]