Combining Philosophers

Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Alasdair MacIntyre

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

8013	In the Reformation, morality became unconditional but irrational, individually autonomous, and secular [MacIntyre]

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

8021	The Levellers and the Diggers mark a turning point in the history of morality [MacIntyre]

8060	In the 17th-18th centuries morality offered a cure for egoism, through altruism [MacIntyre]

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 6. Twentieth Century Thought

8053	Twentieth century social life is re-enacting eighteenth century philosophy [MacIntyre]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

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Philosophers are marked by a joint love of evidence and ambiguity [Merleau-Ponty]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

8047	Philosophy has been marginalised by its failure in the Enlightenment to replace religion [MacIntyre]