Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Herodotus, William James and Arthur Schopenhauer
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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
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It is wisdom to believe what you desire, because belief is needed to achieve it [James]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
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All good philosophers start from a dumb conviction about which truths can be revealed [James]
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Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
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Philosophy considers only the universal, in nature as everywhere else [Schopenhauer]
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Everyone is conscious of all philosophical truths, but philosophers bring them to conceptual awareness [Schopenhauer]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour
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Absurdity is incongruity between correct and false points of view [Schopenhauer]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
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A complete system is just a classification of the whole world's ingredients [James]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science
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Metaphysics must understand the world thoroughly, as a principal source of knowledge [Schopenhauer]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science
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Metaphysics studies the inexplicable ends of explanation [Schopenhauer]
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