Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Novalis, Empedocles and Immanuel Kant
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17 ideas
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
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'Nature' is just a word invented by people [Empedocles]
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Kant's nature is just a system of necessary laws [Bowie on Kant]
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Kant identifies nature with the scientific picture of it as the realm of law [Kant, by McDowell]
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The Critique of Judgement aims for a principle that unities humanity and nature [Kant, by Bowie]
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Nature is a whole, and its individual parts cannot be wholly understood [Novalis]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
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Reason must assume as necessary that everything in a living organism has a proportionate purpose [Kant]
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Without men creation would be in vain, and without final purpose [Kant]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature
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The basic relations of nature are musical [Novalis]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
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The principle of 'Friendship' in Empedocles is the One, and is bodiless [Empedocles, by Plotinus]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
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Empedocles said that there are four material elements, and two further creative elements [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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Empedocles says bone is water, fire and earth in ratio 2:4:2 [Empedocles, by Inwood]
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Fire, Water, Air and Earth are elements, being simple as well as homoeomerous [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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All change is unity through love or division through hate [Empedocles]
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The elements combine in coming-to-be, but how do the elements themselves come-to-be? [Aristotle on Empedocles]
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Love and Strife only explain movement if their effects are distinctive [Aristotle on Empedocles]
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If the one Being ever diminishes it would no longer exist, and what could ever increase it? [Empedocles]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension
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Extension and impenetrability together make the concept of matter [Kant]
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