Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Alistair Mitchell, Friedrich Schlegel and John Cottingham

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy

22070

Irony is consciousness of abundant chaos [Schlegel,F]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

22069

Plato has no system. Philosophy is the progression of a mind and development of thoughts [Schlegel,F]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

22068

Poetry is transcendental when it connects the ideal to the real [Schlegel,F]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

14. Science / C. Induction / 3. Limits of Induction

7295	Maybe induction is only reliable IF reality is stable [Mitchell,A]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

4316	Either all action is rational, or reason dominates, or reason is only concerned with means [Cottingham]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

22030

For poets free choice is supreme [Schlegel,F]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

22071

True love is ironic, in the contrast between finite limitations and the infinity of love [Schlegel,F]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst

22029

Irony is the response to conflicts of involvement and attachment [Schlegel,F, by Pinkard]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]