Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Anaxarchus, Friedrich Jacobi and Andrew Bowie

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11 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

20955

Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie]

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

22049

Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

20950

German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie]

22055

The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie]

22054

German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie]

22056

Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

3061	Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct

20942

Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

20946

Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / g. Contemplation

7071	Life and rationality are pointless if we can only contemplate the freedom of our own ego [Jacobi]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

7072	Jacobi was the first philosopher to talk of nihilism [Jacobi, by Critchley]