Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Andrew Bowie, Bonaventura and William Whewell

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11 ideas

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

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

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

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Successive things reduce to permanent things [Bonaventura]

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

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Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

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

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

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

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

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

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / d. Consilience

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Consilience is a common groundwork of explanation [Whewell]

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

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Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

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