28 ideas
| 21463 | Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment [Gardner] |
| 21459 | Kant halted rationalism, and forced empiricists to worry about foundations [Gardner] |
| 7973 | There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard] |
| 21460 | Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner] |
| 6841 | Some continental philosophers are relativists - Baudrillard, for example [Baudrillard, by Critchley] |
| 7975 | The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality [Baudrillard] |
| 2764 | Full coherence might involve consistency and mutual entailment of all propositions [Blanshard, by Dancy,J] |
| 7986 | Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones [Baudrillard] |
| 7982 | Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled [Baudrillard] |
| 21443 | Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner] |
| 19080 | Coherence tests for truth without implying correspondence, so truth is not correspondence [Blanshard, by Young,JO] |
| 21444 | Modern geoemtry is either 'pure' (and formal), or 'applied' (and a posteriori) [Gardner] |
| 21453 | Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner] |
| 7974 | Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality? [Baudrillard] |
| 7987 | Nothing is true, but everything is exact [Baudrillard] |
| 7978 | There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life [Baudrillard] |
| 8108 | Aesthetics presupposes a distinctive sort of experience, and a unified essence for art [Gardner] |
| 8112 | Art works originate in the artist's mind, and appreciation is re-creating this mental object [Gardner] |
| 8111 | Aesthetic objectivists must explain pleasure being essential, but not in the object [Gardner] |
| 7980 | In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object [Baudrillard] |
| 8109 | Aesthetic judgements necessarily require first-hand experience, unlike moral judgements [Gardner] |
| 7983 | Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune [Baudrillard] |
| 7981 | Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them [Baudrillard] |
| 7976 | People like democracy because it means they can avoid power [Baudrillard] |
| 7977 | Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals [Baudrillard] |
| 7979 | The arrival of the news media brought history to an end [Baudrillard] |
| 7984 | Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored [Baudrillard] |
| 7985 | Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God [Baudrillard] |