Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Christian Wolff, Bryan van Norden and Averroes (Ibn Rushd)

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

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The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

23408

The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader [Norden]

23407

Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives) [Norden]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason

18241

Sufficient reason is implied by contradiction, of an insufficient possible which exists [Wolff, by Korsgaard]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

16587

Prime matter is halfway between non-existence and existence [Averroes]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

18242

Confucius shows that ethics can rest on reason, rather than on revelation [Wolff, by Korsgaard]