Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Eurytus, Joan Weiner and Andrew Bowie

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10 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]

4. Formal Logic / B. Propositional Logic PL / 1. Propositional Logic

7726	Aristotelian logic dealt with inferences about concepts, and there were also proposition inferences [Weiner]

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]

22055

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]

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]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 1. Biology

651	Eurytus showed that numbers underlie things by making pictures of creatures out of pebbles [Eurytus, by Aristotle]