Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Herodotus, Metrodorus (Chi) and John Richardson

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these philosophers

---

7 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

20349

Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson]

20351

Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson]

20350

Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

527	Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

20356

Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation

20366

A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

1513	The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus]