Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Nicolas Malebranche, Trent Dougherty and Terry Pinkard

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy

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Wolff's version of Leibniz dominated mid-18th C German thought [Pinkard]

22021

Romantics explored beautiful subjectivity, and the re-enchantment of nature [Pinkard]

22010

The combination of Kant and the French Revolution was an excited focus for German philosophy [Pinkard]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy

22036

In Hegel's time naturalism was called 'Spinozism' [Pinkard]

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

16669

Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

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Fallibilism is consistent with dogmatism or scepticism, and is not alternative to them [Dougherty]

19700

It is best to see the fallibility in the reasons, rather than in the agents or the knowledge [Dougherty]

19702

We can't normally say that we know something 'but it might be false' [Dougherty]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

22048

Idealism is the link between reason and freedom [Pinkard]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

2594	A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche]

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In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche]