Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Oswald Veblen, Johann Gottfried Herder and Friedrich Jacobi

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

20947

Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 2. History of Logic

10247

We have no adequate logic at the moment, so mathematicians must create one [Veblen]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

20949

Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

7669	We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / g. Contemplation

7071	Life and rationality are pointless if we can only contemplate the freedom of our own ego [Jacobi]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

7072	Jacobi was the first philosopher to talk of nihilism [Jacobi, by Critchley]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism

7668	Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin]