Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Roderick Firth, Hans Reichenbach and Friedrich Schlegel

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11 ideas

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

22070

Irony is consciousness of abundant chaos [Schlegel,F]

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

22069

Plato has no system. Philosophy is the progression of a mind and development of thoughts [Schlegel,F]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity

22361

Contextual values are acceptable in research, but not in its final evaluation [Reichenbach, by Reiss/Sprenger]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

22068

Poetry is transcendental when it connects the ideal to the real [Schlegel,F]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

6493	We are not conscious of pure liquidity, but of the liquidity of water [Firth]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation

18278

Kant showed that our perceptions are partly constructed from our concepts [Reichenbach]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

22030

For poets free choice is supreme [Schlegel,F]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

22071

True love is ironic, in the contrast between finite limitations and the infinity of love [Schlegel,F]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst

22029

Irony is the response to conflicts of involvement and attachment [Schlegel,F, by Pinkard]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8410	A theory of causal relations yields an asymmetry which defines the direction of time [Reichenbach, by Salmon]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow

14935

The direction of time is grounded in the direction of causation [Reichenbach, by Ladyman/Ross]