Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Saunders MacLane, Emmanuel Levinas and Joan Kung

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8 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

18189

ZFC could contain a contradiction, and it can never prove its own consistency [MacLane]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

11993

Jones may cease to exist without some simple property, but that doesn't make it essential [Kung]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / c. Essentials are necessary

11997

A property may belong essentially to one thing and contingently to another [Kung]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory

11992

Aristotelian essences underlie a thing's existence, explain it, and must belong to it [Kung]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / k. Explanations by essence

11995

Some peripheral properties are explained by essential ones, but don't themselves explain properties [Kung]

11996

Some non-essential properties may explain more than essential-but-peripheral ones do [Kung]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics

20739

Levinas took 'first philosophy' to begin with seeing the vulnerable faces of others [Levinas, by Aho]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism

20445

Levinas says Marxism is the replacement of individualist ethics, by solidarity and sociality [Levinas, by Critchley]