14 ideas
8000 | He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre] |
21459 | Kant halted rationalism, and forced empiricists to worry about foundations [Gardner] |
21463 | Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment [Gardner] |
21460 | Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner] |
21443 | Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner] |
21444 | Modern geoemtry is either 'pure' (and formal), or 'applied' (and a posteriori) [Gardner] |
18521 | The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana] |
21453 | Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner] |
8108 | Aesthetics presupposes a distinctive sort of experience, and a unified essence for art [Gardner] |
8112 | Art works originate in the artist's mind, and appreciation is re-creating this mental object [Gardner] |
8111 | Aesthetic objectivists must explain pleasure being essential, but not in the object [Gardner] |
23060 | The good is not relative, but is rooted in facts about human needs [Santayana] |
8109 | Aesthetic judgements necessarily require first-hand experience, unlike moral judgements [Gardner] |
3029 | Stilpo said if Athena is a daughter of Zeus, then a statue is only the child of a sculptor, and so is not a god [Stilpo, by Diog. Laertius] |