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Full Idea
The real monuments of philosophy are its problems.
Gist of Idea
The problems are the monuments of philosophy
Source
William D. Hart (The Evolution of Logic [2010], 2)
Book Ref
Hart,W.D.: 'The Evolution of Logic' [CUP 2010], p.53
A Reaction
Presumably he means '....rather than its solutions'. No other subject would be very happy with that sort of claim. Compare Idea 8243. A complaint against analytic philosophy is that it has achieved no consensus at all.
Related Idea
Idea 8243 Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement [Deleuze/Guattari]
12038 | Translate as 'humans all desire by nature to understand' (not as 'to know') [Aristotle, by Annas] |
17949 | Inquiry is the cause of philosophy [Aristotle] |
19586 | Philosophers feed on problems, hoping they are digestible, and spiced with paradox [Novalis] |
7578 | I conceived it my task to create difficulties everywhere [Kierkegaard] |
9254 | In philosophy the truth can only be reached via the ruins of the false [Prichard] |
15582 | Perhaps the aim of philosophy is to abolish sham problems [Heidegger] |
18704 | Philosophy tries to be rid of certain intellectual puzzles, irrelevant to daily life [Wittgenstein] |
21239 | Philosophers are marked by a joint love of evidence and ambiguity [Merleau-Ponty] |
22337 | Philosophy must keep returning to the beginning [Murdoch] |
13477 | The problems are the monuments of philosophy [Hart,WD] |
20446 | Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics [Critchley] |
7950 | Philosophy tries to explain how the actual is possible, given that it seems impossible [Macdonald,C] |