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Full Idea
He attains the maximum of a philosopher who combines all philosophies into a single philosophy
Gist of Idea
The highest aim of philosophy is to combine all philosophies into a unity
Source
Novalis (Logological Fragments II [1798], 31)
Book Ref
Novalis: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Stoljar,M.M. [SUNY 1997], p.77
A Reaction
I have found the epigraph for my big book! Recently a few narrowly analytical philosophers have attempted big books about everything (Sider, Heil, Chalmers), and they get a huge round of applause from me.
11242 | Wisdom is knowledge of principles and causes [Aristotle] |
19588 | The highest aim of philosophy is to combine all philosophies into a unity [Novalis] |
19598 | Philosophy relies on our whole system of learning, and can thus never be complete [Novalis] |
17992 | The main aim of philosophy is to describe the whole Universe. [Moore,GE] |
21829 | Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars] |
3879 | Philosophy aims to provide a theory of everything [Scruton] |
14255 | We understand things through their dependency relations [Fine,K] |