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Single Idea 24125
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
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Full Idea
Aristotle probably had his best moments when he coldly and clearly (and joyfully) enjoyed the sensual sham of the highest generalities. To perceive the world as a system, and as the pinnacle of human happiness: how the schematic mind betrays itself then!
Gist of Idea
Aristotle enjoyed the sham generalities of a system, as the peak of happiness!
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 25[017])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.10
A Reaction
Painful, this. One of my heroes laughing at the other one. I love systems, and love John Richardson's suggestion that Nietzsche was very systematice, despite his protestations.
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36 ideas
with the same theme
[building a full interconnected overview of metaphysics]:
21462
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It is still possible to largely accept Kant as a whole (where others must be dismantled)
[Kant, by Gardner]
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5600
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Human reason considers all knowledge as belonging to a possible system
[Kant]
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21457
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Reason has two separate objects, morality and freedom, and nature, which ultimately unite
[Kant]
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19587
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Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system
[Novalis]
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22069
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Plato has no system. Philosophy is the progression of a mind and development of thoughts
[Schlegel,F]
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5433
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For Hegel, things are incomplete, and contain external references in their own nature
[Hegel, by Russell]
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6947
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Metaphysics does not rest on facts, but on what we are inclined to believe
[Peirce]
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21489
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Super-ordinate disciplines give laws or principles; subordinate disciplines give concrete cases
[Peirce, by Atkin]
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20265
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The desire for a complete system requires making the weak parts look equal to the rest
[Nietzsche]
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24125
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Aristotle enjoyed the sham generalities of a system, as the peak of happiness!
[Nietzsche]
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23183
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Different abilities are needed for living in an incomplete and undogmatic system
[Nietzsche]
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2892
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Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity
[Nietzsche]
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22647
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A complete system is just a classification of the whole world's ingredients
[James]
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21571
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Philosophical systems are interesting, but we now need a more objective scientific philosophy
[Russell]
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21574
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Hegel's confusions over 'is' show how vast systems can be built on simple errors
[Russell]
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21587
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Philosophers sometimes neglect truth and distort facts to attain a nice system
[Russell]
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23886
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Systems are not unique to each philosopher. The platonist tradition is old and continuous
[Weil]
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19620
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Great systems of philosophy are just brilliant tautologies
[Cioran]
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23072
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Systems are the worst despotism, in philosophy and in life
[Cioran]
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22140
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The greatest philosophers are methodical; it is what makes them great
[Grice]
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1627
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Any statement can be held true if we make enough adjustment to the rest of the system
[Quine]
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23563
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Philosophy moves continually between elaborate theories and the obvious facts
[Murdoch]
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23942
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Philosophy is creating an intellectual conceptual structure for life
[Solomon]
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8558
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One system has properties, powers, events, similarity and substance
[Shoemaker]
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2319
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Metaphysics is the clarification of the ontological relationships between different areas of thought
[Kim]
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21461
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I tried to be unsystematic and piecemeal, but failed; my papers presuppose my other views
[Lewis]
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2797
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As coherence expands its interrelations become steadily tighter, culminating only in necessary truth
[Dancy,J]
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18535
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Without abstraction we couldn't think systematically
[Heil]
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13917
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Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency
[Lowe]
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21460
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Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion
[Gardner]
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20349
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Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths
[Richardson]
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20351
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Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details
[Richardson]
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20350
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Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology
[Richardson]
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15390
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Metaphysics attempts to give an account of everything, in terms of categories and principles
[Simons]
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13751
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If you tore the metaphysics out of philosophy, the whole enterprise would collapse
[Schaffer,J]
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22820
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Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom
[Hösle]
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