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Full Idea
Philosophy studies everything: it tries to provide a theory of the whole of things.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy aims to provide a theory of everything
Source
Roger Scruton (Modern Philosophy:introduction and survey [1994], 1.2)
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'Modern Philosophy: introduction and survey' [Sinclair-Stevenson 1994], p.7
A Reaction
Good, but you can't avoid value-judgements about which things are important; philosophers place more value on moral theories than on theories about glacier movement. There is a tension in philosophy between human and eternal concerns.
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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] |