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Single Idea 4424
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
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Full Idea
A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat.
Gist of Idea
A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Ecce Homo [1889], Wise §7)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'On the Genealogy of Morals/ Ecce Homo', ed/tr. Kaufmann,Walter [Vintage 1969], p.232
A Reaction
And what do pacifist philosophers do? It is a moot point whether philosophy is even possible without a streak of aggression. Otherwise you circle the problem, but don't confront it.
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32 ideas
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[general remarks about philosophy]:
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162
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Can we understand an individual soul without knowing the soul in general?
[Plato]
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326
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For relaxation one can consider the world of change, instead of eternal things
[Plato]
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549
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All philosophy begins from wonder, either at the physical world, or at ideas
[Aristotle]
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1798
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He studied philosophy by suspending his judgement on everything
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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1771
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When shown seven versions of the mowing argument, he paid twice the asking price for them
[Zeno of Citium, by Diog. Laertius]
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3600
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Slow and accurate thought makes the greatest progress
[Descartes]
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17016
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Philosophy must abstract from the senses
[Newton]
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8095
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We must think with our entire body and soul
[Joubert]
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19583
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Philosophy only begins when it studies itself
[Novalis]
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8927
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Philosophy moves essentially in the element of universality
[Hegel]
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21916
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Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free
[Schopenhauer]
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7834
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Great philosophies are confessions by the author, growing out of moral intentions
[Nietzsche]
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4424
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A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat
[Nietzsche]
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7848
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Philosophy begins in the horror and absurdity of existence
[Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
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2909
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned
[Nietzsche]
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4520
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I don't want to persuade anyone to be a philosopher; they should be rare plants
[Nietzsche]
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7846
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Nietzsche thinks philosophy makes us more profound, but not better
[Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
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22657
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All good philosophers start from a dumb conviction about which truths can be revealed
[James]
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5361
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Philosophers must get used to absurdities
[Russell]
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2937
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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence
[Wittgenstein]
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2626
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A philosopher is outside any community of ideas
[Wittgenstein]
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20435
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If philosophy could be summarised it would be pointless
[Adorno]
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21849
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Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine
[Deleuze]
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21887
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Derrida focuses on other philosophers, rather than on science
[Derrida]
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3269
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If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful
[Nagel]
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3242
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Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture can't skip it
[Nagel]
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7973
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There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say
[Baudrillard]
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9786
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Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard
[Cartwright,R]
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3695
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Philosophy is a priori if it is anything
[Bonjour]
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8220
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Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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22519
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Philosophers are revealed by their fears
[Billington]
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1606
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You have to be a Platonist to debate about reality, so every philosopher is a Platonist
[Roochnik]
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