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Single Idea 624
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
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Full Idea
Absolute thinking is the thinking of thinking.
Clarification
What is now known as 'metaphysics'
Gist of Idea
Absolute thinking is the thinking of thinking
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1074b28)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.383
A Reaction
Connects to the apparently unique human ability to reflect about our own thoughts.
The
32 ideas
with the same theme
[attempts to define the whole subject of philosophy]:
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A philosopher is one who cares about what other people care about
[Socrates, by Foucault]
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572
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Philosophy has different powers from dialectic, and a different life from sophistry
[Aristotle]
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609
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Philosophy is a kind of science that deals with principles
[Aristotle]
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624
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Absolute thinking is the thinking of thinking
[Aristotle]
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2666
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Carneades' pinnacles of philosophy are the basis of knowledge (the criterion of truth) and the end of appetite (good)
[Carneades, by Cicero]
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23355
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The task of philosophy is to establish standards, as occurs with weights and measures
[Epictetus]
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21394
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Philosophy is knowing each logos, how they fit together, and what follows from them
[Epictetus]
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23367
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Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason
[Epictetus]
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6207
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What fills me with awe are the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me
[Kant]
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21757
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Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history
[Hegel]
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22766
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Philosophy is exploration of the rational
[Hegel]
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4171
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Philosophy considers only the universal, in nature as everywhere else
[Schopenhauer]
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4186
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Everyone is conscious of all philosophical truths, but philosophers bring them to conceptual awareness
[Schopenhauer]
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19456
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Philosophy is distinguished from other sciences by its complete lack of presuppositions
[Feuerbach]
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5278
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Philosophy is no more than abstractions concerning observations of human historical development
[Marx/Engels]
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22864
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Philosophy is the study and criticsm of cultural beliefs, to achieve new possibilities
[Dewey]
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5368
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Philosophy verifies that our hierarchy of instinctive beliefs is harmonious and consistent
[Russell]
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2512
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language
[Wittgenstein]
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7085
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The main problem of philosophy is what can and cannot be thought and expressed
[Wittgenstein, by Grayling]
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6870
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I say (contrary to Wittgenstein) that philosophy expresses what we thought we must be silent about
[Ansell Pearson on Wittgenstein]
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23881
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All thought about values is philosophical, and thought about anything else is not philosophy
[Weil]
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5196
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Philosophy is a department of logic
[Ayer]
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6707
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Suicide - whether life is worth living - is the one serious philosophical problem
[Camus]
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7426
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Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level
[Foucault]
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21888
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Philosophy is just a linguistic display
[Derrida]
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2510
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Traditionally philosophy is an a priori enquiry into general truths about reality
[Katz]
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2516
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Most of philosophy begins where science leaves off
[Katz]
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12644
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Who cares what 'philosophy' is? Most pre-1950 thought doesn't now count as philosophy
[Fodor]
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8217
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Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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9778
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There is no dialogue in philosophy
[Zizek]
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9218
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Maybe what distinguishes philosophy from science is its pursuit of necessary truths
[Sider]
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15357
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Philosophy is the most general intellectual discipline
[Horsten]
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