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Full Idea
An unsolvable problem is still a problem, despite Wittgenstein's view that there are no genuine philosophical problems, and Kant's romantic defeatism in his treatment of the antinomies of pure reason.
Gist of Idea
Denying problems, or being romantically defeated by them, won't make them go away
Source
Roy Sorensen (Vagueness and Contradiction [2001], 4.3)
Book Ref
Sorensen,Roy: 'Vagueness and Contradiction' [OUP 2004], p.75
A Reaction
I like the spin put on Kant, that he is a romantic in his defeatism. He certainly seems reluctant to slash at the Gordian knot, e.g. by being a bit more drastically sceptical about free will.
| 13986 | Plato found antinomies in ideas, Kant in space and time, and Bradley in relations [Plato, by Ryle] |
| 14150 | Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made [Russell on Plato] |
| 21454 | The battle of the antinomies is usually won by the attacker, and lost by any defender [Kant] |
| 15628 | The idea that contradiction is essential to rational understanding is a key modern idea [Hegel] |
| 15629 | Tenderness for the world solves the antinomies; contradiction is in our reason, not in the essence of the world [Hegel] |
| 15630 | Antinomies are not just in four objects, but in all objects, all representations, all objects and all ideas [Hegel] |
| 17626 | The antinomy of endless advance and of completion is resolved in well-ordered transfinite numbers [Zermelo] |
| 21691 | Antinomies contradict accepted ways of reasoning, and demand revisions [Quine] |
| 9125 | Denying problems, or being romantically defeated by them, won't make them go away [Sorensen] |