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Single Idea 19598

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation ]

Full Idea

Now all learning is connected - thus philosophy will never be complete. Only in the complete system of all learning will philosophy be truly visible.

Gist of Idea

Philosophy relies on our whole system of learning, and can thus never be complete

Source

Novalis (Logological Fragments II [1798], 39)

Book Ref

Novalis: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Stoljar,M.M. [SUNY 1997], p.162

A Reaction

Philosophy is evidently the unifying subject, which reveals the point of all the other subjects. It matches my maxim that 'science is the servant of philosophy'.

The 7 ideas with the same theme [philosophy aims at broad generalisations]:

11242 Wisdom is knowledge of principles and causes [Aristotle]
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]