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Single Idea 13751
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
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Full Idea
Traditional metaphysics is so tightly woven into the fabric of philosophy that it cannot be torn out without the whole tapestry unravelling.
Gist of Idea
If you tore the metaphysics out of philosophy, the whole enterprise would collapse
Source
Jonathan Schaffer (On What Grounds What [2009], 2.3)
Book Ref
'Metametaphysics', ed/tr. Chalmers/Manley/Wasserman [OUP 2009], p.373
A Reaction
I often wonder why the opponents of metaphysics still continue to do philosophy. I don't see how you address questions of ethics, or philosophy of mathematics (etc) without coming up against highly general and abstract over-questions.
The
36 ideas
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[building a full interconnected overview of metaphysics]:
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21462
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It is still possible to largely accept Kant as a whole (where others must be dismantled)
[Kant, by Gardner]
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5600
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Human reason considers all knowledge as belonging to a possible system
[Kant]
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21457
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Reason has two separate objects, morality and freedom, and nature, which ultimately unite
[Kant]
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19587
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Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system
[Novalis]
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22069
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Plato has no system. Philosophy is the progression of a mind and development of thoughts
[Schlegel,F]
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5433
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For Hegel, things are incomplete, and contain external references in their own nature
[Hegel, by Russell]
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6947
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Metaphysics does not rest on facts, but on what we are inclined to believe
[Peirce]
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21489
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Super-ordinate disciplines give laws or principles; subordinate disciplines give concrete cases
[Peirce, by Atkin]
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20265
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The desire for a complete system requires making the weak parts look equal to the rest
[Nietzsche]
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24125
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Aristotle enjoyed the sham generalities of a system, as the peak of happiness!
[Nietzsche]
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23183
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Different abilities are needed for living in an incomplete and undogmatic system
[Nietzsche]
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2892
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Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity
[Nietzsche]
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22647
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A complete system is just a classification of the whole world's ingredients
[James]
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21571
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Philosophical systems are interesting, but we now need a more objective scientific philosophy
[Russell]
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21574
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Hegel's confusions over 'is' show how vast systems can be built on simple errors
[Russell]
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21587
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Philosophers sometimes neglect truth and distort facts to attain a nice system
[Russell]
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23886
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Systems are not unique to each philosopher. The platonist tradition is old and continuous
[Weil]
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19620
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Great systems of philosophy are just brilliant tautologies
[Cioran]
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23072
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Systems are the worst despotism, in philosophy and in life
[Cioran]
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22140
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The greatest philosophers are methodical; it is what makes them great
[Grice]
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1627
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Any statement can be held true if we make enough adjustment to the rest of the system
[Quine]
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23563
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Philosophy moves continually between elaborate theories and the obvious facts
[Murdoch]
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23942
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Philosophy is creating an intellectual conceptual structure for life
[Solomon]
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8558
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One system has properties, powers, events, similarity and substance
[Shoemaker]
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2319
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Metaphysics is the clarification of the ontological relationships between different areas of thought
[Kim]
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21461
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I tried to be unsystematic and piecemeal, but failed; my papers presuppose my other views
[Lewis]
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2797
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As coherence expands its interrelations become steadily tighter, culminating only in necessary truth
[Dancy,J]
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18535
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Without abstraction we couldn't think systematically
[Heil]
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13917
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Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency
[Lowe]
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21460
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Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion
[Gardner]
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20349
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Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths
[Richardson]
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20351
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Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details
[Richardson]
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20350
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Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology
[Richardson]
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15390
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Metaphysics attempts to give an account of everything, in terms of categories and principles
[Simons]
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13751
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If you tore the metaphysics out of philosophy, the whole enterprise would collapse
[Schaffer,J]
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22820
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Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom
[Hösle]
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