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Ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Zettel' and 'The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

21355	The Pre-Socratics are not simple naturalists, because they do not always 'leave the gods out' [Leroi]
	Full Idea: The problem with making naturalism the hallmark of Pre-Socratic thought ...is that they do not always 'leave the gods out'; the Divine can usually be found lurking somewhere is their cosmologies.
	From: Armand Marie LeRoi (The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science [2014], 007)
	A reaction: An important observation. I've been guilty of this simplistic view. We tend to ignore the religious fragments, or we possess so little that we have no idea where religion figured in their accounts.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

2626	A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein]
	Full Idea: The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas; that is what makes him a philosopher.
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Zettel [1950], 455)
	A reaction: A bit surprising from the man who gave us 'language games' and 'private language argument'.