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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

3879	Philosophy aims to provide a theory of everything [Scruton]
	Full Idea: Philosophy studies everything: it tries to provide a theory of the whole of things.
	From: Roger Scruton (Modern Philosophy:introduction and survey [1994], 1.2)
	A reaction: Good, but you can't avoid value-judgements about which things are important; philosophers place more value on moral theories than on theories about glacier movement. There is a tension in philosophy between human and eternal concerns.