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Ideas for 'On Human Nature', 'Logological Fragments I' and 'Justice: What's the right thing to do?'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy

19579	The history of philosophy is just experiments in how to do philosophy [Novalis]
	Full Idea: The history of philosophy up to now is nothing but a history of attempts to discover how to do philosophy.
	From: Novalis (Logological Fragments I [1798], 01)
	A reaction: I take post-Fregean analytic metaphysics to be another experiment in how to do philosophy. I suspect that the experiment of Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida etc has been a failure.

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

19583	Philosophy only begins when it studies itself [Novalis]
	Full Idea: All philosophy begins where philosophizing philosophises itself.
	From: Novalis (Logological Fragments I [1798], 79)
	A reaction: The modern trend for doing metaphilosophy strikes me as wholly admirable, though I suspect that the enemies of philosophy (who are legion) see it as a decadence.