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Ideas for 'On Being (frags)', 'The Justification of Deduction' and 'Phaedo'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

19066	Philosophy aims to understand the world, through ordinary experience and science [Dummett]
	Full Idea: Philosophy is an attempt to understand the world, as it is revealed to us both in our ordinary experience and by the discoveries and theories of science.
	From: Michael Dummett (The Justification of Deduction [1973], p.311)
	A reaction: I don't see a sharp division between 'ordinary' and 'scientific'. I really like this idea, first because it makes 'understanding' central, and second because it wants both revelations. In discussing matter and time, there is too much emphasis on science.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

370	Philosophy is a purification of the soul ready for the afterlife [Plato]
	Full Idea: Souls which have purified themselves sufficiently by philosophy will live after death without bodies.
	From: Plato (Phaedo [c.382 BCE], 114b)
	A reaction: Purifying it of what? Error, or desire, or narrow-mindedness, or the physical?