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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Anti-Christ' and 'Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little'

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

2922	All intelligent Romans were Epicureans [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: Every mind of any account in the Roman Empire was an Epicurean.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ [1889], 58)

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason

9808	Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou]
	Full Idea: Philosophy's role consists in informing mathematics of its own speculative grandeur.
	From: Alain Badiou (Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little [2004], p.11)
	A reaction: Revealing the grandeur of something sounds more like a rhetorical than a rational exercise. How would you reveal the grandeur of a sunset to someone?