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'Metaphysics', 'Problems in the Explanation of Action' and 'Critique of Pure Reason'
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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
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Knowledge chosen for its own sake, rather than for results, is wisdom [Aristotle]
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Wisdom seeks explanations, causes, and reasons why things are as they are [Aristotle, by Politis]
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Cleverness is shown in knowing what can reasonably be asked [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People
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545
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It is not much help if a doctor knows about universals but not the immediate particular [Aristotle]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
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549
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All philosophy begins from wonder, either at the physical world, or at ideas [Aristotle]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy
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If each of us can give some logos about parts of nature, our combined efforts can be impressive [Aristotle]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
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Philosophy is a kind of science that deals with principles [Aristotle]
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Absolute thinking is the thinking of thinking [Aristotle]
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Philosophy has different powers from dialectic, and a different life from sophistry [Aristotle]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 4. Divisions of Philosophy
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If only natural substances exist, science is first philosophy - but not if there is an immovable substance [Aristotle]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation
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Wisdom is knowledge of principles and causes [Aristotle]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles
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Translate as 'humans all desire by nature to understand' (not as 'to know') [Aristotle, by Annas]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
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Reason is only interested in knowledge, actions and hopes [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy
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Even people who go astray in their opinions have contributed something useful [Aristotle]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
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In ordinary life the highest philosophy is no better than common understanding [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
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Metaphysics is a systematic account of everything that can be known a priori [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
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Kant turned metaphysics into epistemology, ignoring Aristotle's 'being qua being' [Kant, by Macdonald,C]
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Metaphysics might do better to match objects to our cognition (and not start with the objects) [Kant]
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You just can't stop metaphysical speculation, in any mature mind [Kant]
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The voyage of reason may go only as far as the coastline of experience reaches [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
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It is still possible to largely accept Kant as a whole (where others must be dismantled) [Kant, by Gardner]
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Human reason considers all knowledge as belonging to a possible system [Kant]
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Reason has two separate objects, morality and freedom, and nature, which ultimately unite [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science
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Kant showed that theoretical reason cannot give answers to speculative metaphysics [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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A priori metaphysics is fond of basic unchanging entities like God, the soul, Forms, atoms… [Kant, by Fogelin]
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A dove cutting through the air, might think it could fly better in airless space (which Plato attempted) [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics
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Kant exposed the illusions of reason in the Transcendental Dialectic [Kant, by Fraassen]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis
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Analysis is becoming self-conscious about our concepts [Kant]
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Our reason mostly analyses concepts we already have of objects [Kant]
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Analysis of our concepts is merely a preparation for proper a priori metaphysics [Kant]
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