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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'The Scientific Image' and 'After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory'

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

8060	In the 17th-18th centuries morality offered a cure for egoism, through altruism [MacIntyre]

19648

Since Kant we think we can only access 'correlations' between thinking and being [Meillassoux]

19674

The Copernican Revolution decentres the Earth, but also decentres thinking from reality [Meillassoux]

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 6. Twentieth Century Thought

8053	Twentieth century social life is re-enacting eighteenth century philosophy [MacIntyre]

19657

In Kant the thing-in-itself is unknowable, but for us it has become unthinkable [Meillassoux]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

8047	Philosophy has been marginalised by its failure in the Enlightenment to replace religion [MacIntyre]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

19675

Since Kant, philosophers have claimed to understand science better than scientists do [Meillassoux]