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

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

19657

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

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

13773

For the truth you need Prodicus's fifty-drachma course, not his one-drachma course [Socrates]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

7421	A philosopher is one who cares about what other people care about [Socrates, by Foucault]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

1649	Socrates opened philosophy to all, but Plato confined moral enquiry to a tiny elite [Vlastos on Socrates]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

5842	Philosophical discussion involves dividing subject-matter into categories [Socrates, by Xenophon]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division

648	Socrates began the quest for something universal with his definitions, but he didn't make them separate [Socrates, by Aristotle]

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

19675

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