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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The German Ideology' and 'Opus Maius (major works)'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

221	Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
	Full Idea: The absolute good and the beautiful and all which we conceive to be absolute ideas are unknown to us.
	From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 134c)

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

5287	Philosophical problems are resolved into empirical facts [Marx/Engels]
	Full Idea: Every profound philosophical problem is resolved quite simply into an empirical fact.
	From: K Marx / F Engels (The German Ideology [1846], §1.B)
	A reaction: This shows that empirical accounts of metaphysics are not just a branch of British empiricism, but are a basic fact of any materialist view of the world. The influence of David Hume, however, hovers behind this Marxist doctrine.