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All the ideas for 'The Origin of the Work of Art', 'Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity' and '01: Book of Genesis'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

15585	Later Heidegger sees philosophy as more like poetry than like science [Heidegger, by Polt]
	Full Idea: In his later work Heidegger came to view philosophy as closer to poetry than to science.
	From: report of Martin Heidegger (The Origin of the Work of Art [1935], p.178) by Richard Polt - Heidegger: an introduction 5 'Signs'

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

13128	'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins]
	Full Idea: 'Ultimate sortals' are said to be non-subordinated, disjoint from one another, and uniquely paired with each object. Because of this, the ultimate sortal cannot be a satisfactory explication of the notion of an ontological category.
	From: comment on David Wiggins (Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity [1971], p.75) by Jan Westerhoff - Ontological Categories §26
	A reaction: My strong intuitions are that Wiggins is plain wrong, and Westerhoff gives the most promising reasons for my intuition. The simplest point is that objects can obviously belong to more than one category.

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

7506	God made man in his own image [Anon (Tor)]
	Full Idea: And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
	From: Anon (Tor) (01: Book of Genesis [c.750 BCE], 1.26)
	A reaction: Since we are obviously not identical in every way with God, we can presumably choose in which respects we think of ourselves as being like Him. Reason, understanding, beauty, goodness, consciousness? A troublesome verse, challenged by Darwin.

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 5. Reference to Natural Kinds

16782	The names of all the types of creature were given forever by Adam [Anon (Tor)]
	Full Idea: Whatsoever Adam called any living creature, the same is its name. And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field.
	From: Anon (Tor) (01: Book of Genesis [c.750 BCE], 02:20)

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

4013	And God saw the light, that it was good [Anon (Tor)]
	Full Idea: And God saw the light, that it was good.
	From: Anon (Tor) (01: Book of Genesis [c.750 BCE], 01.04)
	A reaction: The text seems to suggest that God did not decide that it was good, but that it conformed to a standard of goodness.