12 ideas
19588 | The highest aim of philosophy is to combine all philosophies into a unity [Novalis] |
19598 | Philosophy relies on our whole system of learning, and can thus never be complete [Novalis] |
19586 | Philosophers feed on problems, hoping they are digestible, and spiced with paradox [Novalis] |
19587 | Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system [Novalis] |
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
19597 | Logic (the theory of relations) should be applied to mathematics [Novalis] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |