Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Of the Origin of Government', 'unfinished dialogue' and 'Manuscript remains'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

21916

Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer]

3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth

4298	All items of possible human knowledge are interconnected, and can be reached by inference [Descartes]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

21924

As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

21915

To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State

21096

The only purpose of government is to administer justice, which brings security [Hume]