8 ideas
21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
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] |
18702 | Names, descriptions and predicates refer to things; without that, language and thought are baffling [Davidson] |
19597 | Logic (the theory of relations) should be applied to mathematics [Novalis] |
21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |