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All the ideas for 'The Iliad', 'Logological Fragments I' and 'Practical Necessity'

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16 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy
19579 The history of philosophy is just experiments in how to do philosophy [Novalis]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
19583 Philosophy only begins when it studies itself [Novalis]
5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 2. Aporiai
19581 A problem is a solid mass, which the mind must break up [Novalis]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure
19584 Whoever first counted to two must have seen the possibility of infinite counting [Novalis]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)
22025 Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures [Novalis, by Pinkard]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility
23283 Necessity implies possibility, but in experience it matters which comes first [Williams,B]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
22067 Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe [Novalis]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique
2170 Homer does not distinguish between soul and body [Homer, by Williams,B]
19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
19585 Every person has his own language [Novalis]
20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act
2171 The 'will' doesn't exist; there is just conclusion, then action [Homer, by Williams,B]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
19582 Morality and philosophy are mutually dependent [Novalis]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good
21819 Plato says the Good produces the Intellectual-Principle, which in turn produces the Soul [Homer, by Plotinus]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 7. Existential Action
22027 Life isn't given to us like a novel - we write the novel [Novalis]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / a. Autocracy
11388 Let there be one ruler [Homer]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching
19580 If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint [Novalis]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
14829 Homer so enjoys the company of the gods that he must have been deeply irreligious [Homer, by Nietzsche]