11 ideas
21463 | Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment [Gardner] |
21459 | Kant halted rationalism, and forced empiricists to worry about foundations [Gardner] |
21460 | Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner] |
8616 | How can multiple statements, none of which is tenable, conjoin to yield a tenable conclusion? [Elgin] |
8617 | Statements that are consistent, cotenable and supportive are roughly true [Elgin] |
21443 | Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner] |
21444 | Modern geoemtry is either 'pure' (and formal), or 'applied' (and a posteriori) [Gardner] |
21453 | Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner] |
8618 | Coherence is a justification if truth is its best explanation (not skill in creating fiction) [Elgin] |
20977 | Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts [Bentham] |
21003 | Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham] |