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All the ideas for 'works', 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy' and 'Letters to Hugo Boxel'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy

19441

All philosophies presuppose their historical moment, and arise from it [Feuerbach]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

19442

I don't study Plato for his own sake; the primary aim is always understanding [Feuerbach]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

19444

Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation [Feuerbach]

19445

A dialectician has to be his own opponent [Feuerbach]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

19443

Truth forges an impersonal unity between people [Feuerbach]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems

19446

To our consciousness it is language which looks unreal [Feuerbach]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

19447

The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature' [Feuerbach]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

20949

Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 5. Natural Beauty

4870	The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible [Spinoza]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

7669	We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism

7668	Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin]