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All the ideas for 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy', 'Letters to Thomasius' and 'The Myth of the Given'

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10 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]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

13432

The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz]

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

19447

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

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism

8790	The 'doctrine of the given' is correct; some beliefs or statements are self-justifying [Chisholm]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

12696

Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]