8 ideas
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
18033 | The meaning of a representation is its role in thought, perception or decisions [Block] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |