Combining Texts

All the ideas for '67: Platonic Questions', 'The Absurd' and 'The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

3269	If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification

3270	Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / d. Consilience

20643

Consilience is a common groundwork of explanation [Whewell]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5960	When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

3268	If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel]