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All the ideas for 'On Man (lost)', 'Logological Fragments II' and '30: Book of Amos'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

19588

The highest aim of philosophy is to combine all philosophies into a unity [Novalis]

19598

Philosophy relies on our whole system of learning, and can thus never be complete [Novalis]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

19586

Philosophers feed on problems, hoping they are digestible, and spiced with paradox [Novalis]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

19587

Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system [Novalis]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 8. Logic of Mathematics

19597

Logic (the theory of relations) should be applied to mathematics [Novalis]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

1554	Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

1555	People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

535	The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus]

1543	He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 2. Judaism

7604	Amos was the first prophet to emphasise justice and compassion [Amos, by Armstrong,K]