18 ideas
20455 | Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy [Critchley] |
21459 | Kant halted rationalism, and forced empiricists to worry about foundations [Gardner] |
21463 | Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment [Gardner] |
20446 | Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics [Critchley] |
21460 | Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner] |
20449 | Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life [Critchley] |
20448 | Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life [Critchley] |
21443 | Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner] |
15946 | Cantor developed sets from a progression into infinity by addition, multiplication and exponentiation [Cantor, by Lavine] |
21444 | Modern geoemtry is either 'pure' (and formal), or 'applied' (and a posteriori) [Gardner] |
15911 | Ordinals are generated by endless succession, followed by a limit ordinal [Cantor, by Lavine] |
21453 | Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner] |
20454 | Wallace Stevens is the greatest philosophical poet of the twentieth century in English [Critchley] |
20456 | Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands [Critchley] |
20447 | The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good? [Critchley] |
20452 | Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility [Critchley] |
20450 | The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism [Critchley] |
20451 | Belief that humans are wicked leads to authoritarian politics [Critchley] |