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All the ideas for 'Difference and Repetition', 'Philosophia Epicurea' and 'Letters to Fichte'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

21901

'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture [Deleuze, by May]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

21908

Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable [Deleuze]

21902

'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference' [Deleuze]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

21903

Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May]

21904

Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / b. Form as principle

16640

Form is the principle that connects a thing's constitution (rather than being operative) [Hill,N]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / g. Contemplation

7071	Life and rationality are pointless if we can only contemplate the freedom of our own ego [Jacobi]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

7072	Jacobi was the first philosopher to talk of nihilism [Jacobi, by Critchley]