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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
9199 Wisdom for one instant is as good as wisdom for eternity [Chrysippus]
5540 Cleverness is shown in knowing what can reasonably be asked [Kant]
1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People
20853 Wise men should try to participate in politics, since they are a good influence [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 4. Divisions of Philosophy
20772 Three branches of philosophy: first logic, second ethics, third physics (which ends with theology) [Chrysippus]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
5631 Reason is only interested in knowledge, actions and hopes [Kant]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
5635 In ordinary life the highest philosophy is no better than common understanding [Kant]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
21954 Metaphysics is a systematic account of everything that can be known a priori [Kant]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
7918 Kant turned metaphysics into epistemology, ignoring Aristotle's 'being qua being' [Kant, by Macdonald,C]
21438 Metaphysics might do better to match objects to our cognition (and not start with the objects) [Kant]
16611 You just can't stop metaphysical speculation, in any mature mind [Kant]
5586 The voyage of reason may go only as far as the coastline of experience reaches [Kant]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
21462 It is still possible to largely accept Kant as a whole (where others must be dismantled) [Kant, by Gardner]
5600 Human reason considers all knowledge as belonging to a possible system [Kant]
21457 Reason has two separate objects, morality and freedom, and nature, which ultimately unite [Kant]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science
9752 Kant showed that theoretical reason cannot give answers to speculative metaphysics [Kant, by Korsgaard]
6584 A priori metaphysics is fond of basic unchanging entities like God, the soul, Forms, atoms… [Kant, by Fogelin]
9349 A dove cutting through the air, might think it could fly better in airless space (which Plato attempted) [Kant]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics
12767 Kant exposed the illusions of reason in the Transcendental Dialectic [Kant, by Fraassen]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis
18259 Analysis is becoming self-conscious about our concepts [Kant]
9350 Our reason mostly analyses concepts we already have of objects [Kant]
5530 Analysis of our concepts is merely a preparation for proper a priori metaphysics [Kant]