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All the ideas for 'Saundaranandakavya', 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' and 'Existence,Ontological Commitment and Fictions'

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14 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy
7910 Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour
6848 Humour is practically enacted philosophy [Critchley]
6847 Humour can give a phenomenological account of existence, and point to change [Critchley]
1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
6844 Scientism is the view that everything can be explained causally through scientific method [Critchley]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
6835 German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms [Critchley]
6837 Since Hegel, continental philosophy has been linked with social and historical enquiry. [Critchley]
6836 Continental philosophy fights the threatened nihilism in the critique of reason [Critchley]
6838 Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation [Critchley]
6845 Continental philosophy has a bad tendency to offer 'one big thing' to explain everything [Critchley]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology
6846 Phenomenology is a technique of redescription which clarifies our social world [Critchley]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory
8972 What in the real world could ground the distinction between the sets {A,{A,B}} and {B,{A,B}}? [Inwagen]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism
6843 Perceiving meaninglessness is an achievement, which can transform daily life [Critchley]
29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism
7909 The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven
7908 At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha]