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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy
21955 My dogmatic slumber was first interrupted by David Hume [Kant]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly
23027 Ideals and metaphysics are practical, not imaginative or speculative [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
16931 Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic [Kant]
3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth
23030 Truth is a relation to a whole of organised knowledge in the collection of rational minds [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
16918 Mathematics cannot proceed just by the analysis of concepts [Kant]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry
16919 Geometry rests on our intuition of space [Kant]
16930 Geometry is not analytic, because a line's being 'straight' is a quality [Kant]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers
16920 Numbers are formed by addition of units in time [Kant]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / f. Arithmetic
16929 7+5 = 12 is not analytic, because no analysis of 7+5 will reveal the concept of 12 [Kant]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 2. Intuition of Mathematics
16910 Mathematics can only start from an a priori intuition which is not empirical but pure [Kant]
16917 All necessary mathematical judgements are based on intuitions of space and time [Kant]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism
16928 Mathematics cannot be empirical because it is necessary, and that has to be a priori [Kant]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
11833 The substance, once the predicates are removed, remains unknown to us [Kant]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge
21957 'Transcendental' concerns how we know, rather than what we know [Kant]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
16923 I admit there are bodies outside us [Kant]
21441 'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience [Kant]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
23044 All knowledge rests on a fundamental unity between the knower and what is known [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 5. A Priori Synthetic
16916 A priori synthetic knowledge is only of appearances, not of things in themselves [Kant]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts
16915 A priori intuitions can only concern the objects of our senses [Kant]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 10. A Priori as Subjective
16914 A priori intuition of objects is only possible by containing the form of my sensibility [Kant]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
21447 I can make no sense of the red experience being similar to the quality in the object [Kant]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique
16924 I count the primary features of things (as well as the secondary ones) as mere appearances [Kant]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
16913 I can't intuit a present thing in itself, because the properties can't enter my representations [Kant]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
16925 Appearance gives truth, as long as it is only used within experience [Kant]
12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition
16911 Intuition is a representation that depends on the presence of the object [Kant]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification
23034 The ultimate test for truth is the systematic interdependence in nature [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts
16912 Some concepts can be made a priori, which are general thoughts of objects, like quantity or cause [Kant]
19. Language / E. Analyticity / 1. Analytic Propositions
16926 Analytic judgements say clearly what was in the concept of the subject [Kant]
16927 Analytic judgement rests on contradiction, since the predicate cannot be denied of the subject [Kant]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
23032 What is distinctive of human life is the desire for self-improvement [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism
3031 The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]
23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 2. Hedonism
23033 Hedonism offers no satisfaction, because what we desire is self-betterment [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 2. State Legitimacy / d. General will
23045 Politics is compromises, which seem supported by a social contract, but express the will of no one [Green,TH]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 4. Citizenship
23050 The ideal is a society in which all citizens are ladies and gentlemen [Green,TH]
23052 Enfranchisement is an end in itself; it makes a person moral, and gives a basis for respect [Green,TH]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / a. Liberalism basics
23036 The good is identified by the capacities of its participants [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism
23039 A true state is only unified and stabilised by acknowledging individuality [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism
23038 People only develop their personality through co-operation with the social whole [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / a. Final purpose
23040 If something develops, its true nature is embodied in its end [Green,TH]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 2. Space
16922 Space must have three dimensions, because only three lines can meet at right angles [Kant]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / a. Absolute time
16921 If all empirical sensation of bodies is removed, space and time are still left [Kant]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 1. God
23031 God is the ideal end of the mature mind's final development [Green,TH]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity
23041 God is the realisation of the possibilities of each man's self [Green,TH]