Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man' and 'On the spiritual perfection of life'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

22102

Arguing with opponents uncovers truths, and restrains falsehoods [Aquinas]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

22745

Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

5883	Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero]