Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Nietzsche's System' and 'The Life of Reason'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy

8000	He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson]

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Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson]

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Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

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Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation

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A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson]