Tradition
History of philosophy
Overview
study of philosophical ideas and concepts through time
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In the original texts
Passages from public-domain books where History of philosophy is discussed.
I would only remark this, that what has been said reveals that the study of the history of Philosophy is the study of Philosophy itself, for, indeed, it can be nothing else. Whoever studies the history of sciences such as Physics and Mathematics, makes himself acquainted with Physics and Mathematics themselves.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Most commonly the refutation is taken in a purely negative sense to mean that the system refuted has ceased to count for anything, has been set aside and done for. Were it so, the history of philosophy would be of all studies most saddening, displaying, as it does, the refutation of every system which time has brought forth.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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Thus it came to be thought that by mere thinking the most surprising and important truths concerning the whole of reality could be established with a certainty which no contrary observations could shake. As the vital impulse of the early philosophers died away, its place was taken by authority and tradition, reinforced, in the Middle Ages and almost to our own day, by systematic theology. Modern philosophy, from…
Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
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The origin of modern philosophy is analogous to that of science, and is contemporaneous. The general trend of its development was settled in the seventeenth century, partly at the hands of the same men who established the scientific principles. This settlement of purpose followed upon a transitional period dating from the fifteenth century.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
What was reason given to men for, said some eighteenth century writer, except to enable them to find reasons for what they want to think and do?--and I think the history of philosophy largely bears him out, 'The aim of knowledge,' says Hegel,[2] 'is to divest the objective world of its strangeness, and to make us more at home in it.' Different men find their minds more at home in very different fragments of the…
William James, A Pluralistic Universe
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Philosophers who discussed History of philosophy
- John Scotus Eriugena
- Étienne Gilson
- Avicenna
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Henri Bergson
- Władysław Tatarkiewicz
- J. O. Urmson
- Victor Cousin
- Hermann Lotze
- Michel Onfray
- Robert Merrihew Adams
- Leo Strauss
- Roger Bacon
- Robert M. Pirsig
- Philip Kitcher
- Charles Taylor (philosopher)
- Peter Geach
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Ayn Rand
- Graham Priest
- Michael Oakeshott
- Young Marx
- Tyler Burge
Related ideas
- Gilbert Ryle
- Ātman (Hinduism)
- Egalitarianism
- Stream of consciousness
- Empiricism
- Socratic dialogue
- Belief
- Kitarō Nishida
- Vishishtadvaita
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ramanuja
- Absolute idealism
- Faith
- African philosophy
- Keiji Nishitani
- Feminism
- Avicenna
- Francis Bacon
- Principle of sufficient reason
- Anaximander
- Neo-Kantianism
- Wilhelm Windelband
- George Berkeley
Place in the tradition
Part of Antireligion.