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Philosophical fiction

Philosophical fiction
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Overview

Philosophical fiction is any fiction that devotes a significant portion of its content to the sort of questions addressed by philosophy. It might explore any facet of the human condition, including the function and role of society, the nature and motivation of human acts, the purpose of life, ethics or morals, the role of art in human lives, the role of experience or reason in the development of knowledge, whether there exists free will, or any other topic of philosophical interest. Philosophical fiction includes the novel of ideas, which can also fall under the genre of science fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, and bildungsroman.

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  1. There is much more care and modesty, logic and inventiveness, in a word, more philosophical method in the work of the special sciences than in the so-called "philosophy," and every one will agree with the temperate words of Bagehot[2] on the present system builders: "Unproved abstract principles without number have been eagerly caught up by sanguine men, and then carefully spun out into books and theories, which…

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season, Part II

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  2. But philosophers even to this day often have the delusion that the substitutions are actually made.[92]

    John Dewey, Creative Intelligence

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  3. Should not all philosophy ultimately disclose the first principles on which the reasoning processes depend?--that is to say, our _belief_ in the "ego" as a substance, as the only reality according to which, alone, we are able to ascribe reality to things? The oldest realism at length comes to light, simultaneously with man's recognition of the fact that his whole religious history is no more than a history of…

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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Part of Empiricism.

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