James's working notes from Western Civ class

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MOC - Massive Encompassing Philosophical Systems

  • PlatoPlato
    Plato
    Athenian philosopher during the Classical period of Greece. Disciple of Socrates, and wrote down his (purported) dialogues.

    Books

    [[Plato, Meno|Meno]]
    [[Plato, Phaedrus|Phaedrus]]
    [[Plato, The Apology|The Apology of Socrates]]

  • AristotleAristotle
    Aristotle

    Books

    [[Aristotle, Poetics|Poetics]]
    [[Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics|Nicomachean Ethics]]
    [[Aristotle, Categories|Categories]]
    among many others


    Aristotle's Paradigm (Middle Ages bkgrd)

    Matter is eternal and exists w/o forms
    Forms only exist with matter
    No sensations, no imagination, no intellect w/o forms, phantasms, or species in the mind
    Impressions on a passive mind

    impressions are the things we see, sense


    Active intellect perceives pas...
  • German IdealismGerman Idealism
    German Idealism

    Members

    Fichte
    [[Hegel]]
    Schelling
    Spinoza
    Schleiermacher
    [[Schopenhauer]]


    Map of 19th Century Philosophers
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    Class Notes

    speculative massive encompassing system
    everything is idea
    grew out of trying to complete [[Kant]] (Transcendental Idealism)

    Kant's epistemology of the phenomena & noumena (the thing in itself); the noumena is unknowable
    Fichte combines the phenomena & noumena; everything th...