“Foucault is careful to explain that this amalgam of history and philosophy must not be understood in a cumulative way (philosophy of history or history of philosophy), but rather as a process of creating a story, ‘fabricating as through fiction’”. (p. 141sq.) #Solomon #Foucault #history #philosophy #fiction
„Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.“ (p. 9) #James #Philosophy
„Philosophy being nothing else but the study of Wisdom and Truth, it may with reason be expected, that those who have spent most Time and Pains in it shou’d enjoy a greater calm and serenity of Mind, a greater clearness and evidence of Knowlege, and be less disturb’d with Doubts and Difficulties than other Men.“ (§1) #Berkeley #philosophy #wisdom #truth
„The effects produced by harmony and aversion (which is the sixth method) are frequently buried in obscurity; for these occult and specific properties (as they are termed), the sympathies and antipathies, are for the most part but a corruption of philosophy.“ (p. 285) #FrancisBacon #CorruptionofPhilosophy
„Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect; for nature is only subdued by submission, and that which in contemplative philosophy corresponds with the cause in practical science becomes the rule.“ (p. 15) #FrancisBacon #knowledge #humanpower #nature #submission