“It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their origin in the fact that the reflective or theoretical class of men elaborated a large stock of ideas which social conditions did not allow them to act upon and test. Consequently men were thrown back into their own thoughts as ends in themselves.” MenWorldMindMayIdeasEndsPhilosophyFactsSocialClassConditionsTestsThrownTheoreticalSocial Conditions Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.” IfsKnowsHumansHas BeensPhilosophyWholeFailingBuildingTestsStartingDataTheoreticalStarting Point Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.” PeopleKnowsWorldLooksPhilosophyLevelsCommonTeachOrdinaryOrdinary PeopleTheoretical Book:Impossible Objects Source: Impossible Objects
“The Cabal is of two kinds, theoretical and practical, with the practical Cabala, which is engaged in the construction of talismans and amulets, we have nothing to do. The theoretical is divided into the lineal and dogmatic. The dogmatic is nothing more than the summary of the metaphysical doctrine taught by the Cabalist doctors. It is, in other words, the system of the Jewish philosophy.” KindTwoPhilosophyTaughtDoctorsJewPracticalsDoctrineEngagedDividedConstructionMetaphysicalTheoreticalDogmaticSummaryTalismansCabalAmulets Author:Albert Mackey