Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
History should be written as philosophy.
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.
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