Modern Philosophy Quotes

• As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.

  Arthur Koestler

  Philosophy, Science, Thinking

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• Somos lo que hacemos repetidamente. Por tanto, la excelencia no es un acto, sino un hábito.

  Will Durant

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

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• We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Philosophy, Real, Taught Us

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.64, Routledge

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• El conservador moderno está inmerso en uno de los ejercicios de filosofía moral más antiguos del hombre; es decir, la búsqueda de una justificación moral superior para el egoísmo.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Honestidad, integridad, filosofía

  "Stop a la locura". Periódico "The Globe and Mail", 6 th Of July de 2002.

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• La filosofía moderna exige ciertamente la renuncia a todo sobrenaturalismo, dogma fijo e institucionalismo rígido con los que se ha asociado históricamente al cristianismo.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Dogma, Surrender

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• In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.

  Jacques Maritain

  Block, Philosophy, Hands

  Jacques Maritain (1955). “An essay on Christian philosophy”

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• The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Government, Ancient

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.963, Delphi Classics

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• Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

  Pierre Hadot

  Art, Philosophy, Jargon

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 272), 2001.

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• How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.

  Edward Feser

  Philosophy, Mistake, Want

  Edward Feser (2008). “The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism”, St Augustine PressInc

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• This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make the mistake of constructing epistemological systems to explain how we know reality without first acknowledging the fact that we do know reality. After they begin within the mind and find they can't construct a bridge to reality, they then declare that we can't know reality. It is like drawing a faulty road map before looking at the roads, then declaring that we can't know how to get from Chicago to New York!

  Josh McDowell

  New York, Mistake, Philosophy

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• One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus or Epicurus who, just because they had developed a philosophical discourse, were considered philosophers. Rather, every person who lived according to the precepts of Chrysippus or Epicurus was every bit as much a philosopher as they.

  Pierre Hadot

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Facts

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 272), 2001.

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• El anillo exterior del cristianismo es una rígida guardia de abnegaciones éticas y sacerdotes profesionales; pero dentro de esa guardia inhumana encontrarás la vieja vida humana bailando como niños y bebiendo vino como hombres; pues el cristianismo es el único marco para la libertad pagana. Pero en la filosofía moderna el caso es opuesto; es su anillo exterior el que es obviamente artístico y emancipado; su desesperación está dentro.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Philosophy, Drinking

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and his legacy in early modern philosophy. But Fichte does reject this tradition, by suggesting that an immaterial thinking substance is an incoherent notion, and a rational being whose rationality was not developed through communication with others is a transcendental impossibility.

  Allen W. Wood

  Nice, Philosophy, Communication

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told; but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain.

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Father, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.45, Routledge

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• Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains
  in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Father, Philosophy, Teaching

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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