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1. The world is rational.
2. Human reason can, in principle, be developed more highly (through certain techniques).
3. There are systematic methods for the solution of all problems (also art, etc.).
4. There are other worlds and rational beings of a different and higher kind.
5. The world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live or have lived.
6. There is incomparably more knowable a priori than is currently known.
7. The development of human thought since the Renaissance is thoroughly intelligible (durchaus einsichtige).
8. Reason in mankind will be developed in every direction.
9. Formal rights comprise a real science.
10. Materialism is false.
12. The higher beings are connected to the others by analogy, not by composition.
13. Concepts have an objective existence.
14. There is a scientific (exact) philosophy and theology, which deals with concepts of the highest abstractness; and this is also most highly fruitful for science.
15. Religions are, for the most part, bad-- but religion is not.
>"Gödel lists fourteen items which appear to be an attempt to outline his fundamental philosophical beliefs. These are optimistic beliefs and conjectures. They go far beyond `what is possible before all new discoveries and inventions' as Wittgenstein requires of philosophy. >Unfortunately we know very little of Gödel's reasons for holding them. Undoubtedly the centrepiece is his belief that the world is rational. This key belief is an empirical generalisation from his interpretation of human experience, but what is known of his arguments is hardly convincing."
Thoughts about this nigga?

Why does nobody on this board recognize the significance of his work to philosophy but pretend to do?

*destroys platonism*
heh... nothing personnel

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cringe post you have there but if you want to talk about mathematicians here's one for this thread.

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>Giving an account of Gödel’s trip to the USA in 1933, Menger remembers that Gödel was particularly worried about the fate of the Leibniz Archives, because of the political situation in Germany at that time. As Hao Wang first reported in his book Beyond Analytic Philosophy: Doing Justice to what we know (1987): “Menger asked Gödel, ‘Who could have an interest in destroying Leibniz’s writings?’ ‘Naturally those people who do not want men to become more intelligent’ Gödel replied. To Menger’s suggestion of Voltaire being a more likely target, Gödel answered ‘Who ever became more intelligent by reading Voltaire’s writings?’”3

is he necessary to read for humanistic study or only of interest to mathematics?

Jesús G. Maestro says that in one of his videos. A matematician is able to interpret reality in a better way than someone who doesn't know the language in which reality is written. From Plato to Gödel, philosophy has had great thinkers who also were matematicians. I would say one of the reasons of philosophy's decay is that there are people who doesn't have a clue about what constitutes reality yet they philosophize. Philosophy's decay is ironically caused by philosophy's faculties.

Did Godel disprove Hegel with his incompleteness theorem?

Philosophers tremble in fear when big dick mathematicians enter their space