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All philosophy questions

SCENES OF THOUGHT

Watch ideas move through time and place.

Fourteen questions become fourteen source-backed scenes across 10 places. Play the route, pause on a question, and enter the work behind it.

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ACT 3 OF 4

Language, art, and situated lives

Language in use, lived art, absurdity, and embodiment unsettle the abstract subject.

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지도를 불러오는 중…

Act 3 editorial illustration · not a historical record

1892JenaTeaching and appointment

THE QUESTION IN THIS SCENE

How do words point to the world?

Frege teaches and works at Jena; this marker does not identify the place where the article was written or published.

Frege — One object, different modes of presentation

Does pointing to the same Venus make the meaning and information of the two expressions the same?

Copenhagen → Jena

Why this scene is pinned here

The source supports the event-place association, not the truth of the philosophy or a line of influence.

  • Gottlob Frege

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: Life and academic career at Jena

    Open source
  • Geschichte des Instituts für Philosophie

    Friedrich Schiller University Jena · Institutional history of philosophy at Jena

    Locator: Institutional history: Frege’s work at Jena

    Open source
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All fourteen scenes

Every link restores the exact scene. The order is chronological; the acts are editorial chapters, not historical borders.

  1. 01 · 335 BCE · Athens

    What is real, and what remains through change?

  2. 02 · 306 BCE · Athens

    What makes a life go well?

  3. 03 · 1641 CE · Paris

    What can we claim to know?

  4. 04 · 1641 CE · Paris

    What makes a mind and a self persist?

  5. 05 · 1677 CE · Amsterdam

    Can we be responsible if we could not have done otherwise?

  6. 06 · 1748 CE · London

    How far can the past support the future?

  7. 07 · 1843 CE · Copenhagen

    How far can reason speak about faith?

  8. 08 · 1892 CE · Jena

    How do words point to the world?

  9. 09 · 1934 CE · New York

    Why does art matter, and what makes a work valuable?

  10. 10 · 1942 CE · Paris

    How should we face suffering and death?

  11. 11 · 1949 CE · Paris

    Whose knowledge is allowed to count?

  12. 12 · 1962 CE · Chicago

    What makes an inquiry scientific?

  13. 13 · 1971 CE · Cambridge, MA

    What makes power legitimate and rules fair?

  14. 14 · 1984 CE · Oxford

    What do we owe future people and the more-than-human world?