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"I really like building things that are the consequence of ideas," O'Neill says.
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He also chronicled the environmental consequences of ideas like Manifest Destiny.
It's a common theme in Curtis's work: he's not interested in conspiracy theories, but rather with the unforeseen consequences of ideas throughout history, and their impact on a deeply personal level.
Necessary truths are truths which can be known a priori; they can be known in this way because they are necessary consequences of ideas which are a priori.
What are the consequences of ideas never seeing the light of day?
What had happened was not an outbreak of barbarism but the consequence of modern ideas, particularly the idea that the world could be made perfect by eliminating imperfections (the Jews, the bourgeoisie).
Since our ideas are "shadows" of the Divine Ideas, to see a law as a necessary consequence of our ideas is to see it as a consequence of the Divine Ideas exemplified in the world.
The Alcoa building has the added attraction of being a consequence of his ideas.
His notion of building something that is the consequence of good ideas is Alcoa's Pittsburgh headquarters.
Understanding involves seeing a law as being not an arbitrary "accident on the cosmic scale," but as a necessary consequence of the ideas God used in creating the universe.
If ideas were to stand or fall on the basis of their logically possible consequences, we would have no ideas, because the ultimate conceivable consequence of every idea is an absurdity — is, in some way, "against life".
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