ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys some possible criteria bearing upon the question of what philosophical greatness is. The idea of the philosophical image is introduced (as an idea distinct from the Sellarsian ideas of the manifest image and the scientific image). The most apt unit or subject of philosophical greatness is discussed, as are the ideas of philosophical originality and philosophical paradigms, along with the idea that there might not be any philosophical greatness anyway. The idea of a metaphysical realism about philosophical greatness is also described. Finally, philosophical greatness is compared, in a speculative spirit, with artistic greatness.
