Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Scientific Image', 'Buddhacarita' and 'De rebus naturalibus'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

16740

A power is not a cause, but an aptitude for a cause [Zabarella]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance

23900

Chance is compatible with necessity, and the two occur together [Weil]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

7906	When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty

23899

The secret of art is that beauty is a just blend of unity and its opposite [Weil]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

16571

Prime matter is exceptionally obscure [Zabarella]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7904	The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha]

7905	The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha]