6 ideas
11193 | Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna] |
11209 | The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna] |
11204 | The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna] |
15036 | An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
7810 | The 'Eumenides' of Aeschylus shows blood feuds replaced by law [Aeschylus, by Grayling] |