29 ideas
9247 | Life will be lived better if it has no meaning [Camus] |
8000 | He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre] |
12036 | Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas] |
12046 | Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas] |
6707 | Suicide - whether life is worth living - is the one serious philosophical problem [Camus] |
9245 | To an absurd mind reason is useless, and there is nothing beyond reason [Camus] |
9244 | Logic is easy, but what about logic to the point of death? [Camus] |
18521 | The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana] |
9249 | Whether we are free is uninteresting; we can only experience our freedom [Camus] |
9253 | The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it [Camus] |
3546 | 'Phronesis' should translate as 'practical intelligence', not as prudence [Annas] |
9250 | Discussing ethics is pointless; moral people behave badly, and integrity doesn't need rules [Camus] |
12037 | Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas] |
23060 | The good is not relative, but is rooted in facts about human needs [Santayana] |
9252 | The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows [Camus] |
3547 | Epicureans achieve pleasure through character development [Annas] |
3543 | Cyrenaics pursue pleasure, but don't equate it with happiness [Annas] |
12040 | Virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value [Annas] |
9251 | One can be virtuous through a whim [Camus] |
3541 | Ancient ethics uses attractive notions, not imperatives [Annas] |
3550 | Principles cover life as a whole, where rules just cover actions [Annas] |
3551 | Virtue theory tries to explain our duties in terms of our character [Annas] |
3552 | If excessively good actions are admirable but not required, then duty isn't basic [Annas] |
3542 | We should do good when necessary, not maximise it [Annas] |
9243 | If we believe existence is absurd, this should dictate our conduct [Camus] |
6708 | Happiness and the absurd go together, each leading to the other [Camus] |
9242 | Essential problems either risk death, or intensify the passion of life [Camus] |
9246 | Danger and integrity are not in the leap of faith, but in remaining poised just before the leap [Camus] |
9248 | It is essential to die unreconciled and not of one's own free will [Camus] |