15 ideas
| 7460 | The great moments are the death of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Romanticism [Berlin, by Watson] |
| 7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
| 20923 | We take part in objective truth, rather than observe it from a distance [Zimmermann,J] |
| 20926 | Hermeneutic knowledge is not objective, but embraces interpretations [Zimmermann,J] |
| 20924 | In phenomenology, all perception is 'seeing as' [Zimmermann,J] |
| 3061 | Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
| 20927 | The hermeneutic circle is between the reader's self-understanding, and the world of the text [Zimmermann,J] |
| 7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
| 7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
| 7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
| 20544 | Berlin distinguishes 'negative' and 'positive' liberty, and rejects the latter [Berlin, by Swift] |
| 20933 | Natural law theorists fear that without morality, law could be based on efficiency [Zimmermann,J] |
| 7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |
| 20929 | Traditionally, God dictated the Torah to Moses, unlike the later biblical writings [Zimmermann,J] |