8 ideas
23392 | The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden] |
21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
23408 | The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader [Norden] |
23407 | Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives) [Norden] |
18933 | Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius] |
21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |
9866 | Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato] |
5864 | Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias] |