12 ideas
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
15675 | We don't condemn people for being bad at reasoning [Finlayson] |
15640 | Courage is not a virtue, but the form of every virtue at its testing point [Lewis,CS] |
15674 | One can universalise good advice, but that doesn't make it an obligation [Finlayson] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
15662 | The 'culture industry' is an advertisement for the way things are [Finlayson] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |