9 ideas
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
8063 | Baumgarten founded aesthetics in 1750 [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy] |
8118 | Beauty is an order between parts, and in relation to the whole [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy] |
8117 | Perfection comes through the senses (Beauty), through reason (Truth), and through moral will (Good) [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
6005 | Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |