16 ideas
12036 | Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas] |
12046 | Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas] |
3546 | 'Phronesis' should translate as 'practical intelligence', not as prudence [Annas] |
12037 | Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas] |
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] |
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] |
6005 | Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley] |
21236 | Instead of gravitational force, we now have a pervasive gravitational field [Farmelo] |
21235 | The Schrödinger waves are just the maths of transforming energy values to positions [Farmelo] |
21234 | Experiments show that fundamental particles of one type are identical [Farmelo] |