27 ideas
20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
22049 | Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie] |
20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
22055 | The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie] |
22054 | German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie] |
22056 | Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie] |
6685 | 'Subjectivism' is an extension of relativism from the social group to the individual [Graham] |
20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
2170 | Homer does not distinguish between soul and body [Homer, by Williams,B] |
20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |
2171 | The 'will' doesn't exist; there is just conclusion, then action [Homer, by Williams,B] |
6699 | The chain of consequences may not be the same as the chain of responsibility [Graham] |
21819 | Plato says the Good produces the Intellectual-Principle, which in turn produces the Soul [Homer, by Plotinus] |
6698 | Negative consequences are very hard (and possibly impossible) to assess [Graham] |
6700 | We can't criticise people because of unforeseeable consequences [Graham] |
6704 | Egoism submits to desires, but cannot help form them [Graham] |
6701 | Rescue operations need spontaneous benevolence, not careful thought [Graham] |
6693 | 'What if everybody did that?' rather misses the point as an objection to cheating [Graham] |
6691 | It is more plausible to say people can choose between values, than that they can create them [Graham] |
6688 | Life is only absurd if you expected an explanation and none turns up [Graham] |
6705 | Existentialism may transcend our nature, unlike eudaimonism [Graham] |
6690 | A standard problem for existentialism is the 'sincere Nazi' [Graham] |
6689 | The key to existentialism: the way you make choices is more important than what you choose [Graham] |
11388 | Let there be one ruler [Homer] |
14829 | Homer so enjoys the company of the gods that he must have been deeply irreligious [Homer, by Nietzsche] |
6706 | The great religions are much more concerned with the religious life than with ethics [Graham] |
6709 | Western religion saves us from death; Eastern religion saves us from immortality [Graham] |