18 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
3018 | People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
1751 | Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
7902 | The Buddha made flowers float in the air, to impress people, and make them listen [Mahavastu] |