23 ideas
23326 | In the third century Stoicism died out, replaced by Platonism, with Aristotelian ethics [Frede,M] |
23335 | In late antiquity nearly all philosophers were monotheists [Frede,M] |
16137 | Earlier views of Aristotle were dominated by 'Categories' [Frede,M] |
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
23249 | The early philosophers thought that reason has its own needs and desires [Frede,M] |
16157 | Insurance on the original ship would hardly be paid out if the plank version was wrecked! [Frede,M] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
23334 | For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis) [Frede,M] |
23333 | The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity [Frede,M] |
23337 | The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos [Frede,M] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
23336 | There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good [Frede,M] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
16591 | Prime matter is nothing but its parts [Vanini] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
23061 | Free atheism should start by questioning its faith in humanity [Gray] |
23057 | Gnosticism has a supreme creator God, giving way to a possibly hostile Demiurge [Gray] |
23313 | The Gnostic demiurge (creator) is deluded, and doesn't care about us [Frede,M] |
23056 | Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE [Gray] |
23055 | Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |
23058 | Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self [Gray] |