14 ideas
6855 | Interesting philosophers hardly every give you explicitly valid arguments [Martin,M] |
6856 | Valid arguments can be rejected by challenging the premises or presuppositions [Martin,M] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
6857 | An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be [Martin,M] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
6012 | We must choose in which of the virtues we wish to excel [Panaetius] |
6013 | Panaetius said we should live according to our natural starting-points [Panaetius, by Asmis] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
6014 | Panaetius identified courage with great-mindedness, preferring civic courage to military [Panaetius, by Asmis] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
5888 | Souls are born, since they are sensitive and inherited, so they must perish [Panaetius, by Cicero] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |