14 ideas
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
6027 | From the fact that some men die, we cannot infer that they all do [Philodemus] |
20034 | Intentions must be mutually consistent, affirm appropriate means, and fit the agent's beliefs [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall] |
20033 | Intentions are normative, requiring commitment and further plans [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall] |
20026 | Intention is either the aim of an action, or a long-term constraint on what we can do [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall] |
20032 | Bratman rejected reducing intentions to belief-desire, because they motivate, and have their own standards [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall] |
22241 | Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |