19 ideas
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
16668 | Modes of things exist in some way, without being full-blown substances [Gassendi] |
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
13166 | Essences are no use in mathematics, if all mathematical truths are necessary [Mancosu] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
3400 | Things must have parts to intermingle [Gassendi] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
16593 | Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi] |
16729 | How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi] |
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] |
23056 | Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE [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] |
23055 | Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed [Gray] |
23058 | Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self [Gray] |