16 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
20771 | Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
6028 | Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius] |
20831 | The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [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9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
5993 | The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman] |