13 ideas
22002 | Wolff's version of Leibniz dominated mid-18th C German thought [Pinkard] |
22021 | Romantics explored beautiful subjectivity, and the re-enchantment of nature [Pinkard] |
22010 | The combination of Kant and the French Revolution was an excited focus for German philosophy [Pinkard] |
22036 | In Hegel's time naturalism was called 'Spinozism' [Pinkard] |
22048 | Idealism is the link between reason and freedom [Pinkard] |
17771 | How we evaluate evidence depends on our background beliefs [Bayne] |
17770 | Clifford's dictum seems to block our beliefs in morality, politics and philosophy [Bayne] |
17766 | Physicalism correlates brain and mind, explains causation by thought, and makes nature continuous [Bayne] |
17768 | Perception reveals what animals think, but humans can disengage thought from perception [Bayne] |
17769 | Some people centre space on themselves; others centre space on the earth [Bayne] |
17767 | The alternative to a language of thought is map-like or diagram-like thought [Bayne] |
20579 | Modern totalitarianism results from lack of social ties or shared goals [Arendt, by Oksala] |
20580 | The ideal subject for dictators is not a fanatic, but someone who can't distinguish true from false [Arendt, by Oksala] |