10 ideas
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
16705 | Whiteness isn't created in an alteration, because it is just this-being-white [Oresme] |
16695 | Successive entities are in flux, flowing in existence, with different parts at different times [Oresme] |
5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
3018 | People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
1751 | Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |