12 ideas
20947 | Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder] |
8628 | I hold that algebra and number are developments of logic [Jevons] |
20949 | Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder] |
7669 | We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin] |
20937 | The state should produce higher civilisations for all, in tune with the economic apparatus [Gramsci] |
20935 | Eventually political parties lose touch with the class they represent, which is dangerous [Gramsci] |
20936 | Caesarism emerges when two forces in society are paralysed in conflict [Gramsci] |
20941 | Totalitarian parties cut their members off from other cultural organisations [Gramsci] |
20939 | What is the function of a parliament? Does it even constitute a part of the State structure? [Gramsci] |
20938 | Liberalism's weakness is its powerful rigid bureaucracy [Gramsci] |
7668 | Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin] |
20940 | Perfect political equality requires economic equality [Gramsci] |