42 ideas
| 22864 | Philosophy is the study and criticsm of cultural beliefs, to achieve new possibilities [Dewey] |
| 18450 | Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body [Porphyry] |
| 22873 | Liberalism should improve the system, and not just ameliorate it [Dewey] |
| 18451 | The presence of the incorporeal is only known by certain kinds of disposition [Porphyry] |
| 15034 | Are genera and species real or conceptual? bodies or incorporeal? in sensibles or separate from them? [Porphyry] |
| 18459 | Diversity arises from the power of unity [Porphyry] |
| 22869 | Knowledge is either the product of competent enquiry, or it is meaningless [Dewey] |
| 22868 | The value and truth of knowledge are measured by success in activity [Dewey] |
| 21516 | We want certainty in order achieve secure results for action [Dewey] |
| 22867 | The quest for certainty aims for peace, and avoidance of the stress of action [Dewey] |
| 22870 | No belief can be so settled that it is not subject to further inquiry [Dewey] |
| 18452 | Memory is not conserved images, but reproduction of previous thought [Porphyry] |
| 22866 | Mind is never isolated, but only exists in its interactions [Dewey] |
| 18453 | Intelligence is aware of itself, so the intelligence is both the thinker and the thought [Porphyry] |
| 18462 | The soul is everywhere and nowhere in the body, and must be its cause [Porphyry] |
| 22865 | Habits constitute the self [Dewey] |
| 18463 | Successful introspection reveals the substrate along with the object of thought [Porphyry] |
| 18458 | The soul is bound to matter by the force of its own disposition [Porphyry] |
| 8478 | Dewey argued long before Wittgenstein that there could not seriously be a private language [Dewey, by Orenstein] |
| 18464 | Justice is each person fulfilling his function [Porphyry] |
| 18448 | We should avoid the pleasures of love, or at least, should not enact our dreams [Porphyry] |
| 18444 | Civil virtues make us behave benevolently, and thereby unite citizens [Porphyry] |
| 18445 | Civil virtues control the passions, and make us conform to our nature [Porphyry] |
| 18446 | Purificatory virtues detach the soul completely from the passions [Porphyry] |
| 22871 | The good people are those who improve; the bad are those who deteriorate [Dewey] |
| 18447 | There are practical, purificatory, contemplative, and exemplary virtues [Porphyry] |
| 22876 | Democracy is the development of human nature when it shares in the running of communal activities [Dewey] |
| 22875 | Democracy is not just a form of government; it is a mode of shared living [Dewey] |
| 22872 | Liberals aim to allow individuals to realise their capacities [Dewey] |
| 22874 | Individuality is only developed within groups [Dewey] |
| 22880 | The things in civilisation we prize are the products of other members of our community [Dewey] |
| 18456 | Unified real existence is neither great nor small, though greatness and smallness participate in it [Porphyry] |
| 18454 | Time is the circular movement of the soul [Porphyry] |
| 18455 | Some think time is seen at rest, as well as in movement [Porphyry] |
| 22879 | 'God' is an imaginative unity of ideal values [Dewey] |
| 18460 | God is nowhere, and hence everywhere [Porphyry] |
| 1515 | Pythagoreans believe it is absurd to seek for goodness anywhere except with the gods [Iamblichus] |
| 18461 | Everything existing proceeds from divinity, and is within divinity [Porphyry] |
| 22877 | We should try attaching the intensity of religious devotion to intelligent social action [Dewey] |
| 22878 | Religions are so shockingly diverse that they have no common element [Dewey] |
| 18449 | Nature binds or detaches body to soul, but soul itself joins and detaches soul from body [Porphyry] |
| 18457 | Individual souls are all connected, though distinct, and without dividing universal Soul [Porphyry] |