3 ideas
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
Full Idea: In singing and playing the lyre, a boy will be likely to reveal not only courage and moderation, but also justice. | |
From: Damon (fragments/reports [c.460 BCE], B4), quoted by (who?) - where? |
22230 | Sartre gradually realised that freedom is curtailed by the weight of situation [Sartre, by Daigle] |
Full Idea: Sartre evolved from a notion of absolute freedom to one that truly takes into account the weight of situation. | |
From: report of Jean-Paul Sartre (works [1950]) by Christine Daigle - Jean-Paul Sartre 2.3 | |
A reaction: This change seems to have come much later, in the 1960s. The main influence seems to have been Marxism, which claims that consciousness is created by society, rather than by free individuals. |
20919 | How can things without weight compose weight? [Alexander] |
Full Idea: How could weight come about out of things composed of what is without weight? | |
From: Alexander (On Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 2 [c.200], p.36.21-27) | |
A reaction: This is obviously why Epicurus added weight to the features of atoms. Alexander seems unaware of this move. |