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5958 | The sun is always bright; it doesn't become bright when it emerges [Plutarch] |
Full Idea: The sun doesn't become bright when it emerges from the clouds; it always is bright. | |
From: Plutarch (26: Oracles in Decline [c.85], §39) | |
A reaction: Not an argument, but a nice appeal to common sense, like Russell's example of the cat that disappears behind the furniture and then reappears. To disagree with Plutarch here strikes me as the road to philosophical absurdity. |
1490 | You would have to be very morally lazy to ignore criticisms of your own culture [Nagel] |
Full Idea: One would have to be very morally lazy to be unconcerned with the possibility that the prevailing morality of one's culture had something fundamentally wrong with it. | |
From: Thomas Nagel (MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment [1988], 203) |
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? |