16 ideas
8766 | In much wisdom is much grief [Anon (Ecc)] |
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
8767 | Sorrow is better than laughter [Anon (Ecc)] |
7494 | Laughter is mad; of mirth, what doeth it? [Anon (Ecc)] |
2614 | Modern phenomenalism holds that objects are logical constructions out of sense-data [Ayer] |
16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
2615 | The concept of sense-data allows us to discuss appearances without worrying about reality [Ayer] |
7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
8765 | All is vanity, saith the Preacher [Anon (Ecc)] |
8768 | Books are endless, and study is wearisome [Anon (Ecc)] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |