13 ideas
21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
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] |
16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |
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] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |