15 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
8988 | Two marxist ideas have dominated in France: base and superstructure, and ideology [Scruton] |
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
8987 | On the surface of deconstructive writing, technicalities float and then drift away [Scruton] |
8992 | Deconstruction is the last spasm of romanticism, now become hopeless and destructive [Scruton] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
8989 | The benefits of social freedom outweigh the loneliness, doubt and alienation it brings [Scruton] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
8990 | So-called 'liberation' is the enemy of freedom, destroying the very structures that are needed [Scruton] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |