13 ideas
20455 | Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy [Critchley] |
16137 | Earlier views of Aristotle were dominated by 'Categories' [Frede,M] |
20446 | Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics [Critchley] |
20449 | Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life [Critchley] |
20448 | Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life [Critchley] |
5987 | Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von] |
20454 | Wallace Stevens is the greatest philosophical poet of the twentieth century in English [Critchley] |
20456 | Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands [Critchley] |
20447 | The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good? [Critchley] |
20452 | Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility [Critchley] |
20450 | The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism [Critchley] |
20451 | Belief that humans are wicked leads to authoritarian politics [Critchley] |
24043 | Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle] |