15 ideas
23326 | In the third century Stoicism died out, replaced by Platonism, with Aristotelian ethics [Frede,M] |
23335 | In late antiquity nearly all philosophers were monotheists [Frede,M] |
9808 | Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou] |
9812 | In mathematics, if a problem can be formulated, it will eventually be solved [Badiou] |
9813 | Mathematics shows that thinking is not confined to the finite [Badiou] |
9809 | Mathematics inscribes being as such [Badiou] |
9811 | It is of the essence of being to appear [Badiou] |
23333 | The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity [Frede,M] |
23337 | The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos [Frede,M] |
23334 | For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis) [Frede,M] |
23336 | There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good [Frede,M] |
9814 | All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
23313 | The Gnostic demiurge (creator) is deluded, and doesn't care about us [Frede,M] |