15 ideas
| 20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
| 21315 | A tree remains the same in the popular sense, but not in the strict philosophical sense [Butler] |
| 20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
| 21317 | Despite consciousness fluctuating, we are aware that it belongs to one person [Butler] |
| 21313 | If consciousness of events makes our identity, then if we have forgotten them we didn't exist then [Butler] |
| 21314 | Consciousness presupposes personal identity, so it cannot constitute it [Butler] |
| 21318 | If the self changes, we have no responsibilities, and no interest in past or future [Butler] |
| 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] |
| 20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
| 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] |
| 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] |