11 ideas
16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
22445 | Morality shows murder is wrong, but not what counts as a murder [Foot] |
22444 | A moral system must deal with the dangers and benefits of life [Foot] |
22447 | Saying something 'just is' right or wrong creates an illusion of fact and objectivity [Foot] |
22448 | We sometimes just use the word 'should' to impose a rule of conduct on someone [Foot] |
22446 | In the case of something lacking independence, calling it a human being is a matter of choice [Foot] |
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] |