10 ideas
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
22237 | The Greeks had a single word meaning both 'beautiful' and 'good' [Pormann] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
3018 | People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
1751 | Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
21785 | We are only free, with rights, if we claim our freedom, and there are no natural rights [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
22041 | Representatives by region ignores whether they care about the national interest [Hegel, by Pinkard] |
21781 | The absolute right is the right to have rights [Hegel] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |