11 ideas
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
23877 | Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil] |
21929 | Derrida focuses on ambiguity, but talks of 'dissemination', not traditional multiple meanings [Derrida] |
23878 | Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
23879 | In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil] |
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] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
23880 | When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil] |