17 ideas
7500 | Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault] |
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
7630 | Ryle's dichotomy between knowing how and knowing that is too simplistic [Maund] |
7632 | Perception is sensation-then-concept, or direct-concepts, or sensation-saturated-in-concepts [Maund] |
7635 | Sense-data have an epistemological purpose (foundations) and a metaphysical purpose (explanation) [Maund] |
7638 | One thesis says we are not aware of qualia, but only of objects and their qualities [Maund] |
7642 | The Myth of the Given claims that thought is rationally supported by non-conceptual experiences [Maund] |
7640 | Mountains are adverbial modifications of the earth, but still have object-characteristics [Maund] |
7641 | Adverbialism tries to avoid sense-data and preserve direct realism [Maund] |
7637 | Thought content is either satisfaction conditions, or exercise of concepts [Maund, by PG] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
7501 | Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
7498 | Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault] |
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] |