10 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] |
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] |
18202 | The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld] |