20 ideas
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
20189 | Belief is a feeling, independent of the will, which arises from uncontrolled and unknown causes [Hume] |
21309 | A proposition cannot be intelligible or consistent, if the perceptions are not so [Hume] |
15755 | Hume needs a notion which includes degrees of resemblance [Shoemaker on Hume] |
5323 | Experiences are logically separate, but factually linked by simultaneity or a feeling of continuousness [Ayer on Hume] |
21311 | Are self and substance the same? Then how can self remain if substance changes? [Hume] |
21312 | Perceptions are distinct, so no connection between them can ever be discovered [Hume] |
21308 | We have no impression of the self, and we therefore have no idea of it [Hume] |
21310 | Does an oyster with one perception have a self? Would lots of perceptions change that? [Hume] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
1477 | Being manly and brave is the result of convention, not of human nature [Plutarch] |
23115 | We have no natural love of mankind, other than through various relationships [Hume] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
1478 | Animals don't value pleasure, as they cease sexual intercourse after impregnation [Plutarch] |
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] |
1479 | Animals have not been led into homosexuality, because they value pleasure very little [Plutarch] |
16946 | Causation is just invariance, as long as it is described in general terms [Quine on Hume] |
15250 | If impressions, memories and ideas only differ in vivacity, nothing says it is memory, or repetition [Whitehead on Hume] |