11 ideas
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
11911 | Some philosophers always want more from morality; for others, nature is enough [Blackburn] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
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] |
3018 | People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |