Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Saundaranandakavya', 'Prolegomena to Ethics' and 'fragments/reports'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

8 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

21336

Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke [Crates of Thebes, by Plutarch]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

7910	Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

1767	Everyone should study philosophy until they see all people in the same light [Crates of Thebes, by Diog. Laertius]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics

23035

The good life aims at perfections, or absolute laws, or what is absolutely desirable [Green,TH]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / c. Liberal equality

23037

People are improved by egalitarian institutions and habits [Green,TH]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / e. Liberal community

23043

All talk of the progress of a nation must reduce to the progress of its individual members [Green,TH]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7909	The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven

7908	At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha]