13 ideas
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
12177 | Human artefacts may have essences, in their purposes [Popper] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
12176 | Science does not aim at ultimate explanations [Popper] |
19087 | The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
12175 | Galilean science aimed at true essences, as the ultimate explanations [Popper] |
12179 | Essentialist views of science prevent further questions from being raised [Popper] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |