10 ideas
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
4581 | Virtues and vices are like secondary qualities in perception, found in observers, not objects [Hume] |
4580 | All virtues benefit either the public, or the individual who possesses them [Hume] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
4579 | The idea of a final cause is very uncertain and unphilosophical [Hume] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
20705 | That events could be uncaused is absurd; I only say intuition and demonstration don't show this [Hume] |