14 ideas
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
5046 | The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz] |
7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |