15 ideas
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
604 | Knowledge is mind and knowing 'cohabiting' [Lycophron, by Aristotle] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |