16 ideas
23326 | In the third century Stoicism died out, replaced by Platonism, with Aristotelian ethics [Frede,M] |
23335 | In late antiquity nearly all philosophers were monotheists [Frede,M] |
23333 | The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity [Frede,M] |
23334 | For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis) [Frede,M] |
23337 | The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos [Frede,M] |
8353 | Freedom involves acting according to an idea [Anscombe] |
8352 | To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events [Anscombe] |
23336 | There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good [Frede,M] |
6000 | The goal is rationality in the selection of things according to nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
5999 | The good is what is perfect by nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
6001 | Justice is a disposition to distribute according to desert [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
8351 | With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects [Anscombe] |
4777 | The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..) [Anscombe] |
10363 | Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Anscombe, by Schaffer,J] |
8350 | Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions [Anscombe] |
23313 | The Gnostic demiurge (creator) is deluded, and doesn't care about us [Frede,M] |