27 ideas
7578 | I conceived it my task to create difficulties everywhere [Kierkegaard] |
22047 | Wherever there is painless contradiction there is also comedy [Kierkegaard] |
13917 | Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe] |
13919 | Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things [Lowe] |
22092 | Kierkegaard's truth draws on authenticity, fidelity and honesty [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
15999 | Pure truth is for infinite beings only; I prefer endless striving for truth [Kierkegaard] |
20313 | The highest truth we can get is uncertainty held fast by an inward passion [Kierkegaard] |
12312 | The real essence of a thing is its powers, or 'dispositional properties' [Copi] |
13918 | Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe] |
10937 | Essential properties are the 'deepest' ones which explain the others [Copi, by Rami] |
13921 | All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe] |
12308 | In modern science, nominal essence is intended to be real essence [Copi] |
13922 | Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe] |
12303 | Within the four types of change, essential attributes are those whose loss means destruction [Copi] |
13920 | Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe] |
20742 | The real subject is ethical, not cognitive [Kierkegaard] |
7579 | While big metaphysics is complete without ethics, personal philosophy emphasises ethics [Kierkegaard] |
7581 | Speculative philosophy loses the individual in a vast vision of humanity [Kierkegaard] |
20314 | People want to lose themselves in movements and history, instead of being individuals [Kierkegaard] |
7582 | Becoming what one is is a huge difficulty, because we strongly aspire to be something else [Kierkegaard] |
12307 | Modern science seeks essences, and is getting closer to them [Copi] |
12310 | Real essences are scientifically knowable, but so are non-essential properties [Copi] |
7586 | God does not think or exist; God creates, and is eternal [Kierkegaard] |
20312 | God cannot be demonstrated objectively, because God is a subject, only existing inwardly [Kierkegaard] |
7580 | Pantheism destroys the distinction between good and evil [Kierkegaard] |
7583 | Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity [Kierkegaard] |
7584 | Without risk there is no faith [Kierkegaard] |