10 ideas
7500 | Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault] |
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] |
13918 | Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe] |
13921 | All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe] |
13922 | Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe] |
13920 | Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe] |
7501 | Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault] |
5655 | Happiness is not satisfaction of desires, but fulfilment of values [Bradley, by Scruton] |
7498 | Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault] |