25 ideas
8220 | Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8217 | Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8242 | Philosophy aims at what is interesting, remarkable or important - not at knowledge or truth [Deleuze/Guattari] |
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
8223 | The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8247 | Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8224 | 'Eris' is the divinity of conflict, the opposite of Philia, the god of friendship [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8246 | Logic hates philosophy, and wishes to supplant it [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8219 | Logic has an infantile idea of philosophy [Deleuze/Guattari] |
13412 | Obtaining numbers by abstraction is impossible - there are too many; only a rule could give them, in order [Benacerraf] |
13413 | We must explain how we know so many numbers, and recognise ones we haven't met before [Benacerraf] |
13411 | If numbers are basically the cardinals (Frege-Russell view) you could know some numbers in isolation [Benacerraf] |
13415 | An adequate account of a number must relate it to its series [Benacerraf] |
8221 | We cannot judge the Cogito. Must we begin? Must we start from certainty? Can 'I' relate to thought? [Deleuze/Guattari] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
8222 | Concepts are superior because they make us more aware, and change our thinking [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8218 | Other people completely revise our perceptions, because they are possible worlds [Deleuze/Guattari] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
8248 | Phenomenology says thought is part of the world [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8245 | The logical attitude tries to turn concepts into functions, when they are really forms or forces [Deleuze/Guattari] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
8243 | Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement [Deleuze/Guattari] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |