60 ideas
18290 | But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek? [Nietzsche] |
19635 | Hegel produced modern optimism; he failed to grasp that consciousness never progresses [Hegel, by Cioran] |
8215 | Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book [Hegel, by Derrida] |
18303 | Reject wisdom that lacks laughter [Nietzsche] |
16011 | Hegel doesn't storm the heavens like the giants, but works his way up by syllogisms [Kierkegaard on Hegel] |
5433 | For Hegel, things are incomplete, and contain external references in their own nature [Hegel, by Russell] |
3301 | On the continent it is generally believed that metaphysics died with Hegel [Benardete,JA on Hegel] |
19661 | Making sufficient reason an absolute devalues the principle of non-contradiction [Hegel, by Meillassoux] |
20952 | Rather than in three stages, Hegel presented his dialectic as 'negation of the negation' [Hegel, by Bowie] |
18305 | To love truth, you must know how to lie [Nietzsche] |
21777 | Negation of negation doubles back into a self-relationship [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
5645 | The dialectical opposition of being and nothing is resolved in passing to the concept of becoming [Hegel, by Scruton] |
5646 | Hegel gives an ontological proof of the existence of everything [Hegel, by Scruton] |
21755 | For Hegel, categories shift their form in the course of history [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
21754 | Our concepts and categories disclose the world, because we are part of the world [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
22079 | Hegel said Kant's fixed categories actually vary with culture and era [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
9225 | Hegel reputedly claimed to know a priori that there are five planets [Hegel, by Field,H] |
20757 | The powerful self behind your thoughts and feelings is your body [Nietzsche] |
18289 | Forget the word 'I'; 'I' is performed by the intelligence of your body [Nietzsche] |
3772 | The will, in the beginning, is entirely produced by desire [Mill] |
18299 | The will is constantly frustrated by the past [Nietzsche] |
3769 | With early training, any absurdity or evil may be given the power of conscience [Mill] |
18297 | We created meanings, to maintain ourselves [Nietzsche] |
18293 | The noble man wants new virtues; the good man preserves what is old [Nietzsche] |
18301 | We only really love children and work [Nietzsche] |
3767 | Motive shows the worth of the agent, but not of the action [Mill] |
18307 | I want my work, not happiness! [Nietzsche] |
3771 | Virtues only have value because they achieve some further end [Mill] |
18291 | Virtues can destroy one another, through jealousy [Nietzsche] |
18287 | People now find both wealth and poverty too much of a burden [Nietzsche] |
18295 | If you want friends, you must be a fighter [Nietzsche] |
3768 | Orthodox morality is the only one which feels obligatory [Mill] |
3776 | Utilitarianism only works if everybody has a totally equal right to happiness [Mill] |
7202 | The English believe in the task of annihilating evil for the victory of good [Nietzsche on Mill] |
5935 | Mill's qualities of pleasure is an admission that there are other good states of mind than pleasure [Ross on Mill] |
3764 | Actions are right if they promote pleasure, wrong if they promote pain [Mill] |
3763 | Ultimate goods such as pleasure can never be proved to be good [Mill] |
3765 | Only pleasure and freedom from pain are desirable as ends [Mill] |
3766 | Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied [Mill] |
3770 | General happiness is only desirable because individuals desire their own happiness [Mill] |
6697 | Moral rules protecting human welfare are more vital than local maxims [Mill] |
21758 | Humans have no fixed identity, but produce and reveal their shifting identity in history [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
18286 | The greatest experience possible is contempt for your own happiness, reason and virtue [Nietzsche] |
20414 | Hegel's Absolute Spirit is the union of human rational activity at a moment, and whatever that sustains [Hegel, by Eldridge] |
18296 | An enduring people needs its own individual values [Nietzsche] |
3774 | Rights are a matter of justice, not of benevolence [Mill] |
3773 | No individual has the right to receive our benevolence [Mill] |
3909 | Society isn’t founded on a contract, since contracts presuppose a society [Hegel, by Scruton] |
18294 | The state coldly claims that it is the people, but that is a lie [Nietzsche] |
18304 | Saints want to live as they desire, or not to live at all [Nietzsche] |
3775 | A right is a valid claim to society's protection [Mill] |
18300 | Whenever we have seen suffering, we have wanted the revenge of punishment [Nietzsche] |
18302 | Man and woman are deeply strange to one another! [Nietzsche] |
4347 | When man wills the natural, it is no longer natural [Hegel] |
18292 | I can only believe in a God who can dance [Nietzsche] |
4188 | Hegel's entire philosophy is nothing but a monstrous amplification of the ontological proof [Schopenhauer on Hegel] |
18298 | Not being a god is insupportable, so there are no gods! [Nietzsche] |
6686 | Hegel said he was offering an encyclopaedic rationalisation of Christianity [Hegel, by Graham] |
18288 | Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying [Nietzsche] |
18306 | We don't want heaven; now that we are men, we want the kingdom of earth [Nietzsche] |