13 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] |
8443 | Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa] |
23334 | For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis) [Frede,M] |
22040 | Freedom is produced by the activity of the mind, and is not intrinsically given [Hegel] |
23333 | The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity [Frede,M] |
23337 | The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos [Frede,M] |
22039 | Geist is distinct from nature, not as a substance, but because of its normativity [Hegel, by Pinkard] |
23336 | There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good [Frede,M] |
8442 | What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa] |
8445 | The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa] |
8444 | Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa] |
23313 | The Gnostic demiurge (creator) is deluded, and doesn't care about us [Frede,M] |