18 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
304 | Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato] |
16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato] |
8130 | Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
302 | What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
301 | Only knowledge of some sort is good [Plato] |
305 | Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato] |
9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |