19 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] |
19400 | Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz] |
19401 | God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz] |
19402 | The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz] |
23337 | The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos [Frede,M] |
23333 | The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity [Frede,M] |
23334 | For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis) [Frede,M] |
23336 | There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good [Frede,M] |
23429 | The environment needs localised politics, with its care for the land [Dobson] |
23424 | An ideology judges things now, and offers an ideal, with a strategy for reaching it [Dobson] |
23426 | Ecologism is often non-liberal, by claiming to know other people's best interests [Dobson] |
23427 | Socialism can be productive and centralised, or less productive and decentralised [Dobson] |
23428 | Difference feminists say women differ fundamentally from men [Dobson] |
23430 | A million years is a proper unit of political time [Dobson] |
23425 | Ecologism says growth must be reduced, and efficiency is not enough [Dobson] |
23422 | For the environment, affluence and technology matter as much as population size [Dobson] |
23423 | We currently value the present fourteen times more highly than the future [Dobson] |
23313 | The Gnostic demiurge (creator) is deluded, and doesn't care about us [Frede,M] |