17 ideas
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
5046 | The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz] |
3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
5049 | Intelligent pleasure is the perception of beauty, order and perfection [Leibniz] |
5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |
5048 | Perfection is simply quantity of reality [Leibniz] |
5050 | Evil serves a greater good, and pain is necessary for higher pleasure [Leibniz] |