19 ideas
7973 | There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard] |
7975 | The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality [Baudrillard] |
7986 | Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones [Baudrillard] |
7982 | Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled [Baudrillard] |
7974 | Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality? [Baudrillard] |
7987 | Nothing is true, but everything is exact [Baudrillard] |
7978 | There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life [Baudrillard] |
7980 | In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object [Baudrillard] |
6866 | It is disturbing if we become unreal when we die, but if time is unreal, then we remain real after death [Le Poidevin] |
7983 | Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune [Baudrillard] |
6867 | Existentialism focuses on freedom and self-making, and insertion into the world [Le Poidevin] |
7981 | Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them [Baudrillard] |
7976 | People like democracy because it means they can avoid power [Baudrillard] |
7977 | Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals [Baudrillard] |
7979 | The arrival of the news media brought history to an end [Baudrillard] |
7984 | Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored [Baudrillard] |
12709 | Motion is not absolute, but consists in relation [Leibniz] |
6865 | A-theory says past, present, future and flow exist; B-theory says this just reports our perspective [Le Poidevin] |
7985 | Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God [Baudrillard] |