28 ideas
23755 | Genius and love of truth are always accompanied by great humility [Weil] |
16014 | It is controversial whether only 'numerical identity' allows two things to be counted as one [Noonan] |
16024 | I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not [Noonan] |
16023 | Stage theorists accept four-dimensionalism, but call each stage a whole object [Noonan] |
16016 | Identity definitions (such as self-identity, or the smallest equivalence relation) are usually circular [Noonan] |
16017 | Identity is usually defined as the equivalence relation satisfying Leibniz's Law [Noonan] |
16015 | Problems about identity can't even be formulated without the concept of identity [Noonan] |
16020 | Identity can only be characterised in a second-order language [Noonan] |
16019 | Leibniz's Law must be kept separate from the substitutivity principle [Noonan] |
16018 | Indiscernibility is basic to our understanding of identity and distinctness [Noonan] |
23747 | What is sacred is not a person, but the whole physical human being [Weil] |
23756 | The mind is imprisoned and limited by language, restricting our awareness of wider thoughts [Weil] |
23758 | Beauty is an attractive mystery, leaving nothing to be desired [Weil] |
23760 | All we need are the unity of justice, truth and beauty [Weil] |
23748 | The sacred in every human is their expectation of good rather than evil [Weil] |
23759 | Everything which originates in love is beautiful [Weil] |
23762 | Evil is transmitted by comforts and pleasures, but mostly by doing harm to people [Weil] |
23750 | It is not more money which the wretched members of society need [Weil] |
23749 | The problem of the collective is not suppression of persons, but persons erasing themselves [Weil] |
21058 | Enlightenment requires the free use of reason in the public realm [Kant] |
23753 | People absurdly claim an equal share of things which are essentially privileged [Weil] |
23751 | Rights are asserted contentiously, and need the backing of force [Weil] |
23752 | Giving centrality to rights stifles all impulses of charity [Weil] |
23757 | The spirit of justice needs the full attention of truth, and that attention is love [Weil] |
23761 | Justice (concerning harm) is distinct from rights (concerning inequality) [Weil] |
23763 | Punishment aims at the good for men who don't desire it [Weil] |
23764 | The only thing in society worse than crime is repressive justice [Weil] |
23754 | The only choice is between supernatural good, or evil [Weil] |