14 ideas
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
23681 | The first motion or effect cannot be produced necessarily, so the First Cause must be a free agent [Reid] |
23676 | A willed action needs reasonable understanding of what is to be done [Reid] |
23680 | We are morally free, because we experience it, we are accountable, and we pursue projects [Reid] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
23678 | A motive is merely an idea, like advice, and not a force for action [Reid] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
23677 | We all know that mere priority or constant conjunction do not have to imply causation [Reid] |
23679 | The principle of the law of nature is that matter is passive, and is acted upon [Reid] |
15877 | The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |