10 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] |
9103 | A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind [William of Ockham] |
23334 | For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis) [Frede,M] |
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] |
9104 | A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing [William of Ockham] |
23336 | There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good [Frede,M] |
15877 | The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré] |
23313 | The Gnostic demiurge (creator) is deluded, and doesn't care about us [Frede,M] |