11 ideas
7500 | Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault] |
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
6253 | Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
6256 | Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson] |
7501 | Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault] |
6252 | Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson] |
7498 | Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault] |
6257 | You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson] |
6254 | We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson] |
6255 | Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson] |