10 ideas
| 20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
| 20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
| 20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
| 1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
| 23366 | We see nature's will in the ways all people are the same [Epictetus] |
| 23365 | If someone is weeping, you should sympathise and help, but not share his suffering [Epictetus] |
| 4022 | Epictetus says we should console others for misfortune, but not be moved by pity [Epictetus, by Taylor,C] |
| 20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
| 23368 | Perhaps we should persuade culprits that their punishment is just? [Epictetus] |
| 20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |