12 ideas
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
17644 | Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory [Putnam] |
17648 | It is an illusion to think there could be one good scientific theory of reality [Putnam] |
17643 | Shape is essential relative to 'statue', but not essential relative to 'clay' [Putnam] |
17642 | The old view that sense data are independent of mind is quite dotty [Putnam] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
17645 | An alien might think oxygen was the main cause of a forest fire [Putnam] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |