16 ideas
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
6840 | Derrida came to believe in the undeconstructability of justice, which cannot be relativised [Derrida, by Critchley] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
21936 | A community must consist of singular persons, with nothing in common [Derrida, by Glendinning] |
21937 | Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical? [Derrida, by Glendinning] |
4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |