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] |
23333 | The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity [Frede,M] |
23337 | The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos [Frede,M] |
23334 | For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis) [Frede,M] |
20082 | Bodily movements are not actions, which are really the tryings within bodily movement [Hornsby, by Stout,R] |
23336 | There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good [Frede,M] |
22405 | Negative utilitarianism implies that the world should be destroyed, to avoid future misery [Smart] |
22404 | Any group interested in ethics must surely have a sentiment of generalised benevolence [Smart] |
23313 | The Gnostic demiurge (creator) is deluded, and doesn't care about us [Frede,M] |