17 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
16050 | The goodness of a picture supervenes on the picture; duplicates must be equally good [Hare] |
22868 | The value and truth of knowledge are measured by success in activity [Dewey] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
22865 | Habits constitute the self [Dewey] |
283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
2855 | In primary evaluative words like 'ought' prescription is constant but description can vary [Hare, by Hooker,B] |
22871 | The good people are those who improve; the bad are those who deteriorate [Dewey] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
22876 | Democracy is the development of human nature when it shares in the running of communal activities [Dewey] |
22875 | Democracy is not just a form of government; it is a mode of shared living [Dewey] |
22874 | Individuality is only developed within groups [Dewey] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |