12 ideas
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
13157 | Choose the true hypothesis, which is the most intelligible one [Leibniz] |
16660 | Are things distinct if they are both separate, or if only one of them can be separate? [Duns Scotus, by Pasnau] |
16626 | Substance is only grasped under the general heading of 'being' [Duns Scotus] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
13158 | The Copernican theory is right because it is the only one offering a good explanation [Leibniz] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |