12 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] |
| 3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
| 8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
| 3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
| 23333 | The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity [Frede,M] |
| 23334 | For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis) [Frede,M] |
| 23337 | The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos [Frede,M] |
| 23336 | There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good [Frede,M] |
| 3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |
| 10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
| 23313 | The Gnostic demiurge (creator) is deluded, and doesn't care about us [Frede,M] |