16 ideas
23877 | Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil] |
20320 | Truth is what unites, and the profound truths create a community [Jaspers] |
20323 | Freedom needs knowledge, the possibility of arbitrariness, and law [Jaspers] |
20322 | I am aware that freedom is possible, and the freedom is not in theory, but in seeking freedom [Jaspers] |
21650 | No language is semantically referential; it all occurs at the level of thought or utterance [Pietroski, by Hofweber] |
23878 | Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil] |
20324 | My freedom increases as I broaden my vision of possiblities and motives [Jaspers] |
23879 | In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil] |
20318 | My helplessness in philosophising reveals my being, and begins its upsurge [Jaspers] |
20321 | The struggle for Existenz is between people who are equals, and are utterly honest [Jaspers] |
20325 | Once we grasp freedom 'from' things, then freedom 'for' things becomes urgent [Jaspers] |
20317 | Mundane existence is general, falling under universals, but Existens is unique to individuals [Jaspers] |
20315 | 'Existenz' is the potential being, which I could have, and ought to have [Jaspers] |
20319 | We want the correct grasp on being that is neither solipsism nor absorption in the crowd [Jaspers] |
20316 | Every decision I make moves towards or away from fulfilled Existenz [Jaspers] |
23880 | When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil] |