16 ideas
| 9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
| 20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
| 9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
| 20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
| 9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
| 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] |
| 21240 | The truth about events always comes from the oppressed and disadvantaged [Sartre, by Bakewell] |
| 9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
| 9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
| 9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
| 20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
| 9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |
| 20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |