16 ideas
22864 | Philosophy is the study and criticsm of cultural beliefs, to achieve new possibilities [Dewey] |
20771 | Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius] |
22873 | Liberalism should improve the system, and not just ameliorate it [Dewey] |
22869 | Knowledge is either the product of competent enquiry, or it is meaningless [Dewey] |
22867 | The quest for certainty aims for peace, and avoidance of the stress of action [Dewey] |
22870 | No belief can be so settled that it is not subject to further inquiry [Dewey] |
604 | Knowledge is mind and knowing 'cohabiting' [Lycophron, by Aristotle] |
22866 | Mind is never isolated, but only exists in its interactions [Dewey] |
6028 | Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius] |
20831 | The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes] |
22872 | Liberals aim to allow individuals to realise their capacities [Dewey] |
22880 | The things in civilisation we prize are the products of other members of our community [Dewey] |
22879 | 'God' is an imaginative unity of ideal values [Dewey] |
5993 | The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman] |
22877 | We should try attaching the intensity of religious devotion to intelligent social action [Dewey] |
22878 | Religions are so shockingly diverse that they have no common element [Dewey] |