35 ideas
21405 | Cicero sees wisdom in terms of knowledge, but earlier Stoics saw it as moral [Cicero, by Long] |
20871 | Unfortunately we choose a way of life before we are old enough to think clearly [Cicero] |
18005 | Philosophy aims to become more disciplined about categories [Ryle] |
18450 | Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body [Porphyry] |
18451 | The presence of the incorporeal is only known by certain kinds of disposition [Porphyry] |
14297 | A dispositional property is not a state, but a liability to be in some state, given a condition [Ryle] |
14300 | No physical scientist now believes in an occult force-exerting agency [Ryle] |
18459 | Diversity arises from the power of unity [Porphyry] |
18452 | Memory is not conserved images, but reproduction of previous thought [Porphyry] |
18453 | Intelligence is aware of itself, so the intelligence is both the thinker and the thought [Porphyry] |
18462 | The soul is everywhere and nowhere in the body, and must be its cause [Porphyry] |
2622 | Can one movement have a mental and physical cause? [Ryle] |
18463 | Successful introspection reveals the substrate along with the object of thought [Porphyry] |
1353 | Reporting on myself has the same problems as reporting on you [Ryle] |
1354 | We cannot introspect states of anger or panic [Ryle] |
2624 | I cannot prepare myself for the next thought I am going to think [Ryle] |
18458 | The soul is bound to matter by the force of its own disposition [Porphyry] |
2620 | Dualism is a category mistake [Ryle] |
2388 | Behaviour depends on desires as well as beliefs [Chalmers on Ryle] |
3354 | You can't explain mind as dispositions, if they aren't real [Benardete,JA on Ryle] |
2387 | How can behaviour be the cause of behaviour? [Chalmers on Ryle] |
18464 | Justice is each person fulfilling his function [Porphyry] |
18448 | We should avoid the pleasures of love, or at least, should not enact our dreams [Porphyry] |
18444 | Civil virtues make us behave benevolently, and thereby unite citizens [Porphyry] |
18445 | Civil virtues control the passions, and make us conform to our nature [Porphyry] |
18446 | Purificatory virtues detach the soul completely from the passions [Porphyry] |
18447 | There are practical, purificatory, contemplative, and exemplary virtues [Porphyry] |
6031 | The essence of propriety is consistency [Cicero] |
18456 | Unified real existence is neither great nor small, though greatness and smallness participate in it [Porphyry] |
18454 | Time is the circular movement of the soul [Porphyry] |
18455 | Some think time is seen at rest, as well as in movement [Porphyry] |
18460 | God is nowhere, and hence everywhere [Porphyry] |
18461 | Everything existing proceeds from divinity, and is within divinity [Porphyry] |
18449 | Nature binds or detaches body to soul, but soul itself joins and detaches soul from body [Porphyry] |
18457 | Individual souls are all connected, though distinct, and without dividing universal Soul [Porphyry] |