16 ideas
22864 | Philosophy is the study and criticsm of cultural beliefs, to achieve new possibilities [Dewey] |
22873 | Liberalism should improve the system, and not just ameliorate it [Dewey] |
6019 | If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus] |
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] |
22866 | Mind is never isolated, but only exists in its interactions [Dewey] |
20416 | By 1790 aestheticians were mainly trying to explain individual artistic genius [Kemp] |
20417 | Expression can be either necessary for art, or sufficient for art (or even both) [Kemp] |
20419 | We don't already know what to express, and then seek means of expressing it [Kemp] |
20418 | The horror expressed in some works of art could equallly be expressed by other means [Kemp] |
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] |
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] |