13 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
9198 | It is no longer possible to be a sage, but we can practice the exercise of wisdom [Hadot] |
9197 | The logos represents a demand for universal rationality [Hadot] |
22167 | Our images of bodies are not produced by the bodies, but by our own minds [Augustine, by Aquinas] |
22117 | Our minds grasp reality by direct illumination (rather than abstraction from experience) [Augustine, by Matthews] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
22118 | Augustine created the modern concept of the will [Augustine, by Matthews] |
4348 | Love, and do what you will [Augustine] |
7821 | Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good [Augustine, by Grayling] |
9196 | The pleasure of existing is the only genuine pleasure [Hadot] |
22119 | Augustine said (unusually) that 'ought' does not imply 'can' [Augustine, by Matthews] |
22116 | Augustine identified Donatism, Pelagianism and Manicheism as the main heresies [Augustine, by Matthews] |
19338 | Augustine said evil does not really exist, and evil is a limitation in goodness [Augustine, by Perkins] |