27 ideas
19579 | The history of philosophy is just experiments in how to do philosophy [Novalis] |
19583 | Philosophy only begins when it studies itself [Novalis] |
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
19581 | A problem is a solid mass, which the mind must break up [Novalis] |
19584 | Whoever first counted to two must have seen the possibility of infinite counting [Novalis] |
22025 | Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures [Novalis, by Pinkard] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
22067 | Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe [Novalis] |
16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
19585 | Every person has his own language [Novalis] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
19582 | Morality and philosophy are mutually dependent [Novalis] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |
188 | Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato] |
204 | Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato] |
22027 | Life isn't given to us like a novel - we write the novel [Novalis] |
19580 | If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint [Novalis] |
16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |