50 ideas
354 | Wisdom makes virtue and true goodness possible [Plato] |
5333 | Philosophy needs wisdom about who we are, as well as how we ought to be [Flanagan] |
21943 | Since Kant, self-criticism has been part of philosophy [Gutting] |
370 | Philosophy is a purification of the soul ready for the afterlife [Plato] |
5334 | We resist science partly because it can't provide ethical wisdom [Flanagan] |
21944 | Structuralism describes human phenomena in terms of unconscious structures [Gutting] |
350 | In investigation the body leads us astray, but the soul gets a clear view of the facts [Plato] |
24226 | The soul on its own enters a pure, unchanging and eternal realm, and experiences wisdom [Plato] |
362 | The greatest misfortune for a person is to develop a dislike for argument [Plato] |
13155 | If you add one to one, which one becomes two, or do they both become two? [Plato] |
21347 | If Simmias is taller than Socrates, that isn't a feature that is just in Simmias [Plato] |
360 | We must have a prior knowledge of equality, if we see 'equal' things and realise they fall short of it [Plato] |
24230 | The Forms arise whenever we talk of something 'in itself'. [Plato] |
24225 | Things like the Equal and the Beautiful, which are real, must be unchanging [Plato] |
24227 | One and one can only become two by sharing in Twoness [Plato] |
368 | Other things are named after the Forms because they participate in them [Plato] |
1 | There is only one source for all beauty [Plato] |
16516 | The ship which Theseus took to Crete is now sent to Delos crowned with flowers [Plato] |
357 | People are obviously recollecting when they react to a geometrical diagram [Plato] |
359 | If we feel the inadequacy of a resemblance, we must recollect the original [Plato] |
9343 | To achieve pure knowledge, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things with the soul [Plato] |
5340 | Explanation does not entail prediction [Flanagan] |
15859 | To investigate the causes of things, study what is best for them [Plato] |
5346 | In the 17th century a collisionlike view of causation made mental causation implausible [Flanagan] |
13154 | Do we think and experience with blood, air or fire, or could it be our brain? [Plato] |
5341 | Only you can have your subjective experiences because only you are hooked up to your nervous system [Flanagan] |
364 | One soul can't be more or less of a soul than another [Plato] |
5351 | We only have a sense of our self as continuous, not as exactly the same [Flanagan] |
5353 | The self is an abstraction which magnifies important aspects of autobiography [Flanagan] |
5354 | We are not born with a self; we develop a self through living [Flanagan] |
5349 | For Buddhists a fixed self is a morally dangerous illusion [Flanagan] |
5338 | Normal free will claims control of what I do, but a stronger view claims control of thought and feeling [Flanagan] |
5344 | Free will is held to give us a whole list of desirable capacities for living [Flanagan] |
5332 | People believe they have free will that circumvents natural law, but only an incorporeal mind could do this [Flanagan] |
5345 | We only think of ourselves as having free will because we first thought of God that way [Flanagan] |
5343 | People largely came to believe in dualism because it made human agents free [Flanagan] |
5347 | Behaviourism notoriously has nothing to say about mental causation [Flanagan] |
5339 | Cars and bodies obey principles of causation, without us knowing any 'strict laws' about them [Flanagan] |
5342 | Physicalism doesn't deny that the essence of an experience is more than its neural realiser [Flanagan] |
5335 | Emotions are usually very apt, rather than being non-rational and fickle [Flanagan] |
5348 | Intellectualism admires the 'principled actor', non-intellectualism admires the 'good character' [Flanagan] |
5355 | Cognitivists think morals are discovered by reason [Flanagan] |
5336 | Ethics is the science of the conditions that lead to human flourishing [Flanagan] |
361 | It is a mistake to think that the most violent pleasure or pain is therefore the truest reality [Plato] |
351 | War aims at the acquisition of wealth, because we are enslaved to the body [Plato] |
13156 | Fancy being unable to distinguish a cause from its necessary background conditions! [Plato] |
369 | If the Earth is spherical and in the centre, it is kept in place by universal symmetry, not by force [Plato] |
5350 | The Hindu doctrine of reincarnation only appeared in the eighth century CE [Flanagan] |
363 | Whether the soul pre-exists our body depends on whether it contains the ultimate standard of reality [Plato] |
5352 | The idea of the soul gets some support from the scientific belief in essential 'natural kinds' [Flanagan] |