16 ideas
16000 | Fixed ideas should be tackled aggressively [Kierkegaard] |
16012 | Philosophy can't be unbiased if it ignores language, as that is no more independent than individuals are [Kierkegaard] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
16003 | If people marry just because they are lonely, that is self-love, not love [Kierkegaard] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
21910 | Our destiny is the highest pitch of world-weariness [Kierkegaard] |
16001 | Life may be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards [Kierkegaard] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
16008 | The best way to be a Christian is without 'Christianity' [Kierkegaard] |
20735 | We need to see that Christianity cannot be understood [Kierkegaard] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |