17 ideas
7500 | Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault] |
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
14528 | Maybe modal thought is unavoidable, as a priori recognition of necessary truth-preservation in reasoning [Hale/Hoffmann,A] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
7501 | Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
7498 | Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault] |
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] |
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] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |