14 ideas
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
304 | Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato] |
16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato] |
303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato] |
6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes] |
6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes] |
302 | What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato] |
6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes] |
301 | Only knowledge of some sort is good [Plato] |
6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
305 | Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |