20 ideas
| 16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
| 6253 | Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson] |
| 16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
| 16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
| 5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
| 283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
| 22098 | Socrates neglects the gap between knowing what is good and doing good [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
| 282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
| 6256 | Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson] |
| 6252 | Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson] |
| 281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
| 6257 | You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson] |
| 22096 | Anxiety is not a passing mood, but a response to human freedom [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
| 22097 | The ultimate in life is learning to be anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard] |
| 21909 | Ultimate knowledge is being anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard] |
| 20758 | Anxiety is staring into the yawning abyss of freedom [Kierkegaard] |
| 22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |
| 6254 | We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson] |
| 6255 | Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson] |