30 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
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] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
6685 | 'Subjectivism' is an extension of relativism from the social group to the individual [Graham] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
6699 | The chain of consequences may not be the same as the chain of responsibility [Graham] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
6698 | Negative consequences are very hard (and possibly impossible) to assess [Graham] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
6700 | We can't criticise people because of unforeseeable consequences [Graham] |
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] |
6704 | Egoism submits to desires, but cannot help form them [Graham] |
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] |
6701 | Rescue operations need spontaneous benevolence, not careful thought [Graham] |
6693 | 'What if everybody did that?' rather misses the point as an objection to cheating [Graham] |
6691 | It is more plausible to say people can choose between values, than that they can create them [Graham] |
6688 | Life is only absurd if you expected an explanation and none turns up [Graham] |
6705 | Existentialism may transcend our nature, unlike eudaimonism [Graham] |
6690 | A standard problem for existentialism is the 'sincere Nazi' [Graham] |
6689 | The key to existentialism: the way you make choices is more important than what you choose [Graham] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |
6706 | The great religions are much more concerned with the religious life than with ethics [Graham] |
6709 | Western religion saves us from death; Eastern religion saves us from immortality [Graham] |