17 ideas
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
12756 | Substance is a force for acting and being acted upon [Leibniz] |
335 | Do the gods also hold different opinions about what is right and honourable? [Plato] |
12755 | Final causes can help with explanations in physics [Leibniz] |
12760 | Something rather like souls (though not intelligent) could be found everywhere [Leibniz] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
12759 | There are atoms of substance, but no atoms of bulk or extension [Leibniz] |
12718 | Secondary matter is active and complete; primary matter is passive and incomplete [Leibniz] |
11854 | If there is some trace of God in things, that would explain their natural force [Leibniz] |
12758 | It is plausible to think substances contain the same immanent force seen in our free will [Leibniz] |
337 | It seems that the gods love things because they are pious, rather than making them pious by loving them [Plato] |
336 | Is what is pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it? (the 'Euthyphro Question') [Plato] |
19408 | To say that nature or the one universal substance is God is a pernicious doctrine [Leibniz] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |