21 ideas
21970 | Philosophy attains its goal if one person feels perfect accord between their system and experience [Fichte] |
6912 | For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason' [Fichte, by Feuerbach] |
13445 | Descartes showed a one-one order-preserving match between points on a line and the real numbers [Descartes, by Hart,WD] |
304 | Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato] |
16774 | Descartes thinks distinguishing substances from aggregates is pointless [Descartes, by Pasnau] |
16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato] |
21973 | Fichte believed in things-in-themselves [Fichte, by Moore,AW] |
21914 | We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself [Fichte] |
20951 | The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I [Fichte, by Bowie] |
21964 | Reason arises from freedom, so philosophy starts from the self, and not from the laws of nature [Fichte] |
21968 | Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking [Fichte] |
7400 | Descartes said images can refer to objects without resembling them (as words do) [Descartes, by Tuck] |
303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato] |
4310 | We have inner awareness of our freedom [Descartes] |
21965 | Spinoza could not actually believe his determinism, because living requires free will [Fichte] |
6553 | Descartes discussed the interaction problem, and compared it with gravity [Descartes, by Lycan] |
302 | What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato] |
301 | Only knowledge of some sort is good [Plato] |
305 | Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato] |
19676 | Nature is devoid of thought [Descartes, by Meillassoux] |
6518 | Matter can't just be Descartes's geometry, because a filler of the spaces is needed [Robinson,H on Descartes] |