14 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
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] |
15571 | The idea of an atemporal realm of validity is as implausible as medieval theology [Heidegger] |
18528 | The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol] |
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] |
282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
15581 | Dasein is always only that which it has chosen to be [Heidegger] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
16589 | Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |
16651 | God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol] |