43 ideas
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
15845 | It seems absurd that seeing a person's limbs, the one is many, and yet the many are one [Plato] |
9867 | It is absurd to define a circle, but not be able to recognise a real one [Plato] |
9865 | Daily arithmetic counts unequal things, but pure arithmetic equalises them [Plato] |
15857 | Any mixture which lacks measure and proportion doesn't even count as a mixture at all [Plato] |
14503 | If a mixture does not contain measure and proportion, it is corrupted and destroyed [Plato] |
13168 | My formal unifying atoms are substantial forms, which are forces like appetites [Leibniz] |
13169 | I call Aristotle's entelechies 'primitive forces', which originate activity [Leibniz] |
4447 | If the good is one, is it unchanged when it is in particulars, and is it then separated from itself? [Plato] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
13170 | The analysis of things leads to atoms of substance, which found both composition and action [Leibniz] |
15856 | A thing can become one or many, depending on how we talk about it [Plato] |
13171 | Substance must necessarily involve progress and change [Leibniz] |
374 | If one object is divided into its parts, someone can then say that one are many and many is one [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
389 | How can you be certain about aspects of the world if they aren't constant? [Plato] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
390 | If goodness involves moderation and proportion, then it seems to be found in beauty [Plato] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
392 | Neither intellect nor pleasure are the good, because they are not perfect and self-sufficient [Plato] |
391 | The good involves beauty, proportion and truth [Plato] |
393 | Good first, then beauty, then reason, then knowledge, then pleasure [Plato, by PG] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
385 | Some of the pleasures and pains we feel are false [Plato] |
387 | A small pure pleasure is much finer than a large one contaminated with pain [Plato] |
373 | Pleasure is certainly very pleasant, but it doesn't follow that all pleasures are good [Plato] |
379 | The good must be sufficient and perfect, and neither intellect nor pleasure are that [Plato] |
371 | Reason, memory, truth and wisdom are far better than pleasure, for those who can attain them [Plato] |
376 | Would you prefer a life of pleasure without reason, or one of reason without pleasure? [Plato] |
382 | It is unlikely that the gods feel either pleasure or pain [Plato] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
381 | We feel pleasure when we approach our natural state of harmony [Plato] |
386 | Intense pleasure and pain are not felt in a good body, but in a worthless one [Plato] |
388 | Hedonists must say that someone in pain is bad, even if they are virtuous [Plato] |
377 | If you lived a life of maximum pleasure, would you still be lacking anything? [Plato] |
378 | A life of pure pleasure with no intellect is the life of a jellyfish [Plato] |
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] |
13167 | We need the metaphysical notion of force to explain mechanics, and not just extended mass [Leibniz] |