12 ideas
304 | Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato] |
16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato] |
303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato] |
21687 | It seems obvious to prefer the simpler of two theories, on grounds of beauty and convenience [Quine] |
21688 | There are four suspicious reasons why we prefer simpler theories [Quine] |
22480 | Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot] |
302 | What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato] |
22477 | Calling a knife or farmer or speech or root good does not involve attitudes or feelings [Foot] |
301 | Only knowledge of some sort is good [Plato] |
22478 | The essential thing is the 'needs' of plants and animals, and their operative parts [Foot] |
305 | Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato] |
22479 | Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot] |