24 ideas
12251 | Substantial forms are not understood, and explain nothing [Descartes] |
3847 | Man is nothing else but the sum of his actions [Sartre] |
5952 | Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch] |
3846 | Man IS freedom [Sartre] |
5951 | If atoms have no qualities, they cannot possibly produce a mind [Plutarch] |
20796 | Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity [Plutarch] |
3843 | There is no human nature [Sartre] |
20762 | There are no values to justify us, and no excuses [Sartre] |
3852 | If values depend on us, freedom is the foundation of all values [Sartre] |
20764 | In becoming what we want to be we create what we think man ought to be [Sartre] |
5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
3848 | Cowards are responsible for their cowardice [Sartre] |
20763 | When my personal freedom becomes involved, I must want freedom for everyone else [Sartre] |
22229 | Existentialists says that cowards and heroes make themselves [Sartre] |
3842 | Existence before essence (or begin with the subjective) [Sartre] |
6868 | 'Existence precedes essence' means we have no pre-existing self, but create it through existence [Sartre, by Le Poidevin] |
3844 | Existentialism says man is whatever he makes of himself [Sartre] |
20754 | It is dishonest to offer passions as an excuse [Sartre] |
6571 | When a man must choose between his mother and the Resistance, no theory can help [Sartre, by Fogelin] |
3851 | If I do not choose, that is still a choice [Sartre] |
5950 | If only atoms exist, how do qualities arise when the atoms come together? [Plutarch] |
3845 | Without God there is no intelligibility or value [Sartre] |
16772 | An angelic mind would not experience pain, even when connected to a human body [Descartes, by Pasnau] |
5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |