8 ideas
4581 | Virtues and vices are like secondary qualities in perception, found in observers, not objects [Hume] |
20991 | People prepare our dinner from their own self-interest, not from humanity [Smith,A] |
4580 | All virtues benefit either the public, or the individual who possesses them [Hume] |
20680 | Selfish profit-seeking increases collective wealth, so greed is good, and egoism is altruism [Smith,A, by Harari] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
4579 | The idea of a final cause is very uncertain and unphilosophical [Hume] |
20705 | That events could be uncaused is absurd; I only say intuition and demonstration don't show this [Hume] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |