25 ideas
4424 | A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche] |
22338 | An unexamined life can be virtuous [Murdoch] |
22337 | Philosophy must keep returning to the beginning [Murdoch] |
23563 | Philosophy moves continually between elaborate theories and the obvious facts [Murdoch] |
22341 | Literature is the most important aspect of culture, because it teaches understanding of living [Murdoch] |
22347 | Appreciating beauty in art or nature opens up the good life, by restricting selfishness [Murdoch] |
22339 | Love is a central concept in morals [Murdoch] |
22348 | Ordinary human love is good evidence of transcendent goodness [Murdoch] |
2886 | The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche] |
4426 | A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done [Nietzsche] |
22343 | If I attend properly I will have no choices [Murdoch] |
22349 | Art trains us in the love of virtue [Murdoch] |
22340 | It is hard to learn goodness from others, because their virtues are part of their personal history [Murdoch] |
22350 | Only trivial virtues can be possessed on their own [Murdoch] |
22346 | Moral reflection and experience gradually reveals unity in the moral world [Murdoch] |
4425 | The overcoming of pity I count among the noble virtues [Nietzsche] |
20132 | To become what you are you must have no self-awareness [Nietzsche] |
22342 | Kantian existentialists care greatly for reasons for action, whereas Surrealists care nothing [Murdoch] |
22351 | Only a philosopher might think choices create values [Murdoch] |
20144 | Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation [Nietzsche] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
2889 | One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil [Nietzsche] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
22345 | Moral philosophy needs a central concept with all the traditional attributes of God [Murdoch] |
2887 | I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct [Nietzsche] |