10 ideas
21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |
5952 | Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch] |
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] |
5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
5950 | If only atoms exist, how do qualities arise when the atoms come together? [Plutarch] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |