13 ideas
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
13550 | To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca] |
13549 | Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
13548 | The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |