10 ideas
7500 | Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault] |
5035 | The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
5038 | Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz] |
1554 | Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind] |
7501 | Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault] |
7498 | Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault] |
1555 | People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus] |
535 | The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus] |
1543 | He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus] |
5037 | God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz] |