35 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
3600 | Slow and accurate thought makes the greatest progress [Descartes] |
3601 | Most things in human life seem vain and useless [Descartes] |
3602 | Almost every daft idea has been expressed by some philosopher [Descartes] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
3603 | Methodical thinking is cautious, analytical, systematic, and panoramic [Descartes, by PG] |
3612 | Clear and distinct conceptions are true because a perfect God exists [Descartes] |
3610 | Truth is clear and distinct conception - of which it is hard to be sure [Descartes] |
3605 | We can believe a thing without knowing we believe it [Descartes] |
1583 | In morals Descartes accepts the conventional, but rejects it in epistemology [Roochnik on Descartes] |
3607 | In thinking everything else false, my own existence remains totally certain [Descartes] |
19565 | How could the mind have a link to the necessary character of reality? [Devitt] |
3617 | I aim to find the principles and causes of everything, using the seeds within my mind [Descartes] |
19564 | Some knowledge must be empirical; naturalism implies that all knowledge is like that [Devitt] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
3611 | Understanding, rather than imagination or senses, gives knowledge [Descartes] |
3606 | I was searching for reliable rock under the shifting sand [Descartes] |
3604 | When rebuilding a house, one needs alternative lodgings [Descartes] |
3618 | Only experiments can settle disagreements between rival explanations [Descartes] |
3615 | Little reason is needed to speak, so animals have no reason at all [Descartes] |
3609 | I am a thinking substance, which doesn't need a place or material support [Descartes] |
3608 | I can deny my body and the world, but not my own existence [Descartes] |
3613 | Reason is universal in its responses, but a physical machine is constrained by its organs [Descartes] |
3616 | The soul must unite with the body to have appetites and sensations [Descartes] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
3614 | A machine could speak in response to physical stimulus, but not hold a conversation [Descartes] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
1581 | Greeks elevate virtues enormously, but never explain them [Descartes] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
16686 | God has established laws throughout nature, and implanted ideas of them within us [Descartes] |