16 ideas
| 16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
| 16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
| 16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
| 5637 | Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton] |
| 5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
| 5636 | Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton] |
| 283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
| 282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
| 281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
| 5660 | Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton] |
| 22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 23104 | Dworkin believed we should promote equality, to increase autonomy [Dworkin, by Kekes] |
| 23257 | We can treat people as equals, or actually treat them equally [Dworkin, by Grayling] |
| 18621 | Treating people as equals is the one basic value of all plausible political theories [Dworkin, by Kymlicka] |
| 5653 | A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton] |
| 279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |