21 ideas
16000 | Fixed ideas should be tackled aggressively [Kierkegaard] |
16012 | Philosophy can't be unbiased if it ignores language, as that is no more independent than individuals are [Kierkegaard] |
17809 | Gödel showed that the syntactic approach to the infinite is of limited value [Kreisel] |
17810 | The study of mathematical foundations needs new non-mathematical concepts [Kreisel] |
23814 | Every human yearns for an unattainable transcendent good [Weil] |
23824 | Where human needs are satisfied we find happiness, friendship and beauty [Weil] |
16003 | If people marry just because they are lonely, that is self-love, not love [Kierkegaard] |
23815 | We cannot equally respect what is unequal, so equal respect needs a shared ground [Weil] |
21910 | Our destiny is the highest pitch of world-weariness [Kierkegaard] |
23823 | Life needs risks to avoid sickly boredom [Weil] |
16001 | Life may be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards [Kierkegaard] |
23822 | We all need to partipate in public tasks, and take some initiative [Weil] |
23817 | We need both equality (to attend to human needs) and hierarchy (as a scale of responsibilities) [Weil] |
23819 | Deliberate public lying should be punished [Weil] |
23818 | We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil] |
23820 | People need personal and collective property, and a social class lacking property is shameful [Weil] |
23821 | Crime should be punished, to bring the perpetrator freely back to morality [Weil] |
17811 | The natural conception of points ducks the problem of naming or constructing each point [Kreisel] |
23816 | Attention to a transcendent reality motivates a duty to foster the good of humanity [Weil] |
16008 | The best way to be a Christian is without 'Christianity' [Kierkegaard] |
20735 | We need to see that Christianity cannot be understood [Kierkegaard] |