24 ideas
7973 | There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard] |
7975 | The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality [Baudrillard] |
7986 | Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones [Baudrillard] |
7982 | Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled [Baudrillard] |
7974 | Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality? [Baudrillard] |
7987 | Nothing is true, but everything is exact [Baudrillard] |
2534 | Mindless bodies are zombies, bodiless minds are ghosts [Sturgeon] |
2537 | Types are properties, and tokens are events. Are they split between mental and physical, or not? [Sturgeon] |
2532 | Intentionality isn't reducible, because of its experiential aspect [Sturgeon] |
7978 | There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life [Baudrillard] |
2533 | Rule-following can't be reduced to the physical [Sturgeon] |
2535 | The main argument for physicalism is its simple account of causation [Sturgeon] |
2536 | Do facts cause thoughts, or embody them, or what? [Sturgeon] |
7980 | In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object [Baudrillard] |
4867 | Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza] |
7983 | Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune [Baudrillard] |
7981 | Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them [Baudrillard] |
7976 | People like democracy because it means they can avoid power [Baudrillard] |
7977 | Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals [Baudrillard] |
7979 | The arrival of the news media brought history to an end [Baudrillard] |
7984 | Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored [Baudrillard] |
4866 | God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza] |
7985 | Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God [Baudrillard] |
4868 | Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza] |