13 ideas
19355 | The soul doesn't understand many of its own actions, if perceptions are confused and desires buried [Leibniz] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
5673 | If we have a pain, we are strongly aware of the bodily self [Cassam] |
5670 | Knowledge of thoughts covers both their existence and their contents [Cassam] |
5671 | Outer senses are as important as introspection in the acquisition of self-knowledge [Cassam] |
5672 | Is there a mode of self-awareness that isn't perception, and could it give self-knowledge? [Cassam] |
5675 | Neither self-consciousness nor self-reference require self-knowledge [Cassam] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
5674 | We can't introspect ourselves as objects, because that would involve possible error [Cassam] |
19350 | We should say that body is mechanism and soul is immaterial, asserting their independence [Leibniz] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
19356 | Minds unconsciously count vibration beats in music, and enjoy it when they coincide [Leibniz] |