29 ideas
| 2922 | All intelligent Romans were Epicureans [Nietzsche] |
| 1606 | You have to be a Platonist to debate about reality, so every philosopher is a Platonist [Roochnik] |
| 1595 | Philosophy aims to satisfy the chief human desire - the articulation of beauty itself [Roochnik] |
| 1571 | 'Logos' ranges from thought/reasoning, to words, to rational structures outside thought [Roochnik] |
| 1572 | In the seventeenth century the only acceptable form of logos was technical knowledge [Roochnik] |
| 1573 | The hallmark of a person with logos is that they give reasons why one opinion is superior to another [Roochnik] |
| 1592 | Logos cannot refute the relativist, and so must admit that it too is a matter of desire (for truth and agreement) [Roochnik] |
| 1593 | Human desire has an ordered structure, with logos at the pinnacle [Roochnik] |
| 1603 | Logos is not unconditionally good, but good if there is another person willing to engage with it [Roochnik] |
| 1598 | We prefer reason or poetry according to whether basics are intelligible or not [Roochnik] |
| 1584 | Modern science, by aiming for clarity about the external world, has abandoned rationality in the human world [Roochnik] |
| 1599 | Attempts to suspend all presuppositions are hopeless, because a common ground must be agreed for the process [Roochnik] |
| 1591 | Unfortunately for reason, argument can't be used to establish the value of argument [Roochnik] |
| 23520 | Truth has had to be fought for, and normal life must be sacrificed to achieve it [Nietzsche] |
| 2914 | One must never ask whether truth is useful [Nietzsche] |
| 1605 | Reality can be viewed neutrally, or as an object of desire [Roochnik] |
| 19699 | A Gettier case is a belief which is true, and its fallible justification involves some luck [Hetherington] |
| 1577 | Relativism is a disease which destroys the possibility of rational debate [Roochnik] |
| 1578 | If relativism is the correct account of human values, then rhetoric is more important than reasoning [Roochnik] |
| 1596 | Reasoning aims not at the understanding of objects, but at the desire to give beautiful speeches [Roochnik] |
| 2921 | Philosophy grasps the limits of human reason, and values are beyond it [Nietzsche] |
| 20138 | Christianity is at war with the higher type of man, and excommunicates his basic instincts [Nietzsche] |
| 20375 | Virtues must be highly personal; if not, it is merely respect for a concept [Nietzsche] |
| 2915 | Each person should devise his own virtues and categorical imperative [Nietzsche] |
| 2920 | A God who cures us of a head cold at the right moment is a total absurdity [Nietzsche] |
| 2917 | Christianity is a revolt of things crawling on the ground against elevated things [Nietzsche] |
| 2918 | The story in Genesis is the story of God's fear of science [Nietzsche] |
| 2919 | 'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true [Nietzsche] |
| 2916 | The great lie of immortality destroys rationality and natural instinct [Nietzsche] |