43 ideas
21474 | Metaphysics studies the inexplicable ends of explanation [Schopenhauer] |
5311 | If observation goes up a level, we expect the laws of the lower level to remain in force [Wilson,EO] |
21470 | For me the objective thing-in-itself is the will [Schopenhauer] |
5312 | A child first sees objects as distinct, and later as members of groups [Wilson,EO] |
21479 | Knowledge is not power! Ignorant people possess supreme authority [Schopenhauer] |
5309 | Beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival [Wilson,EO] |
21476 | A priori propositions are those we could never be seriously motivated to challenge [Schopenhauer] |
17488 | Empiricist theories are sets of laws, which give explanations and reductions [Glennan] |
21473 | All knowledge and explanation rests on the inexplicable [Schopenhauer] |
17493 | Modern mechanism need parts with spatial, temporal and function facts, and diagrams [Glennan] |
17487 | Mechanistic philosophy of science is an alternative to the empiricist law-based tradition [Glennan] |
17489 | Mechanisms are either systems of parts or sequences of activities [Glennan] |
17490 | 17th century mechanists explained everything by the kinetic physical fundamentals [Glennan] |
17491 | Unlike the lawlike approach, mechanistic explanation can allow for exceptions [Glennan] |
21478 | Half our thinking is unconscious, and we reach conclusions while unaware of premises [Schopenhauer] |
21477 | We don't control our own thinking [Schopenhauer] |
21475 | All of our concepts are borrowed from perceptual knowledge [Schopenhauer] |
21372 | Aesthetics concerns how we can take pleasure in an object, with no reference to the will [Schopenhauer] |
21488 | The beautiful is a perception of Plato's Forms, which eliminates the will [Schopenhauer] |
5310 | Philosophers study the consequences of ethics instead of its origins [Wilson,EO] |
21483 | Man is essentially a dreadful wild animal [Schopenhauer] |
5313 | The rules of human decision-making converge and overlap in a 'human nature' [Wilson,EO] |
5316 | We undermine altruism by rewarding it, but we reward it to encourage it [Wilson,EO] |
5318 | Pure hard-core altruism based on kin selection is the enemy of civilisation [Wilson,EO] |
21466 | Pleasure is weaker, and pain stronger, than we expect [Schopenhauer] |
5317 | The actor is most convincing who believes that his performance is real [Wilson,EO] |
21484 | A man's character can be learned from a single characteristic action [Schopenhauer] |
21482 | The five Chinese virtues: pity, justice, politeness, wisdom, honesty [Schopenhauer] |
21481 | Buddhists wisely start with the cardinal vices [Schopenhauer] |
21480 | Boredom is only felt by those clever enough to need activity [Schopenhauer] |
21469 | Human life is a mistake, shown by boredom, which is direct awareness of the fact [Schopenhauer] |
21485 | The state only exists to defend citizens, from exterior threats, and from one another [Schopenhauer] |
21486 | Poverty and slavery are virtually two words for the same thing [Schopenhauer] |
21487 | The freedom of the press to sell poison outweighs its usefulness [Schopenhauer] |
21471 | If suicide was quick and easy, most people would have done it by now [Schopenhauer] |
21467 | Would humanity still exist if sex wasn't both desired and pleasurable? [Schopenhauer] |
5308 | The only human purpose is that created by our genetic history [Wilson,EO] |
17494 | Since causal events are related by mechanisms, causation can be analysed in that way [Glennan] |
5314 | Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and fast, biological evolution is Darwinian and slow [Wilson,EO] |
5315 | Over 99 percent of human evolution has been in the hunter-gatherer phase [Wilson,EO] |
21472 | Only religion introduces serious issues to uneducated people [Schopenhauer] |
5320 | It is estimated that mankind has produced 100,000 religions [Wilson,EO] |
21468 | The Creator created the possibilities for worlds, so should have made a better one than this possible [Schopenhauer] |