Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Letters to Mersenne' and 'On Duties ('De Officiis')'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

21405

Cicero sees wisdom in terms of knowledge, but earlier Stoics saw it as moral [Cicero, by Long]

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

20871

Unfortunately we choose a way of life before we are old enough to think clearly [Cicero]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

3653	My Meditations are the complete foundation of my physics [Descartes]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth

4736	Truth is such a transcendentally clear notion that it cannot be further defined [Descartes]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

6031	The essence of propriety is consistency [Cicero]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

16713

Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6610	I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

3652	I can't prove the soul is indestructible, only that it is separate from the mortal body [Descartes]