17 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
22864 | Philosophy is the study and criticsm of cultural beliefs, to achieve new possibilities [Dewey] |
22873 | Liberalism should improve the system, and not just ameliorate it [Dewey] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22869 | Knowledge is either the product of competent enquiry, or it is meaningless [Dewey] |
22867 | The quest for certainty aims for peace, and avoidance of the stress of action [Dewey] |
22870 | No belief can be so settled that it is not subject to further inquiry [Dewey] |
604 | Knowledge is mind and knowing 'cohabiting' [Lycophron, by Aristotle] |
22866 | Mind is never isolated, but only exists in its interactions [Dewey] |
22872 | Liberals aim to allow individuals to realise their capacities [Dewey] |
22880 | The things in civilisation we prize are the products of other members of our community [Dewey] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
22879 | 'God' is an imaginative unity of ideal values [Dewey] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22877 | We should try attaching the intensity of religious devotion to intelligent social action [Dewey] |
22878 | Religions are so shockingly diverse that they have no common element [Dewey] |