17 ideas
21970 | Philosophy attains its goal if one person feels perfect accord between their system and experience [Fichte] |
6855 | Interesting philosophers hardly every give you explicitly valid arguments [Martin,M] |
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
6912 | For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason' [Fichte, by Feuerbach] |
6856 | Valid arguments can be rejected by challenging the premises or presuppositions [Martin,M] |
21973 | Fichte believed in things-in-themselves [Fichte, by Moore,AW] |
21914 | We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself [Fichte] |
20951 | The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I [Fichte, by Bowie] |
21964 | Reason arises from freedom, so philosophy starts from the self, and not from the laws of nature [Fichte] |
21968 | Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking [Fichte] |
6857 | An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be [Martin,M] |
21965 | Spinoza could not actually believe his determinism, because living requires free will [Fichte] |
6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes] |
6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes] |
6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes] |
6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |