13 ideas
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
15102 | S4 says there must be some necessary truths (the actual ones, of which there is at least one) [Cameron] |
15103 | Blackburn fails to show that the necessary cannot be grounded in the contingent [Cameron] |
16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
22063 | Effective individuals must posit a specific material body for themselves [Fichte] |
7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
15104 | The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |