12 ideas
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
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] |
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] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |
19035 | General Relativity allows substantivalism about space-time - that it has independent properties [Hoefer] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |