14 ideas
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
5952 | Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch] |
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] |
5951 | If atoms have no qualities, they cannot possibly produce a mind [Plutarch] |
20796 | Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity [Plutarch] |
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] |
5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |
5950 | If only atoms exist, how do qualities arise when the atoms come together? [Plutarch] |
20696 | We can approach knowledge of God by negative attributes [Maimonides] |
19085 | Thinking of God as resembling humans results from a bad translation of Genesis 1:26 [Maimonides] |
5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |