11 ideas
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
4298 | All items of possible human knowledge are interconnected, and can be reached by inference [Descartes] |
5637 | Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton] |
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] |
5636 | Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton] |
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] |
5660 | Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton] |
5653 | A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |