5 ideas
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
20759 | Feelings are prior to intelligence; we should be content to live with our simplest feelings [Rousseau] |
19854 | We all owe labour in return for our keep, and every idle citizen is a thief [Rousseau] |
8991 | Foucault can't accept that power is sometimes decent and benign [Foucault, by Scruton] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |