11 ideas
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |