16 ideas
3067 | A philosopher should have principles ready for understanding, like a surgeon with instruments [Aurelius] |
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
11211 | If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt] |
11210 | Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt] |
11212 | The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt] |
3072 | Everything is changing, including yourself and the whole universe [Aurelius] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
3066 | Nothing is evil which is according to nature [Aurelius] |
3071 | Justice has no virtue opposed to it, but pleasure has temperance opposed to it [Aurelius] |
3069 | The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
3065 | Humans are naturally made for co-operation [Aurelius] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |