22 ideas
22070 | Irony is consciousness of abundant chaos [Schlegel,F] |
22069 | Plato has no system. Philosophy is the progression of a mind and development of thoughts [Schlegel,F] |
5311 | If observation goes up a level, we expect the laws of the lower level to remain in force [Wilson,EO] |
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
5312 | A child first sees objects as distinct, and later as members of groups [Wilson,EO] |
5309 | Beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival [Wilson,EO] |
22068 | Poetry is transcendental when it connects the ideal to the real [Schlegel,F] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
22030 | For poets free choice is supreme [Schlegel,F] |
5310 | Philosophers study the consequences of ethics instead of its origins [Wilson,EO] |
5313 | The rules of human decision-making converge and overlap in a 'human nature' [Wilson,EO] |
5316 | We undermine altruism by rewarding it, but we reward it to encourage it [Wilson,EO] |
5318 | Pure hard-core altruism based on kin selection is the enemy of civilisation [Wilson,EO] |
22071 | True love is ironic, in the contrast between finite limitations and the infinity of love [Schlegel,F] |
5317 | The actor is most convincing who believes that his performance is real [Wilson,EO] |
22029 | Irony is the response to conflicts of involvement and attachment [Schlegel,F, by Pinkard] |
5308 | The only human purpose is that created by our genetic history [Wilson,EO] |
16593 | Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi] |
16729 | How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi] |
5314 | Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and fast, biological evolution is Darwinian and slow [Wilson,EO] |
5315 | Over 99 percent of human evolution has been in the hunter-gatherer phase [Wilson,EO] |
5320 | It is estimated that mankind has produced 100,000 religions [Wilson,EO] |