24146 | All the major problems were formulated before Socrates [Nietzsche] |
24142 | What matters is how humans can be developed [Nietzsche] |
24143 | Thinkers might agree some provisional truths, as methodological assumptions [Nietzsche] |
24069 | Much metaphysical debate concerns what is fundamental, rather than what exists [Koslicki] |
24125 | Aristotle enjoyed the sham generalities of a system, as the peak of happiness! [Nietzsche] |
24147 | Thoughts are uncertain, and are just occasions for interpretation [Nietzsche] |
24047 | An account is either a definition or a demonstration [Aristotle] |
24084 | Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity [Nietzsche] |
24052 | From one thing alone we can infer its contrary [Aristotle] |
24114 | The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief [Nietzsche] |
24092 | I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive [Nietzsche] |
24082 | Is the will to truth the desire to avoid deception? [Nietzsche] |
24075 | Convictions, more than lies, are the great enemy of truth [Nietzsche] |
24104 | We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true [Nietzsche] |
24137 | Mathematics is just accurate inferences from definitions, and doesn't involve objects [Nietzsche] |
24036 | I can only see the proportion of two to three if there is a common measure - their unity [Descartes] |
24112 | To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is [Nietzsche] |
24131 | There is no 'being'; it is just the opposition to nothingness [Nietzsche] |
24057 | What is prior is always potentially present in what is next in order [Aristotle] |
24151 | I only want thinking that is anchored in body, senses and earth [Nietzsche] |
24065 | Structured wholes are united by the teamwork needed for their capacities [Koslicki] |
24058 | The substance is the cause of a thing's being [Aristotle] |
24055 | Matter is potential, form is actual [Aristotle] |
24040 | Scientists explain anger by the matter, dialecticians by the form and the account [Aristotle] |
24066 | The form explains kind, structure, unity and activity [Koslicki] |
24089 | Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things [Nietzsche] |
24067 | Hylomorphic compounds need an individual form for transworld identity [Koslicki] |
24077 | Necessity is thought to require an event, but is only an after-effect of the event [Nietzsche] |
24054 | Everything has a probability, something will happen, and probabilities add up [PG] |
24150 | We can only understand through concepts, which subsume particulars in generalities [Nietzsche] |
24138 | Strongly believed a priori is not certain; it may just be a feature of our existence [Nietzsche] |
24130 | An affirmative belief is present in every basic sense impression [Nietzsche] |
24115 | There is no proof that we forget things - only that we can't recall [Nietzsche] |
24124 | We now have innumerable perspectives to draw on [Nietzsche] |
24083 | It would be absurd to say we are only permitted our own single perspective [Nietzsche] |
24048 | Demonstrations move from starting-points to deduced conclusions [Aristotle] |
24068 | Demonstration is more than entailment, as the explanatory order must match the causal order [Aristotle, by Koslicki] |
24051 | Soul is seen as what moves, or what is least physical, or a combination of elements [Aristotle] |
24046 | Understanding is impossible, if it involves the understanding having parts [Aristotle] |
24053 | If a soul have parts, what unites them? [Aristotle] |
24090 | Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity [Nietzsche] |
24061 | If we divide the mind up according to its capacities, there are a lot of them [Aristotle] |
24145 | Mind is a mechanism of abstraction and simplification, aimed at control [Nietzsche] |
24062 | Self-moving animals must have desires, and that entails having imagination [Aristotle] |
24144 | A cognitive mechanism wanting to know itself is absurd! [Nietzsche] |
24139 | A 'person' is just one possible abstraction from a bundle of qualities [Nietzsche] |
24099 | We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind [Nietzsche] |
24133 | I have perfected fatalism, as recurrence and denial of the will [Nietzsche] |
24152 | Fate is inspiring, if you understand you are part of it [Nietzsche] |
24056 | The soul (or parts of it) is not separable from the body [Aristotle] |
24039 | All the emotions seem to involve the body, simultaneously with the feeling [Aristotle] |
24050 | If soul is separate from body, why does it die when the body dies? [Aristotle] |
24049 | Thinkers place the soul within the body, but never explain how they are attached [Aristotle] |
24042 | The older Diogenes said the soul is air, made of the smallest particles [Diogenes of Apollonia] |
24041 | Democritus says spherical atoms are fire, and constitute the soul [psuche] [Democritus, by Aristotle] |
24078 | Thoughts cannot be fully reproduced in words [Nietzsche] |
24102 | Thoughts are signs (just as words are) [Nietzsche] |
24081 | Most of our intellectual activity is unconscious [Nietzsche] |
24129 | We start with images, then words, and then concepts, to which emotions attach [Nietzsche] |
24120 | Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them [Nietzsche] |
24097 | The pragmatics of language is more comprehensible than the meaning [Nietzsche] |
24108 | Actions are just a release of force. They seize on something, which becomes the purpose [Nietzsche] |
24105 | Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings [Nietzsche] |
24060 | Self-controlled follow understanding, when it is opposed to desires [Aristotle] |
24117 | We need lower and higher drives, but they must be under firm control [Nietzsche] |
24113 | Our motives don't explain our actions [Nietzsche] |
24127 | Judging actions by intentions - like judging painters by their thoughts! [Nietzsche] |
24087 | People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty' [Nietzsche] |
24091 | The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation [Nietzsche] |
24093 | We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves [Nietzsche] |
24121 | Greeks might see modern analysis of what is human as impious [Nietzsche] |
24107 | Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals [Nietzsche] |
24076 | A morality ranks human drives and actions, for the sake of the herd, and subordinating individuals [Nietzsche] |
24149 | Values need a perspective, of preserving some aspect of life [Nietzsche] |
24085 | For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed [Nietzsche] |
24101 | We always assign values, but we may not value those values [Nietzsche] |
24148 | If you love something, it is connected with everything, so all must be affirmed as good [Nietzsche] |
24135 | Egoism should not assume that all egos are equal [Nietzsche] |
24094 | Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones [Nietzsche] |
24111 | Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives [Nietzsche] |
24109 | Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed) [Nietzsche] |
24132 | After Socrates virtue is misunderstood, as good for all, not for individuals [Nietzsche] |
24126 | We contain multitudes of characters, which can brought into the open [Nietzsche] |
24110 | Some things we would never do, even for the highest ideals [Nietzsche] |
24103 | You should not want too many virtues; one is enough [Nietzsche] |
24106 | Talk of 'utility' presupposes that what is useful to people has been defined [Nietzsche] |
24086 | The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche] |
24080 | We should give style to our character - by applying an artistic plan to its strengths and weaknesses [Nietzsche] |
24123 | My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect [Nietzsche] |
24079 | The best life is the dangerous life [Nietzsche] |
24088 | See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life [Nietzsche] |
24119 | The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought [Nietzsche] |
24136 | Who can endure the thought of eternal recurrence? [Nietzsche] |
24154 | If you want one experience repeated, you must want all of them [Nietzsche] |
24153 | Humans are determined by community, so its preservation is their most valued drive [Nietzsche] |
24073 | Capitalists use their exceptional power to impose their own rules, and make the state their ally [Davies,W] |
24071 | Markets are transparent, with known prices and activity, and minimal profits [Davies,W] |
24070 | Economies have material, economic and capitalist layers [Davies,W] |
24072 | Capitalism is the anti-market, with opacity, monopolies, powers, exceptional profits and wealth [Davies,W] |
24074 | Capitalism must mainly rely either on the labour market, or on the financial markets [Davies,W] |
24134 | There is always slavery, whether we like it or not [Nietzsche] |
24116 | Justice says people are not equal, and should become increasingly unequal [Nietzsche] |
24098 | Reasons that justify punishment can also justify the crime [Nietzsche] |
24118 | Do away with punishment. Counter-retribution is as bad as the crime [Nietzsche] |
24100 | If you don't want war, remove your borders; but you set up borders because you want war [Nietzsche] |
24095 | Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp [Nietzsche] |
24128 | After history following God, or a people, or an idea, we now see it in terms of animals [Nietzsche] |
24140 | Cause and effect is a hypothesis, based on our supposed willing of actions [Nietzsche] |
24044 | Movement can be intrinsic (like a ship) or relative (like its sailors) [Aristotle] |
24045 | Movement is spatial, alteration, withering or growth [Aristotle] |
24064 | If something is pushed, it pushes back [Aristotle] |
24059 | Democritus is wrong: in a void we wouldn't see a distant ant in exact detail [Aristotle on Democritus] |
24096 | Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist [Nietzsche] |
24141 | Having a sense of time presupposes absolute time [Nietzsche] |
24063 | What is born has growth, a prime, and a withering away [Aristotle] |
24122 | Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value [Nietzsche] |
24037 | We all assume immortality is impossible [Aristotle] |
24043 | Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle] |