21 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
1564 | True and false statements can use exactly the same words [Anon (Diss)] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
3061 | Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius] |
1561 | Anything can be acceptable in some circumstances and unacceptable in others [Anon (Diss)] |
1559 | Thracians think tattooing adds to a girl's beauty, but elsewhere it is a punishment [Anon (Diss)] |
1560 | Lydians prostitute their daughters to raise a dowery, but no Greek would marry such a girl [Anon (Diss)] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
1567 | How could someone who knows everything fail to act correctly? [Anon (Diss)] |
1563 | Every apparent crime can be right in certain circumstances [Anon (Diss), by PG] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
1562 | It is right to lie to someone, to get them to take medicine they are reluctant to take [Anon (Diss)] |
9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
1566 | The first priority in elections is to vote for people who support democracy [Anon (Diss)] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
1565 | We learn language, and we don't know who teaches us it [Anon (Diss)] |