46 ideas
8228 | Being is revealed at the point between waking and sleep [Anon (Cent)] |
5311 | If observation goes up a level, we expect the laws of the lower level to remain in force [Wilson,EO] |
16661 | There are two sorts of category - referring to things, and to circumstances of things [Boethius] |
15035 | If universals are not separate, we can isolate them by abstraction [Boethius, by Panaccio] |
5312 | A child first sees objects as distinct, and later as members of groups [Wilson,EO] |
14665 | We can call the quality of Plato 'Platonity', and say it is a quality which only he possesses [Boethius] |
23308 | Reasoning relates to understanding as time does to eternity [Boethius, by Sorabji] |
5309 | Beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival [Wilson,EO] |
8232 | Neglect your self, and feel the consciousness of each other being [Anon (Cent)] |
5771 | Knowledge of present events doesn't make them necessary, so future events are no different [Boethius] |
5767 | Rational natures require free will, in order to have power of judgement [Boethius] |
5769 | Does foreknowledge cause necessity, or necessity cause foreknowledge? [Boethius] |
5768 | God's universal foreknowledge seems opposed to free will [Boethius] |
8230 | Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop [Anon (Cent)] |
5762 | The wicked want goodness, so they would not be wicked if they obtained it [Boethius] |
5310 | Philosophers study the consequences of ethics instead of its origins [Wilson,EO] |
5770 | Rewards and punishments are not deserved if they don't arise from free movement of the mind [Boethius] |
22187 | Genetic behaviours that have enhanced human success include aggression, rape and xenophobia [Wilson,EO, by Okasha] |
5764 | When people fall into wickedness they lose their human nature [Boethius] |
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] |
5756 | Happiness is a good which once obtained leaves nothing more to be desired [Boethius] |
5317 | The actor is most convincing who believes that his performance is real [Wilson,EO] |
5763 | The bad seek the good through desire, but the good through virtue, which is more natural [Boethius] |
5759 | Varied aims cannot be good because they differ, but only become good when they unify [Boethius] |
20662 | The biology of societies: kin selection, parenting, mating; status, territory, contracts [Wilson,EO] |
5754 | You can't control someone's free mind, only their body and possessions [Boethius] |
8234 | Bondage and liberation are relative terms, which only frighten those already terrified of the universe [Anon (Cent)] |
5308 | The only human purpose is that created by our genetic history [Wilson,EO] |
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] |
16692 | Divine eternity is the all-at-once and complete possession of unending life [Boethius] |
5752 | Where does evil come from if there is a god; where does good come from if there isn't? [Boethius] |
5757 | God is the supreme good, so no source of goodness could take precedence over God [Boethius] |
5758 | God is the good [Boethius] |
5760 | The power through which creation remains in existence and motion I call 'God' [Boethius] |
5753 | The regular events of this life could never be due to chance [Boethius] |
8227 | Feel your whole body saturated with cosmic essence [Anon (Cent)] |
8229 | The serenity in blue sky beyond clouds [Anon (Cent)] |
8231 | Abandon attachment to body, and feel the joy of being everywhere [Anon (Cent)] |
5320 | It is estimated that mankind has produced 100,000 religions [Wilson,EO] |
8233 | Imagine fire burning up your whole body, but not you [Anon (Cent)] |
5765 | The reward of the good is to become gods [Boethius] |
5761 | God can do anything, but he cannot do evil, so evil must be nothing [Boethius] |
5766 | If you could see the plan of Providence, you would not think there was evil anywhere [Boethius] |