13 ideas
7460 | The great moments are the death of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Romanticism [Berlin, by Watson] |
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
21239 | Philosophers are marked by a joint love of evidence and ambiguity [Merleau-Ponty] |
21862 | Consciousness is based on 'I can', not on 'I think' [Merleau-Ponty] |
20750 | The mind does not unite perceptions, because they flow into one another [Merleau-Ponty] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
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] |
20544 | Berlin distinguishes 'negative' and 'positive' liberty, and rejects the latter [Berlin, by Swift] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |