11 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] |
20435 | If philosophy could be summarised it would be pointless [Adorno] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
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] |
15664 | Ideology is 'socially necessary illusion' or 'socially necessary false-consciousness' [Adorno, by Finlayson] |
20544 | Berlin distinguishes 'negative' and 'positive' liberty, and rejects the latter [Berlin, by Swift] |
651 | Eurytus showed that numbers underlie things by making pictures of creatures out of pebbles [Eurytus, by Aristotle] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |