17 ideas
| 12036 | Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas] |
| 12046 | Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas] |
| 3914 | Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf] |
| 3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
| 3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
| 20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
| 3546 | 'Phronesis' should translate as 'practical intelligence', not as prudence [Annas] |
| 12037 | Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas] |
| 3547 | Epicureans achieve pleasure through character development [Annas] |
| 3543 | Cyrenaics pursue pleasure, but don't equate it with happiness [Annas] |
| 12040 | Virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value [Annas] |
| 3541 | Ancient ethics uses attractive notions, not imperatives [Annas] |
| 3550 | Principles cover life as a whole, where rules just cover actions [Annas] |
| 3551 | Virtue theory tries to explain our duties in terms of our character [Annas] |
| 3552 | If excessively good actions are admirable but not required, then duty isn't basic [Annas] |
| 3542 | We should do good when necessary, not maximise it [Annas] |
| 3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |