13 ideas
8000 | He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre] |
18521 | The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana] |
6230 | If the soul were a tabula rasa, with no innate ideas, there could be no moral goodness or justice [Cudworth] |
6228 | Senses cannot judge one another, so what judges senses cannot be a sense, but must be superior [Cudworth] |
6229 | Sense is fixed in the material form, and so can't grasp abstract universals [Cudworth] |
23060 | The good is not relative, but is rooted in facts about human needs [Santayana] |
6227 | Keeping promises and contracts is an obligation of natural justice [Cudworth] |
6231 | There is a self-determing power in each person, which makes them what they are [Cudworth] |
6225 | Obligation to obey all positive laws is older than all laws [Cudworth] |
6224 | An omnipotent will cannot make two things equal or alike if they aren't [Cudworth] |
6223 | If the will and pleasure of God controls justice, then anything wicked or unjust would become good if God commanded it [Cudworth] |
6226 | The requirement that God must be obeyed must precede any authority of God's commands [Cudworth] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |