6 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] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
23060 | The good is not relative, but is rooted in facts about human needs [Santayana] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
5990 | Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk] |