12 ideas
3067 | A philosopher should have principles ready for understanding, like a surgeon with instruments [Aurelius] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
3072 | Everything is changing, including yourself and the whole universe [Aurelius] |
3066 | Nothing is evil which is according to nature [Aurelius] |
3071 | Justice has no virtue opposed to it, but pleasure has temperance opposed to it [Aurelius] |
3031 | The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius] |
3069 | The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius] |
3065 | Humans are naturally made for co-operation [Aurelius] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |