40 ideas
18450 | Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body [Porphyry] |
18451 | The presence of the incorporeal is only known by certain kinds of disposition [Porphyry] |
15034 | Are genera and species real or conceptual? bodies or incorporeal? in sensibles or separate from them? [Porphyry] |
18459 | Diversity arises from the power of unity [Porphyry] |
7544 | Many people imagine that to experience is to understand [Goethe] |
18452 | Memory is not conserved images, but reproduction of previous thought [Porphyry] |
7541 | Man never understands how anthropomorphic he is [Goethe] |
18453 | Intelligence is aware of itself, so the intelligence is both the thinker and the thought [Porphyry] |
18462 | The soul is everywhere and nowhere in the body, and must be its cause [Porphyry] |
7439 | The qualities involved in sensations are entirely intentional [Anscombe, by Armstrong] |
18463 | Successful introspection reveals the substrate along with the object of thought [Porphyry] |
7543 | We gain self-knowledge through action, not thought - especially when doing our duty [Goethe] |
8353 | Freedom involves acting according to an idea [Anscombe] |
8352 | To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events [Anscombe] |
18458 | The soul is bound to matter by the force of its own disposition [Porphyry] |
20041 | Intentional actions are those which are explained by giving the reason for so acting [Anscombe] |
7540 | Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws [Goethe] |
18464 | Justice is each person fulfilling his function [Porphyry] |
18448 | We should avoid the pleasures of love, or at least, should not enact our dreams [Porphyry] |
7538 | The happiest people link the beginning and end of life [Goethe] |
18444 | Civil virtues make us behave benevolently, and thereby unite citizens [Porphyry] |
18445 | Civil virtues control the passions, and make us conform to our nature [Porphyry] |
18446 | Purificatory virtues detach the soul completely from the passions [Porphyry] |
8070 | It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe] |
18447 | There are practical, purificatory, contemplative, and exemplary virtues [Porphyry] |
8065 | 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe] |
8069 | Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe] |
7542 | The best form of government teaches us to govern ourselves [Goethe] |
7539 | To get duties from people without rights, you must pay them well [Goethe] |
18456 | Unified real existence is neither great nor small, though greatness and smallness participate in it [Porphyry] |
8351 | With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects [Anscombe] |
4777 | The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..) [Anscombe] |
10363 | Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Anscombe, by Schaffer,J] |
8350 | Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions [Anscombe] |
18454 | Time is the circular movement of the soul [Porphyry] |
18455 | Some think time is seen at rest, as well as in movement [Porphyry] |
18460 | God is nowhere, and hence everywhere [Porphyry] |
18461 | Everything existing proceeds from divinity, and is within divinity [Porphyry] |
18449 | Nature binds or detaches body to soul, but soul itself joins and detaches soul from body [Porphyry] |
18457 | Individual souls are all connected, though distinct, and without dividing universal Soul [Porphyry] |