32 ideas
1212 | Replacing timbers on Theseus' ship was the classic illustration of the problem of growth and change [Plutarch] |
5958 | The sun is always bright; it doesn't become bright when it emerges [Plutarch] |
6685 | 'Subjectivism' is an extension of relativism from the social group to the individual [Graham] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
5960 | When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch] |
5959 | Some philosophers say the soul is light [Plutarch] |
5952 | Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch] |
5951 | If atoms have no qualities, they cannot possibly produce a mind [Plutarch] |
5963 | Some say emotion is a sort of reason, and others say virtue concerns emotion [Plutarch] |
20796 | Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity [Plutarch] |
6699 | The chain of consequences may not be the same as the chain of responsibility [Graham] |
1477 | Being manly and brave is the result of convention, not of human nature [Plutarch] |
6698 | Negative consequences are very hard (and possibly impossible) to assess [Graham] |
6700 | We can't criticise people because of unforeseeable consequences [Graham] |
1478 | Animals don't value pleasure, as they cease sexual intercourse after impregnation [Plutarch] |
6704 | Egoism submits to desires, but cannot help form them [Graham] |
6701 | Rescue operations need spontaneous benevolence, not careful thought [Graham] |
5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
6693 | 'What if everybody did that?' rather misses the point as an objection to cheating [Graham] |
6691 | It is more plausible to say people can choose between values, than that they can create them [Graham] |
6688 | Life is only absurd if you expected an explanation and none turns up [Graham] |
6705 | Existentialism may transcend our nature, unlike eudaimonism [Graham] |
6690 | A standard problem for existentialism is the 'sincere Nazi' [Graham] |
6689 | The key to existentialism: the way you make choices is more important than what you choose [Graham] |
1479 | Animals have not been led into homosexuality, because they value pleasure very little [Plutarch] |
5990 | Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk] |
5950 | If only atoms exist, how do qualities arise when the atoms come together? [Plutarch] |
5974 | People report seeing through rocks, or over the horizon, or impossibly small works [Plutarch] |
5957 | Absurd superstitions make people atheist, not disharmony in nature [Plutarch] |
5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |
6706 | The great religions are much more concerned with the religious life than with ethics [Graham] |
6709 | Western religion saves us from death; Eastern religion saves us from immortality [Graham] |