| 24343 | The people think philosophers should never lie, because only the truthful know truth [Nietzsche] |
| 24342 | The people are too remote from wisdom to understand it [Nietzsche] |
| 24314 | Once religion is unmasked, the task of philosophy is to unmask other types of self-estrangement [Marx] |
| 24362 | You need to be narrow-minded to have a system [Nietzsche] |
| 24317 | Critical theory aims to liberate, by showing the contradictions in societal systems [Edwards,J/Leiter,B] |
| 24312 | Will and emotion influence understanding, creating false knowledge, and believing what we prefer [Bacon] |
| 24356 | Might apparent objectivity just be a different degree within subjectivity? [Nietzsche] |
| 24341 | Thinking is only possible with linguistic contraints, and reasoning is trapped in a schema [Nietzsche] |
| 24354 | Won't philosophy eventually reveal the presuppositions of reason? [Nietzsche] |
| 24318 | Instrumental Reason aims at efficient management, of humanity as well as of nature [Adorno/Horkheimer, by Edwards,J/Leiter,B] |
| 24313 | Cognitive bias mainly results from prior beliefs, or readily available information [Edwards,J/Leiter,B] |
| 24338 | If proof is the criterion of truth, that criterion is arbitrary, and cannot be proven [Nietzsche] |
| 24299 | Equals added to unequals maintain the difference between them [Plato] |
| 24302 | Without oneness we can't conceive of many [Plato] |
| 24301 | If we subtract a part from a multitude, will that part not itself be a multitude? [Plato] |
| 24297 | Is existence just being combined with time? [Plato] |
| 24298 | What is becoming can't avoid the now, and then its ceases to become, and is itself [Plato] |
| 24339 | We believe in realities that affect us, and 'being' is where we detect activity [Nietzsche] |
| 24355 | We commit to being (rather than becoming) only because we need stable beliefs [Nietzsche] |
| 24335 | Kant can't distinguish appearance from thing-in-itself, because he rejected the inference needed [Nietzsche on Kant] |
| 24292 | Are many people covered by a whole sail, or each person by a part of it? [Plato] |
| 24293 | Maybe thoughts are just thoughts in minds - but how then do they cover many instances? [Plato] |
| 24294 | The powers of forms and powers of our world are quite separate [Plato] |
| 24288 | Probably partaking in the Forms is like being modeled on a pattern [Plato] |
| 24287 | If a Form exists completely in may things, then it is separated from itself [Plato] |
| 24289 | Forms are very difficult, if we must posit a new Form every time we make a distinction [Plato] |
| 24290 | The master-slave relationships are between people, not between mastery and slavery [Plato] |
| 24347 | Plato's reversal said the more value the more reality, and the more 'idea' the more being [Nietzsche] |
| 24352 | The world is knowable up to a point, but there are many interpretations [Nietzsche] |
| 24351 | The question of values is prior to the question of certainty [Nietzsche] |
| 24363 | The Cogito means assuming substances, and a grammatical convention assigning doers to deeds [Nietzsche] |
| 24344 | We couldn't survive having much stronger or weaker senses [Nietzsche] |
| 24349 | Single judgements are never 'true', because that needs coherent support [Nietzsche] |
| 24337 | Sciences are precise about what is superficial, and thus explore impoverished parts of existence [Nietzsche] |
| 24295 | To find the truth about the being of something, you must study all of its consequences [Plato] |
| 24304 | Functional explanations occur after that thing to be explained [Edwards,J/Leiter,B] |
| 24291 | A man was disgusted by corpses, but he angrily overruled his appetite [Plato] |
| 24336 | Intellects cannot critically self-examine, because no comparisons can be made [Nietzsche] |
| 24358 | If something is regular and calculable, that doesn't mean it is necessary [Nietzsche] |
| 24329 | The starting point of an action is a human being [Aristotle] |
| 24330 | Deliberation ends when we return to our leading element, which does the choosing [Aristotle] |
| 24320 | Involuntary actions arise from force or ignorance, with the agent contributing nothing [Aristotle] |
| 24323 | Voluntary acts have their starting-point in the agent himself [Aristotle] |
| 24324 | Actions produced by feeling are just as human as rational actions, so they can be voluntary [Aristotle] |
| 24328 | The best beliefs need not produce the best choices, because vice can intervene [Aristotle] |
| 24326 | Deliberate choice is voluntary, but the voluntary also covers children and animals [Aristotle] |
| 24332 | We can't refer our actions back beyond starting-points in us, so we control them [Aristotle] |
| 24319 | People's praise and blame depends on what is voluntary, so that must be studied [Aristotle] |
| 24321 | Bad actions done through fear are still voluntary, though they may still be praised [Aristotle] |
| 24322 | Call regretted ignorant acts 'contra-voluntary', but accepted such acts 'non-voluntary' [Aristotle] |
| 24371 | Natural law offers guidelines when a clash of laws creates a dilemma [Pufendorf] |
| 24364 | Enthusiasts' Nature is Christian ideals, of freedom, goodness, innocence, equity, justice [Nietzsche] |
| 24340 | When we are affected by values, we have forgotten that we created them [Nietzsche] |
| 24331 | The excellent person is a standard of values, because they grasp the nature of things [Aristotle] |
| 24286 | Perceiving true beauty leads to truth, and hence to goodness [Plato] |
| 24348 | Spinoza's supreme value is clear thought, to which other values are subservient [Spinoza, by Nietzsche] |
| 24361 | It is naïve to posit any one value from consciousness as the highest value [Nietzsche] |
| 24368 | In a shipwreck I am entitled to defend my one-person plank by force [Pufendorf] |
| 24350 | Should I value my neighbour higher than me, and my neighbour value me higher than themselves? [Nietzsche] |
| 24334 | We have control of an action when we know the particulars [Aristotle] |
| 24360 | The virtuous are not persons, because they conform to a fixed scheme for life [Nietzsche] |
| 24325 | Deliberate choices (rather than actions) best reveal character [Aristotle] |
| 24327 | Character is determined and revealed by how actions are chosen (and not by beliefs) [Aristotle] |
| 24333 | Depravity of character is initially voluntary, but eventually it can't be changed [Aristotle] |
| 24373 | Cautious men see everyone as a friend who could become an enemy [Pufendorf] |
| 24345 | We have nihilism now, because what seems the only possible interpretation has collapsed [Nietzsche] |
| 24372 | In nature we rely on strength, and life is utterly hideous in every respect [Pufendorf] |
| 24377 | The unity of a people is only possible through subservience to a man or an assembly [Pufendorf] |
| 24376 | A good citizen is obedient, puts the state before himself, and identifies his good with the state's [Pufendorf] |
| 24310 | Young Hegelians think the conflict only concerns concepts and ideas [Marx] |
| 24309 | An ideology is largely false, is biased and unevidenced, and supports the ruling class [Marx, by Edwards,J/Leiter,B] |
| 24311 | Ideologists think their theories drive social forces, when they are actually mere symptoms [Marx] |
| 24378 | Democracy is rule by an assembly of the heads of households [Pufendorf] |
| 24365 | What divides us from Christian values is respect for even non-virtuous humans [Nietzsche] |
| 24303 | Alienation is from the product, the work, the human achievement, and from fellow humans [Marx, by Edwards,J/Leiter,B] |
| 24305 | The dictatorship of the proletariat is just a transition stage to a classless society [Marx] |
| 24308 | The working class will gradual exclude social classes and their antagonisms [Marx] |
| 24307 | The proletariat will become the ruling class, wresting all capital, and centralising production [Marx] |
| 24306 | The bourgeoisie now control society, through modern industry and markets [Marx] |
| 24346 | We need many nations, to produce a world-perspective [Nietzsche] |
| 24374 | A man may sell his son into slavery, if the alternative is death from want [Pufendorf] |
| 24375 | Originally slavery was probably voluntary, driven by necessities [Pufendorf] |
| 24316 | Private property is self-interested freedom, rather than freedom through community [Marx] |
| 24369 | We are all equal in human nature, and hence should treat others as equals [Pufendorf] |
| 24315 | The state pretends that inequalities are non-political, but takes their influence for granted [Marx] |
| 24370 | Equity corrects deficiencies in more universal laws [Pufendorf] |
| 24366 | Natural law fits human nature so closely that a society cannot flourish without it [Pufendorf] |
| 24367 | The basic natural law is: everyone should cultivate and preserve society [Pufendorf] |
| 24359 | Crime is a rebellion against social order, so punishment should be the quelling of rebels [Nietzsche] |
| 24381 | Humanity requires us to minimise an enemy's suffering when we pursue our rights [Pufendorf] |
| 24380 | A citizen does no wrong if he obediently fights in an unjust war [Pufendorf] |
| 24379 | Sovereigns need only maintain subjects who (undeservingly) cannot support themselves [Pufendorf] |
| 24382 | Teachers should hold knowledge worthless if it does not enhance our lives [Pufendorf] |
| 24296 | The one is completely unmoving, because no types of motion are possible for it [Plato] |
| 24353 | We should avoid the idea of the unity of everything, because we then give it godlike authority [Nietzsche] |
| 24300 | The instant has no time, but change moves to rest in an instant [Plato] |
| 24357 | The second Buddhism was a nihilistic catastrophe [Nietzsche] |