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| 24343 | The people think philosophers should never lie, because only the truthful know truth |
| 24342 | The people are too remote from wisdom to understand it |
| 24362 | You need to be narrow-minded to have a system |
| 24356 | Might apparent objectivity just be a different degree within subjectivity? |
| 24341 | Thinking is only possible with linguistic contraints, and reasoning is trapped in a schema |
| 24354 | Won't philosophy eventually reveal the presuppositions of reason? |
| 24338 | If proof is the criterion of truth, that criterion is arbitrary, and cannot be proven |
| 24339 | We believe in realities that affect us, and 'being' is where we detect activity |
| 24355 | We commit to being (rather than becoming) only because we need stable beliefs |
| 24347 | Plato's reversal said the more value the more reality, and the more 'idea' the more being |
| 24352 | The world is knowable up to a point, but there are many interpretations |
| 24351 | The question of values is prior to the question of certainty |
| 24363 | The Cogito means assuming substances, and a grammatical convention assigning doers to deeds |
| 24344 | We couldn't survive having much stronger or weaker senses |
| 24349 | Single judgements are never 'true', because that needs coherent support |
| 24337 | Sciences are precise about what is superficial, and thus explore impoverished parts of existence |
| 24336 | Intellects cannot critically self-examine, because no comparisons can be made |
| 24358 | If something is regular and calculable, that doesn't mean it is necessary |
| 24364 | Enthusiasts' Nature is Christian ideals, of freedom, goodness, innocence, equity, justice |
| 24340 | When we are affected by values, we have forgotten that we created them |
| 24361 | It is naïve to posit any one value from consciousness as the highest value |
| 24350 | Should I value my neighbour higher than me, and my neighbour value me higher than themselves? |
| 24360 | The virtuous are not persons, because they conform to a fixed scheme for life |
| 24345 | We have nihilism now, because what seems the only possible interpretation has collapsed |
| 24365 | What divides us from Christian values is respect for even non-virtuous humans |
| 24346 | We need many nations, to produce a world-perspective |
| 24359 | Crime is a rebellion against social order, so punishment should be the quelling of rebels |
| 24353 | We should avoid the idea of the unity of everything, because we then give it godlike authority |
| 24357 | The second Buddhism was a nihilistic catastrophe |