4 ideas
22094 | Subjective truth can only be sustained by repetition [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
Full Idea: If subjective truth is to be more than momentary, it has to be repeated continually. | |
From: report of Søren Kierkegaard (Repetition [1843]) by Clare Carlisle - Kierkegaard: a guide for the perplexed 4 | |
A reaction: This might apply to more traditional concepts of truth, if they are to be part of life, rather than remaining in books. |
22511 | Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus] |
Full Idea: Some reasonings are stronger than we are. | |
From: Philolaus (fragments/reports [c.425 BCE]), quoted by Aristotle - Eudemian Ethics 1225a33 | |
A reaction: This endorses the Aristotle view of akrasia (as opposed to the Socratic view). This isolated remark seems to imply that we are more clearly embodiments of will than of reason. |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
Full Idea: In singing and playing the lyre, a boy will be likely to reveal not only courage and moderation, but also justice. | |
From: Damon (fragments/reports [c.460 BCE], B4), quoted by (who?) - where? |
22093 | Life is a repetition when what has been now becomes [Kierkegaard] |
Full Idea: When one says that life is a repetition one affirms that existence which has been now becomes. | |
From: Søren Kierkegaard (Repetition [1843], p.49), quoted by Clare Carlisle - Kierkegaard: a guide for the perplexed 4 | |
A reaction: Not sure I understand this, but it seems very close to Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence. |