18 ideas
5988 | Anaximander produced the first philosophy book (and maybe the first book) [Anaximander, by Bodnár] |
23531 | Philosophers should interpret the world, by expressing its possibilities [Berardi] |
1496 | The earth is stationary, because it is in the centre, and has no more reason to move one way than another [Anaximander, by Aristotle] |
14874 | Anaximander saw the contradiction in the world - that its own qualities destroy it [Anaximander, by Nietzsche] |
23538 | Nothingness only exists in consciousness [Berardi] |
22419 | 'I' is a subject in 'I am in pain' and an object in 'I am bleeding' [Wittgenstein, by McGinn] |
23532 | The delusion of free will brings a sense of guilt [Berardi] |
6318 | The doctrine of indeterminacy of translation seems implied by the later Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Quine] |
23537 | American white men trusted the philosophy of winning, and then discovered losing [Berardi] |
23536 | Community is now a nostalgic memory, which no longer exists [Berardi] |
23534 | Communism failed to unite western workers with the oppressed of the south [Berardi] |
23533 | The economy has replaced medieval theocracy at the centre of our society [Berardi] |
23535 | Western workers turn to nationalism, to avert the effects of globalisation [Berardi] |
13222 | The Boundless cannot exist on its own, and must have something contrary to it [Aristotle on Anaximander] |
1495 | Anaximander introduced the idea that the first principle and element of things was the Boundless [Anaximander, by Simplicius] |
404 | Things begin and end in the Unlimited, and are balanced over time according to justice [Anaximander] |
405 | The essential nature, whatever it is, of the non-limited is everlasting and ageless [Anaximander] |
1746 | The parts of all things are susceptible to change, but the whole is unchangeable [Anaximander, by Diog. Laertius] |