9 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
5122 | Maybe consequentialism is a critique of ordinary morality, rather than describing it [Harman] |
5123 | Maybe there is no such thing as character, and the virtues and vices said to accompany it [Harman] |
5124 | If a person's two acts of timidity have different explanations, they are not one character trait [Harman] |
5125 | Virtue ethics might involve judgements about the virtues of actions, rather than character [Harman] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |