21 ideas
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
7647 | The imagination alone perceives all objects; it is the soul, playing all its roles [La Mettrie] |
3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
7645 | When falling asleep, the soul becomes paralysed and weak, just like the body [La Mettrie] |
3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
23225 | The soul's faculties depend on the brain, and are simply the brain's organisation [La Mettrie] |
7652 | Man is a machine, and there exists only one substance, diversely modified [La Mettrie] |
7650 | All thought is feeling, and rationality is the sensitive soul contemplating reasoning [La Mettrie] |
7651 | With wonderful new machines being made, a speaking machine no longer seems impossible [La Mettrie] |
7648 | The sun and rain weren't made for us; they sometimes burn us, or spoil our seeds [La Mettrie] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
7646 | There is no abrupt transition from man to animal; only language has opened a gap [La Mettrie] |
7649 | There is no clear idea of the soul, which should only refer to our thinking part [La Mettrie] |