11 ideas
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
20544 | Berlin distinguishes 'negative' and 'positive' liberty, and rejects the latter [Berlin, by Swift] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |