15 ideas
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
22366 | There is no objectivity in social sciences - only viewpoints for selecting and organising data [Weber] |
22367 | The results of social research can be true, and not just subjectively valid for one person [Weber] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
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] |
3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
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] |