8 ideas
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
16210 | Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis] |
22371 | Determinism threatens free will if actions can be causally traced to external factors [Foot] |
22372 | Not all actions need motives, but it is irrational to perform troublesome actions with no motive [Foot] |
22373 | People can act out of vanity without being vain, or even vain about this kind of thing [Foot] |
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] |
9426 | The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis] |