13 ideas
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
5952 | Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch] |
5951 | If atoms have no qualities, they cannot possibly produce a mind [Plutarch] |
20796 | Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity [Plutarch] |
22480 | Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot] |
22477 | Calling a knife or farmer or speech or root good does not involve attitudes or feelings [Foot] |
22478 | The essential thing is the 'needs' of plants and animals, and their operative parts [Foot] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
22479 | Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
5950 | If only atoms exist, how do qualities arise when the atoms come together? [Plutarch] |
5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |