13 ideas
22333 | Only language is understandable Being [Gadamer] |
22167 | Our images of bodies are not produced by the bodies, but by our own minds [Augustine, by Aquinas] |
22117 | Our minds grasp reality by direct illumination (rather than abstraction from experience) [Augustine, by Matthews] |
9073 | Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same [Barnes,J] |
9074 | Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature [Barnes,J] |
9072 | Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities [Barnes,J] |
22118 | Augustine created the modern concept of the will [Augustine, by Matthews] |
20928 | Facts don't oppose values; they are integrated into each person's aspirations [Gadamer, by Zimmermann,J] |
4348 | Love, and do what you will [Augustine] |
7821 | Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good [Augustine, by Grayling] |
22119 | Augustine said (unusually) that 'ought' does not imply 'can' [Augustine, by Matthews] |
22116 | Augustine identified Donatism, Pelagianism and Manicheism as the main heresies [Augustine, by Matthews] |
19338 | Augustine said evil does not really exist, and evil is a limitation in goodness [Augustine, by Perkins] |