53 ideas
24146 | All the major problems were formulated before Socrates [Nietzsche] |
24142 | What matters is how humans can be developed [Nietzsche] |
24143 | Thinkers might agree some provisional truths, as methodological assumptions [Nietzsche] |
24125 | Aristotle enjoyed the sham generalities of a system, as the peak of happiness! [Nietzsche] |
23728 | Analysis aims to express the full set of platitudes surrounding a given concept [Smith,M] |
24147 | Thoughts are uncertain, and are just occasions for interpretation [Nietzsche] |
23744 | Defining a set of things by paradigms doesn't pin them down enough [Smith,M] |
24137 | Mathematics is just accurate inferences from definitions, and doesn't involve objects [Nietzsche] |
24131 | There is no 'being'; it is just the opposition to nothingness [Nietzsche] |
24151 | I only want thinking that is anchored in body, senses and earth [Nietzsche] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
24150 | We can only understand through concepts, which subsume particulars in generalities [Nietzsche] |
24138 | Strongly believed a priori is not certain; it may just be a feature of our existence [Nietzsche] |
24130 | An affirmative belief is present in every basic sense impression [Nietzsche] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
24124 | We now have innumerable perspectives to draw on [Nietzsche] |
24145 | Mind is a mechanism of abstraction and simplification, aimed at control [Nietzsche] |
24144 | A cognitive mechanism wanting to know itself is absurd! [Nietzsche] |
24139 | A 'person' is just one possible abstraction from a bundle of qualities [Nietzsche] |
24133 | I have perfected fatalism, as recurrence and denial of the will [Nietzsche] |
24152 | Fate is inspiring, if you understand you are part of it [Nietzsche] |
23743 | Capturing all the common sense facts about rationality is almost impossible [Smith,M] |
24129 | We start with images, then words, and then concepts, to which emotions attach [Nietzsche] |
23724 | A pure desire could be criticised if it were based on a false belief [Smith,M] |
23736 | A person can have a desire without feeling it [Smith,M] |
23723 | In the Humean account, desires are not true/false, or subject to any rational criticism [Smith,M] |
23735 | Subjects may be fallible about the desires which explain their actions [Smith,M] |
23738 | Humeans (unlike their opponents) say that desires and judgements can separate [Smith,M] |
23742 | If first- and second-order desires conflict, harmony does not require the second-order to win [Smith,M] |
23746 | Objective reasons to act might be the systematic desires of a fully rational person [Smith,M] |
23739 | Goals need desires, and so only desires can motivate us [Smith,M] |
23733 | Motivating reasons are psychological, while normative reasons are external [Smith,M] |
23740 | Humeans take maximising desire satisfaction as the normative reasons for actions [Smith,M] |
23745 | We cannot expect even fully rational people to converge on having the same desires for action [Smith,M] |
24127 | Judging actions by intentions - like judging painters by their thoughts! [Nietzsche] |
23731 | 'Externalists' say moral judgements are not reasons, and maybe not even motives [Smith,M] |
23732 | A person could make a moral judgement without being in any way motivated by it [Smith,M] |
23729 | Moral internalism says a judgement of rightness is thereby motivating [Smith,M] |
23730 | 'Rationalism' says the rightness of an action is a reason to perform it [Smith,M] |
23727 | Expressivists count attitudes as 'moral' if they concern features of things, rather than their mere existence [Smith,M] |
23741 | Is valuing something a matter of believing or a matter of desiring? [Smith,M] |
24149 | Values need a perspective, of preserving some aspect of life [Nietzsche] |
24148 | If you love something, it is connected with everything, so all must be affirmed as good [Nietzsche] |
24135 | Egoism should not assume that all egos are equal [Nietzsche] |
24132 | After Socrates virtue is misunderstood, as good for all, not for individuals [Nietzsche] |
24126 | We contain multitudes of characters, which can brought into the open [Nietzsche] |
24136 | Who can endure the thought of eternal recurrence? [Nietzsche] |
24154 | If you want one experience repeated, you must want all of them [Nietzsche] |
24153 | Humans are determined by community, so its preservation is their most valued drive [Nietzsche] |
24134 | There is always slavery, whether we like it or not [Nietzsche] |
24128 | After history following God, or a people, or an idea, we now see it in terms of animals [Nietzsche] |
24140 | Cause and effect is a hypothesis, based on our supposed willing of actions [Nietzsche] |
24141 | Having a sense of time presupposes absolute time [Nietzsche] |