13 ideas
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
18933 | Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius] |
16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
9866 | Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato] |
5864 | Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias] |
7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
22688 | The Aristotelian idea that choices can be perceived needs literary texts to expound it [Nussbaum] |
7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |