14 ideas
| 9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
| 9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
| 8353 | Freedom involves acting according to an idea [Anscombe] |
| 9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
| 8352 | To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events [Anscombe] |
| 20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
| 9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
| 8351 | With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects [Anscombe] |
| 4777 | The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..) [Anscombe] |
| 10363 | Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Anscombe, by Schaffer,J] |
| 8350 | Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions [Anscombe] |
| 9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
| 9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
| 9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |