10 ideas
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
21597 | Logical connectives have the highest precision, yet are infected by the vagueness of true and false [Russell, by Williamson] |
9051 | Since natural language is not precise it cannot be in the province of logic [Russell, by Keefe/Smith] |
9054 | Vagueness is only a characteristic of representations, such as language [Russell] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |