39 ideas
162 | Can we understand an individual soul without knowing the soul in general? [Plato] |
160 | The highest ability in man is the ability to discuss unity and plurality in the nature of things [Plato] |
166 | A speaker should be able to divide a subject, right down to the limits of divisibility [Plato] |
7953 | Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints [Plato] |
16121 | I revere anyone who can discern a single thing that encompasses many things [Plato] |
153 | It takes a person to understand, by using universals, and by using reason to create a unity out of sense-impressions [Plato] |
154 | We would have an overpowering love of knowledge if we had a pure idea of it - as with the other Forms [Plato] |
151 | True knowledge is of the reality behind sense experience [Plato] |
6685 | 'Subjectivism' is an extension of relativism from the social group to the individual [Graham] |
165 | If the apparent facts strongly conflict with probability, it is in everyone's interests to suppress the facts [Plato] |
9296 | The soul is self-motion [Plato] |
23997 | Plato saw emotions and appetites as wild horses, in need of taming [Plato, by Goldie] |
158 | An excellent speech seems to imply a knowledge of the truth in the mind of the speaker [Plato] |
159 | Only a good philosopher can be a good speaker [Plato] |
5946 | 'Phaedrus' pioneers the notion of philosophical rhetoric [Lawson-Tancred on Plato] |
155 | Beauty is the clearest and most lovely of the Forms [Plato] |
6699 | The chain of consequences may not be the same as the chain of responsibility [Graham] |
143 | The two ruling human principles are the natural desire for pleasure, and an acquired love of virtue [Plato] |
6698 | Negative consequences are very hard (and possibly impossible) to assess [Graham] |
6700 | We can't criticise people because of unforeseeable consequences [Graham] |
157 | Most pleasure is release from pain, and is therefore not worthwhile [Plato] |
6704 | Egoism submits to desires, but cannot help form them [Graham] |
144 | Reason impels us towards excellence, which teaches us self-control [Plato] |
6701 | Rescue operations need spontaneous benevolence, not careful thought [Graham] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
156 | Bad people are never really friends with one another [Plato] |
6693 | 'What if everybody did that?' rather misses the point as an objection to cheating [Graham] |
6691 | It is more plausible to say people can choose between values, than that they can create them [Graham] |
6688 | Life is only absurd if you expected an explanation and none turns up [Graham] |
6705 | Existentialism may transcend our nature, unlike eudaimonism [Graham] |
6690 | A standard problem for existentialism is the 'sincere Nazi' [Graham] |
6689 | The key to existentialism: the way you make choices is more important than what you choose [Graham] |
148 | If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything [Plato] |
152 | The mind of God is fully satisfied and happy with a vision of reality and truth [Plato] |
150 | We cannot conceive of God, so we have to think of Him as an immortal version of ourselves [Plato] |
149 | There isn't a single reason for positing the existence of immortal beings [Plato] |
6706 | The great religions are much more concerned with the religious life than with ethics [Graham] |
146 | Soul is always in motion, so it must be self-moving and immortal [Plato] |
6709 | Western religion saves us from death; Eastern religion saves us from immortality [Graham] |