13 ideas
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
21916 | Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer] |
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] |
21924 | As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer] |
7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
21915 | To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer] |
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] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |