34 ideas
14179 | The finest branch of wisdom is justice and moderation in ordering states and families [Plato] |
18877 | Moral realism doesn't seem to entail the existence of any things [Cameron] |
18868 | Surely if some propositions are grounded in existence, they all are? [Cameron] |
18867 | Orthodox Truthmaker applies to all propositions, and necessitates their truth [Cameron] |
18873 | God fixes all the truths of the world by fixing what exists [Cameron] |
18879 | What the proposition says may not be its truthmaker [Cameron] |
18880 | Rather than what exists, some claim that the truthmakers are ways of existence, dispositions, modalities etc [Cameron] |
18874 | Truthmaking doesn't require realism, because we can be anti-realist about truthmakers [Cameron] |
18869 | Without truthmakers, negative truths must be ungrounded [Cameron] |
18870 | Maybe truthmaking and correspondence stand together, and are interdefinable [Cameron] |
18871 | I support the correspondence theory because I believe in truthmakers [Cameron] |
18881 | For realists it is analytic that truths are grounded in the world [Cameron] |
18875 | Realism says a discourse is true or false, and some of it is true [Cameron] |
18878 | Realism says truths rest on mind-independent reality; truthmaking theories are about which features [Cameron] |
1607 | Diotima said the Forms are the objects of desire in philosophical discourse [Plato, by Roochnik] |
3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
18872 | We should reject distinct but indiscernible worlds [Cameron] |
174 | True opinion without reason is midway between wisdom and ignorance [Plato] |
180 | We call a person the same throughout life, but all their attributes change [Plato] |
181 | Only the gods stay unchanged; we replace our losses with similar acquisitions [Plato] |
173 | Beauty and goodness are the same [Plato] |
172 | Love of ugliness is impossible [Plato] |
4026 | Beauty is harmony with what is divine, and ugliness is lack of such harmony [Plato] |
184 | Progress goes from physical beauty, to moral beauty, to the beauty of knowledge, and reaches absolute beauty [Plato] |
183 | Stage two is the realisation that beauty of soul is of more value than beauty of body [Plato] |
171 | Music is a knowledge of love in the realm of harmony and rhythm [Plato] |
14177 | Love assists men in achieving merit and happiness [Plato] |
179 | Love is desire for perpetual possession of the good [Plato] |
176 | Love follows beauty, wisdom is exceptionally beautiful, so love follows wisdom [Plato] |
177 | If a person is good they will automatically become happy [Plato] |
14178 | Happiness is secure enjoyment of what is good and beautiful [Plato] |
182 | The first step on the right path is the contemplation of physical beauty when young [Plato] |
170 | The only slavery which is not dishonourable is slavery to excellence [Plato] |
175 | Gods are not lovers of wisdom, because they are already wise [Plato] |