23 ideas
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
188 | Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato] |
204 | Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |
6581 | Hume thought (unlike Locke) that property is a merely conventional relationship [Hume, by Fogelin] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |