15 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
15567 | Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis] |
15561 | The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis] |
15565 | Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis] |
15566 | Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis] |
15564 | An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis] |
15563 | Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
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] |
15562 | Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |