14 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
12699 | A body would be endless disunited parts, if it did not have a unifying form or soul [Leibniz] |
12700 | Form or soul gives unity and duration; matter gives multiplicity and change [Leibniz] |
12736 | If we understand God and his choices, we have a priori knowledge of contingent truths [Leibniz, by Garber] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
12698 | Every body contains a kind of sense and appetite, or a soul [Leibniz] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |