22 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
3847 | Man is nothing else but the sum of his actions [Sartre] |
20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
3846 | Man IS freedom [Sartre] |
20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |
3843 | There is no human nature [Sartre] |
20762 | There are no values to justify us, and no excuses [Sartre] |
3852 | If values depend on us, freedom is the foundation of all values [Sartre] |
20764 | In becoming what we want to be we create what we think man ought to be [Sartre] |
3848 | Cowards are responsible for their cowardice [Sartre] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
20763 | When my personal freedom becomes involved, I must want freedom for everyone else [Sartre] |
22229 | Existentialists says that cowards and heroes make themselves [Sartre] |
3842 | Existence before essence (or begin with the subjective) [Sartre] |
6868 | 'Existence precedes essence' means we have no pre-existing self, but create it through existence [Sartre, by Le Poidevin] |
3844 | Existentialism says man is whatever he makes of himself [Sartre] |
20754 | It is dishonest to offer passions as an excuse [Sartre] |
6571 | When a man must choose between his mother and the Resistance, no theory can help [Sartre, by Fogelin] |
3851 | If I do not choose, that is still a choice [Sartre] |
3845 | Without God there is no intelligibility or value [Sartre] |