Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions' and 'works'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

11 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

291	Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / b. Essence of consciousness

24016

Consciousness always transcends itself [Sartre]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions

24013

An emotion and its object form a unity, so emotion is a mode of apprehension [Sartre]

24017

Emotion is one of our modes of understanding our Being-in-the-World [Sartre]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions

24014

Emotions are a sort of bodily incantation which brings a magic to the world [Sartre]

24015

Emotions makes us believe in and live in a new world [Sartre]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

20949

Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

7669	We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

293	Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State

20491

States have a monopoly of legitimate violence [Sartre, by Wolff,J]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism

7668	Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin]