10 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
12036 | Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas] |
12046 | Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas] |
12037 | Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas] |
12040 | Virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value [Annas] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
8404 | Explain single events by general rules, or vice versa, or probability explains both, or they are unconnected [Field,H] |
8401 | Physical laws are largely time-symmetric, so they make a poor basis for directional causation [Field,H] |
8400 | Identifying cause and effect is not just conventional; we explain later events by earlier ones [Field,H] |
8402 | The only reason for adding the notion of 'cause' to fundamental physics is directionality [Field,H] |