21 ideas
1922 | Spiritual qualities only become advantageous with the growth of wisdom [Plato] |
21918 | Sufficient Reason can't be proved, because all proof presupposes it [Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB] |
11259 | How can you seek knowledge of something if you don't know it? [Plato] |
21920 | No need for a priori categories, since sufficient reason shows the interrelations [Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB] |
21362 | Necessity is physical, logical, mathematical or moral [Schopenhauer, by Janaway] |
20219 | True opinions only become really valuable when they are tied down by reasons [Plato] |
21361 | For Schopenhauer, material things would not exist without the mind [Schopenhauer, by Janaway] |
21919 | Object for a subject and representation are the same thing [Schopenhauer] |
5985 | Seeking and learning are just recollection [Plato] |
5986 | The slave boy learns geometry from questioning, not teaching, so it is recollection [Plato] |
1923 | As a guide to action, true opinion is as good as knowledge [Plato] |
1919 | You don't need to learn what you know, and how do you seek for what you don't know? [Plato] |
21917 | The four explanations: objects by causes, concepts by ground, maths by spacetime, ethics by motive [Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB] |
21921 | Concepts are abstracted from perceptions [Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB] |
21363 | Motivation is causality seen from within [Schopenhauer] |
1913 | Is virtue taught, or achieved by practice, or a natural aptitude, or what? [Plato] |
1921 | If virtue is a type of knowledge then it ought to be taught [Plato] |
1927 | It seems that virtue is neither natural nor taught, but is a divine gift [Plato] |
1918 | How can you know part of virtue without knowing the whole? [Plato] |
1916 | Even if virtues are many and various, they must have something in common to make them virtues [Plato] |
6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |