11 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] |
| 20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
| 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] |
| 20948 | Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie] |
| 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] |