9 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
22480 | Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot] |
12167 | Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton] |
12166 | If music refers to love, it contains no predication, so it is expression, not language [Scruton] |
12168 | Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton] |
22477 | Calling a knife or farmer or speech or root good does not involve attitudes or feelings [Foot] |
22478 | The essential thing is the 'needs' of plants and animals, and their operative parts [Foot] |
22479 | Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |