Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund' and 'A Realist Theory of Science'

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

---

4 ideas

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

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

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

16005

I recognise knowledge, but it is the truth by which I can live and die that really matters [Kierkegaard]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

15143

Kind essences are the categorical bases of a thing's causal powers [Bhaskar, by Chakravartty]

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

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