13 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
3296 | Sense-data are a false objectification of what is essentially subjective [Nagel] |
3295 | Inner v outer brings astonishment that we are a particular person [Nagel] |
3293 | If you assert that we have an ego, you can still ask if that future ego will be me [Nagel] |
3292 | The most difficult problem of free will is saying what the problem is [Nagel] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
3294 | As far as possible we should become instruments to realise what is best from an eternal point of view [Nagel] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |