Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Laches', 'The Will to Believe' and 'Letters to Fichte'

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

---

5 ideas

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

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

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

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

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / g. Contemplation

7071	Life and rationality are pointless if we can only contemplate the freedom of our own ego [Jacobi]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

6570	Imagine millions made happy on condition that one person suffers endless lonely torture [James]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

7072	Jacobi was the first philosopher to talk of nihilism [Jacobi, by Critchley]