12 ideas
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
18228 | An end can't be an ultimate value just because it is useless! [Korsgaard] |
18225 | If we can't reason about value, we can reason about the unconditional source of value [Korsgaard] |
18224 | Goodness is given either by a psychological state, or the attribution of a property [Korsgaard] |
18233 | Contemplation is final because it is an activity which is not a process [Korsgaard] |
18226 | For Aristotle, contemplation consists purely of understanding [Korsgaard] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |