14 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
15943 | Limitation of Size is not self-evident, and seems too strong [Lavine on Neumann] |
13672 | All the axioms for mathematics presuppose set theory [Neumann] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |