12 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
23146 | Motives produce intentions, which lead to actions [Driver] |
23144 | Virtue should be defined by consequences, not by states of mind [Driver] |
23148 | Virtues are character traits or dispositions which produce good consequences for others [Driver] |
23150 | Control of pregnancy and knowledge of paternity have downgraded chastity [Driver] |
23147 | Good intentions are not necessary for virtue [Driver] |
23149 | If generosity systematically turned recipients into parasites, it wouldn't be a virtue [Driver] |
21125 | Liberals must respect family freedom - but families are the great oppressors of women [Nussbaum] |
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] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |