15 ideas
3067 | A philosopher should have principles ready for understanding, like a surgeon with instruments [Aurelius] |
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
3072 | Everything is changing, including yourself and the whole universe [Aurelius] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
8808 | Involuntary beliefs can still be evaluated [Feldman/Conee] |
8807 | Evidentialism is the view that justification is determined by the quality of the evidence [Feldman/Conee] |
8809 | Beliefs should fit evidence, and if you ought to believe it, then you are justified [Feldman/Conee] |
8810 | If someone rejects good criticism through arrogance, that is irrelevant to whether they have knowledge [Feldman/Conee] |
3066 | Nothing is evil which is according to nature [Aurelius] |
3071 | Justice has no virtue opposed to it, but pleasure has temperance opposed to it [Aurelius] |
3069 | The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius] |
3065 | Humans are naturally made for co-operation [Aurelius] |
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] |