18 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
12270 | Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
3059 | There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
5100 | The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus] |
456 | Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |