our understanding tends to find its way into our language, but there is definitely more to an idea than its paraphrasing as a one liner. Some way to browse themes based on a GUI which would enable the noticing of differing deltas and how they branch into other topics would be very useful especially when it comes to philosophy which terms (and themes) tend to be semantically overloaded. I have haven’t had the time to spend more time at your site and I have no way of knowing what criteria did you choose to parse what you consider to be ideas (did you just read philosophical terms off a dictionary and parsed them in source texts?). For example, you don't list "piety" as one of your themes, nor do you "question" as such (even though you do "argument" 8), but I don't see the one liner: “Questioning is the piety of thought” by Martin Heidegger (which original statement in the source language: „Fragen ist die Frömmigkeit des Denkens“, I would include (some translations are a bit too "explaining", my translation would be: "questioning is the way to worship thoughts" or "worship thoughts by questioning (them)")):
http://www.philosophyideas.com/search/response_philosopherTe.asp?era_no=A&am...
Take "techne": 11365, as a general concept with a rich and protracted history in philosophy. That concept and its constellation of ideas were one of the earliest and most crucially constitutive for the development of later sciences and technologies. Both Plato and Aristotle engaged it at length in more or less explicit ways and was the underlying structuring concept in the most important text ever written: the deductive corpus compiled by Euclid 300 BC ("Euclid’s Elements"). However, this is all you have to say about it: [filed under theme 1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 3. Greek-English Lexicon ] Full Idea: Techne: skill, practical knowledge Gist of Idea: Techne: skill, practical knowledge Source: PG (Db (lexicon) [c.1001 BCE], 82) ~ lbrtchx
On 9/23/23, Peter Gibson petermagibson@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that a one line paraphrase can be too simple. I'm a teacher, and try to help people understand this difficult stuff.
Sorry that it took me so long to get back to you. I was going through my ins and outs.
Relatively later in life I became a teacher too partially because my students made me see that they liked my classes/teaching and also because I care about people/morality, (what I see as) "'the' truth" from the little corner from which I see "reality"; but, quite honestly, I was amazed when I noticed that someone was teaching philosophy using one liners! Philosophical thoughts stop being such once you can reductively paraphrase somehow. I initially thought of your interest in philosophical statements as some kind of corpora research.
There is no entry on 'piety' because I am not a theologian, and have not found any interesting ideas on the subject.
Actually, the high flying winds and undercurrents of religious thoughts have always had strong philosophical aspects or been outrightly philosophical dressed as religious this and that. Take, for example, the mind-body link. That happens not only with philosophy. I find interesting how scientists, philosophers, theologians and poets share and trespass each other's grounds.
I try to be fairly comprehensive, but the collection is obviously personal to me.
I have been looking for a long time for a comprehensive list of author(s)-work pairs.
I like the Heidegger remark. Do you have a reference for it?
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Heidegger%22+AND+%22das+Fragen+ist+die+Fr... ~ lbrtchx
By the way I used Heidegger's piety statement and techne, because they were the two topics that crossed my mind at that moment. lbrtchx