Top Ten Ideas in the History of Philosophy
1. Human beings make history, but not in circumstances of their own choosing - Karl Marx
2. The starting point of any ethical system should be suffering - Jeremy Bentham
3. Disbelief in God does not mean Evil does not exist - Alan Badiou
4. The problem with pragmatism is that it is inherently tautological - Max Horkheimer
5. Gender is not biologically determined; it is socially performed - Judith Butler
6. Art's purpose is to break the spell cast by the commodity fetish - Theodore Adorno
7. There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a documentation of barbarism - Walter Benjamin
8. Know Thyself - Socrates (via Plato?)
9. Philosophy's job is not finished until its utopian promise is fulfilled - Herbert Marcuse
10. There is nothing outside the text - Jacques Derrida
*Note: many of these are not direct quotes, but paraphrases.
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