40 ideas
21021 | Keep premises as weak as possible, to avoid controversial difficulties [Nussbaum] |
3061 | Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius] |
4020 | The modern self has disengaged reason, self-exploration, and personal commitment [Taylor,C] |
4002 | My aim is to map the connections between our sense of self and our moral understanding [Taylor,C] |
4006 | I can only be aware of myself as a person who changes by means of my personal history [Taylor,C] |
21007 | Storytelling is never neutral; some features of the world must be emphasised [Nussbaum] |
22688 | The Aristotelian idea that choices can be perceived needs literary texts to expound it [Nussbaum] |
4003 | Selfhood and moral values are inextricably intertwined [Taylor,C] |
21836 | Philosophers after Aristotle endorsed the medical analogy for eudaimonia [Nussbaum, by Flanagan] |
21025 | Particularism gives no guidance for the future [Nussbaum] |
4021 | Willingness to risk life was the constitutive quality of the man of honour [Taylor,C] |
21026 | Compassion is unreliable, because it favours people close to us [Nussbaum] |
4005 | To have respect for people, you must feel their claims, or their injustices, or hold them in awe [Taylor,C] |
4004 | Consistency presupposes intrinsic description [Taylor,C] |
4010 | In later utilitarianism the modern stress on freedom leads to the rejection of paternalism [Taylor,C] |
21019 | Social contracts assume equal powers among the participants [Nussbaum] |
22809 | The social contract sees society as constituted by and for individuals [Taylor,C] |
21011 | We shouldn't focus on actual preferences, which may be distorted by injustices [Nussbaum] |
21008 | Liberalism does not need a comprehensive account of value [Nussbaum] |
22811 | Assigning a right based on a human capacity implies that the capacity should be developed [Taylor,C] |
22815 | If freedom depends on society and culture, the greatest freedom is in shaping them [Taylor,C] |
22814 | Our reliance on other people close to us does not imply any political obligations [Taylor,C] |
21125 | Liberals must respect family freedom - but families are the great oppressors of women [Nussbaum] |
21012 | Women are often treated like children, and not respected for their choices [Nussbaum] |
21015 | Negative liberty is incoherent; all liberties, to do and to be, require the prevention of interference [Nussbaum] |
21017 | Political freedom is an incoherent project, because some freedoms limit other freedoms [Nussbaum] |
22812 | For most people the primacy of rights mainly concerns freedom [Taylor,C] |
22810 | A right is not just a rule, but also asserts certain ideas of moral worth [Taylor,C] |
21016 | Political and civil rights are not separate from economic and social rights [Nussbaum] |
22813 | Property is not essential for life, but it may be essential for independence [Taylor,C] |
21009 | Capabilities: Life, Health, Safety, Mental life, Love, Planning, Joining in, Nature, Play, Control [Nussbaum, by PG] |
21010 | Justice requires that the ten main capabilities of people are reasonably enabled [Nussbaum] |
21013 | Capabilities are grounded in bare humanity and agency; qualifying as rational is not needed [Nussbaum] |
21014 | Rights are not just barriers against state interference; governments must affirm capabilities of citizens [Nussbaum] |
21020 | Any establishment belief system is incompatible with full respect for all citizens [Nussbaum] |
23417 | If the state is neutral, there won't be sufficient community to support a welfare state [Taylor,C, by Kymlicka] |
21023 | We should respect animals in the way that we respect the animal nature in humans [Nussbaum] |
21024 | It may be no harm to kill an animal which cannot plan for its future [Nussbaum] |
21022 | The Capabilities Approach sees animals as agents, not just as having feelings [Nussbaum] |
4009 | Nominalists defended the sovereignty of God against the idea of natural existing good and evil [Taylor,C] |