37 ideas
7893 | Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)] |
21021 | Keep premises as weak as possible, to avoid controversial difficulties [Nussbaum] |
7898 | The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)] |
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] |
7894 | Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)] |
21836 | Philosophers after Aristotle endorsed the medical analogy for eudaimonia [Nussbaum, by Flanagan] |
7899 | Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)] |
21025 | Particularism gives no guidance for the future [Nussbaum] |
7896 | The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7897 | The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
21026 | Compassion is unreliable, because it favours people close to us [Nussbaum] |
7895 | Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)] |
21019 | Social contracts assume equal powers among the participants [Nussbaum] |
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] |
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] |
21016 | Political and civil rights are not separate from economic and social rights [Nussbaum] |
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] |
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] |
24162 | Planck introduced the idea that energy can be quantized [Baggott] |
21731 | Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott] |
21730 | A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott] |
24163 | Free electrons have clouds of virtual particles, arising from field interaction [Baggott] |
24161 | Thermodynamics sees nature as a continuous flow of energy, as radiation and as substance [Baggott] |
21732 | The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott] |
24160 | Particle measurements don't seem to reflect their reality [Baggott] |
7900 | Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)] |