12 ideas
7910 | Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha] |
1457 | Morality requires a minimum commitment to the self [Rashdall] |
7906 | When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha] |
6674 | All moral judgements ultimately concern the value of ends [Rashdall] |
7844 | The Golden Rule is accepted everywhere, and gives a fixed target for morality [Voltaire] |
6673 | Ideal Utilitarianism is teleological but non-hedonistic; the aim is an ideal end, which includes pleasure [Rashdall] |
1458 | Conduct is only reasonable or unreasonable if the world is governed by reason [Rashdall] |
1459 | Absolute moral ideals can't exist in human minds or material things, so their acceptance implies a greater Mind [Rashdall, by PG] |
7905 | The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha] |
7909 | The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha] |
7904 | The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha] |
7908 | At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha] |