21 ideas
22366 | There is no objectivity in social sciences - only viewpoints for selecting and organising data [Weber] |
22367 | The results of social research can be true, and not just subjectively valid for one person [Weber] |
7082 | Nature requires causal explanations, but society requires clarification by reasons and motives [Weber, by Critchley] |
7404 | Nations are not obliged to help one-another, but are obliged not to harm one another [Grotius, by Tuck] |
22155 | We are disenchanted because we rely on science, which ignores values [Weber, by Boulter] |
20725 | The idea of duty in one's calling haunts us, like a lost religion [Weber] |
7402 | Everyone has a right of self-preservation, and harming others is usually unjustifiable [Grotius, by Tuck] |
21132 | Domination is probable obedience by some group of persons [Weber] |
21938 | Democracy needs respect for individuality, but the 'community of friends' implies strict equality [Grotius] |
20722 | Acquisition and low consumption lead to saving, investment, and increased wealth [Weber] |
20724 | When asceticism emerged from the monasteries, it helped to drive the modern economy [Weber] |
20717 | Capitalism is not unlimited greed, and may even be opposed to greed [Weber] |
20718 | Modern western capitalism has free labour, business separate from household, and book-keeping [Weber] |
19845 | A person is free to renounce their state, as long as it is not a moment of crisis [Grotius, by Rousseau] |
22133 | Grotius and Pufendorf based natural law on real (rather than idealised) humanity [Grotius, by Ford,JD] |
7406 | A natural right of self-preservation is balanced by a natural law to avoid unnecessary harm [Grotius, by Tuck] |
7403 | Grotius ignored elaborate natural law theories, preferring a basic right of self-preservation [Grotius, by Tuck] |
23585 | It is permissible in a just cause to capture a place in neutral territory [Grotius] |
6892 | Moral principles have some validity without a God commanding obedience [Grotius, by Mautner] |
20719 | Punish the heretic, but be indulgent to the sinner [Weber] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |