16 ideas
7439 | The qualities involved in sensations are entirely intentional [Anscombe, by Armstrong] |
5504 | Maybe we should see persons in four dimensions, with stages or time-slices at an instant [Martin/Barresi] |
5503 | Maybe personal identity is not vital in survival, and other continuations would suffice [Martin/Barresi] |
5502 | Locke's intrinsic view of personal identity has been replaced by an externalist view [Martin/Barresi] |
8353 | Freedom involves acting according to an idea [Anscombe] |
8352 | To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events [Anscombe] |
20041 | Intentional actions are those which are explained by giving the reason for so acting [Anscombe] |
8070 | It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
8065 | 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe] |
8069 | Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe] |
8351 | With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects [Anscombe] |
4777 | The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..) [Anscombe] |
10363 | Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Anscombe, by Schaffer,J] |
8350 | Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions [Anscombe] |
5505 | For Aristotle the psyche perishes with the body (except possibly 'nous') [Martin/Barresi] |