15 ideas
9254 | In philosophy the truth can only be reached via the ruins of the false [Prichard] |
9295 | Not only substances have attributes; events, actions, states and qualities can have them [Teichmann] |
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
9293 | Body-spirit interaction ought to result in losses and increases of energy in the material world [Teichmann] |
9261 | The 'Ethics' is disappointing, because it fails to try to justify our duties [Prichard] |
9262 | The mistake is to think we can prove what can only be seen directly in moral thinking [Prichard] |
9256 | I see the need to pay a debt in a particular instance, and any instance will do [Prichard] |
9257 | The complexities of life make it almost impossible to assess morality from a universal viewpoint [Prichard] |
9260 | Virtues won't generate an obligation, so it isn't a basis for morality [Prichard] |
9259 | We feel obligations to overcome our own failings, and these are not relations to other people [Prichard] |
9255 | Seeing the goodness of an effect creates the duty to produce it, not the desire [Prichard] |
9258 | If pain were instrinsically wrong, it would be immoral to inflict it on ourselves [Prichard] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |
9292 | The Soul has no particular capacity (in the way thinking belongs to the mind) [Teichmann] |
9294 | No individuating marks distinguish between Souls [Teichmann] |