14 ideas
7460 | The great moments are the death of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Romanticism [Berlin, by Watson] |
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
1457 | Morality requires a minimum commitment to the self [Rashdall] |
22352 | Out of more than a hundred planets, Earth is the only one with the idea of free will [Vonnegut] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
6674 | All moral judgements ultimately concern the value of ends [Rashdall] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
6673 | Ideal Utilitarianism is teleological but non-hedonistic; the aim is an ideal end, which includes pleasure [Rashdall] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
20544 | Berlin distinguishes 'negative' and 'positive' liberty, and rejects the latter [Berlin, by Swift] |
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] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |