17 ideas
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
18228 | An end can't be an ultimate value just because it is useless! [Korsgaard] |
18225 | If we can't reason about value, we can reason about the unconditional source of value [Korsgaard] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
18224 | Goodness is given either by a psychological state, or the attribution of a property [Korsgaard] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
18233 | Contemplation is final because it is an activity which is not a process [Korsgaard] |
18226 | For Aristotle, contemplation consists purely of understanding [Korsgaard] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
21275 | Unlike a stone, the parts of a watch are obviously assembled in order to show the time [Paley] |
21276 | From the obvious purpose and structure of a watch we must infer that it was designed [Paley] |
21277 | Even an imperfect machine can exhibit obvious design [Paley] |
21278 | All the signs of design found in a watch are also found in nature [Paley] |
21357 | No organ shows purpose more obviously than the eyelid [Paley] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |