19 ideas
14519 | It is a great good to show reverence for a wise man [Epicurus] |
14518 | In the study of philosophy, pleasure and knowledge arrive simultaneously [Epicurus] |
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
14524 | Bodies are combinations of shape, size, resistance and weight [Epicurus] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
3444 | If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person [Chisholm] |
3446 | For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs [Chisholm] |
9268 | If free will miraculously interrupts causation, animals might do that; why would we want to do it? [Frankfurt on Chisholm] |
14521 | If everything is by necessity, then even denials of necessity are by necessity [Epicurus] |
3443 | Desires may rule us, but are we responsible for our desires? [Chisholm] |
3442 | Responsibility seems to conflict with events being either caused or not caused [Chisholm] |
14522 | What happens to me if I obtain all my desires, and what if I fail? [Epicurus] |
3563 | Pleasure and virtue entail one another [Epicurus] |
3560 | Justice is merely a contract about not harming or being harmed [Epicurus] |
14517 | We value our own character, whatever it is, and we should respect the characters of others [Epicurus] |
14513 | Justice is a pledge of mutual protection [Epicurus] |
14515 | A law is not just if it is not useful in mutual associations [Epicurus] |
14520 | It is small-minded to find many good reasons for suicide [Epicurus] |
3445 | Causation among objects relates either events or states [Chisholm] |