23 ideas
8013 | In the Reformation, morality became unconditional but irrational, individually autonomous, and secular [MacIntyre] |
8021 | The Levellers and the Diggers mark a turning point in the history of morality [MacIntyre] |
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
7855 | Some suggest that materialism is empty, because 'physical' cannot be properly characterized [Mellor/Crane, by Papineau] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
8006 | When Aristotle speaks of soul he means something like personality [MacIntyre] |
6120 | Causation depends on intrinsic properties [Mellor/Crane] |
6121 | There are many psychophysicals laws - about the effects of sweets, colours and soft cushions [Mellor/Crane] |
6122 | No defences of physicalism can deprive psychology of the ontological authority of other sciences [Mellor/Crane] |
8002 | Sophists don't distinguish a person outside one social order from someone outside all order [MacIntyre] |
8012 | The value/fact logical gulf is misleading, because social facts involve values [MacIntyre] |
8005 | 'Happiness' is a bad translation of 'eudaimonia', which includes both behaving and faring well [MacIntyre] |
8001 | 'Dikaiosune' is justice, but also fairness and personal integrity [MacIntyre] |
8023 | My duties depend on my identity, which depends on my social relations [MacIntyre] |
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
8022 | I am naturally free if I am not tied to anyone by a contract [MacIntyre] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
8031 | Fans of natural rights or laws can't agree on what the actual rights or laws are [MacIntyre] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
8008 | The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |