24 ideas
14519 | It is a great good to show reverence for a wise man [Epicurus] |
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] |
14518 | In the study of philosophy, pleasure and knowledge arrive simultaneously [Epicurus] |
14524 | Bodies are combinations of shape, size, resistance and weight [Epicurus] |
15391 | A substance is, roughly, a basic being or subject at the foundation of reality [Robb] |
15392 | If an object survives the loss of a part, complex objects can have autonomy over their parts [Robb] |
8006 | When Aristotle speaks of soul he means something like personality [MacIntyre] |
14521 | If everything is by necessity, then even denials of necessity are by necessity [Epicurus] |
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] |
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] |
8001 | 'Dikaiosune' is justice, but also fairness and personal integrity [MacIntyre] |
14513 | Justice is a pledge of mutual protection [Epicurus] |
8023 | My duties depend on my identity, which depends on my social relations [MacIntyre] |
8022 | I am naturally free if I am not tied to anyone by a contract [MacIntyre] |
14515 | A law is not just if it is not useful in mutual associations [Epicurus] |
8031 | Fans of natural rights or laws can't agree on what the actual rights or laws are [MacIntyre] |
14520 | It is small-minded to find many good reasons for suicide [Epicurus] |
8008 | The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre] |