18 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] |
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
8006 | When Aristotle speaks of soul he means something like personality [MacIntyre] |
8130 | Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge] |
6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes] |
6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes] |
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] |
6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes] |
8005 | 'Happiness' is a bad translation of 'eudaimonia', which includes both behaving and faring well [MacIntyre] |
6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes] |
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] |
8022 | I am naturally free if I am not tied to anyone by a contract [MacIntyre] |
8031 | Fans of natural rights or laws can't agree on what the actual rights or laws are [MacIntyre] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |
8008 | The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre] |