17 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] |
15382 | Paraconsistent reasoning can just mean responding sensibly to inconsistencies [Jago] |
8006 | When Aristotle speaks of soul he means something like personality [MacIntyre] |
22445 | Morality shows murder is wrong, but not what counts as a murder [Foot] |
22444 | A moral system must deal with the dangers and benefits of life [Foot] |
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] |
22447 | Saying something 'just is' right or wrong creates an illusion of fact and objectivity [Foot] |
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] |
22448 | We sometimes just use the word 'should' to impose a rule of conduct on someone [Foot] |
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] |
22446 | In the case of something lacking independence, calling it a human being is a matter of choice [Foot] |
8008 | The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre] |