20 ideas
9247 | Life will be lived better if it has no meaning [Camus] |
6707 | Suicide - whether life is worth living - is the one serious philosophical problem [Camus] |
9245 | To an absurd mind reason is useless, and there is nothing beyond reason [Camus] |
21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
9244 | Logic is easy, but what about logic to the point of death? [Camus] |
21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
9249 | Whether we are free is uninteresting; we can only experience our freedom [Camus] |
9253 | The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it [Camus] |
9250 | Discussing ethics is pointless; moral people behave badly, and integrity doesn't need rules [Camus] |
21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
9252 | The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows [Camus] |
21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
6853 | Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R] |
9251 | One can be virtuous through a whim [Camus] |
9243 | If we believe existence is absurd, this should dictate our conduct [Camus] |
6708 | Happiness and the absurd go together, each leading to the other [Camus] |
9242 | Essential problems either risk death, or intensify the passion of life [Camus] |
9246 | Danger and integrity are not in the leap of faith, but in remaining poised just before the leap [Camus] |
9248 | It is essential to die unreconciled and not of one's own free will [Camus] |
6854 | Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R] |