10 ideas
22692 | A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E] |
22693 | The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views [John,E] |
22694 | We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it [John,E] |
22695 | We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact [John,E] |
4581 | Virtues and vices are like secondary qualities in perception, found in observers, not objects [Hume] |
4580 | All virtues benefit either the public, or the individual who possesses them [Hume] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
4579 | The idea of a final cause is very uncertain and unphilosophical [Hume] |
20705 | That events could be uncaused is absurd; I only say intuition and demonstration don't show this [Hume] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |