15 ideas
| 3546 | 'Phronesis' should translate as 'practical intelligence', not as prudence [Annas] |
| 22410 | Maybe the unthinkable is a moral category, and considering some options is dishonourable or absurd [Williams,B] |
| 22408 | Consequentialism assumes that situations can be compared [Williams,B] |
| 22411 | For a consequentialist massacring 7 million must be better than massacring 7 million and one [Williams,B] |
| 3547 | Epicureans achieve pleasure through character development [Annas] |
| 3543 | Cyrenaics pursue pleasure, but don't equate it with happiness [Annas] |
| 3541 | Ancient ethics uses attractive notions, not imperatives [Annas] |
| 3550 | Principles cover life as a whole, where rules just cover actions [Annas] |
| 3551 | Virtue theory tries to explain our duties in terms of our character [Annas] |
| 22409 | We don't have a duty to ensure that others do their duty [Williams,B] |
| 3552 | If excessively good actions are admirable but not required, then duty isn't basic [Annas] |
| 22407 | Utilitarianism cannot make any serious sense of integrity [Williams,B] |
| 3542 | We should do good when necessary, not maximise it [Annas] |
| 1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |