14 ideas
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
20752 | For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett] |
22384 | A 'double effect' is a foreseen but not desired side-effect, which may be forgivable [Foot] |
22385 | The doctrine of double effect can excuse an outcome because it wasn't directly intended [Foot] |
22386 | Double effect says foreseeing you will kill someone is not the same as intending it [Foot] |
22387 | Without double effect, bad men can make us do evil by threatening something worse [Foot] |
22388 | Double effect seems to rely on a distinction between what we do and what we allow [Foot] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
20756 | Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
1751 | Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
3018 | People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
22383 | Abortion is puzzling because we do and don't want the unborn child to have rights [Foot] |