Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Unconscious Cerebral Initiative', 'Reply to Professor Frankena' and 'On the Basis of Morality'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

6 ideas

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

7861	Libet says the processes initiated in the cortex can still be consciously changed [Libet, by Papineau]

6660	Libet found conscious choice 0.2 secs before movement, well after unconscious 'readiness potential' [Libet, by Lowe]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

21375

Reason can be vicious, and great crimes have to be rational [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

21379

Man's three basic ethical incentives are egoism, malice and compassion [Schopenhauer]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 4. Categorical Imperative

22395

Moral judgements are hypothetical, because they depend on interests and desires [Foot]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

21376

Philosophy treats animals as exploitable things, ignoring the significance of their lives [Schopenhauer]