Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'The Methods of Ethics (7th edn)' and 'works'

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6 ideas

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

3102	Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will

23111

If we say that freedom depends on rationality, the irrational actions are not free [Sidgwick]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / a. Physicalism critique

3448	Do new ideas increase the weight of the brain? [Dance]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

23059

Self-interest is not rational, if the self is just a succession of memories and behaviour [Sidgwick, by Gray]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

4129	It is self-evident (from the point of view of the Universe) that no individual has more importance than another [Sidgwick]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 4. Social Utilitarianism

20588

Sidwick argues for utilitarian institutions, rather than actions [Sidgwick, by Tuckness/Wolf]