16 ideas
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
22480 | Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot] |
7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
22477 | Calling a knife or farmer or speech or root good does not involve attitudes or feelings [Foot] |
7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
22478 | The essential thing is the 'needs' of plants and animals, and their operative parts [Foot] |
22479 | Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |