18 ideas
3444 | If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person [Chisholm] |
3446 | For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs [Chisholm] |
9268 | If free will miraculously interrupts causation, animals might do that; why would we want to do it? [Frankfurt on Chisholm] |
7357 | People who control others with fluent language often end up being hated [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
3442 | Responsibility seems to conflict with events being either caused or not caused [Chisholm] |
3443 | Desires may rule us, but are we responsible for our desires? [Chisholm] |
7358 | All men prefer outward appearance to true excellence [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7362 | Humans are similar, but social conventions drive us apart (sages and idiots being the exceptions) [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
4581 | Virtues and vices are like secondary qualities in perception, found in observers, not objects [Hume] |
7360 | Do not do to others what you would not desire yourself [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
4580 | All virtues benefit either the public, or the individual who possesses them [Hume] |
7359 | Excess and deficiency are equally at fault [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7363 | The virtues of the best people are humility, maganimity, sincerity, diligence, and graciousness [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7361 | Men of the highest calibre avoid political life completely [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
23393 | Confucianism assumes that all good developments have happened, and there is only one Way [Norden on Kongzi (Confucius)] |
4579 | The idea of a final cause is very uncertain and unphilosophical [Hume] |
3445 | Causation among objects relates either events or states [Chisholm] |
20705 | That events could be uncaused is absurd; I only say intuition and demonstration don't show this [Hume] |