11 ideas
7500 | Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault] |
22462 | We should speak the truth, but also preserve and pursue it [Foot] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
7501 | Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault] |
22458 | Consequentialists can hurt the innocent in order to prevent further wickedness [Foot] |
22460 | Why might we think that a state of affairs can be morally good or bad? [Foot] |
22461 | Good outcomes are not external guides to morality, but a part of virtuous actions [Foot] |
22464 | The idea of a good state of affairs has no role in the thought of Aristotle, Rawls or Scanlon [Foot] |
7498 | Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault] |
22463 | Morality is seen as tacit legislation by the community [Foot] |
22459 | For consequentialism, it is irrational to follow a rule which in this instance ends badly [Foot] |