19 ideas
23814 | Every human yearns for an unattainable transcendent good [Weil] |
6237 | Fear of God is not conscience, which is a natural feeling of offence at bad behaviour [Shaftesbury] |
23824 | Where human needs are satisfied we find happiness, friendship and beauty [Weil] |
6234 | If an irrational creature with kind feelings was suddenly given reason, its reason would approve of kind feelings [Shaftesbury] |
6233 | A person isn't good if only tying their hands prevents their mischief, so the affections decide a person's morality [Shaftesbury] |
6236 | People more obviously enjoy social pleasures than they do eating and drinking [Shaftesbury] |
6235 | Self-interest is not intrinsically good, but its absence is evil, as public good needs it [Shaftesbury] |
6232 | Every creature has a right and a wrong state which guide its actions, so there must be a natural end [Shaftesbury] |
23815 | We cannot equally respect what is unequal, so equal respect needs a shared ground [Weil] |
23823 | Life needs risks to avoid sickly boredom [Weil] |
23822 | We all need to partipate in public tasks, and take some initiative [Weil] |
23817 | We need both equality (to attend to human needs) and hierarchy (as a scale of responsibilities) [Weil] |
23819 | Deliberate public lying should be punished [Weil] |
23818 | We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil] |
23820 | People need personal and collective property, and a social class lacking property is shameful [Weil] |
23821 | Crime should be punished, to bring the perpetrator freely back to morality [Weil] |
3804 | Darwin's idea was the best idea ever [Dennett] |
5642 | For Shaftesbury, we must already have a conscience to be motivated to religious obedience [Shaftesbury, by Scruton] |
23816 | Attention to a transcendent reality motivates a duty to foster the good of humanity [Weil] |