10 ideas
9758 | To make sense of personal identity, focus on agency rather than experience [Korsgaard] |
9757 | A person viewed as an agent makes no sense without its own future [Korsgaard] |
9759 | Theory of action focuses on explanation and prediction; practical action on justification and choice [Korsgaard] |
7667 | There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin] |
9760 | Self-concern may be a source of pain, or a lack of self-respect, or a failure of responsibility [Korsgaard] |
23674 | If an attempted poisoning results in benefits, we still judge the agent a poisoner [Reid] |
9761 | Personal concern for one's own self widens out into concern for the impersonal [Korsgaard] |
23675 | We shouldn't do to others what would be a wrong to us in similar circumstances [Reid] |
23672 | To be virtuous, we must care about duty [Reid] |
23673 | Every worthy man has a principle of honour, and knows what is honourable [Reid] |