14 ideas
5637 | Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton] |
5636 | Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton] |
6479 | Noninterference requires justification as much as interference does [Nagel] |
6450 | Morality must be motivating, and not because of pre-moral motives [Nagel] |
6000 | The goal is rationality in the selection of things according to nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
5999 | The good is what is perfect by nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
6447 | Game theory misses out the motivation arising from the impersonal standpoint [Nagel] |
6001 | Justice is a disposition to distribute according to desert [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
6446 | In ethics we abstract from our identity, but not from our humanity [Nagel] |
6477 | I can only universalise a maxim if everyone else could also universalise it [Nagel] |
5660 | Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton] |
6448 | A legitimate system is one accepted as both impartial and reasonably partial [Nagel] |
6478 | Democracy is opposed to equality, if the poor are not a majority [Nagel] |
5653 | A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton] |