12 ideas
19044 | Saying truths fit experience adds nothing to truth; nothing makes sentences true [Davidson] |
6400 | Without the dualism of scheme and content, not much is left of empiricism [Davidson] |
6398 | Different points of view make sense, but they must be plotted on a common background [Davidson] |
6399 | Criteria of translation give us the identity of conceptual schemes [Davidson] |
23146 | Motives produce intentions, which lead to actions [Driver] |
23147 | Good intentions are not necessary for virtue [Driver] |
23144 | Virtue should be defined by consequences, not by states of mind [Driver] |
23148 | Virtues are character traits or dispositions which produce good consequences for others [Driver] |
23150 | Control of pregnancy and knowledge of paternity have downgraded chastity [Driver] |
23149 | If generosity systematically turned recipients into parasites, it wouldn't be a virtue [Driver] |
7071 | Life and rationality are pointless if we can only contemplate the freedom of our own ego [Jacobi] |
7072 | Jacobi was the first philosopher to talk of nihilism [Jacobi, by Critchley] |