19 ideas
8013 | In the Reformation, morality became unconditional but irrational, individually autonomous, and secular [MacIntyre] |
8021 | The Levellers and the Diggers mark a turning point in the history of morality [MacIntyre] |
13768 | Validity can preserve certainty in mathematics, but conditionals about contingents are another matter [Edgington] |
13770 | There are many different conditional mental states, and different conditional speech acts [Edgington] |
13764 | Are conditionals truth-functional - do the truth values of A and B determine the truth value of 'If A, B'? [Edgington] |
13765 | 'If A,B' must entail ¬(A & ¬B); otherwise we could have A true, B false, and If A,B true, invalidating modus ponens [Edgington] |
8006 | When Aristotle speaks of soul he means something like personality [MacIntyre] |
23903 | When we admire a work, we see ourselves as its creator [Weil] |
8002 | Sophists don't distinguish a person outside one social order from someone outside all order [MacIntyre] |
8012 | The value/fact logical gulf is misleading, because social facts involve values [MacIntyre] |
8005 | 'Happiness' is a bad translation of 'eudaimonia', which includes both behaving and faring well [MacIntyre] |
8001 | 'Dikaiosune' is justice, but also fairness and personal integrity [MacIntyre] |
8023 | My duties depend on my identity, which depends on my social relations [MacIntyre] |
8022 | I am naturally free if I am not tied to anyone by a contract [MacIntyre] |
23901 | Relationships depend on equality, so unequal treatment kills them [Weil] |
8031 | Fans of natural rights or laws can't agree on what the actual rights or laws are [MacIntyre] |
23904 | The cruelty of the Old Testament put me off Christianity [Weil] |
8008 | The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre] |
23902 | I attach little importance to immortality, which is an undecidable fact, and irrelevant to us [Weil] |