Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Ethical Studies', 'The Philosophy of History' and 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 1: Preliminary'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

8 ideas

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 1. Common Sense

23633

Many truths seem obvious, and point to universal agreement - which is what we find [Reid]

18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas

23630

Only philosophers treat ideas as objects [Reid]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity

23629

The ambiguity of words impedes the advancement of knowledge [Reid]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

21796

Man is God if he raises himself, by denying his nature and finitude [Hegel]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5655	Happiness is not satisfaction of desires, but fulfilment of values [Bradley, by Scruton]

25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery

21783

State slavery is a phase of education, moving towards a full culture [Hegel]

21784

Slavery is unjust, because humanity is essentially free [Hegel]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

23632

Similar effects come from similar causes, and causes are only what are sufficient for the effects [Reid]