9 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] |
1477 | Being manly and brave is the result of convention, not of human nature [Plutarch] |
16764 | The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus] |
9760 | Self-concern may be a source of pain, or a lack of self-respect, or a failure of responsibility [Korsgaard] |
1478 | Animals don't value pleasure, as they cease sexual intercourse after impregnation [Plutarch] |
9761 | Personal concern for one's own self widens out into concern for the impersonal [Korsgaard] |
1479 | Animals have not been led into homosexuality, because they value pleasure very little [Plutarch] |