13 ideas
12189 | Logical necessity involves a decision about usage, and is non-realist and non-cognitive [Wright,C, by McFetridge] |
7320 | Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology [Wright,C, by Miller,A] |
6479 | Noninterference requires justification as much as interference does [Nagel] |
20416 | By 1790 aestheticians were mainly trying to explain individual artistic genius [Kemp] |
20417 | Expression can be either necessary for art, or sufficient for art (or even both) [Kemp] |
20418 | The horror expressed in some works of art could equallly be expressed by other means [Kemp] |
20419 | We don't already know what to express, and then seek means of expressing it [Kemp] |
6450 | Morality must be motivating, and not because of pre-moral motives [Nagel] |
6447 | Game theory misses out the motivation arising from the impersonal standpoint [Nagel] |
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] |
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] |