10 ideas
| 21757 | Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history [Hegel] |
| 22462 | We should speak the truth, but also preserve and pursue it [Foot] |
| 21686 | Sense-data are dubious abstractions, with none of the plausibility of tables [Quine] |
| 21685 | Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine] |
| 22458 | Consequentialists can hurt the innocent in order to prevent further wickedness [Foot] |
| 22460 | Why might we think that a state of affairs can be morally good or bad? [Foot] |
| 22461 | Good outcomes are not external guides to morality, but a part of virtuous actions [Foot] |
| 22464 | The idea of a good state of affairs has no role in the thought of Aristotle, Rawls or Scanlon [Foot] |
| 22463 | Morality is seen as tacit legislation by the community [Foot] |
| 22459 | For consequentialism, it is irrational to follow a rule which in this instance ends badly [Foot] |