6 ideas
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
16721 | Changes in secondary qualities are caused by changes in primary qualities [Giles of Orleans] |
8070 | It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe] |
8065 | 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe] |
8069 | Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |