26 ideas
19419 | Not all of perception is accompanied by consciousness [Leibniz] |
8406 | Not all explanations are causal, but if a thing can be explained at all, it can be explained causally [Sanford] |
19421 | Souls act as if there were no bodies, and bodies act as if there were no souls [Leibniz] |
3772 | The will, in the beginning, is entirely produced by desire [Mill] |
3769 | With early training, any absurdity or evil may be given the power of conscience [Mill] |
19420 | Death and generation are just transformations of an animal, augmented or diminished [Leibniz] |
3767 | Motive shows the worth of the agent, but not of the action [Mill] |
3771 | Virtues only have value because they achieve some further end [Mill] |
3768 | Orthodox morality is the only one which feels obligatory [Mill] |
3764 | Actions are right if they promote pleasure, wrong if they promote pain [Mill] |
3776 | Utilitarianism only works if everybody has a totally equal right to happiness [Mill] |
7202 | The English believe in the task of annihilating evil for the victory of good [Nietzsche on Mill] |
5935 | Mill's qualities of pleasure is an admission that there are other good states of mind than pleasure [Ross on Mill] |
3766 | Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied [Mill] |
3765 | Only pleasure and freedom from pain are desirable as ends [Mill] |
3763 | Ultimate goods such as pleasure can never be proved to be good [Mill] |
3770 | General happiness is only desirable because individuals desire their own happiness [Mill] |
6697 | Moral rules protecting human welfare are more vital than local maxims [Mill] |
3773 | No individual has the right to receive our benevolence [Mill] |
3774 | Rights are a matter of justice, not of benevolence [Mill] |
3775 | A right is a valid claim to society's protection [Mill] |
19416 | Not all of matter is animated, any more than a pond full of living fish is animated [Leibniz] |
19422 | Every particle of matter contains organic bodies [Leibniz] |
8407 | A totality of conditions necessary for an occurrence is usually held to be jointly sufficient for it [Sanford] |
19418 | Mechanics shows that all motion originates in other motion, so there is a Prime Mover [Leibniz] |
19417 | All substances are in harmony, even though separate, so they must have one divine cause [Leibniz] |