19 ideas
9261 | The 'Ethics' is disappointing, because it fails to try to justify our duties [Prichard] |
23814 | Every human yearns for an unattainable transcendent good [Weil] |
23824 | Where human needs are satisfied we find happiness, friendship and beauty [Weil] |
5049 | Intelligent pleasure is the perception of beauty, order and perfection [Leibniz] |
9262 | The mistake is to think we can prove what can only be seen directly in moral thinking [Prichard] |
9260 | Virtues won't generate an obligation, so it isn't a basis for morality [Prichard] |
23815 | We cannot equally respect what is unequal, so equal respect needs a shared ground [Weil] |
9259 | We feel obligations to overcome our own failings, and these are not relations to other people [Prichard] |
9258 | If pain were instrinsically wrong, it would be immoral to inflict it on ourselves [Prichard] |
23823 | Life needs risks to avoid sickly boredom [Weil] |
23822 | We all need to partipate in public tasks, and take some initiative [Weil] |
23817 | We need both equality (to attend to human needs) and hierarchy (as a scale of responsibilities) [Weil] |
23819 | Deliberate public lying should be punished [Weil] |
23818 | We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil] |
23820 | People need personal and collective property, and a social class lacking property is shameful [Weil] |
23821 | Crime should be punished, to bring the perpetrator freely back to morality [Weil] |
5048 | Perfection is simply quantity of reality [Leibniz] |
23816 | Attention to a transcendent reality motivates a duty to foster the good of humanity [Weil] |
5050 | Evil serves a greater good, and pain is necessary for higher pleasure [Leibniz] |