13 ideas
19400 | Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz] |
19401 | God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz] |
19402 | The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
22371 | Determinism threatens free will if actions can be causally traced to external factors [Foot] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
22372 | Not all actions need motives, but it is irrational to perform troublesome actions with no motive [Foot] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
22373 | People can act out of vanity without being vain, or even vain about this kind of thing [Foot] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |