22 ideas
5303 | For the proletariate, law, morality and religion are just expressions of bourgeois interests [Marx/Engels] |
23814 | Every human yearns for an unattainable transcendent good [Weil] |
23824 | Where human needs are satisfied we find happiness, friendship and beauty [Weil] |
21998 | Bourgeois interests create our morality, law and religion [Marx/Engels] |
5049 | Intelligent pleasure is the perception of beauty, order and perfection [Leibniz] |
23815 | We cannot equally respect what is unequal, so equal respect needs a shared ground [Weil] |
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] |
5302 | Modern governments are just bourgeois management committees [Marx/Engels] |
5304 | Communism aims to abolish not all property, but bourgeois property [Marx/Engels] |
5307 | Many of the bourgeois rights grievances are a form of self-defence [Marx/Engels] |
23819 | Deliberate public lying should be punished [Weil] |
5306 | The free development of each should be the condition for the free development of all [Marx/Engels] |
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] |
5305 | Communists want to rescue education from the ruling class [Marx/Engels] |
5301 | The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles [Marx/Engels] |
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] |