21 ideas
18543 | Do aesthetic reasons count as reasons, if they are rejectable without contradiction? [Scruton] |
18542 | Defining truth presupposes that there can be a true definition [Scruton] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
4020 | The modern self has disengaged reason, self-exploration, and personal commitment [Taylor,C] |
4002 | My aim is to map the connections between our sense of self and our moral understanding [Taylor,C] |
4006 | I can only be aware of myself as a person who changes by means of my personal history [Taylor,C] |
18546 | The pleasure taken in beauty also aims at understanding and valuing [Scruton] |
18550 | Art gives us imaginary worlds which we can view impartially [Scruton] |
18544 | Maybe 'beauty' is too loaded, and we should talk of fittingness or harmony [Scruton] |
18553 | Beauty shows us what we should want in order to achieve human fulfilment [Scruton] |
18556 | Beauty is rationally founded, inviting meaning, comparison and self-reflection [Scruton] |
18548 | Natural beauty reassures us that the world is where we belong [Scruton] |
18551 | Croce says art makes inarticulate intuitions conscious; rival views say the audience is the main concern [Scruton] |
4003 | Selfhood and moral values are inextricably intertwined [Taylor,C] |
18541 | Beauty (unlike truth and goodness) is questionable as an ultimate value [Scruton] |
4021 | Willingness to risk life was the constitutive quality of the man of honour [Taylor,C] |
4005 | To have respect for people, you must feel their claims, or their injustices, or hold them in awe [Taylor,C] |
4004 | Consistency presupposes intrinsic description [Taylor,C] |
4010 | In later utilitarianism the modern stress on freedom leads to the rejection of paternalism [Taylor,C] |
18554 | Prostitution is wrong because it hardens the soul, since soul and body are one [Scruton] |
4009 | Nominalists defended the sovereignty of God against the idea of natural existing good and evil [Taylor,C] |