29 ideas
23853 | Truth is not a object we love - it is the radiant manifestation of reality [Weil] |
23855 | Creation produced a network or web of determinations [Weil] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
6479 | Noninterference requires justification as much as interference does [Nagel] |
23848 | The aesthete's treatment of beauty as amusement is sacreligious; beauty should nourish [Weil] |
6450 | Morality must be motivating, and not because of pre-moral motives [Nagel] |
23854 | Beauty is the proof of what is good [Weil] |
6447 | Game theory misses out the motivation arising from the impersonal standpoint [Nagel] |
23837 | Respect is our only obligation, which can only be expressed through deeds, not words [Weil] |
6446 | In ethics we abstract from our identity, but not from our humanity [Nagel] |
6477 | I can only universalise a maxim if everyone else could also universalise it [Nagel] |
23844 | The most important human need is to have multiple roots [Weil] |
23838 | The need for order stands above all others, and is understood via the other needs [Weil] |
23836 | Obligations only bind individuals, not collectives [Weil] |
23840 | A citizen should be able to understand the whole of society [Weil] |
23843 | Even the poorest should feel collective ownership, and participation in grand display [Weil] |
23846 | Culture is an instrument for creating an ongoing succession of teachers [Weil] |
23839 | A lifelong head of society should only be a symbol, not a ruler [Weil] |
23842 | Party politics in a democracy can't avoid an anti-democratic party [Weil] |
6448 | A legitimate system is one accepted as both impartial and reasonably partial [Nagel] |
23847 | Socialism tends to make a proletariat of the whole population [Weil] |
23845 | The capitalists neglect the people and the nation, and even their own interests [Weil] |
23841 | By making money the sole human measure, inequality has become universal [Weil] |
6478 | Democracy is opposed to equality, if the poor are not a majority [Nagel] |
23835 | People have duties, and only have rights because of the obligations of others to them [Weil] |
23852 | To punish people we must ourselves be innocent - but that undermines the desire to punish [Weil] |
23850 | The soldier-civilian distinction should be abolished; every citizen is committed to a war [Weil] |
23851 | Education is essentially motivation [Weil] |
23849 | Religion should quietly suffuse all human life with its light [Weil] |