25 ideas
21406 | Because there is only one human reason, there can only be one true philosophy from principles [Kant] |
21081 | We are equipped with the a priori intuitions needed for the concept of right [Kant] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
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] |
21082 | A power-based state of nature may not be unjust, but there is no justice without competent judges [Kant] |
21089 | Monarchs have the highest power; autocrats have complete power [Kant] |
21086 | Hereditary nobility has not been earned, and probably won't be earned [Kant] |
21080 | Actions are right if the maxim respects universal mutual freedoms [Kant] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
21083 | Women have no role in politics [Kant] |
21407 | Equality is not being bound in ways you cannot bind others [Kant] |
21084 | In the contract people lose their rights, but immediately regain them, in the new commonwealth [Kant] |
21090 | If someone has largely made something, then they own it [Kant] |
21087 | Human life is pointless without justice [Kant] |
21088 | Justice asserts the death penalty for murder, from a priori laws [Kant] |
21085 | The church has a political role, by offering a supreme power over people [Kant] |
8430 | Causal statements are used to explain, to predict, to control, to attribute responsibility, and in theories [Kim] |
8396 | Many counterfactuals have nothing to do with causation [Kim, by Tooley] |
8429 | Counterfactuals can express four other relations between events, apart from causation [Kim] |
8428 | Causation is not the only dependency relation expressed by counterfactuals [Kim] |
4781 | Many counterfactual truths do not imply causation ('if yesterday wasn't Monday, it isn't Tuesday') [Kim, by Psillos] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |