14 ideas
| 23683 | Moral norms are objective, connected to facts about human goods [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
| 23684 | Morality gives everyone reasons to act, irrespective of their desires [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
| 23690 | We all have reason to cultivate the virtues, even when we lack the desire [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
| 15675 | We don't condemn people for being bad at reasoning [Finlayson] |
| 22379 | The meaning of 'good' and other evaluations must include the object to which they attach [Foot] |
| 7127 | If men are good you should keep promises, but they aren't, so you needn't [Machiavelli] |
| 15674 | One can universalise good advice, but that doesn't make it an obligation [Finlayson] |
| 6309 | The principle foundations of all states are good laws and good armies [Machiavelli] |
| 15662 | The 'culture industry' is an advertisement for the way things are [Finlayson] |
| 6305 | To retain a conquered state, wipe out the ruling family, and preserve everything else [Machiavelli] |
| 6308 | A sensible conqueror does all his harmful deeds immediately, because people soon forget [Machiavelli] |
| 6306 | People are vengeful, so be generous to them, or destroy them [Machiavelli] |
| 6307 | A desire to conquer, and men who do it, are always praised, or not blamed [Machiavelli] |
| 7486 | Machiavelli emancipated politics from religion [Machiavelli, by Watson] |