16 ideas
6253 | Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson] |
6901 | Understanding is needed for imagination, just as much as the other way around [Betteridge] |
6256 | Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson] |
5901 | Is 'productive of happiness' the definition of 'right', or the cause of it? [Ross on Bentham] |
6252 | Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson] |
5934 | Of Bentham's 'dimensions' of pleasure, only intensity and duration matter [Ross on Bentham] |
3777 | Pleasure and pain control all human desires and duties [Bentham] |
6257 | You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson] |
3554 | Bentham thinks happiness is feeling good, but why use morality to achieve that? [Annas on Bentham] |
3781 | The value of pleasures and pains is their force [Bentham] |
3778 | The community's interest is a sum of individual interests [Bentham] |
20280 | Large mature animals are more rational than babies. But all that really matters is - can they suffer? [Bentham] |
3779 | Unnatural, when it means anything, means infrequent [Bentham] |
6254 | We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson] |
6255 | Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson] |
3780 | We must judge a thing morally to know if it conforms to God's will [Bentham] |