32 ideas
5311 | If observation goes up a level, we expect the laws of the lower level to remain in force [Wilson,EO] |
5312 | A child first sees objects as distinct, and later as members of groups [Wilson,EO] |
5309 | Beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival [Wilson,EO] |
7352 | Jesus said learning was unnecessary, and only the spirit of the Law was needed [Jesus, by Johnson,P] |
5310 | Philosophers study the consequences of ethics instead of its origins [Wilson,EO] |
5313 | The rules of human decision-making converge and overlap in a 'human nature' [Wilson,EO] |
5316 | We undermine altruism by rewarding it, but we reward it to encourage it [Wilson,EO] |
5318 | Pure hard-core altruism based on kin selection is the enemy of civilisation [Wilson,EO] |
6289 | Love your enemies [Jesus] |
6292 | Love thy neighbour as thyself [Jesus] |
5317 | The actor is most convincing who believes that his performance is real [Wilson,EO] |
5356 | Treat others as you would have them treat you [Jesus] |
6286 | Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy [Jesus] |
6290 | Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter heaven [Jesus] |
6287 | If you lust after a woman, you have committed adultery [Jesus] |
6285 | Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth [Jesus] |
6288 | Don't resist evil, but turn the other cheek [Jesus] |
6293 | It is almost impossible for the rich to go to heaven [Jesus] |
4061 | The right to life is not a right not to be killed, but not to be killed unjustly [Thomson] |
4060 | The right to life does not bestow the right to use someone else's body to support that life [Thomson] |
4695 | Maybe abortion can be justified despite the foetus having full human rights [Thomson, by Foot] |
4057 | A newly fertilized ovum is no more a person than an acorn is an oak tree [Thomson] |
4058 | Is someone's right to life diminished if they were conceived by a rape? [Thomson] |
4696 | The foetus is safe in the womb, so abortion initiates its death, with the mother as the agent. [Foot on Thomson] |
4059 | It can't be murder for a mother to perform an abortion on herself to save her own life [Thomson] |
4062 | No one is morally required to make huge sacrifices to keep someone else alive for nine months [Thomson] |
5308 | The only human purpose is that created by our genetic history [Wilson,EO] |
5314 | Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and fast, biological evolution is Darwinian and slow [Wilson,EO] |
5315 | Over 99 percent of human evolution has been in the hunter-gatherer phase [Wilson,EO] |
6291 | No one is good except God [Jesus] |
7351 | Jesus turned the ideas of Hillel into a theology reduced to its moral elements [Jesus, by Johnson,P] |
5320 | It is estimated that mankind has produced 100,000 religions [Wilson,EO] |