19 ideas
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
10467 | Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John] |
10464 | A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John] |
10465 | Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John] |
10466 | Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John] |
4020 | The modern self has disengaged reason, self-exploration, and personal commitment [Taylor,C] |
4002 | My aim is to map the connections between our sense of self and our moral understanding [Taylor,C] |
4006 | I can only be aware of myself as a person who changes by means of my personal history [Taylor,C] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
4003 | Selfhood and moral values are inextricably intertwined [Taylor,C] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
4021 | Willingness to risk life was the constitutive quality of the man of honour [Taylor,C] |
4005 | To have respect for people, you must feel their claims, or their injustices, or hold them in awe [Taylor,C] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
4004 | Consistency presupposes intrinsic description [Taylor,C] |
4010 | In later utilitarianism the modern stress on freedom leads to the rejection of paternalism [Taylor,C] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
4009 | Nominalists defended the sovereignty of God against the idea of natural existing good and evil [Taylor,C] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |