14 ideas
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
21740 | I doubt whether ethics is part of philosophy [Russell] |
21741 | 'You ought to do p' primarily has emotional content, expressing approval [Russell] |
21746 | Unlike hate, all desires can be satisfied by love [Russell] |
21747 | Goodness is a combination of love and knowledge [Russell] |
21743 | In wartime, happiness is hating the enemy, because it gives the war a purpose [Russell] |
21742 | Originally virtue was obedience, to gods, government, or custom [Russell] |
21745 | Act so as to produce harmonious rather than discordant desires [Russell] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |
21744 | Legally curbing people's desires is inferior to improving their desires [Russell] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
22891 | We could be aware of time if senses briefly vibrated, extending their experience of movement [Russell, by Bardon] |