Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Theory of Good and Evil' and 'Is Hume's Principle analytic?'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982

I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 2. Ethical Self

1457	Morality requires a minimum commitment to the self [Rashdall]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

8693	An 'abstraction principle' says two things are identical if they are 'equivalent' in some respect [Boolos]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / e. Means and ends

6674	All moral judgements ultimately concern the value of ends [Rashdall]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 6. Ideal Utilitarianism

6673	Ideal Utilitarianism is teleological but non-hedonistic; the aim is an ideal end, which includes pleasure [Rashdall]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / c. Moral Argument

1458	Conduct is only reasonable or unreasonable if the world is governed by reason [Rashdall]

1459	Absolute moral ideals can't exist in human minds or material things, so their acceptance implies a greater Mind [Rashdall, by PG]