60 ideas
23853 | Truth is not a object we love - it is the radiant manifestation of reality [Weil] |
18946 | Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer] |
23855 | Creation produced a network or web of determinations [Weil] |
23101 | Intuitions don't prove things; they just receptivity to interpretations [Kekes] |
23086 | Liberals say we are only responsible for fully autonomous actions [Kekes] |
23100 | Collective responsibility conflicts with responsibility's requirement of authonomy [Kekes] |
23848 | The aesthete's treatment of beauty as amusement is sacreligious; beauty should nourish [Weil] |
23095 | Why should moral responsibility depend on autonomy, rather than social role or experience? [Kekes] |
23094 | Ought implies can means moral responsibility needs autonomy [Kekes] |
23096 | Morality should aim to prevent all evil actions, not just autonomous ones [Kekes] |
23087 | Much human evil is not autonomous, so moral responsibility need not be autonomous [Kekes] |
23089 | Evil people may not be autonomously aware, if they misjudge the situation [Kekes] |
23093 | Moral and causal responsibility are not clearly distinct [Kekes] |
23098 | Effects show the existence of moral responsibility, and mental states show the degree [Kekes] |
23854 | Beauty is the proof of what is good [Weil] |
23090 | Liberals assume people are naturally free, equal, rational, and morally good [Kekes] |
23117 | Love should be partial, and discriminate in favour of its object [Kekes] |
23119 | Sentimental love distorts its object [Kekes] |
23088 | Evil is not deviation from the good, any more than good is a deviation from evil [Kekes] |
23097 | What matters for morality is the effects of action, not the psychological causes [Kekes] |
23099 | It is said that if an agent is not autonomous then their evil actions don't reflect on their character [Kekes] |
23118 | Awareness of others' suffering doesn't create an obligation to help [Kekes] |
23837 | Respect is our only obligation, which can only be expressed through deeds, not words [Weil] |
23844 | The most important human need is to have multiple roots [Weil] |
23838 | The need for order stands above all others, and is understood via the other needs [Weil] |
23836 | Obligations only bind individuals, not collectives [Weil] |
23109 | The veil of ignorance is only needed because people have bad motivations [Kekes] |
23114 | The chief function of the state is to arbitrate between contending visions of the good life [Kekes] |
23116 | Citizenship is easier than parenthood [Kekes] |
23843 | Even the poorest should feel collective ownership, and participation in grand display [Weil] |
23840 | A citizen should be able to understand the whole of society [Weil] |
23846 | Culture is an instrument for creating an ongoing succession of teachers [Weil] |
23103 | Power is meant to be confined to representatives, and subsequent delegation [Kekes] |
23839 | A lifelong head of society should only be a symbol, not a ruler [Weil] |
23107 | Prosperity is a higher social virtue than justice [Kekes] |
23842 | Party politics in a democracy can't avoid an anti-democratic party [Weil] |
23081 | Liberal basics are pluralism, freedom, rights, equality, and distributive justice - for autonomy [Kekes] |
23085 | The key liberal values are explained by the one core value, which is autonomy [Kekes] |
23092 | Agents have little control over the capacities needed for liberal autonomy [Kekes] |
23102 | Liberals are egalitarians, but in varying degrees [Kekes] |
23084 | Are egalitarians too coercive, or not egalitarian enough, or lax over morality? [Kekes] |
23082 | Liberal distribution cares more about recipients than donors [Kekes] |
23079 | Liberal justice ignores desert, which is the essence of justice [Kekes] |
23091 | Why do liberals not see a much wider range of values as basic? [Kekes] |
23112 | Liberals ignore contingency, and think people are good and equal, and institutions cause evil [Kekes] |
23847 | Socialism tends to make a proletariat of the whole population [Weil] |
23845 | The capitalists neglect the people and the nation, and even their own interests [Weil] |
23106 | To rectify the undeserved equality, we should give men longer and women shorter lives [Kekes] |
23121 | It is just a fact that some people are morally better than others [Kekes] |
23841 | By making money the sole human measure, inequality has become universal [Weil] |
23105 | It is not deplorable that billionaires have more than millionaires [Kekes] |
23120 | The problem is basic insufficiency of resources, not their inequality [Kekes] |
23835 | People have duties, and only have rights because of the obligations of others to them [Weil] |
23108 | Justice combines consistency and desert; treat likes alike, judging likeness by desert [Kekes] |
23852 | To punish people we must ourselves be innocent - but that undermines the desire to punish [Weil] |
23850 | The soldier-civilian distinction should be abolished; every citizen is committed to a war [Weil] |
23083 | Liberal welfare focuses on need rather than desert [Kekes] |
23851 | Education is essentially motivation [Weil] |
23113 | Sexual morality doesn't require monogamy, but it needs a group of sensible regulations [Kekes] |
23849 | Religion should quietly suffuse all human life with its light [Weil] |