21 ideas
23814 | Every human yearns for an unattainable transcendent good [Weil] |
23824 | Where human needs are satisfied we find happiness, friendship and beauty [Weil] |
7127 | If men are good you should keep promises, but they aren't, so you needn't [Machiavelli] |
23815 | We cannot equally respect what is unequal, so equal respect needs a shared ground [Weil] |
23823 | Life needs risks to avoid sickly boredom [Weil] |
6309 | The principle foundations of all states are good laws and good armies [Machiavelli] |
23822 | We all need to partipate in public tasks, and take some initiative [Weil] |
6305 | To retain a conquered state, wipe out the ruling family, and preserve everything else [Machiavelli] |
6308 | A sensible conqueror does all his harmful deeds immediately, because people soon forget [Machiavelli] |
6306 | People are vengeful, so be generous to them, or destroy them [Machiavelli] |
23817 | We need both equality (to attend to human needs) and hierarchy (as a scale of responsibilities) [Weil] |
23819 | Deliberate public lying should be punished [Weil] |
23818 | We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil] |
23820 | People need personal and collective property, and a social class lacking property is shameful [Weil] |
23821 | Crime should be punished, to bring the perpetrator freely back to morality [Weil] |
6307 | A desire to conquer, and men who do it, are always praised, or not blamed [Machiavelli] |
7486 | Machiavelli emancipated politics from religion [Machiavelli, by Watson] |
17371 | Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt] |
17372 | The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt] |
17373 | Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt] |
23816 | Attention to a transcendent reality motivates a duty to foster the good of humanity [Weil] |