Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Dappled World', 'The Wealth of Nations' and 'works'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

17503

Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

22022

Beauty motivates morality, by harmonising feeling and reason [Schiller, by Pinkard]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 1. Contractarianism

20991

People prepare our dinner from their own self-interest, not from humanity [Smith,A]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 11. Capitalism

20680

Selfish profit-seeking increases collective wealth, so greed is good, and egoism is altruism [Smith,A, by Harari]

25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle

7675	Schiller speaks obsessively of freedom throughout his works [Schiller, by Berlin]