10 ideas
23877 | Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil] |
23878 | Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil] |
8113 | Art is like understanding a natural language, and needs a grasp of a symbol system [Goodman, by Gardner] |
9261 | The 'Ethics' is disappointing, because it fails to try to justify our duties [Prichard] |
23879 | In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil] |
9262 | The mistake is to think we can prove what can only be seen directly in moral thinking [Prichard] |
9260 | Virtues won't generate an obligation, so it isn't a basis for morality [Prichard] |
9259 | We feel obligations to overcome our own failings, and these are not relations to other people [Prichard] |
9258 | If pain were instrinsically wrong, it would be immoral to inflict it on ourselves [Prichard] |
23880 | When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil] |