13 ideas
| 22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
| 13195 | To explain a house we must describe its use, as well as its parts [Leibniz] |
| 19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
| 13193 | Active force is not just potential for action, since it involves a real effort or striving [Leibniz] |
| 22384 | A 'double effect' is a foreseen but not desired side-effect, which may be forgivable [Foot] |
| 22385 | The doctrine of double effect can excuse an outcome because it wasn't directly intended [Foot] |
| 22386 | Double effect says foreseeing you will kill someone is not the same as intending it [Foot] |
| 22387 | Without double effect, bad men can make us do evil by threatening something worse [Foot] |
| 22388 | Double effect seems to rely on a distinction between what we do and what we allow [Foot] |
| 22383 | Abortion is puzzling because we do and don't want the unborn child to have rights [Foot] |
| 13194 | God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them [Leibniz] |
| 13196 | All qualities of bodies reduce to forces [Leibniz] |
| 13192 | Power is passive force, which is mass, and active force, which is entelechy or form [Leibniz] |