15 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
2170 | Homer does not distinguish between soul and body [Homer, by Williams,B] |
2171 | The 'will' doesn't exist; there is just conclusion, then action [Homer, by Williams,B] |
21819 | Plato says the Good produces the Intellectual-Principle, which in turn produces the Soul [Homer, by Plotinus] |
11388 | Let there be one ruler [Homer] |
4061 | The right to life is not a right not to be killed, but not to be killed unjustly [Thomson] |
4062 | No one is morally required to make huge sacrifices to keep someone else alive for nine months [Thomson] |
4059 | It can't be murder for a mother to perform an abortion on herself to save her own life [Thomson] |
4060 | The right to life does not bestow the right to use someone else's body to support that life [Thomson] |
4057 | A newly fertilized ovum is no more a person than an acorn is an oak tree [Thomson] |
4695 | Maybe abortion can be justified despite the foetus having full human rights [Thomson, by Foot] |
4696 | The foetus is safe in the womb, so abortion initiates its death, with the mother as the agent. [Foot on Thomson] |
4058 | Is someone's right to life diminished if they were conceived by a rape? [Thomson] |
14829 | Homer so enjoys the company of the gods that he must have been deeply irreligious [Homer, by Nietzsche] |