14 ideas
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes] |
6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
22454 | We tolerate inconsistency in ethics but not in other beliefs (which reflect an independent order) [Williams,B, by Foot] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |