15 ideas
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
21103 | Moral questions can only be decided by common opinion [Hume] |
5319 | Avoid punishment, then get rewards, avoid rejection, avoid guilt, accept contracts, follow conscience [Kohlberg, by Wilson,EO] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
21099 | People must have agreed to authority, because they are naturally equal, prior to education [Hume] |
21100 | The idea that society rests on consent or promises undermines obedience [Hume] |
20495 | We no more give 'tacit assent' to the state than a passenger carried on board a ship while asleep [Hume] |
21101 | The people would be amazed to learn that government arises from their consent [Hume] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
6703 | Poor people lack the knowledge or wealth to move to a different state [Hume] |
21102 | We all know that the history of property is founded on injustices [Hume] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |