20 ideas
14519 | It is a great good to show reverence for a wise man [Epicurus] |
14518 | In the study of philosophy, pleasure and knowledge arrive simultaneously [Epicurus] |
15571 | The idea of an atemporal realm of validity is as implausible as medieval theology [Heidegger] |
14524 | Bodies are combinations of shape, size, resistance and weight [Epicurus] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
14521 | If everything is by necessity, then even denials of necessity are by necessity [Epicurus] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
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] |
14522 | What happens to me if I obtain all my desires, and what if I fail? [Epicurus] |
3563 | Pleasure and virtue entail one another [Epicurus] |
3560 | Justice is merely a contract about not harming or being harmed [Epicurus] |
14517 | We value our own character, whatever it is, and we should respect the characters of others [Epicurus] |
14513 | Justice is a pledge of mutual protection [Epicurus] |
15581 | Dasein is always only that which it has chosen to be [Heidegger] |
14515 | A law is not just if it is not useful in mutual associations [Epicurus] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
14520 | It is small-minded to find many good reasons for suicide [Epicurus] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |